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Apple solves its social media fragmentation problem with 'In the Loop' - 9to5Mac - 9to5mac.com/2025/07/24/apple-i

Social media has been fragmented since Twitter got X’d and cleared the path for Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and others. Still,...

9to5Mac · Apple solves its social media fragmentation problem with 'In the Loop' - 9to5MacSocial media has been fragmented since Twitter got X’d and cleared the path for Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and others. Still,...
TWiT News Feed<p>AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties | TechCrunch - <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/ai-slop-and-fake-reports-are-exhausting-some-security-bug-bounties/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/ai-s</span><span class="invisible">lop-and-fake-reports-are-exhausting-some-security-bug-bounties/</span></a></p><p>"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/im" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>im</span></a></p>
TWiT News Feed<p>ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It - <a href="https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-hallucinated-a-feature-forcing-human-developers-to-add-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/chatgpt-hallucinat</span><span class="invisible">ed-a-feature-forcing-human-developers-to-add-it/</span></a></p><p>Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/im" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>im</span></a></p>
TWiT News Feed<p>Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent - <a href="https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/hacker-plants-comp</span><span class="invisible">uter-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/</span></a></p><p>The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/im" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>im</span></a></p>
TWiT News Feed<p>A new study just upended AI safety - <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/711975/a-new-study-just-upended-ai-safety" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/ai-artificial-int</span><span class="invisible">elligence/711975/a-new-study-just-upended-ai-safety</span></a></p><p>Evil AI is contagious, researchers found, as part of a joint research project between Truthful AI and the Anthropic Fellows program. The new study could upend AI safety.</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/im" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>im</span></a></p>
TWiT News Feed<p>Proton's privacy-focused Lumo chatbot encrypts all your conversations - <a href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/protons-privacy-focused-lumo-chatbot-encrypts-all-your-conversations-144551345.html?src=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/ai/protons-privac</span><span class="invisible">y-focused-lumo-chatbot-encrypts-all-your-conversations-144551345.html?src=rss</span></a></p><p>Lumo is a new privacy-focused chatbot from the company behind ProtonMail.</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/im" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>im</span></a></p>

Meta Hires Three Google AI Researchers Who Worked on Gold Medal-Winning Model - theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta Platforms has hired three more artificial intelligence researchers from Google DeepMind as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive efforts to recover from stumbles earlier this year with an unprecedented AI recruiting push. The latest hires—Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du and Weiyue Wang— ...

The Information · Meta Hires Three Google AI Researchers Who Worked on Gold Medal-Winning ModelBy Kalley Huang

Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial - techmeme.com/250721/p15#a25072

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TechmemeTesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trialBy Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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