Reposted by Dan LeiningerCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 01/07/2026Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih 1825392
Reposted by Dan Leiningerparis martineau @paris.nyc · 09/06/2026my latest @consumerreports.org investigation is based on months of reporting and 120+ lab tests of popular snacks over a third of the products had more additives / contaminants in 1 serving than what health agencies have identified as safe to consume daily 🧵 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...consumerreports.orgThese Popular Snacks Contain High Levels of Additives and Contaminants - Consumer ReportsTests by Consumer Reports and Yuka found high levels of additives and contaminants in popular products from Cheetos, Hostess, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Takis, and more. 11448203
Reposted by Dan LeiningerBig Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Photo works by American photographer Berenice Abbott, 1950s, who studied with Man Ray in the 20s and documented the changing NYC cityscape in the 30s for the WPA. She later worked for MIT to capture scientific subjects and principles, inventing new techniques and equipment in the process. 0289
Reposted by Dan LeiningerJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183446900
Reposted by Dan LeiningerCatalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 31/03/2026"Axios is one of the most widely used npm packages with over 40 million weekly downloads. Even a brief window of compromise could affect thousands of development environments and production systems." opensourcemalware.com/blog/axios-c...opensourcemalware.comOne of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromisedThe Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain att... 12318
Reposted by Dan Leiningergigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026If the FCC really wanted to do something to improve router security, it would ask Congress to pass our model end-of-life disclosure act, which requires companies to disclose how long they support their connected devices, and then proactively notify consumers when those devices actually reach EOL.advocacy.consumerreports.orgConsumer Reports, US PIRG, Secure Resilient Future Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology Propose, “Connected Consumer Products End of Life Disclosure Act” to Address IoT Security Ris...Consumer Reports, Secure Resilient Future Foundation (SRFF), US PIRG, and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), today announced a joint effort to address the… 46925
Reposted by Dan Leiningerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/03/2026unbeatable cookbook www.ranchogordo.com/products/fag...ranchogordo.comFagioli: The Bean Cuisine of ItalyThis revised and expanded edition of Judith Barrett's seminal book on Italian bean cuisine honors every region of Italy with more than 120 inspiring recipes for modern home cooks. Barrett introduces u... 56117870
Reposted by Dan LeiningerConsumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 16/03/2026The FDA has issued a notice to consumers about raw-milk cheddar cheese products made by Raw Farm, which may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The company has not recalled the cheese, but CR’s experts say not to eat it. consumerreports.orgRaw Farm Raw Milk Cheddar Cheese Linked to an E. Coli Outbreak - Consumer ReportsRaw milk cheddar cheese from the company Raw Farm is linked to an outbreak of E. coli, according to the FDA. The company isn't recalling the cheese. 2209
Reposted by Dan Leiningercaptain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Asimov's Fourth Law of Robotics: Have fun! 1545176
Reposted by Dan LeiningerNadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 12/02/2026📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds. 26503182
Reposted by Dan LeiningerArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 18/01/2026Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...lucumr.pocoo.orgAgent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?What’s going on with the AI builder community right now? 2327465
Reposted by Dan LeiningerConsumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 22/12/2025In response to our investigation, Instacart is no longer allowing retailers to use its AI tech to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries, at the same time on its platform. consumerreports.orgInstacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer ReportsExclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill. 24112
Reposted by Dan LeiningerProPublica @propublica.org · 21/12/2025Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S. Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.propublica.orgRx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’tWe’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them. 121011441
Reposted by Dan LeiningerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/12/2025I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...pluralistic.netPluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1325568
Reposted by Dan LeiningerTechdirt @techdirt.com · 02/12/2025Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…techdirt.comOur Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent SystemLast week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted by mistake. Patent tolls and other abusers of the patent system have been screaming about this system ever since it started actually helping stop the flood of patent trolling over the last decade and a half. 0199
