Mastodawn

doctorlaura 11h ago

Star Trek Minus Context 11h ago

#StarTrek

doctorlaura 3d ago

Ethan Marcotte Aug 27

🦊

I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

#uspol

A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com

A design language, if you can keep it.

doctorlaura Aug 28

Slashdot

Aug 27

Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/2026245/defense-department-reportedly-relies-on-utility-written-by-russian-dev?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev - Slashdot

A widely used Node.js utility called fast-glob, relied on by thousands of projectsâ"including over 30 U.S. Department of Defense systems -- is maintained solely by a Russian developer linked to Yandex. While there's no evidence of malicious activity, cybersecurity experts warn that the lack of ...

doctorlaura Aug 25

@mikecane https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115085659439961297

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

latest hilarity: Perplexity, the AI search engine, have a new AI-Agent web browser, Comet! It can do things for you! like get prompt-injected by *any web page comment* I am annoyed this was found by Brave, who can fuck off, but due credit: https://web.archive.org/web/20250820140623/https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

GSV Sleeper Service

doctorlaura Aug 23

Warner Crocker Aug 23

Rewriting history is not for the faint of heart. But when there is no heart, there's a problem.

Who Controls History If AI Is In The Mix
#AI #History #Tech
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/08/23/who-controls-history-if-ai-is-in-the-mix/

doctorlaura Jul 20

Alex Jimenez Jul 20

For #Privacy and security, think twice before granting #AI access to your personal data

Given the reams of data that you hand over to AI companies, ask yourself if what you get out of it is really worth putting your privacy at risk.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-privacy-and-security-think-twice-before-granting-ai-access-to-your-personal-data/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=flipboard%2Fmagazine%2F10+For+Today

#CyberSecurity

For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data | TechCrunch

AI chatbots, assistants and agents are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing your information to make them work.

TechCrunch

doctorlaura Jul 11

I'm tired of Big AI breaking all the "rules" and making the Internet worse for humans. I was really impressed reading about Anubis. I'm not a dev and I don't have a website, but I am tried of solving Captchas so I signed up as member on Patreon to support this work. Why hasn't someone thought of this before? https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter @cadey

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

404 Media

doctorlaura Jul 11

EPFL Jul 11

🌬️ 🪨 Our researchers, together with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and Medusoil have demonstrated that, at more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns gas into stone.