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dexerto.comJust Eat apologizes after AI turns food into literal potato jackets, tiger cubs & bacon soda - DexertoJust Eat has apologized after AI off the rails generating photos of food, creating jackets covered in potatoes and bowls of tiger cubs.

Just Eat apologizes after AI turns food into literal potato jackets, tiger cubs & bacon soda - www.dexerto.com/food/just-ea... -> yeah, I don't think we'll see this on a restaurant menu anytime soon....

pivot-to-ai.comSpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’SpaceX, the world’s greatest rocketry, AI, and social media company, claimed in its IPO prospectus in June that it had a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion — mostly in AI. So the company is…

SpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’ pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/08/s... -> data centers in space seems like a practical way forward - at least they won't unleash wolves from unauthorized forest clearances (see: Google)

niemanlab.orgLegal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changesAllowing scraped content to be used for all "advertising and business products" is a substantial expansion of Meta's permissions.

Legal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changes www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/lega... -> another how-not-to PR masterclass from scrape-and-pray masters Meta....

theguardian.comMeta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his houseThe new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house www.theguardian.com/technology/2... -> that knock on your door goes back to something you didn't opt out of in your user configuration lol

theregister.comhttps://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/16/meta-grants-itself-right-to-scrape-content-from-business-customers-for-model-training/5303658

Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... "Meta’s new commercial terms of use are outrageous and probably illegal" -> just another day of post-Metaverse brainstorms from Meta

404media.coAccenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per MonthSome employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month www.404media.co/accenture-te... -> spend wisely lol

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diginomica.comSAP Connect 2026 - SAP leadership responds to hot AI issues, and explains why "generic models" fall shortI left SAP Sapphire Orlando with burning questions unanswered. I got a better result at SAP Connect. How much progress has SAP made on their autonomous enterprise plans? Here's my pick of the five hot...

#SAP Connect 2026 - SAP leadership responds to hot #AI issues, and explains why "generic models" fall short diginomica.com/sap-connect-... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #ERP #SAPConnect #s4HANA #HR #HCM #SuccessFactors

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diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - agentic harnesses need a (human) gut check, architectures need resilience, and event season rolls onThis week - context and harnesses make agents much better/smarter, but they aren't a cure all... Time for a gut check. AI architectures need resilience, beyond the short-termism. Fall event season rol...

Enterprise hits and misses - agentic harnesses need a (human) gut check, architectures need resilience, and event season rolls on diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #AI #AgenticAI

cphpost.dk`123456’ password used in massive Danish CPR data breach - The Copenhagen PostAt least three accounts at the company linked to a major breach of Denmark’s CPR register reportedly used the password “123456”, including an administrator account. At least three user accounts at…

`123456’ password used in massive Danish CPR data breach - cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/n... -> thx a lot, now I have to change all my passwords lol

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diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - AI, analytics are metrics - what are we missing? Enterprises confront AI Doomsday narratives, and event season rolls onThis week - AI, analytics and ROI... What are the metrics missing? Doomsday narratives meet enterprise realities, and something's got to give. Recursive self-improvement is questionable, but cybersecu...

Enterprise hits and misses - #AI, #analytics are metrics - what are we missing? Enterprises confront AI Doomsday narratives, and event season rolls on diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw

pivot-to-ai.com‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to makeOpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman was on Politico’s Decoded podcast yesterday, deflecting on a variety of topics. But there’s one amazing quote, which has been making a splash: [YouTube] I think on…

‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/06/s... -> lol awesome - who needs zero trust agentic security when you can just break other people's things.....

fastforward.blogYour next tough work conversation could start with an AI avatarImagine you're a manager who has a tough conversation with an employee coming up. You're not great at confrontation and you have to tell this person that they're not getting the promotion they've…

Your next tough work conversation could start with an AI avatar www.fastforward.blog/your-next-to... -> oh, how I'm looking forward to this.....

pivot-to-ai.comAnthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward ClaudeAnthropic is deeply worried that you plebs don’t appreciate that Claude AI is actually a little guy inside the machine. You just don’t treat our beautiful son Claude with respect! So Anthropic’s pu…

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/09/a... "You just don’t treat our beautiful son Claude with respect! " -> do these peeps ever just turn off their AI and talk a walk outside?

reddit.comhttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1wx9do7/muse_creates_detailed_profiles_of_all_your/

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family www.reddit.com/r/technology... -> anyone who is surprised by this hasn't spent time watching Zuckerberg share his amazing views on our AI futures where convenience is everything and our privacy is the chip we give up in exchange

slate.comMrBeast’s Book With James Patterson Finally Reveals the YouTuber’s Actual Worldview. Oof.A “dangerous predystopian world” indeed.

MrBeast’s Book With James Patterson Finally Reveals the YouTuber’s Actual Worldview. Oof. slate.com/culture/2026... -> If I was trapped on a desert island with only this one book to read for the rest of my life I would still use it for kindling.

businessinsider.com'It felt like the Hunger Games had started': Workers are 'loud working' in an effort to secure their jobsQuiet quitting is out. Some workers are now "loud working," making sure bosses and recruiters notice their accomplishments.