Reposted by Dan LeiningerPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025You have GOT to be KIDDING ME 06338
Reposted by Dan LeiningerDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Now I'm picturing a group of bored middle-aged people 30 years from now all doing a half-hearted 6-7 in a business meeting because that's just what you do 1215
Reposted by Dan Leiningergigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025The @consumerreports.org cybersecurity testing lab has helped improve security for several connected products. We showcase a few examples of what they have found and how they work with companies to improve product security. Also, if you're building a connected device, encrypt your traffic.innovation.consumerreports.orgHow CR’s Testing Team is Boosting Security—One Smart Product at a Time - Innovation at Consumer ReportsTake a look inside CR’s testing lab, where our engineers are strengthening the security of connected devices and boosting consumer trust 073
Reposted by Dan LeiningerConsumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 12/09/2025CR's Leah Fischman Hunter and Ginny Fahs joined the Innovation Storytellers Show to talk about Consumer Reports’ fight for digital consumer rights in an online world filled with AI hype, dark patterns, and data brokers. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comTech for Good: Consumer Reports’ Fight for Digital Consumer RightsPodcast Episode · Innovation Storytellers · 09/09/2025 · 48m 053
Reposted by Dan LeiningerMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio... 11872280
Reposted by Dan LeiningerRebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away. 34392874478
Dan Leininger @danleininger.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We're hiring remote/hybrid product & research engineering roles to help build pro-consumer tech in Consumer Reports' Innovation Lab Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/consumerrepo... or reach out directly to innovationlab@cr.consumer.org More about our work here: innovation.consumerreports.org/blog/job-boards.greenhouse.ioConsumer Reports<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with... 011
Reposted by Dan LeiningerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 10/07/2025If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar... 843334955
Reposted by Dan LeiningerMike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2025LLMs seem to act very differently around the issue of link hallucination and we should talk about that more I think mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/difference...mikecaulfield.substack.comDifferences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language modelsI've been waiting for someone else to talk about this, but I guess it will be me 614141
Reposted by Dan LeiningerRachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Happy June 1st from plant bitch!!! 427653
Reposted by Dan LeiningerThe Onion @theonion.com · 30/05/2025Novelty Car Horn Playing ‘La Cucaracha’ Sends Stephen Miller Into Dissociative Fugue State theonion.com/novelty... 345148042048
Reposted by Dan LeiningerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/05/2025GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...simonwillison.netGitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCPGitHub's [official MCP server](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server) grants LLMs a whole host of [new abilities](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/tree/main/pkg/github), including bei... 213748
Reposted by Dan LeiningerJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025FYI: under capitalism your DNA is worth $17 www.404media.co/23andme-sale...404media.co23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $1723andMe sold the genetic data of 15 million people for $256 million to a pharmaceutical company called Regeneron. 1123895
Reposted by Dan Leiningerjam @socialistboat.dad · 19/05/2025Consumer Reports is a nonprofit that - doesn't sell ads or accept samples - tests products hands-on with scientific rigor - reviews home goods, cars, baby stuff, electronics and even banks and insurance - employs me you can get a yearly membership for $29 right now www.consumerreports.org/join/consumerreports.orgBecome a Member - Consumer ReportsJoin over 6 million members making smarter decisions everyday. 720644
Reposted by Dan Leiningergigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The draft version of the update to NIST's Cybersecurity for IoT Products (NIST IR 8259) dropped today. The update adds a new focus on supporting the security of a connected product through its end of life and provides excellent questions to assess device use cases and security risks.nist.govFive Years Later: Evolving IoT Cybersecurity GuidelinesThe Background…and NIST’s Plan for Improving IoT Cybersecurity 12010
Reposted by Dan LeiningerDefector @defector.com · 08/05/2025Sabrina Imbler spoke to Chuck Sebian-Lander about the increasingly exploitative nature of financial markets, the importance of making the Bureau's services accessible to everyone, and the CFPB's unseen impact on all of our lives. defector.com/an-interview...defector.comAn Interview With A Fired Web Content Manager At The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | DefectorBefore Chuck Sebian-Lander joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a web content manager, he knew about as much about the agency as “anybody who watched The Big Short and got really angry a... 03512
