5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
Wired: “The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.”
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Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says
Ars Technica: “Newly unsealed emails reveal the sneaky ways that Amazon colludes with rivals to raise prices across the Internet on “everything from diapers to clothing to furniture,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged in a press release Monday. “Amazon and a competitor will knowingly stop price matching each other, so that one retailer can increase …
Spoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them
Wired – no paywall: “Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative…Tracking disappearing ships makes use of several technologies, some of them newer than others. Samir Madani, the cofounder of …
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
Forbes: “When Shanna Johnson was winding down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she ran as CEO, she discovered an unexpected asset: its operational exhaust—the digital leftovers that pile up across years of work and collaboration. To close the company out, she worked with SimpleClosure, a startup that specializes in helping companies wind down. SimpleClosure …
Spicy Regs
Abigail Haddad: “Want to search public comments from regulations.gov and search across multiple dockets? Eugene Kim put something together, and it’s cool. 🔗 Open it in colab and run it there: https://colab.research.google.com/github/civictechdc/spicy-regs/blob/main/notebooks/search_capabilities.ipynb#scrollTo=QSAA6t-RyqDH This is made possible by Mirrulations, the project from Ben Coleman at Moravian University that pulls in all of the comments from regulations.gov …
5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone
Card Catalog: 5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone From 2,000 years of medical illustration to vintage software preserved in a browser, these five free digital archives cover an enormous range of human record-keeping. Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org) Over 100,000 images spanning 2,000 years of medical history, all free to download under Creative …
AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026 – This twice a month column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The …
Quiche Browser
Mobile Phone Browser – Quiche Industries is a solo venture creating minimalist products for people who value thoughtful design and simplicity. Quiche Browser Ads, trackers, cookie banners, and other insufferable nuisances are all blocked by default. Website Darkening Dark mode for all websites. Support any search engines, Even Kagi. Quick actions in your toolbar. Add …
AI and the Future of Pedagogy
This white paper explores how education can respond to the rise of AI argues that technology should enhance, not undermine, core skills — such as critical thinking — and offers practical guidance for integrating AI into teaching while fostering meaningful, human-centered learning. Tom Chatfield’s AI and the Future of Pedagogy cautions against letting AI erode …
New Tool Will Hunt Down the Cheapest Gas Prices In Your Area
Follow up to These Apps Can Help You Find the Cheapest Gas See also The Drive A tool originally made to track beer prices unites public data, crowdsourced photos, and robocalls to find the cheapest gas near you. “…Appropriately called “The Gas Index,” the project started as a tool to track the price of a …
Font intelligence, simplified
Analyze Any Font: Extract, compare, and discover open alternatives for any website instantly. Extract active webfonts from any URL, inspect their weights and styles, and match against an extensive database of free alternatives in seconds. See also WhatTheFont Font Finder – Identify Fonts by image. See also MyFonts is one of the largest font marketplaces …
mapped 855 ingredients by flavor chemistry alone, no category labels
the interactive version is at compkitchen.com/flavor-map if you want to poke around. you can hover over any point to see the ingredient and click through to its pairing data. Every point is one of 450 ingredients plotted by shared volatile compounds. Close together = similar molecular signature. Copper lines mark the surprising pairings — molecular …
