“Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion [phone] app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.” 👁️📱👁️ www.wired…
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Mar Hicks
Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center ash.harvard.edu
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Premium: How OpenAI Kills Oracle wheresyoured.at
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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams events.teams.microsoft.com
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‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers smh.com.au
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The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI restofworld.org
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DHS may have a new designation for those who have a problem with AI, data centers, or the harms of the tech industry: anti-tech extremists. www.wired.com/story/us-law...
Preprint research from Cornell: "We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently." www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
“I have been a tech journalist for nearly 15 years, and before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!” Thanks, AI! techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...
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Judge Schiltz “characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.” The arrival of A.I. has caused the number, length and complexity of pro se filings to “increase dramatically,” he said. “There’s just no end in sight, and no satisfactory solutio…
New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org
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Once again, everyone is now worried there's an AI bubble. It is, and it will deflate. But deflating doesn't undo the harmful effects, as @histoftech.bsky.social and I wrote back in 2024… ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...
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Larry Ellison has pledged 30% of his Oracle shares for roughly $21bn of personal loans. The future of Oracle and the Ellison family hinges on its ability to build 7.1GW of data center capacity and for OpenAI to pay it $300 billion over 5 years. www.wheresyoured.at/how-openai-k...
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Very late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27d...
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Well this is embarrassing! The Pro Vice Chancellor for Quality and Integrity at WSU gets caught using AI to write an op-ed in defense of how universities are embracing AI. And the piece is then retracted form inappropriate use of AI. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
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“The binding constraints in AI are no longer only chips or large language models,” Hafezi said. “It is the infrastructure stack, power, land, cooling, transmission, data centers, and long-term patient capital.” UAE’s OPEC exit could power global AI race - Rest of World share.g…
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Data centres, the warehouses of servers that power AI and other digital services, consumed 448 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2025. If data centres were a country, their consumption would have ranked in 11th place -- just under France with 468 TWh. www.france24.com/en/…
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Been thinking a lot about the Horizon Post Office (UK) system in relation to the push to shove AI into major operating systems. Two unaccountable management technologies… Anyway, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
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