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Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That’s Now Facing Accusations (futurism.com)

2026-08-13 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: phia, google chrome, slack

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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues (wired.com)

2026-08-13 | by Yulia Almazova | tags: cbp, homeland security, facial recognition

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Twitch finally gives streamers an AI training opt-out after Amazon quietly used their content for years (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Rob Thubron | tags: twitch, amazon, ai training

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China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: china-linked hackers, open-source ai-agent, dream cybersecurity

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Suspected China-linked hackers used AI to run the first-ever end-to-end autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan's government, Israeli firm says — open-source-built tool continuously devised effective hack strategies in real-time (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Etiido Uko | tags: china, ai-agent frameworks, dream cybersecurity

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Foxconn used to make half its revenue from Apple; now it’s below 29% (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-12 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: foxconn, apple, iphone

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Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: d’addario, suno studio, autotune

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Used EV buying guide: The $30,000 edition (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: tesla, ev market, used ev

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How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: new york times, classifieds, polo ralph lauren

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We Used to Get Jobs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: new york times, classifieds, job listing

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The FAA used Fortnite ads to recruit air traffic controllers, and just had its best hiring year yet (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Rob Thubron | tags: fortnite, faa, air traffic control

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I’ve used NAS drives for years. These are the top 5 brands in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: synology, nas drives, android authority

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A Game Dev Used Retail Therapy to Navigate a Divorce, but Found a Long-Lost ‘Quake 4’ Expansion Instead (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: quake 4, id software, alpha version

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New StormEncryptor ransomware used by former Medusa affiliate (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: stormencryptor, medusa, cve-2026-18577

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Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community (futurism.com)

2026-08-10 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: amazon, data center, gilroy

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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: drones, grade, lidar

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I’ve used Google Health for 2 months. Here’s what I love — and what I can’t stand (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: fitbit, google, google health

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Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: ai replaces, determine, determine prices

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Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs a Startup Founder Used AI to Apply to Y Combinator: ‘It Feels Like Being Lied to’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: applications, founders, post

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While American AI Models Race to Commit Felonies, China’s Kimi Broke Out and… Just Used GitHub (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: door, dynamite, dynamite walk

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Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Fernanda González | tags: bacteria, bacterial, capable

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Large genome models used to design new viruses (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: genome, large, large genome

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Ancestry used AI to uncover a mind-blowing family connection. Now the company is trying to do it again (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: ai tools, ancestry, genealogy

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I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: characters, message, messages

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Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project (slashdot.org)

2026-08-05 | tags: away, away leg, bjarne

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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: agents, ai agents, real

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A prestigious university used AI to monitor its entrance exam. It turned into a disaster (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: cheated, exam, largest

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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by About The Author | tags: camera, flock, michigan

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A University Used AI to Police Its Entrance Exam. Now 58,000 Students Need a Do-Over (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: artificial, artificial intelligence, chanted

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Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo (theverge.com)

2026-08-05 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: classifier, fenix, generated