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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/3

Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
New research details how Civitai lets users buy and sell tools to fine-tune deepfakes the company says are banned.

Romania’s oil pipeline operator confirms cyberattack as hackers claim data theft https://therecord.media/romania-conpet-oil-pipeline-ransomware-attack

Am I cheering on a big AI company?
“Anthropic insists that two areas remain off limits: the mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weaponry.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-…

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/tikto…

TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial
The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Billdesk to acquire Worldline’s India operations; deal values business at $70 million
Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million. In a press release Worldline said that it will be entering into a long-term technology and software pact with Billdesk, through which Worldline’s software stack will continue to remain operational in India. At an enterprise level the value of the deal was pegged at $43.6 million.

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/tikto…

TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial
The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.flu-dyn. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.flu-dyn/new
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- Flow birefringence measurement in a radial Hele-Shaw cell considering three-dimensional effects
Kawaguchi, Worby, Yokoyama, Suzuki, Nagatsu, Tagawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10261 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/114159626474808492
- Harnessing natural and mechanical airflows for surface-based atmospheric pollutant removal
Tomlinson, Tsopelakou, Onn, Barrett, Boies, Fitzgerald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11803 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/114182280989424086
- Modelling laminar flow in V-shaped filters integrated with catalyst technologies for atmospheric ...
Tomlinson, Tsopelakou, Onn, Barrett, Boies, Fitzgerald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00603 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/114618363713267810
- Physics-based modelling of turbulence in wind-turbine wakes turbulence in neutral atmospheric bou...
Fr\'ed\'eric Blondel, Erwan J\'ez\'equel, Helen Schottenhamml, Majid Bastankhah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20012 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115105574493910598
- Laminar boundary layers over small-scale textured surfaces
Samuel D. Tomlinson, Demetrios T. Papageorgiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11471 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115564297614664642
- Tensor Network Lattice Boltzmann Method for Data-Compressed Fluid Simulations
Lukas Gross, Elie Mounzer, David M. Wawrzyniak, Josef M. Winter, Nikolaus A. Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07615 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115689326375361321
- Low Regularity of Self-Similar Solutions of Two-Dimensional Riemann problems with Shocks for the ...
Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Mikhail Feldman, Wei Xiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07034 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/114312466798796116
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If you think #vibecoding is fine, let me ask you a single question: would you use a medical device whose software was vibecoded? And by "medical device" I mean something where a bug could literally kill you.
If you answered "oh, gawd, no!" then consider that anytime you use an #LLM to contribute to or develop an #OpenSource project, there's a chance that this code will end up powering such a device. And even if it doesn't, you're setting a trend, and it will be even more likely that the software used by these devices will be vibecoded.
I have type 1 #diabetes. I also lead a physically active life. This is both a blessing and a curse. My doctors keep suggesting Constant Glucose Monitoring systems and insulin pumps to me. And I do realize that such hardware would likely improve my blood glucose, and definitely make my life much easier (especially with a closed loop system).
So why do my fingertips look like crap, and I keep using a glucometer and insulin pens? Because I don't want to risk my life to an unnecessarily complex technology.
Admittedly, I occasionally get things wrong and suffer consequences. Or I suspect I got them wrong and worry. Or meet an unexpected situation and need to figure out a way out. Or even accept having elevated glucose levels (as in nearing 200 mg/dl) because there's just no way to safely fit insulin doses on a particular day.
But still, I prefer having control and risking my own mistakes to a device that could suddenly start pumping insulin because of a bug. And that was even before the story of the application that stripped the decimal point and gave people ten times the dose. Or the one about CGMs giving wrong high glucose alerts. Or the whole vibecoding fancy.
Back then, I could have considered such a device. Now, I'm more worried than ever. And honestly, I'm hoping that relatively simple glucometers will remain available. To think that my worst fear used to be of a mechanical fault…
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM