AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing? theconversation.com/news-sites-a...

sometimes out of the blue I remember this headline (about the origin of covid) and repeat it to myself like a mantra. I don't know why, it just feels like a line of poetry, like anne carson

EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears: www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...

The Fog of Content: www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

Paris prosecutors summon Elon Musk after raid on X's French offices: www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

Tech billionaires fuel Donald Trump’s $429mn haul ahead of midterm elections: www.ft.com/content/5038...

What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship - @paologerbaudo.bsky.social : www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How BBC experts confirmed hundreds killed in Iran’s protest crackdown despite an internet blackout: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-bbc...

Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Millions creating deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Welcome to Desocialized Media. Platforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite: nymag.com/intelligence...

Insane even for the AI bros' standards

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Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal messenger: netzpolitik-org.translate.goog/2026/phishin...

He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“The risk is not only that future models might train on AI-generated content, but that AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Lesson #16842 on why you don't make key public functions like journalism dependent upon rich people. Rich people have interests, lose interest, attract interests, need to have their interests flattered, etc, etc. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

‘AI swarms’ pose new threat to democracy, say researchers: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

So glad this is being used in schools and universities.

People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/peop...

Globally, CPJ documented 330 journalists behind bars on the census date of December 1, 2025. For the fifth year in a row, more than 300 journalists have remained imprisoned around the world. Read CPJ’s #2025PrisonCensus: cpj.org?p=553128 #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom

What Trump really wants with AI: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-trump... @bcmerchant.bsky.social

A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots: www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

US science after a year of Trump: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Thanks to @technologyreview.com and Finian Hazen (who was a student in my special seminar @buffett.northwestern.edu) for this profile of our work @citizenlab.ca

Il trionfo di Nick Land: quantsmagazine.com/2025/12/il-t... @adsignorelli.bsky.social

Molti servizi online stanno rapidamente sostituendo i vecchi sistemi d’accesso con l’autenticazione basata sui dati biometrici, più sicura e comoda da usare. L'articolo di New Scientist.

Hackers target Iranian state TV as exiled crown prince tells military to 'join the people': news.sky.com/story/hacker...

After Every Clue - Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-Up and the scoops of Seymour Hersh: www.thenation.com/article/soci... @thenation.com

“Iran’s near-total shutdown of the internet is a blatant assault on press freedom,” said CPJ MENA’s Regional Director Sara Qudah. “By cutting connectivity, authorities are preventing journalists from documenting events and isolating the country from international scrutiny.” cpj.org/2026/01/iran...

Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives: restofworld.org/2026/grok-ai...

Dopo le critiche ricevute a livello internazionale, gli avvertimenti e blocchi dell’app da parte di diversi governi, nella serata di mercoledì 14 gennaio X ha comunicato di aver bloccato la possibilità per tutti gli utenti, anche per gli abbonati, di nudificare tramite Grok immagini di persone reali

Here's how #Iran 's internet shutdown works... curifem.github.io/iran-interne...

Abbiamo inventato una macchina per riscrivere la storia e manipolarla a piacimento, con o senza il rispetto della dignità altrui — vivo o morto che sia, qualunque siano le conseguenze. La pagheremo molto, molto cara.

“Women and girls are far more reluctant to use AI. This should be no surprise to any of us. Women don’t see this as exciting new technology, but as simply new ways to harass and abuse us and try and push us offline.”

Iran’s Hackers Attack WhatsApp Users—Do Not Click These Links: www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Anche i centristi nel loro piccolo si radicalizzano: www.rivistastudio.com/centro-radic...

Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’: www.wired.com/story/everyt...

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging: arstechnica.com/security/202...

Iran’s internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza, Building by Building: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Ends America’s Leadership on Internet Freedom: www.techpolicy.press/trump-ends-a...

Trust What You Can See With Your Own Eyes by @kathkrueger.bsky.social: theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...

Malaysia and Indonesia Block Access to Grok Because of Sexually Explicit Content www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/w...

Inside the frantic global race to find an escape route for Maduro: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

My analysis of Internet shutdowns and digital repression in Iran and elsewhere. For the Swiss public broadcaster (🇮🇹). Here: www.rsi.ch/info/mondo/G...

My analysis of Internet shutdowns and digital repression in Iran and elsewhere. For the Swiss public broadcaster (🇮🇹). Here: www.rsi.ch/info/mondo/G...