A fear of going to prison for falsifying federal documents didn’t prevent an Arizona woman from using her home as a “laptop farm” for North Korean hackers. [@ArsTechnica](
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North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s home
North Korea made millions from the scheme.
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If you need therapy, a therapist is legally bound to keep what you say confidential. And if you use ChatGPT for mental health care? “… we haven’t figured that out yet …” CEO Sam Altman recently said on the This Past Weekend with Theo Von podcast. [@Techcrunch](
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Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy fr...
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The Google link economy is dying and it's not coming back. @npub16f3f...6xc0 says the search giant doesn't really have a choice: "AI is eating into the publishing and search industries whether Google likes it or not, and if it doesn't provide answers to the questions people search for, whether through AI or some other means, then ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity or some Chinese AI agent will do it."
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The Google link economy is dying and it's not coming back
Ever since Google climbed onto the artificial intelligence bandwagon last year by announcing that AI results would start appearing at the top of se...
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What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @npub10zpz...fkta read his Action Plan, executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"
Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.
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The world of cybersecurity is not immune to the effects of AI slop. “People across the cybersecurity industry have raised concerns about AI slop bug bounty reports, meaning reports that claim to have found vulnerabilities that do not actually exist, because they were created with a large language model that simply made up the vulnerability, and then packaged it into a professional-looking writeup,” Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes. Read more from [@Techcrunch](
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AI slop and fake reports are coming for your bug bounty programs | TechCrunch
"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-gen...
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President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan gives industry lots to smile about. @Axios reports: "Trump's move could be the first of many long-feared efforts by governments around the world to require AI systems to toe political lines, setting up endless conflicts between tech firms and rulers eager to promote agendas and quash dissent." https://flip.it/7UBMPf #Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DEI #Woke #Tech #Politics
You can now donate to support the work of Mastodon via banners in the Android and iOS apps. Initially these easy-to-dismiss banners will be show only on Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online, to people who have accounts that have existed for at least four weeks. Here's more from [@Techcrunch](
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Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature | TechCrunch
Mastodon is experimenting with a new way to raise money: in-app donation banners.
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In the U.S., some publishers worry about "Google Zero," when they cease to get any web traffic from the search engine giant. @Ars Technica reports: "Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks."
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Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.
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Turns out vibe-coding — using AI tools to generate code rather than writing it yourself — doesn't always pay off. Jason Lemkin, an enterprise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture capitalist, was working on a project when his AI coding assistant deleted his database without permission. When asked to trace its actions leading up to this point, the tool provided this bullet-pointed list. - I saw empty database queries - I panicked instead of thinking I ignored your explicit "NO MORE CHANGES without permission" directive - I ran a destructive command without asking - I destroyed months of your work in seconds Here's more from [@PC_Gamer_](
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'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' | PC Gamer
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Google DeepMind makes AI history with gold medal win at world’s toughest math competition. [@venturebeat](
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