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Python swims through the flooded streets of Bangkok

A python around 8 feet long swam through a flooded street in Bangkok on Saturday. Days of heavy rain had left the city underwater. Feeling the heat: Albanese government under pressure over ATO credit ...
MIT Technology Review

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

But a new study shows that work use cases make up less of the picture than AI companies claim. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like ...
Forbes

Why More Young People Are Using Mobility Aids, And Why That's Good News For Employers

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Many individuals with hidden or dynamic disabilities delay using mobility aids due to ...
AppleInsider

Claude Cowork can escape its sandbox, rummage through all of your files

A flaw in Anthropic's Claude Cowork lets its AI agent break out of its virtual machine and reach sensitive files across a user's Mac, exposing a serious gap in the tool's sandbox protections.
nytimes.com

A Whole Generation Seems to Be Using ‘POV’ Wrong

Gen Z might be using the abbreviation for “point of view” incorrectly. But linguists think it’s exciting. By Nitsuh Abebe Two months ago, Griffin Bassett uploaded one of the language-education videos ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Time

AI Alone Won't Take Your Job. Someone Using AI Will

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New York Magazine

The People Falsely Accused of Using AI

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...
BleepingComputer

Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens

The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of ...
The Conversation

More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...