US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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35 points | 11 comments
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/foreign-adversaries-are-using-commercial-location-data-to-target-us-servicemembers-in-the-middle-east-wyden-harrigan-and-12-other-bipartisan-members-of-congress-reveal-members-call-on-department-to-adopt-commonsense-safeguards-to-protect-us-troops

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Searching for 'disregard' and Command Phrases, Including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop," Breaks Google AI Overviews. "look" and "forget" are also Prompting Chatbot-Like Responses.

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52 points | 6 comments

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/google-disregard-right-now-if-you-…

For comparison, Bing and Kagi responses

Sources

  • The Verge; - Tech Crunch; - Mac Rumors; - Business Insider.
Searching for 'disregard' and Command Phrases, Including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop," Breaks Google AI Overviews. "look" and "forget" are also Prompting Chatbot-Like Responses.

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54 points | 6 comments

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/google-disregard-right-now-if-you-…

For comparison, Bing and Kagi responses

Sources

  • The Verge; - Tech Crunch; - Mac Rumors; - Business Insider.
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

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110 points | 9 comments
https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/17/896

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug…

The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools. People spend all their time just…

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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

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49 points | 3 comments
https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/17/896

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug…

The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools. People spend all their time just…

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SHL0MS(famous prankster on X/Twitter) baited AI haters by posting a real painting by Monet, claiming it was AI generated. The post got viral(>6M views) as art critics started deleting their replies

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59 points | 14 comments

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/shl0ms-famous-prankster-on-x-twitt…

Comments

  • Hacker News; - Reddit.

Context

The painting is one of the 250 oil paintings in the renowned French Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s Water Lilies series in which he depicted scenes from his home flower garden over the final 31 years of his…

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Nuclear Power Plants Far More Popular Than AI Data Centers For Local Areas

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13 points | 0 comments
https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/nuclear-power-plants-far-more-popu…

Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these…

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ProgramBench, a new benchmark from Facebook/Meta(by SWE-Bench creators) to see if LLMs can recreate real executable programs (ffmpeg, SQLite) from scratch with no internet access- They all score 0%.

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18 points | 4 comments

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/programbench-a-new-benchmark-by-sw…

Comments

  • Hacker News; - Reddit; - LessWrong.

Benchmark.

Links

  • Research Paper; - GitHub.

./ProgramBench

Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?

Given only a compiled binary and its documentation, agents must…

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Anthropic: Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI—"We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation."

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6 points | 3 comments
https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/anthropic-claude-learned-to-blackm…

> Quote Source.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: AI now writes 60% of its new code; AI support bot now solves around 40% of customer problems without human intervention

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28 points | 8 comments

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-ai-now-wri…

AI is changing how we build and innovate. Nearly 60% of the code our engineers produce is now coauthored with AI—roughly twice the industry average, by our estimate. This isn’t just an efficiency story. It means our teams are shipping faster, iterating more quickly, and…

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TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections

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6 points | 0 comments
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10447-1

cross-posted from: piefed.world/…/tiktoks-algorithm-favored-republic…

Social media platforms increasingly mediate political information exposure, yet the role of algorithmic curation in shaping political exposure remains contested. This question is difficult to resolve on platforms in which users…

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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19 points | 2 comments
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install

Cross-Posted, via Technology Community.

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users’ machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to…

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