How I get free Kindle books without breaking the rules
I don’t know about you but I love the weight and feel of a real physical book—except when I’m traveling. When I’m lugging all my things around on my shoulders, you better believe I’m not…
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Planning a trip? Check visa rules for any country with this free tool
Most people focus on flights, hotels, and sightseeing destinations when travel planning. But before any of that, it’s imperative to check visa requirements for the country or countries you’ll be visiting. While important, it’s not…
In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the…
Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions. The findings…
Despite Chinese hacks, Trump’s FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules for phone and internet companies
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements. The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr…
Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules
When Altman celebrates finally getting GPT to avoid em dashes, he’s really celebrating that OpenAI has tuned the latest version of GPT-5.1 (probably through reinforcement learning or fine-tuning) to weight custom instructions more heavily in…
AI chatbots can be persuaded to break rules using basic psych tricks
A new study from researchers at University of Pennsylvania shows that AI models can be persuaded to break their own rules using several classic psychological tricks, reports The Verge. In the study, the Penn researchers…
Meta’s AI rules permitted ‘sensual’ chats with minors and racist comments
According to an internal Meta policy document, leaked to Reuters, the company’s AI guidelines allowed provocative and controversial behaviors, including “sensual” conversations with minors. Reuter’s review of the policy document revealed that the governing standards…
Judge rules Anthropic can legally train AI on copyrighted material
One of the big gray areas in the burgeoning generative AI space is whether the training of AI models on copyrighted material without the permission of copyright holders violates copyright. This has led a group…
Buying a killer Chromebook in 2025: 8 golden rules to follow
Chromebooks are generally seen as cheap laptops for non-serious users, but that’s largely an outdated myth. Sure, there are plenty of lemons out there to avoid, but there are also plenty of killer Chromebooks worth…