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Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: isbndb, ai training, printed books

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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: linkedin, ai slop, hari srinivasan

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AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: anthropic, claude ai, better world books

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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: patreon, jack conte, 404 media

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Apple fixes iCloud+ vulnerability that exposed ‘hidden’ user emails (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-21 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: icloud+, hide my email, apple one

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Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | by About The Author | tags: hide my email, apple, 404 media

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New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones (slashdot.org)

2026-07-20 | tags: new orleans police, drone manual, weaponized drones

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Class action accuses Apple of misleading users about Hide My Email’s privacy protections (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-16 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, hide my email, icloud+

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County With 37 Data Centers Tells Schools to “Turn Off Your Lights” to Save Electricity Ahead of Scorching Heat Wave (futurism.com)

2026-07-02 | by Frank Landymore | tags: data centers, henrico county, electricity rates

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools To 'Conserve Electricity' (slashdot.org)

2026-06-30 | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: data centers, electricity conservation, 404 media

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Google is offering Android developers cash in exchange for code to train AI (techspot.com)

2026-06-03 | get Android Developer Coding Kit → | tags: google, android, 404 media

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Google offers Android app developers cash in exchange for code to train AI (techspot.com)

2026-06-03 | get Android Developer Toolkit → | tags: google, android, ai coding tools

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Everyone Says Directories Are Dead in 2026 Because of AI — So I Rebuilt a 19-Year-Old One to Prove Them Wrong (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-28 | get Digital Directory Organizer → | tags: dirjournal, redirects, 404 report

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‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says (wired.com)

2026-05-21 | by Maddy Varner | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: cox media group, active listening, ai targeting

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI (slashdot.org)

2026-05-17 | by Posted | get AI Ethics Book → | tags: google, eric schmidt, artificial intelligence

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Forced to vibe code at work, programmers say their skills are deteriorating (techspot.com)

2026-05-14 | get Programming Keyboard with Vibe Feedback → | tags: vibe coding, 404 media, technical debt

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The Korg Handytraxx Play finally got me learning to scratch (theverge.com)

2026-04-01 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Korg Handytraxx Play Controller → | tags: korg, handytraxx, turntable

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Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely (futurism.com)

2026-03-29 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Content Editing Tool → | tags: wikipedia, ai content, large language models

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Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-26 | by Lucas Ropek | get Wikipedia AI Editing Guide → | tags: wikipedia, large language models, editorial policies

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Americans’ Anger Against AI Data Centers Is Boiling Over (futurism.com)

2026-03-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Data Center Cooling Fan → | tags: pew research center, data centers, 404 media

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ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: 404, face, ice

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Apple Reportedly Bans App Designed to Document Abuses by ICE (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Lucas Ropek | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: 404, app, apple

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A Digital Underground Is Using the Flipper Zero to Break Into Cars (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Lucas Ropek | get Chromecast → | tags: 404, car, daniel

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Is the Flipper Zero the next big car theft gadget? (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | get Atomic Habits book → | tags: 404, boys, flipper

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A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Anthony Ha | get political science book → | tags: 404, abdalla, ai

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US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get Meta Quest → | tags: 404, generated, hhs