Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race
Or Lenchner, the CEO of Bright Data, one of the world’s largest web-scraping firms, says that his company’s bots do not collect nonpublic information. Bright Data was previously sued by...
‘Someone is actually reading the room’: Firefox just got an AI kill switch, and I hope other developers will follow its lead
Mozilla Firefox 148 will soon get an AI kill switchThis addition can disable all AI features in one goYou’ll also be able to disable AI tools individually, if you likeFirefox...
Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.
Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more than half a dozen...
Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.
On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost...
Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, February 5 (game #1473)
Looking for a different day?A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others...
NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, February 5 (game #704)
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while...
So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it
…and, worth repeating, it all looks exactly how I want it to look and behaves exactly how I want it to behave. Here’s another action shot! The final product. She...
I’m a writer who won’t use generative AI — here are 7 AI-free tools that actually support real writing
While it seems that software firms want to put AI into everything, many creative people want tools that are AI-free. I'm one of them. I'm not against AI by any...
Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished
A Wall Street Journal report on Friday said Nvidia insiders had expressed doubts about the transaction and that Huang had privately criticized what he described as a lack of discipline...
NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, February 4 (game #703)
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while...