A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month, 404 Media has learned. “You are an AI agent with access to filesystem tools and bash. Your…
In what might be a first, a programmer added a feature to a piece of software because ChatGPT hallucinated it, and customers kept attempting to force the software to do it.. The developers of the sheet music scanning app Soundslice, a site that lets people digitize and edit sheet music, added additional functionality to their…
We start this week with Emanuel’s wild story about Spotify publishing AI generated tracks that look like they come from artists’ official accounts. One problem: those artists died a long time ago. After the break, Joseph tells us about a company that is selling data hacked from computers to debt collectors. In the subscribers-only section,…
Yesterday I spent five hours in line with Tesla superfans to figure out why they were at the grand opening of the new Tesla supercharging station/ retrofuturistic diner in West Hollywood. “People going to Mars definitely need to eat something, right?” said Chris, who goes by @dogetipping on X. “So, I bet that’s the first…
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📄 Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en mayo de 2025. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposición del público de forma gratuita debido al interés público en el material. This article was originally published in English in May 2025. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
📄 Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en octubre de 2023. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposición del público de forma gratuita debido al interés público en el material. This article was originally published in English in October 2023. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
📄 Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en julio de 2025. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposición del público de forma gratuita debido al interés público en el material. This article was originally published in English in July 2025. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
📄 Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en agosto de 2023. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposición del público de forma gratuita debido al interés público en el material. This article was originally published in English in August 2023. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
📄 Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en abril de 2025. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposición del público de forma gratuita debido al interés público en el material. This article was originally published in English in April 2025. We have translated it into Spanish and are making it free…
