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<p>"When you see someone who looks like Agatha Christie and talks like Agatha Christie, I think it’s easy for the boundaries to be blurred. What do we gain? Other than it being gimmicky?"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/agatha-christie-ai-class-bbc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.DdPe.r664dkMONRKu&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/agatha-christie-ai-class-bbc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.DdPe.r664dkMONRKu&smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/wor</span><span class="invisible">ld/europe/agatha-christie-ai-class-bbc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.DdPe.r664dkMONRKu&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>I wrote about how there are radically different visions of success for the Fediverse - and how that might not be a bad thing. <a href="https://werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverses" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverses"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverse</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a></p>
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<p>In his latest Cybercultural entry, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ricmac</span></a></span> looks at the state of the internet in 1996: portals, e-commerce, web design trends, online music, and the emergence of web apps.</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">996/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/techhistory/" rel="tag">#TechHistory</a></p>
<p>"A new report from Common Sense Media says that 72 percent of teens surveyed have used AI companions, and 33 percent have relationships or friendships with these chatbots."</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/teens-are-flocking-to-ai-chatbots-is-this-healthy/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scientificamerican.com/article/teens-are-flocking-to-ai-chatbots-is-this-healthy/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scientificamerican.com/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/teens-are-flocking-to-ai-chatbots-is-this-healthy/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>House Committee Leader to Investigate Agency for Preferential Treatment of Politically Connected Startup<br>—</p><p>The probe comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation that revealed the General Services Administration was eyeing a tech firm with strong ties to the Trump administration to remake a massive, $700 billion federal credit card program.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/inv</span><span class="invisible">estigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/fintech/" rel="tag">#Fintech</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.</p><p>"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.</p><p>In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/grok/" rel="tag">#grok</a> <a href="/tags/grokipedia/" rel="tag">#grokipedia</a></p>
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<p>Please excuse the Substack link, but given that "84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools"*, it is interesting to see measurable proof that this does not translate to increased productivity.</p><p>"We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice."</p><p><a href="https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.
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UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London
<p>"A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/microsoft-stud</span><span class="invisible">y-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/study/" rel="tag">#study</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content
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Bluesky To Sell Your Content To AI Data Miners
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<p>"As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality."</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bloomberg.com/news/article</span><span class="invisible">s/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://archive.is/wNUL6" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.is/wNUL6</a></p><p>Via <a href="https://macaw.social/@jay/114489949358429781" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="macaw.social/@jay/114489949358429781"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">macaw.social/@jay/114489949358</span><span class="invisible">429781</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/remotework/" rel="tag">#RemoteWork</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn't write the words, and it's not his book. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span> explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard's words in a commercial built with technology. "The ultimate role of 'Crash' is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape,” Ballard wrote in his 1995 introduction to his most famous work.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/mp9fCF" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/mp9fCF</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/jgballard/" rel="tag">#JGBallard</a> <a href="/tags/cocacola/" rel="tag">#CocaCola</a> <a href="/tags/lifestyle/" rel="tag">#Lifestyle</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>"Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone?"</p><p><a href="https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-hi</span><span class="invisible">story-of-the-numeric-keypad</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/design/" rel="tag">#design</a> <a href="/tags/keyboards/" rel="tag">#keyboards</a> <a href="/tags/numbers/" rel="tag">#numbers</a></p>
<p>"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">5/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/netflix/" rel="tag">#netflix</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/ads/" rel="tag">#ads</a> <a href="/tags/advertising/" rel="tag">#advertising</a></p>
<p>"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/anthropics-lawyer-was-forced-to-apologize-after-claude-hallucinated-a-legal-citation/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/anthropics-lawyer-was-forced-to-apologize-after-claude-hallucinated-a-legal-citation/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/anth</span><span class="invisible">ropics-lawyer-was-forced-to-apologize-after-claude-hallucinated-a-legal-citation/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/anthropic/" rel="tag">#Anthropic</a> <a href="/tags/claudeai/" rel="tag">#ClaudeAI</a></p>
<p>For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:</p><p>"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/news/667179/x</span><span class="invisible">-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>"Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it's not your kid's iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and you're using PLATO."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0</span><span class="invisible">3/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/vintagecomputers/" rel="tag">#VintageComputers</a> <a href="/tags/plato/" rel="tag">#PLATO</a></p>
<p>Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!</p><p>"Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#UK</a></p>
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<p>Surf Beta Testers 🏄♂️</p><p>Our biggest release yet is here! Enjoy redesigned navigation that drops you right into your Surf Timeline in the new Home experience and lets you quickly access your go-to feeds from anywhere in Surf.</p><p>Here's a quick look at what's new:</p><p><a href="/tags/surfsocial/" rel="tag">#SurfSocial</a> <a href="/tags/apps/" rel="tag">#Apps</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/opensocial/" rel="tag">#OpenSocial</a></p>
AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’
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