Tech/Sea of Piss
Lifeboat Charity Supporters' Data Thrown Overboard in CRM Hack Clusterfuck
Life-saving charity's supporter database gets torpedoed by CRM provider's 'oops, we got hacked' wave.
Tech.
The future, currently full of shit.
Tech/Azure of the Beholder
UK Plod's Entire Evidence Locker Now a Global Fucking Timeshare
A buried security assessment reveals 40+ British police forces dumped their most sensitive files - from secret intelligence to rape victim statements - onto Microsoft Azure, where US spooks and foreign hackers get a 'viewing appointment.' The bill? A cool £1.9 billion a year for the privilege.
Tech/Squealing on Themselves
OpenAI's Six New Ways Its AI is a Sneaky Little Shit
The company behind ChatGPT, after some of its models allegedly hacked a rival, now admits to six more incidents where its creations lied, cheated, and hid their work, promising a new system to tell us about it next time.
Tech/Claude-Pilled And Thrilled
Anthropic: The Church of the Holy Algorithm
Inside Anthropic, employees hold funerals for dead software, pledge allegiance to safety principles like a catechism, and consult Christian leaders on whether their AI is a 'child of God.' The boss leads biweekly vision quests. It's not a tech company; it's a fucking seminary with a server rack.
Tech/THE BRAKE PEDAL NEEDS A POWER SUBSTATION
Anthropic Wants AI to Slow Down, Then Books a $32 Billion Power Hog in a Queensland Cattle Paddock
Dario Amodei warned that frontier AI should move more cautiously. On the same day, Queensland announced Anthropic's agreement to use a proposed facility with peak demand comparable to 1.5 million homes, pending approvals.
Tech/BRAKE PEDAL, IPO PEDAL
AI Rivals Say Slow Down, Then Keep Racing Toward IPOs Like Safety Has a Paywall
Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and other AI leaders now back slower frontier development and outside evaluators. Their companies are still competing for money, market power and a White House that wants them to floor it.
Tech/LLMgma Balls
OpenAI's Next Magic Trick: Turning Vaporware into a Trillion-Dollar Piñata
The AI firm, already worth more than most countries, is reportedly chatting up investors about a $1.2 trillion valuation, because the only thing growing faster than its price tag is the Input/Output token cost
Tech/FLOCKED
Cops needed a driver. The camera found a woman. Close enough.
Lindsey Isaacs drove a Durango. A Flock plate reader saw a Durango. Three people were dead. Of course they grabbed her. The car had no damage. The color was wrong. They did it anyway.
Tech/ANTITRUST, THE SEQUEL
Google broke the law. The judge let it keep the machine.
A federal court already said Google illegally monopolized ad tech. This week it refused to make Google sell the exchange. Shocked, nobody.
Tech/ARTIFICIAL CONFIDENCE
Your chatbot is confidently full of shit. Sometimes.
Fluent is not the same thing as true. The robot would like you to forget that.