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Brown Brothers Media built an AI-fueled network of websites by buying established publications, creating fake writers, and flooding sites with AI-created posts (Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

Ik snap, als boeken liefhebber, de emotionele reacties op dit bericht. Tegelijk gaan volgens mij elke dag grote hoeveelheden tweedehands boeken ook de vuilverbranding in? Het kwalijke is vooral het niet respecteren van intellectuele eigendom/auteursrecht lijkt me?
https://futurism.com/artificia…

Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3: Google bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen und Sicherheit
Google hat die dritte Beta von Android 17 QPR2 veröffentlicht. Das Update bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen, eine App-Sperre und neue Sicherheits-Features.

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3: Google bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen und Sicherheit
Google hat die dritte Beta von Android 17 QPR2 veröffentlicht. Das Update bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen, eine App-Sperre und neue Sicherheits-Features.

Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500 Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 (Francesca Maglione/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Apple Health: Demnächst neu, aber noch nicht sofort
Zu den Funktionen, die Apple in iOS 27 noch nicht fertig hat, gehört die Überholung der Gesundheits-App Health. Diese neuen Features sind geplant.
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Apple Health: Demnächst neu, aber noch nicht sofort
Zu den Funktionen, die Apple in iOS 27 noch nicht fertig hat, gehört die Überholung der Gesundheits-App Health. Diese neuen Features sind geplant.

“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,”
says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist
Rhiannon Giddens.
“That’s what music is for. …
We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career,
including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band,
and her work as a musical c…

“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.” Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler’s…

Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/what-snap-expensive-specs-can-actually-do/
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Here’s What Snap’s Expensive Specs Can Actually Do
Snap thinks its chunky, pricey smart glasses are the future of human computing, powered by a new AI app and features that do everything from translating languages to improving your golf swing.

Sources: the US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down an AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns; Kalshi complied (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/15/2026/commerce-dept-orde…

Exclusive: Commerce Dept. ordered Kalshi to take down AI-compute futures product
The futures market for computer power lets buyers and sellers lock in prices, and gives traders a way to bet on where those prices go.

Apple rolls out child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apples-new-child-safety-features-now-avail…

Apple’s new child safety features now available
Apple’s new suite of tools that help parents create safer digital experiences for their kids is now available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more.

Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-is-giving-tea…

Anthropic is giving teachers free access to premium Claude features, details here - 9to5Mac
Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is...