New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference

During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game.…

Microsoft’s CEO calls for putting an ‘emergency brake’ on AI.

Five-a-day advice may need an update as experts blame Britain’s worsening soil quality

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A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely.

Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to improve the IRC protocol.

The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"

A UC Berkeley researcher raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in daily life.

Amid a surge in AI content, many are placing extra value on art that's obviously made by a human. But can that last, asks Ros Atkins

Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete tips, and a link to a desolate forum full of people asking the same questions again and again.…

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, ...

I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.

It's a protest now.

Court filings by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office include previously undisclosed documents, revealing new details about internal deliberations at the oil giant.

Measuring a commercial spatial audio processor, extracting its stereo impulse responses, and rebuilding the effect as a convolution filter on Linux.

From its anatomy to its purpose, there’s a lot we don't know about the female organ

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or being able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment.

I've also got a day job, so here is…

A vague Bay Area Air District notice has Fremont parents searching for answers.

I don’t want to learn the rules. I want the game to be over.