Reposted by Dan LeiningerDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025CFPB decided that protections for people doing installment loans on apps for their groceries wasn't worth the trouble www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...cnbc.comTrump's CFPB drops enforcement of buy now, pay later rule in latest rollback of consumer protectionsThe CFPB said Tuesday it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule treating buy now, pay later firms like credit card lenders. 616960
Reposted by Dan LeiningerConsumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 29/04/2025“My daughter Cheyenne died of strangulation after creating a loop from the cord that runs in between the slats of a window blind. The CPSC ensures that no parent suffers a loss like mine.” No more victims! Protect the CPSC for safer products today: act.consumerreports.org/lNk23B8act.consumerreports.orgProtect Americans’ safety: Stand up for the CPSC!Don’t let the White House eliminate our product safety agency 064
Reposted by Dan LeiningerSarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988tinyurl.comFrom the changemyview community on RedditExplore this post and more from the changemyview community 521271513
Reposted by Dan LeiningerGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine 63350561637
Reposted by Dan LeiningerConsumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 26/03/2025“The termination of these two important advisory committees is very alarming and should serve as a warning to consumers that food safety will not be a priority at USDA in the foreseeable future.” www.foodandwine.com/foodborne-illne…foodandwine.comAmerica’s Food Safety System Is Failing, and Consumers Are Paying the PriceFood recalls rose by 41% last year, and illnesses from contaminated food doubled — yet key federal food safety recommendations remain unfulfilled. The FDA is grappling with leadership turmoil and staffing shortages. With avian flu spreading and outbreaks still unfolding, we’re left wondering: Is our food really safe? 064
Reposted by Dan LeiningerDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Some astonishing numbers in here: -OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes -OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026 -To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years -33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI -5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's valueprospect.orgBubble TroubleAn AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. 9027271155
Reposted by Dan LeiningerSam @samd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%open.substack.comCongestion Pricing is a Policy MiracleWhich is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it 6350531302
Reposted by Dan LeiningerCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Remember Ted Cruz’s list of supposedly “woke” grants? Here’s how we used AI to write a story that raised questions about it. How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Reportingpropublica.orgHow ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its InvestigationsWhen our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz. 3920647
Reposted by Dan Leiningergigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Today @consumerreports.org is launching model legeslation designed to help stop DDoS attacks using zombie IoT devices and help consumers understand how long their connected products will get software support. We would welcome the chance to discuss this with interested federal or state legislators.innovation.consumerreports.orgWhy We’re Introducing Model Legislation to Prevent Zombie IoT Devices - Innovation at Consumer ReportsCR is producing a model bill that federal or state governments could adopt to solve security and consumer confusion of zombie IoT devices 24112
Reposted by Dan LeiningerConsumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 11/03/2025Consumer Reports finds popular voice cloning tools lack safeguards (via @techcrunch.com) techcrunch.comConsumer Reports finds popular voice cloning tools lack safeguards | TechCrunchSeveral popular voice cloning tools on the market don't have "meaningful" safeguards to prevent fraud or abuse, according to a new study from Consumer 033
Reposted by Dan Leiningerdomvan @domvan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Weird how much the NBA has changed, 20 years ago shot distribution looked like two squirrels chasing each other but now it just looks like my parents fighting? 441407140
Reposted by Dan LeiningerErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/01/2025Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts. 1210347406904
Reposted by Dan LeiningerJohn Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The first AI “agents” serve two purposes. They’re early attempts to find and extend the limits of current tools. Just as importantly, they’re product-shaped previews of AI firms’ most intoxicating pitch to investors – infinite cheap labor nymag.com/intelligence... 394
Reposted by Dan LeiningerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.nytimes.comThe Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of BankruptcyThe satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements. 23225864015917
Reposted by Dan Leiningerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/10/2024If you have a 23andme account, today is a good day to login and request the deletion of your data: www.npr.org/2024/10/03/g...npr.org23andMe is on the brink. What happens to all its DNA data?The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the genetic data it has on 15 million people. 32846644
