Incredibly cool: A community of people on Discord are salvaging Redbox kiosks from Walgreens all over the country and are reverse engineering and modifying them. Redbox OS got dumped this week and people are actively figuring out how to repurpose it:
The WordPress situation is so so crazy
Thousands of people are using an AI-powered automatic job application bot to spam job apps on LinkedIn. β€œI applied to 2843 roles” one person said. I used it and applied to 17 jobs in less than an hour. Here's what it looks like:
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff
NEW: I obtained internal emails from city government of Springfield, Ohio. These emails show the absolute chaos caused by Trump and Vance after claiming Haitian immigrants were eating pets. Racist threats, hateful emails, media bonanza. A nightmare
Massive e-learning platform Udemy is training its AI on instructors' classes. It gave them a short "opt-out" window to reject this. Instructors are surprised to learn that time has passed.
A man was applying for a job and got an interview, hopped on the call, and was interviewed by an AI avatar and AI voice:
New: Steam has eliminated its forced arbitration clause, meaning gamers can now sue Valve over disputes. Seemingly this has happened bc a class action of gamers won a binding arbitration hearing arguing that forced arbitration is not enforceable (lol)
so good ... FBI seized two of Eric Adams' work phones but he didn't have his personal device on him. So he changed the passcode on his personal device then told the FBI he forgot his password
A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old