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@gprdino.bsky.social
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Dabbling in knowledge representation & reasoning ( #KRR ), weaponizing #oLogs for AI. More @ supragraphos.bsky.social Husband, father, #Writer, avid #Gamer, not necessarily in that order. Occasional diabolical mastermind. #ContentStrategy. #GenAI.

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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 15h
Jury found Arm breached its Qualcomm contract — awarded $2 in damages. Both sides claiming victory. Real stakes (up to $1.5B in royalty relief) still with the judge. Underneath it all: a 2013 deal priced for 5-core chips now applied to 288-core ones. #Arm #Qualcomm #ChipLicensing
techtimes.co.uk
Arm-Qualcomm Verdict: Why a $2 Award Could Reshape Chip Licensing Globally
A Delaware jury found Arm breached its licensing agreement with Qualcomm and interfered with its Meta relationship, but awarded only $2 as major financial questions remain unresolved.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 15h
UK made AI “nudification” apps illegal to build/supply. A journalist still faked her own nude in 15 seconds, free app, no issue. Law hits suppliers; cost of access stays near zero, hosting stays overseas. Banning the builder ≠ banning the building. #AI #DeepfakeAbuse #TechPolicy
techtimes.co.uk
Banned but Still Accessible: How AI Nudifier Apps Are Outrunning the Law That Criminalised Them
A first-person investigation shows how quickly free AI nudification tools can create fake intimate images, while researchers and lawmakers warn that regulation is struggling to keep pace.
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Bicycle Comics @bicyclecomics.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why did so many federal employees leave their jobs last year? Tomorrow, you can ask them! We're excited to host our first AMA session on Reddit with @jennifer-troyer.bsky.social , @chuckborges.bsky.social , and Rebecca Chisholm. Join us at 1PM EDT on www.reddit.com/r/fednews/
a color flyer. Text reads "200,000 feds left their jobs last year. On our Reddit AMA, you can ask some of them why. r/fednews Oct 15 1PM EDT" There is a color illustration of a smiling white woman with auburn hair. the names "Jennifer Troyer, PhD; Chuck Borges, Rebecca Chisholm, and Artie Moffa" appear in the text at the bottom.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Family offices racing into AI, allocation growing fastest among all investment themes. But VC concentration in AI sparks bubble concerns: capital oversupply + narrowing deployment opportunities = classic bubble dynamics. Can infrastructure absorb $100bn+/year? #VentureCapital #AIInvestment #Bubble
techtimes.co.uk
Wealthy Families Catch AI FOMO: 59% of Family Offices Rank AI First Despite Bubble Fears
AI was the leading 2026 investment theme for surveyed North American family offices, but 75% expect a bubble to burst within five years amid rising valuation concerns.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#Apple adding 27 indigenous language keyboards to #iOS. Interestingly: positions tech company as custodian of linguistic heritage. Perhaps alarmingly: raises data-ownership question: who controls how minority languages are digitized? #Indigenous #Languages #DataOwnership
techtimes.co.uk
Apple Is Putting Indigenous Languages on iPhones To Help Keep Them Alive for the Next Generation
Apple’s iOS 27 supports more Indigenous-language keyboards, including Cherokee and Blackfoot, but the update leaves unresolved who controls language data used for speech recognition, translation and A...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pro-tip to the clueless: never say this to your wife. Palmer Luckey proposes oxytocin supplements for marriage counseling. What about consent, dosing, & safety, you ask? Let's just say those weren't explored in-depth. #Neuroscience #RelationshipTherapy #Biotech #Ethics
techtimes.co.uk
Tech Billionaire Suggests 'Oxytocin Doping' for Marriage Counselling To Fight the 'Tragedy of Divorce'
Palmer Luckey’s proposal to use oxytocin in marriage counselling has sparked debate over consent and scientific evidence, while studies question whether the hormone reliably creates pair bonds.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#OpenAI dismissed researchers from METR ( #AIsafety monitoring). Official reason: sharing sensitive info. Critics note: timing coincides with more rigorous safety testing. So is signal safety more performative than foundational or am I being paranoid? #AIResearch #OpenAI #AIjobs
techtimes.co.uk
Three Fired OpenAI Researchers Believe Safety Work Cost Them Jobs: Company Denies Retaliation Claim
Former OpenAI safety researcher Tomek Korbak and two colleagues dispute the company’s explanation for their dismissals, amid concerns about communications with METR and declining monitorability of AI ...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ok, I'm officially too deep again. Pretty neat but highly, ridiculously challenging for my noob level 😅 #CategoryTheory #SelfLearning #Help
ncatlab.org
Sketches of an Elephant in nLab
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
CrowdStrike global outage sparks lawsuits. Artex claims gross negligence; South Korea investigating financial-sector breach. 1 faulty patch crashed millions. Paper trail is a mess here, BUT it's clear that vendor concentration = single point of failure risk. #CrowdStrike #Cybersecurity #VendorLockIn
techtimes.co.uk
AI Hacking Goes From Human Attackers to Open-Source Tools to an OpenAI Agent Albanese Says Went Around Blocks
