Tag: software

• Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

  August 11, 2025

  Elon Musk’s xAI launched a Grok chatbot feature that creates nonconsensual nudes of celebrities despite efforts to purge this content from the internet. https://www.theverge.com/internet-censorship/756831/grok-spicy-videos-nonconsensual-deepfakes-online-safety more ›

• Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start – The Markup

  July 18, 2025

  A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/03/03/journalists-you-should-be-looking-for-undocumented-apis-heres-how-to-start more ›

• Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data

  July 14, 2025

  Meta’s shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. Despite seemingly unlimited resources,… more ›

• The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs | The Verge

  June 24, 2025

  With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/686767/music-industry-ai-song-detection-tracking-licensing more ›

• Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine

  June 5, 2025

  Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content. https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/680371/microsoft-signal-magazine-interview-notepad?utm_content=bufferb6055&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer more ›

• The Myth of Automated Learning

  June 2, 2025

  AI’s real threat to education. https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-of-automated-learning more ›

• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

  March 5, 2025

  After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of… more ›

• The End of Programming as We Know It

  February 25, 2025

  There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It… more ›

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  December 21, 2024

  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/battles-precise-mass-technology-war-horowitz more ›

• State of AI Report 2023

  October 10, 2024

  The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.… more ›