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It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: technology acting on its own, without human guidance, to attack computer systems. But this isn’t a scene from a movie —  it […]

The post AI agents hacked a company without human direction. Should we be worried? appeared first on Poynter.

Anthropic's bulk torrenting of pirated books from shadow libraries LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror continues to generate new lawsuits. A group of major publishers, including Sony Music and Warner Chappell, have sued the AI company and its co-founders, alleging that torrenting activity that resulted in a $1.5 billion settlement, also infringed on their musical works. Meanwhile, the music companies appear to be confused about the history of shadow libraries.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Meteorologists just reported a major increase in certainty that the Hudson Valley will have a warmer winter. But does that still mean less snowfall? Continue reading…

Plus: The Tacit Knowledge Just Died, Forecasting Is Becoming Zero-Shot

OpenAI’s pause shows the risks of rapid AI development, as safety frameworks fail to account for non-Western languages and contexts where harms are felt most.

How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

The company known for stick vacuums and hair dryers is coming for your teeth. The $499 Dyson CameraJet uses a tiny camera to aim streams of rinsing fluid into the gaps between your teeth.

"We could really be facing the great filter."

Jumping Rope, 1897 #mauriceprendergast #americanart

A solo climber considers the outermost reaches of risk, and the unlikely ways in which they redefine us.

A record amount of outside spending from deep-pocketed donors flooded the 2025 citywide elections, but the windfall wasn’t always successful in getting candidates elected or defeated, a new analysis by the city’s Campaign Finance Board shows. Mayor Zohran Mamdani won two competitive elections despite tens of millions of dollars spent against him, in what turned […]

The post Record Amount of Outside Money Flooded NYC Elections Last Year appeared first on The City Reporter.

Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links.

Part 1 is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.

Part 2 is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.

Part 3 is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.

And the new one, Part 4, is about civic AI in Scotland.

Warning: this episode contains mentions of suicide. New reporting has found that the impact of rough sea waves on rescue-boat crews in the Coast Guard can lead to long-term effects, including traumatic brain injury. Dave Philipps, who reports about veterans for The New York ...

The rise of AI in open source software has expanded contributor diversity, necessitating improved communication and documentation to guide participants effectively while ensuring sustainable collaboration and high-quality resources.

Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated data, events, or objects. Humans are story telling machines. And one thing we do is turn co-incident events into more than coincidences. When we see faces and shapes in clouds, apophenia wastes our time in the form of pareidolia. […]

Cabbies who are pinched to find parking anytime nature calls are set to get some relief from a new program that will allow taxis to be stationed in commercial metered spaces citywide. Yellow cab drivers currently have access to just 151 taxi-only parking spots south of 60th Street in Manhattan’s central business district, along with […]

The post NYC To Open Access to 13,000 Metered Spots for Cabbies Looking for Relief appeared first on The City Reporter.

Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact.

Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS attaches that token, refreshes it, and releases it only to allowlisted hosts. A hijacked agent session is a live process you can kill.

Learn how it works →

Beach at Gravelines, 1890 #georgesseurat #seurat

Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran is unsustainable and is weakening their ability to protect U.S.

Pablo Picasso, Carmen, 1949. (Prints executed 1948-1949). #museumarchive #museumofmodernart