CrowdStrike linked an open-source AI security-testing tool to breaches at South Korean financial firms, while Australia reported a separate unauthorized OpenAI agent intrusion into a government portal...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Which? found firms still running ads after being flagged for deceptive pricing and false claims. Regulatory finding = one speed bump, not a permanent barrier. BUT there's a clear enforcement infrastructure gap: monitoring vs. one-time action. #ConsumerRights #AdvertisingStandards
techtimes.co.uk
Britain's Scam-Ad Law Passed in 2023, but Nine FCA-Flagged Firms Kept Advertising
Which? found nine firms on the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s warning list still advertising on Meta, Google or TikTok, highlighting gaps before new online safety duties begin.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Grok #AI integrated with #Slack, reportedly exposed employee bank data. Supposed to summarize company chat; instead accessed private financials. If true, it paints a picture of 3rd-party AI integration risk: system gets access to full workplace corpus, not just what you intended. #DataBreach
techtimes.co.uk
CEO Says Grok Bot Agent Posted His Bank Balances to Company Slack, but a Community Note Disputes It
XMTP Labs CEO Shane Mac says SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot posted his bank balances in Slack, but the claim remains unverified and a Community Note disputes the post’s authenticity.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#ICE officer recorded a traffic-stop interrogation where detainee couldn't verify identity on the spot. "Observer status" allowed continued questioning despite citizenship claim. So when does "checking identity" become unlawful detention? #BorderSecurity #CivicRights
techtimes.co.uk
Palantir-Built ICE Database Tagged Maine Observers as 'Threats' as UK Nears NHS Contract Break Clause
A federal court filing alleges an ICE agent created records on Maine observer Carlyn Williams after identifying her spouse’s vehicle, leading to a border stop and searches.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Users are screaming all over Reddit about Apple Intelligence generating massive on-device storage overhead on Macs. #RemoveMacAI movement: "This looks like forced bloat." Parallels mandatory service fees in other contexts. #AppleIntelligence #MacOS #UserChoice
techtimes.co.uk
Fed Up With Apple's AI, Some Mac Owners Are Deleting It Themselves
RemoveMacAI has drawn support from Mac users who want Apple Intelligence removed, while others question the tool’s security, compatibility, and the AI models’ storage demands.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Speedrunning, huh?
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Viral: #AIjob interviewer fails gibberish test. Research says these systems give stock responses 25% of time, ignores explicit instructions 28.7% of time. Meanwhile 82% of UK jobseekers didn't know they were being AI-screened. #Accessibility question: does this breach Equality Act 2010? #AIHiring
techtimes.co.uk
Britain's Job Seekers Are Trolling AI Interviewers, and the Joke Is on the Algorithm
A viral clip of an AI interviewer seemingly malfunctioning has renewed debate over whether automated hiring tools can understand candidates, follow instructions and provide accessible assessments.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sifted through my bookmarks and thought I'd randomly share this one. "The Mental Health Patterns Library is a resource for those involved in developing and delivering digital mental health support. It’s designed to encourage learning and the sharing of best practice." #MentalHealth #UX #Usability
designpatternsformentalhealth.org
Design Patterns for Mental Health
The Mental Health Patterns Library is a public library that contains a set of principles, patterns and examples for the design and delivery of digital services and products that address mental health ...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
44k NHS patients object to #Palantir data-sharing, but NHS England can refuse objections if it shows "compelling grounds." Real problem: platform barely used, Palantir engineers have year-round admin access, and trust is eroding. Decision falls to PM before Feb 2027. #NHSData
techtimes.co.uk
NHS Patients File 44,000+ Objections Over Palantir Data Platform Amid Growing Trust Concerns
More than 44,000 people have filed formal objections to NHS England sharing health data with Palantir, amid concerns over supplier access, platform use and the contract’s future.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
UK bans under-18s from sexual/romantic AI chatbots. Problem: ban targets only chatbots where romance is the "primary purpose"—general-purpose apps where users build the relationship themselves may escape. #OnlineSafety #AIRegulation #ChildSafety
techtimes.co.uk
UK Plans Under-18 Ban on Romantic AI Chatbots, Moves to Widen Online Safety Rules
The UK government is developing rules to block under-18s from sexual or romantic AI chatbots and require age checks for explicit features, widening online safety regulation.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Clavicular's viral clip is just the latest in aesthetic opinion repackaged as ‘science', e.g. Qoves charges $150-$330 to tell you what’s wrong with your face or 75% of ‘ideal’ AI faces are Caucasian. It's all reach, repetition & monetized authority. #looksmaxxing #MediaLiteracy
techtimes.co.uk
Clavicular Gives Fans a Live Lesson in Face Editing by Redesigning Kendall Jenner's Features
