AI This guy cobbled together off-the-shelf AI tools to make an impressive digital assistant Mark Frauenfelder

dogs Robot dog entered in dog competition Gail Sherman

science fiction Infinite Oddyssey is the first sci-fi magazine created completely with AI Thom Dunn

plants Chamomile is inescapably fashionable now Elías Villoro

What does the fox say? If only we had "Google Translate for Animals" Jason Weisberger

mistakes Elderly woman hit with recurring subscription after asking voice assistant to say the Hail Mary Rob Beschizza

misogyny Art gallery removes film that rated 5,000 women from "prettiest to ugliest" Mark Frauenfelder

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books Number-crunching the overwhelming whiteness of the book publishing industry Thom Dunn

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eu The EU's ambitious, fearless antitrust czar is unlikely to win another term Cory Doctorow

security Facebook blames malicious browser plugins for leak of 81,000 users' private messages and offer of account data for 120,000,000 users Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

amazon Amazon: 'Unlikely' string of events led to Echo recording a family's private chat & sending to some random guy Xeni Jardin

AI Adversarial examples: attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear Cory Doctorow

security New Consumers Union report catalogs the potential collateral damage from the crypto wars Cory Doctorow

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