Venting at Claude is fine, but ‘extreme’ abuse will be banned Nov. 12
“You f*cking idiot, I asked for…” might seem harmless if you’re saying it to an AI chatbot, and a lot of people are doing it. But if you’re one of them and your LLM of…
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Playing pirated Forza Horizon 6 can get you banned for 8,000 years
Look, I know that everyone reading this is a good little gamer. You’d never acquire a video game through less-than-legitimate means. You certainly wouldn’t download a game before it was released, even if said game…
Wikipedia just banned AI-written articles
After much debate, Wikipedia has now taken a stance on AI-generated content on its platform: “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.” So says the internal policy page, although the…
How to use a VPN for TikTok if it gets banned (again)
TikTok is rarely out of the news cycle, with the video platform seeing a meteoric rise in recent years, but in late January 2025 it wasn’t losing popularity due to something it had done –…
Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw
In October, video game giant Activision said it had fixed a bug in its anti-cheat system that affected “a small number of legitimate player accounts,” who were getting banned because of the bug. In reality,…
How to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus before it gets banned
Just a little over a week ago, the US government announced a ban of Kaspersky antivirus software—which will soon leave its remaining users without a functional program. Starting July 20, Kaspersky must discontinue sale to…