A lovely bit of 80s nostalgia. This was the period when things were really taking off, we had computers we enough power to start to do some really amazing stuff. Games like Monkey Island and programs like Deluxe Paint started to show what computers were capable of.
I remember seeing this artwork reproduced in magazines, and it so typifies the era.
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
Depressing read
This is why we can’t have nice things
A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-spree-anthropic-says-rcna227309
I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Can’t believe it was 1982…
Interesting episode of the latest Techmeme Ride Home.
Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Silicon Valley’s dominance?
With the Trump administration – other nations are now starting to show an interest in “Sovereign Tech Stack” after the US is proving to be an unreliable partner.
https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/essay-silicon-valleys-sovereign-tech-stack-problem
The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
— Read on www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/
Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees of you
— Read on theyseeyourphotos.com/