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AI-Led Remediation Crisis Prompts HackerOne to Pause Bug Bounties

HackerOne Internet Bug Bounty changes.

Leading to Security Bug Bounty Program Paused Due to Loss of Funding

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Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social

here’s the “AI regulation” that I want: if anyone proposing utility for an AI tool utters the words “I could imagine…”, a big cartoony boxing glove on a spring needs to pop out of a box and punch them through a wall

Every time I think my voice is getting good, someone gives me a holy crap moment. Latest case is Charlie Puth making a reference to T Pain's auto tune technique, with no hardware...

https://switchedonpop.com/epis...ka-g3wnk-nrtag-fwsbl-tfsxc-szzhn https://www.berklee.edu/berkle...h-advice-switched-on-pop-podcast

Two really good ones today. That AI Great Leap Forward that I linked earlier, and Let’s talk about LLMs, talking about what software development really is, and a deep dive into how churning out code is not, in fact, going to give you an order of magnitude of productivity gain.

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Nature: Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.

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Hmmm... The Dell i7 8Gen hand me down laptop I've been using for Linux stuff is giving me flakey display, including keeping remnants of the previous display after a shutdown and restart (I didn't know they did that these days).

Sigh. I need work to turn around.

Of course, this Rust repo was last updated over 4 months ago. Why would I expect that it'd run on a modern Mac.

Guess this is gonna happen on a Linux machine.

A good start: John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to- Repair Settlement

While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who participated in a class action lawsuit. Specifically, that money is available to those involved who paid John Deere’s authorized dealers for large equipment repairs from January 2018. This means that plaintiffs will recover somewhere between 26% and 53% of overcharge damages, according to one of the court documents—far beyond the typical amount, which lands between 5% and 15%.

The article also reports that older used tractors ballooned in value as farmers sought out repairable devices.

Some checkboxes for a TOS: On the acceptance of GenAI — Joep Schuurkes

Preprint: AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance Grace Liu, Brian Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Michiel A. Bakker, Rachit Dubey

Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up. Notably, these effects emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes).

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The AI Great Leap Forward — Han Lee

In 1958, Mao ordered every village in China to produce steel. Farmers melted down their cooking pots in backyard furnaces and reported spectacular numbers. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved.

In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation.

Same energy.

Duh: Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

Postal Arbitrage. Using Amazon Prime to send messages more cheaply than a first class letter by gifting cheap items.

My neighborhood will hate you.