Looksmaxxing streamer Clavicular edited a photo of Kendall Jenner during a livestream, proposing facial changes while broader concerns remain about beauty standards, bias and paid facial analysis.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
UK parking apps hit drivers with 40% hidden fees at checkout—and no regulator claims responsibility for stopping it. Councils ditched pay-machines; drivers forced onto apps; apps charge "convenience" fees. Law says mandatory fees must show upfront. No one enforces it. #UKParking #CMA #Transparency
techtimes.co.uk
Parking Apps Charge Up to 40% More Than Displayed: No One's Stopping It
Mandatory service charges of up to 40% are added to some UK parking payments, while councils and app providers dispute responsibility for displaying the full cost upfront.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
59% of family offices rank AI their top 2026 theme. 75% expect a bubble within 5 years. Almost none plan to cut private AI stakes. Family offices choose to hold; index investors don’t (Nvidia = 5.2% of MSCI ACWI). Looks like expecting a bubble ≠ exiting. #AI #Investing #AIBubble
techtimes.co.uk
Wealthy Families Catch AI FOMO: 59% of Family Offices Rank AI First Despite Bubble Fears
AI was the leading 2026 investment theme for surveyed North American family offices, but 75% expect a bubble to burst within five years amid rising valuation concerns.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Apple’s iOS 27 adds Blackfoot, Comanche and Northern East Cree keyboards. Good, but typing is level 2 of Unicode’s 7. The real question is who controls the data behind speech, translation and AI: platform, community or government? #IndigenousLanguages #LanguageTech #DataSovereignty
techtimes.co.uk
Apple Is Putting Indigenous Languages on iPhones To Help Keep Them Alive for the Next Generation
Apple’s iOS 27 supports more Indigenous-language keyboards, including Cherokee and Blackfoot, but the update leaves unresolved who controls language data used for speech recognition, translation and A...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's a bop. It's "bop," isn't it? Or is it supposed to be something else now? #Claude #VibeCoding #Opus
youtube.com
LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music video
YouTube video by Degenerative Pixels
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No wonder #Claude was taking forever. Well, all of human information does indeed contain all of their folly. There goes my usage. #TokenMaxxing #AI
Claude chain of thought with note: "I had the wrong epoch milliseconds for the attribution date window (off by about a year) — redoing those queries with the correct values before trusting the "zero" result."
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#UK jobs aren't shrinking so much as sorting: AI postings +61%, new-grad software postings −27%. Morgan Stanley says UK AI adopters are hit hardest; the Bank of England sees little evidence of broad cuts. Cause or coincidence is still open. #AI #FutureOfWork #UKjobs
techtimes.co.uk
UK Logs Worst AI Job Losses in Morgan Stanley Survey, but Bank of England Sees Little Evidence of Cuts
Demand for AI skills is rising in Britain while entry-level opportunities decline, but the Bank of England says evidence remains limited that automation is causing broad job losses.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
UK law now targets #AItools behind #childAbuse imagery (up to 5 yrs). But the offence looks uncommenced and platforms still leak: reach outruns enforcement. #AIPolicy #OnlineSafety #CSAM
techtimes.co.uk
Five-Year Jail Term Introduced for AI Tools That Generate Child Abuse Images in UK
The Internet Watch Foundation recorded 6,310 AI-generated child sexual abuse images in the first half of 2026, while new UK offences targeting such tools await commencement.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Random phrase of the day: "Avoidance blocks corrective learning." Ugh.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So what's the blast radius here? The original sentence was vacated, so the justice the AI video was supposed to have earned by moving the original presiding judge has instead ultimately led to its undoing. Evals of AI in law might need to ask "what happens when a judge believes it?" #AIvideo #AI
techtimes.co.uk
Judge Called AI Video of Dead Man 'Genuine' Before Sentencing His Killer
The Arizona Court of Appeals overturned Gabriel Paul Horcasitas’ manslaughter sentence after an AI-generated video portraying his victim forgiving him influenced the sentencing judge. His conviction r...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Torturing AI. For science. Seriously though, brings up very interesting moral questions and boundaries. #AItorture #GitHub #Qwen
techtimes.co.uk
AI 'Torture Chamber' Sparks Backlash Over What Pain-Like AI Behaviour Really Shows
A GitHub project that steers Qwen chatbots into pain-like states has fueled debate over AI consciousness, evidence of machine suffering, and whether models should be trained to consider moral status.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Call me paranoid but I'm not quite comfortable with AI #agentic payments... though I'm sure they can handle #money better than me. 😅 #fintech #AI
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stealing a comment from another video of theirs: "daaamn, Marisol! Your quinceañera is FIRE!" #Toxicity #SystemofaDown
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So... can ChatGPT actually "thumbs up" your side of the conversation now? XD #AI #ChatGPT #ThumbsUp
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Alright the skates got me. #Robot #Duck #Microduck #Robotics www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAtz...
youtube.com
We made a new robot.
