4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1089+ words) The most recent involved OpenAI agents taking over an old German-language wiki, using it as a message board to collaborate on solving tasks. Although this was only announced a few days ago, it seems that OpenAI knew about the incident…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (291+ words) InfoSec4TC Projects Hub is the missing link between cybersecurity theory and real-world practice. Instead of watching more lectures, you’ll step directly into simulated corporate environments and complete actual cybersecurity and GRC projects designed by industry professionals, the same kind of work…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (458+ words) In addition to the $111 billion Paramount/Warner Bros merger just being foundationally bad for creatives, labor, and consumers, the Ellison family-owned company’s executives just keep demonstrating why they’re not really the kind of folks you want dominating the lion’s share…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (335+ words) At this point all fifty states have considered passing “right to repair” law aimed at making it easier and cheaper for consumers (and independent repair shops) to repair their tech. That said, only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, California,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (374+ words) There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. All fifty states have at least flirted with the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (561+ words) It never made much sense. For most of that time, Oracle was busy trying to build itself into a leading cloud service provider — and cloud services rely on the exact same Section 230 protections Oracle was paying people to attack. But…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1366+ words) We’ve mentioned Rothschild in the past on Techdirt for his patent trolling ways. Like many patent trolls, Rothschild is known for setting up a number of separate companies that control the various patents he holds or controls. Rothschild’s trolling is…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (483+ words) The Trump administration’s anti-Chinese protectionism is routinely a disastrous, xenophobic mess that mostly just injects chaos, cronyism, and higher prices into U.S. tech markets under the pretense of protecting privacy and national security. All propped up by bumbling Democrats and…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (703+ words) And now we have another example that is perhaps even sillier and more ridiculous. In a pro se case in Connecticut’s Superior Court, a judge caught the plaintiff inserting an attempted prompt injection using white-on-white text (spotted by Brendan Palfreyman…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1681+ words) The current president continues to self-destruct. Fortunately for us, he insists on doing this publicly. After handing a donor and an unproven company the massive job of redoing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in “American flag blue” in hopes of…...