Podcast
Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here
How companies are burning through their AI tokens; and the fake AI-generated flowers all over Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.
Privacy
Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
AI
Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs
A senior OpenAI employee has contributed code to the project, simply called 'caveman.'
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Salesforce Beach
This week, we discuss talking aloud to computers, Cannes, and “Engineering Creativity: Guac Is Extra."
Podcast
Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is 'Age of Empires II'
A surreal but compelling LLM experiment with Age of Empires II; how a Texas city sold land meant for a park to a data center company; and the Madison Square Garden hack.
Cybersecurity
How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden
Hackers stole more than 45GB of data from Madison Square Garden, including data related to “talent” and the Knicks. Clues in the data point to how the hackers got in.
AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
Privacy
Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.
Podcast
Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)
Joseph speaks to Jake Hanrahan all about Patreon, YouTube, and getting journalism in front of people.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Landfillcore and Go Knicks
This week, we discuss questionable analysis, mysterious parcels, and the Knicks (sorta).
AI
Salesforce’s Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies
The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. “click to see who 👀,” the leaderboard says.
ICE
ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.