'It felt like the Hunger Games had started': Workers are 'loud working' in an effort to secure their jobs www.businessinsider.com/loud-working... -> is "loud working" and letting LinkedIn know how amazing things are going the same thing?

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diginomica.comEnterprises hits and misses - are knowledge graphs the missing piece in AI context, and is agentic security broken, or just mismanaged?This week - knowledge graphs are getting the agentic buzzword treatment, but how are they faring in the wild? Agentic security is the elephant in the AI adoption room, and Meta's Muse isn't helping - ...

Enterprises hits and misses - are knowledge graphs the missing piece in #AI context, and is agentic security broken, or just mismanaged? diginomica.com/enterprises-... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw

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diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - AI needs more than ROI - it needs buyer trust. AI leadership needs a re-think, and Dreamforce is a wrapReaders pressed me on buyer trust in AI - time to rethink. ROI is the higher bar for AI, but is it the best metric? AI alignment, tokenomics, and doomerism... An interesting backdrop to Dreamforce, an...

Enterprise hits and misses - #AI needs more than ROI - it needs buyer trust. AI leadership needs a re-think, and #Dreamforce is a wrap diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw

wired.comMeta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping MeThe Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me www.wired.com/story/metas-... -> not opting in at all beats opting out later....

neowin.netUsers find a default, mandatory Windows feature freezes your PC when you use internetA mandatory Windows feature could freeze your PC especially when you are connected to the internet. Here's what is happening and how to work around.

Users find a default, mandatory Windows feature freezes your PC when you use internet www.neowin.net/news/users-f... "the latest Office update is breaking licenses as it is invalidating them and even deleting the apps entirely" can we just call Windows 11 a vibe OS and get it over with....

theverge.comMaybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account.Tech YouTuber Matt Robb claims Muse accepted a lowball bid and gave out his address without telling him. When the buyer showed up, Muse didn’t say a word and let the buyer storm off, pissed. When…

Maybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account. www.theverge.com/tech/1001200... "Maybe don’t let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account." -> maybe don't let Muse run much of anything?

futurism.com"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's WroughtShopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.

21 Sept

"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought futurism.com/artificial-i... -> This "all in on AI" thing is getting complicated Outlaw slop grenades lol

gadgetreview.comDraftKings Allegedly Used AI to Target Bonus Bets at Customers Expected to Lose the MostDraftKings used a machine-learning model to target gamblers most likely to lose, while a risk-detection effort was reportedly shelved.

21 Sept

DraftKings Allegedly Used AI to Target Bonus Bets at Customers Expected to Lose the Most www.gadgetreview.com/draftkings-u... "a separate initiative to build risk scores identifying customers with potential gambling problems was shelved." -> AI for good is boring and expensive lol

gadgetreview.comSingapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read BooksSingapore's ReadSG program pays citizens virtual coins for logging daily reading time, aiming to curb phone use through small financial nudges.

21 Sept

Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is... -> not sure having to pay people to be semi-coherent is going to work out in the long term?

404media.coDoctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.

Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras www.404media.co/doctor-doom-... -> good to see Dr. Doom getting involved in local public comment sessions lolz

pivot-to-ai.comMicrosoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for youMicrosoft isn’t just the company that bought all the game studios so it could run them into the ground — Microsoft Research is hard at work exploring new realms in how to make gaming suck. Welcome …

Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/09/m... "What if gaming, but we remove the bit where you play the game?" -> makes sense to me, have to get ready for agents to live our lives entirely while we watch from comfy couches...

jalopnik.comChina Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans - JalopnikThe Chinese mission to Mars is on pace to launch in 2028, and it may beat the U.S. back to Earth with soil samples, even though the U.S. is already there.

China Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans - Jalopnik www.jalopnik.com/2254441/chin... -> if Mars is plan B, we should probably keep trying to sort plan A a little better...

extremetech.comMicrosoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update EverIf you add 25 non-Microsoft CVEs with Microsoft fixes, the total reaches 999.

Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever www.extremetech.com/internet/mic... -> 1,000 seems well within reach for October :)

techspot.comSwitzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and TeamsFederal authorities of the Swiss Confederation recently launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 tools with open-source alternatives. The Federal Chancellery's plan calls for investing 9...

Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams www.techspot.com/news/113763-... -> cost me a bit less than that, and was worth every freaking penny. Though in my case it was escape from Windows11 and Co-pilot that really cheered me up

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diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - bad data gives Marketing an AI hangover, Jensen Huang gives LinkedIn an AGI viral infusion, and fall events are hereThis week - just when LinkedIn was getting the long weekend blues, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang ramped up the AI fisticuffs with a new AGI proclamation. But should enterprises care? They should care about da...

9 Sept

Enterprise hits and misses - bad data gives #Marketing an #AI hangover, Jensen Huang gives #LinkedIn an #AGI viral infusion, and fall events are here diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw

pivot-to-ai.comAmazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’The Twitch streaming platform is owned by Amazon. They use your Twitch streams for training AI. Twitch Support tweeted about it yesterday: [Twitter, archive] We’ve added a setting that lets y…

Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’ pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/a... "If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer." -> A for honesty, no question lol!

fortune.com‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit | FortuneThe tech giant faces a new privacy lawsuit weeks after agreeing to the largest child-safety settlement of its kind.

‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit fortune.com/2026/09/04/m... -> not always pervy but always super creepo

reddit.comhttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w9y7mi/jensen_huang_once_again_declares_that_agi_has/

Jensen Huang once again declares that ‘AGI has arrived’ — but his GPT-6 celebration feels like he’s just trying to sell next-gen Nvidia GPUs : r/technology www.reddit.com/r/technology... -> I noticed.... lolz

schneier.comAI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns - Schneier on SecurityI received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone…

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns - www.schneier.com/blog/archive... ->bots need support sometimes too......

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diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - Salesforce and Workday defuse the SaaSpocalypse, tokenomics is a turning point, and prompt injections are a dragThis week - Salesforce and Workday undermine the SaaSpocalypse with solid earnings and salty comments. Tokenomics is still a thing, but is it also an opportunity to shift? Prompt injections are a drag...

2 Sept

Enterprise hits and misses - #Salesforce and #Workday defuse the SaaSpocalypse, #tokenomics is a turning point, and prompt injections are a drag diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #SaaS

polygon.comPlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital GamesAhead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in court that players know they don't own digitally purchased games

31 Aug

PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games www.polygon.com/sony-digital... "Sony pushes the idea that "reasonable consumers would not be misled" into believing they own the games in their digital library." -> to be fair, ownership is a legacy concept lol!

vox.comCan you spend your way out of loneliness?People are isolated and looking for community. These companies are happy to sell it.

31 Aug

Can you spend your way out of loneliness? www.vox.com/the-highligh... "People are isolated and looking for community. These companies are happy to sell it." -> show me the money baby!!

tomshardware.comMan uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over privacy rightsA net loss.

31 Aug

Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... -> cue David Bowie's "Modern Love".....

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diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - agents need meaning, not just data. Anthropic grapples with model pricing, and retailers get an economic gut check.This week - agents need meaning - and proper, contained actions. But how do we get there? Anthropic gets a taste of frontier model pricing backlash, and retailers run into macro-economic crosswinds. O...

25 Aug

Enterprise hits and misses - agents need meaning, not just data. #Anthropic grapples with model pricing, and retailers get an economic gut check. diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #AI #Retail #Economy

404media.coTons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on GoogleClaude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google www.404media.co/tons-of-peop... -> bringing a whole new meaning to "oversharing"....

pivot-to-ai.comHow to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack itMicrosoft sells Copilot as your helpful robot servant for your organisation’s data management. Search it, analyse it, everything you could want at work! Except accuracy. And security. Our friends a…

How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/20/h... "This hole is closed, but it took Microsoft eight months." -> nothing wrong with chatbots being helpful lolz....err.....

404media.coBrand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists DiscoverThe Qurayyah Painted Ware of Bronze Age Arabia had distinct visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, and cultural reputation—all features of a commodified brand, scientists…

Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover www.404media.co/brand-hype-h... -> pushing rot into our brains has always had a financial return lol

techcrunch.comHarvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors | TechCrunchIn the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/h... "Bussgang, acknowledged his digital copy is a little “creepy,” but he said, “My students love it.” -> sounds awesome

techspot.comPwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic researchThe AI hallucinations were confirmed by multiple leading publications, including the Financial Times. The so-called "Thought Leadership" reports were intended to articulate PwC's insights into some…

2 Aug

PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research www.techspot.com/news/113303-... -> hey, that 17 year old from Medium that PwC cited wasn't AI slop - granted the case study was prior to ChatGPT lmao!

consumerrights.wikiBMW Spider-Man in-car advertisingOn July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...

1 Aug

BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider... -> another one for the techno-optimists to explain to me when they have a second :)

businessinsider.comGoogle Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disastersGoogle pulled its AI image-editing feature from Google Earth within 24 hours of its launch, after users created deepfakes depicting disasters.

1 Aug

Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked dinosaurs www.businessinsider.com/google-earth... -> on the contrary, if dinosaurs are roaming the earth, I want to know about it lolz

diginomica.comEnterprise hits and misses - OpenAI's agent hacks Hugging Face: enterprise takeaways and mythbusting. Plus: NVIDIA, Meta and MIcrosoft back open weight modelsThis week - OpenAI's supposedly "autonomous" agent hacks Hugging Face. Time to demystify, and pull some lessons for enterprise leaders. A host of big players back open weight models, but is the US ver...

Enterprise hits and misses - OpenAI's agent hacks Hugging Face: enterprise takeaways and mythbusting. Plus: NVIDIA, Meta and MIcrosoft back open weight models diginomica.com/enterprise-h... -> let's do this...

404media.coA Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge SaysA judge in Indiana warns a court reporter that it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.

A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says www.404media.co/judge-caught... -> to be fair, manual transcripts that effect people's lives and futures are quite time consuming :)

tomshardware.comSecurity flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still doesWere the app's developers relying on divine authentication?

Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... -> I guess we can say a prayer for our data as well..?