Tootfinder

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

Amazon launches "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/amaz

Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages | TechCrunch
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.

I bought a 240W 4-Port GaN Wall Charger (https://www.verbatim.com/en/chargers/products/32205-240w-4-port-gan-wall-charger) and four 240W USB Type C to C cables (https://www.lttstore.com/products/ltt-truespec-cable-usb-type-c-to-c). Yeah, I know that I'm never going to get more than 140W through those cables.
Next, I need to figure out a case that they can live in so I can move them from backpack to backpack with little trouble.

Top Gulf Aluminum Producer EGA Halted Output After Iran Strike (Yvonne Yue Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/top-gulf-aluminum-producer-ega-halted-smelter-after-iran-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p97#a260401p97

Yeah, so, please don’t buy this. @… https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/116217178590076213

“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
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1st quote source:

First AI-made Feature Film Premieres at Cannes on Higgsfield | Alex Mashrabov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We just showcased the trailer of our first 95-minute feature film made entirely on Higgsfield in Cannes. Hell Grind is a 95-minute sci-fi heist directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov, a two-time Cannes Official Programme filmmaker. A team of 15 professional directors, DPs, and editors made it on Higgsfield in 14 days for under $500K. The traditional comparable production cost is around $50M. But beyond the numbers, this is the first AI film to demonstrate that …

This was a nice ride. Some sections involved pushing the bike. And some steep parts came a bit surprising. But overall it was nice with some quite challenging sections. It was a loop that I wanted to try since quite a while.
And it's a new elevation record since I own the Garmin 🎉
Just my #garmin now suddenly refuses to connect to my phone. 😵‍💫 Factory reset, all suggestions fro…

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s attempt to put a positive spin on the ongoing US war on Iran was immediately challenged,
first by the ranking Democrat on the armed services committee, senator Jack Reed, who lambasted his “dangerously exaggerated” claims,
and then by a protester who shouted, “you’re a war criminal!”

A Reuters photograph of the protester from the activist group Code Pink showed that he stood up in the audience behind Hegseth and held a sign readin…

The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

GitHub unveils the GitHub Copilot desktop app in preview, which introduces a new feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/git…

GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.