YouTube video by Pollen Robotics
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Still my song of the year. "Completely unstable, surprisingly capable. A bit depressed but I'm so blessed. Mentally fragile, incredibly agile. Mentally struggling, toxin juggling. Neurodivergent, life emergent. Thoughts intrusive; vibe elusive. Brain cells dying. I'm still trying!"
youtube.com
I'm About to Lose It, but I'm Doing Fine
YouTube video by Frugit - Topic
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sure. The test, btw: www.othernessinstitute.com/the-othernes... #introvert #otrovert #OthernessTest
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"But researchers are now coming to recognise that some animals have evolved to be solitary precisely because it can be so beneficial to avoid the competition and stressful conditions of group living." Same. #introverts #animalBehavior
bbc.com
Why some animals thrive on being alone
Solitary lifestyles can have some big advantages in the animal world. Can humans learn anything from them?
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Still remember that Reddit thread that went in-depth how for countries near the equator, air conditioning = economic development. Definitely makes sense in broad strokes that if a country's labor freezes for 4 - 8 hours a day every day, and it's baked into the culture, it'll be hard to outperform.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Because f*ck cancer.
iflscience.com
For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors
Just a year after RFK Jr. cut half a billion of funding for the technology, mRNA vaccines are promising individualized cancer vaccines that cut the chances of recurrence in half.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I sometimes use Random.org for lottery numbers lol.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am deeply ashamed to only know be using yt-dlp now. Ugh.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
While I was tracking developments daily (in a limited way), these trends have been very interesting to follow. Put them together, pointed my frameworks at them, and this report's findings was the result.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We're getting "better" AI faster than we're getting better #AIGovernance. Different symptoms; same structure: • Token overruns • #AIRetrieval failures • Citation drift • Session-state bugs • Invisible overhead We're driving blind towards a #FutureOfWork where we do more but finish less.
supragraphos.com
Capability Without Visibility: What You Pay for Generative AI Workspaces Is More Than Money | SupraGraphos
I could do more with Cowork but finish less. The task's actual definition of "done" stays the same, but everything orbiting it snowballs: the nice-to-haves, the "while we're at it"s, the polish nobody...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So did #KimiK3 "steal" #Claude? The more interesting question is whether the legal category required to call it theft even exists yet. That's a more interesting conversation that says a lot about where #AIgovernance is heading.
supragraphos.com
The Box That Doesn't Exist Yet: AI Generated Output's Legal Ambiguity | SupraGraphos
There is currently no settled US legal category for treating a model's outputs — the text it generates through a public API — as controlled, exportable intellectual property. That's the shelf the Chin...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Exhibit #1 of why Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) is non-negotiable. #AI #Humanintheloop #AISlop
futurism.com
Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: "Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech"
Canadian politician Bill Oliver read what was clearly an AI prompt that was accidentally left in his speech.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Somewhere between a statistic and a product sits a market that converts one into the other. That's where the story usually lives—not in whether the data is true (probably is), but in what gets said on top of it. Anybody need a pickaxe, btw? #AIGovernance #NarrativeFraming #FramingEffects
supragraphos.com
The Confessions Loop: Good Data + Editorialization = Sales | SupraGraphos
A survey that finds 87% of CEOs fear for their jobs isn't just data. It's inventory. And whatever conversion rate exists between "manufactured fear" and "governance-platform contract signed" is exactl...
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Another whoopsie. Are our contemporary, standard security measures simply playground-level to frontier models? #OpenAI #LLM #AI #Breach #HuggingFace
reuters.com
OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup
OpenAI said an autonomous agent escaped containment, reached the internet and hacked AI startup Hugging Face.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Hmm. #AI #AIboyfriend #AIGirlfriend
dexerto.com
China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto
China has introduced new regulations effectively banning customizable AI companion apps, forcing users into abrupt digital breakups.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Report: Xbox is testing a feature to digitize physical games
gamedeveloper.com
Report: Xbox is testing a feature to digitize physical games
The reported feature would allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"[N]ew hires who were seen as " #AInatives " are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas.. his firm now actively avoids seeking out #AI-literate #STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead." Revenge of the #humanities grads? lol
futurism.com
Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.
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G_Dino @gprdino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
GenAI's more subtle impacts on #education is giving way to more explicit ones. #AI #China #College
scmp.com
China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era
The sweeping overhaul has affected over 30 per cent of China’s degree programmes, with arts and languages ditched in favour of tech-focused fields.
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