Reece

lmfao

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

a giant bus ad that reads “who’s your dadd AI”

san francisco was a mistake

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

"I see the proliferation of AI-based fake news pushing us over the edge of a fact-based world unless we enact change now."

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

BREAKING: Graber is out as CEO of Blueksy.

Full report here from @knibbs.bsky.social:

www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

she was a fairy

half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs

worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns

genius

Damn.

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

In an exclusive interview with @stevenlevy.bsky.social, Jack Dorsey tries to explain Block’s massive layoffs, reacts to CEOs sucking up to Trump, and talks about why he’s so unhappy with @wired.com 😭

It’s a great conversation, read away:

This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won't Work Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.

Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics. www.wired.com/story/deveil...

it’s true 😂

no one:

Silicon Valley: im gonna create a MARKET that is so POLY it could destroy the world

Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers "There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director A...

always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

but it’s good at surveilling you and feeding your voice and data into its slop banks

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

that's good right

yasssssssss (I cried)

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance “Data centers … they need some PR help,” said President Donald Trump at the event.

NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen

"this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.

What Is That Mysterious Metallic Device US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia Is Using? Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad.

👀 www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...

How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Unprompted by anything specific… worth noting that WIRED’s ASME award nominated package, “How To Win a Fight,” includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...