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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Zoom announces critical (9.8 out of 10 severity) vulnerability in its Windows apps and SDKs
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[ Google Issues ] "The Community Meeting"
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[ Google Issues ] How Democrats' datacenter push in swing states is risking their midterm hopes
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[ Google Issues ] Endorse Trump and GOP pushing for more data centers, because ...
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[ Google Issues ] Air pollution! Noise! Trump loves them!: Trump Says He'll Fast-Track Private Gas Plants to Power AI Data Centers
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[ Google Issues ] Lauren's Blog: When Robotaxis Call the Cops
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[ Google Issues ] IEEE Spectrum: ELIZA: The first chatbot's multiple personalities
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[ Google Issues ] The enormous peril of supporting data centers
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[ Google Issues ] Grok AI caught taking ALL of users' data
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[ Google Issues ] It's time for all the shills for Big Tech to be voted out of office. Every single one, in both parties.
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[ Google Issues ] There should be a NATIONWIDE U.S. moritorium on commercial data centers. PERIOD.
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[ Google Issues ] ALSO: Georgia Power refuses to say which company or companies are behind these data centers! HORRIBLE!
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[ Google Issues ] It's obvious the Big Tech Billionaires have not studied history. Especially the history of France
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: New York State imposes one year moratorium on new large data centers
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report on teens turned over by Waymo to police, and implications for robotic vehicles more broadly
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[ Google Issues ] WOW: How three AIs couldn't admit they didn't know an answer, so they made up potentially dangerous ones
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[ Google Issues ] Univ. of Chicago Law School bans in class AI, phones, laptops, etc. for first year students
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next Monday national radio tech segment: Waymo turns teens in to police, and what this means
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[ Google Issues ] [Google AI is destroying the open Internet] Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
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[ Google Issues ] Next generation Waymo terms of service?
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[ Google Issues ] More on Waymo-enabled kidnapping
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[ Google Issues ] We now know that Waymo has the capability to kidnap any passenger and take them anywhere without their permission
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[ Google Issues ] "We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
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[ Google Issues ] Ray Bradbury on police robocars
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[ Google Issues ] What's next, Waymo driving suspected undocumented immigrants straight to ICE concentration camps?
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[ Google Issues ] More on teens kidnapped by Waymo
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[ Google Issues ] HORRIFIC: Waymo robotaxi kidnaps and imprisons teenagers
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[ Google Issues ] It Took a While, but Americans May Have Found Something We All Hate
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[ Google Issues ] Anger over data centers is reaching a fever pitch
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[ Google Issues ] Nashville zoo becomes flashpoint for destructive data centers, mayor says firm's claims are inaccurate
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[ Google Issues ] Ed Zitron: Let AI Burn
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[ Google Issues ] [Big Brother Google] San Mateo Police apparently launch: WAYMO KNOWS WHERE YOUR TEENS ARE! campaign
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on Sony stopping physical game disk production, and the battle between physical and streaming media, etc.
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[ Google Issues ] July 4 Waymo gridlock in SF after dozens choke streets, some lose power, 1 ran over lit fireworks
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[ Google Issues ] [MS wants to build 15 of them there!] Microsoft sued by Sturtevant residents for noise from data center
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[ Google Issues ] The Nashville Zoo has become an unlikely battleground in America's data center race
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[ Google Issues ] Pennsylvania's proposed data centers are bringing strangers together in protest
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[ Google Issues ] [I'm sure Google thinks it's cute -- it's disgusting] Google launches incredibly disrespectful commercial of U.S. Founding Fathers using AI
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next Monday national radio tech segment: Physical media, Sony, and angry users
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[ Google Issues ] Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Spyware Targeting Chinese Users
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[ Google Issues ] At internal meeting, Meta says any return to employee activity tracking for AI training will be opt-in
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[ Google Issues ] [Gift link (free account may be required)] A $2.8 billion data center was kept secret. Now residents are furious.
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[ Google Issues ] The cure for AI problems
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[ Google Issues ] No AI for Al. "Weird Al" Yankovic yanks AI commercial
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[ Google Issues ] Schneier: AI and Liability
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Trump leverages Big Tech AI to create disgusting video using celebrity images without their permission
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[ Google Issues ] Google publishes major AI governance paper -- and it stinks
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[ Google Issues ] House's horrendous "Kids Online Protection Act" now goes to Senate
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[ Google Issues ] How Google treats many long term employees
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my Monday national radio report on Meta monitoring of employees to train AI, and its broader implications to Big Tech and all of us
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[ Google Issues ] Vint Cerf is retiring from Google
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[ Google Issues ] Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
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[ Google Issues ] Age verification gone wrong: A million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal
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[ Google Issues ] Trump administration accused of building user tracking code into government websirtes
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[ Google Issues ] Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
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[ Google Issues ] Google invokes "The Wizard of Oz" with Gemini
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Boston officials pitch transit extension using AI-generated map riddled with AI errors
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[ Google Issues ] The deevolution of the Net
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[ Google Issues ] Amazon now logs you automatically into IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
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[ Google Issues ] Xprize founder echos Ellison's Big Brother is going to watch everything you do and people behave better with that leash on their neck
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[ Google Issues ] Change in topic for my Monday national radio tech segment: Meta's employee's "spying" mess
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[ Google Issues ] Google is removing the thumbs-down button from YouTube shorts -- because you're not permitted to dislike them!
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next Monday national network radio tech segment: Impact of DRAM shortages and price increases
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: DuckDuckGo's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month
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[ Google Issues ] Big Tech execs should be grateful that anger over data centers hasn't reached the "torches and pitchforks" level -- so far
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[ Google Issues ] Data Centers are turning into the "Dracula's Castle" of the 21st century, as far as most local residents are concerned
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[ Google Issues ] VIDEO: At meeting protesting data center pushed by city officials who signed NDAs with firm, farmer arrested for speaking too long in opposition
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[ Google Issues ] New York City Council candidate is accused of forgery over AI-generated posts
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[ Google Issues ] California pushing massive censorship legislation with social media ban requiring Internet tracking that would affect all users of any age and take away parental rights
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report re public blowback to Big Tech, with historical references and election discussion
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[ Google Issues ] qPhishes pouring in from Google today
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[ Google Issues ] Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
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[ Google Issues ] Hacker esposes Peter Thiel's secret society -- AI takeover, World War III, building cults, and more
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next Monday national network radio tech segment: Voter anger at Big Tech -- what does this mean for politicians and the firms themselves?
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Waymo recalling thousands of robotaxis because they may drive at full speed into construction zones
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[ Google Issues ] Standard Operating Procedure for AT&T! - California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network
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[ Google Issues ] Google's "you must be stupid" campaign for their new smart speaker
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: In lawsuit filing, Trump's fascist DOJ supports Musk's use of unpermitted, polluting gas turbines destroying rural areas around his grotesque data centers
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday regarding German court decision holding Google responsible for AI Overviews misinformation, and impacts of the decision
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[ Google Issues ] Family Blames AI Hospital System After Woman Dies Waiting for ICU Bed
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[ Google Issues ] Manipulating AI: Cornell: Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: FOX is buying connected TV firm ROKU
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[ Google Issues ] KPMG report on "benefits of AI" was reportedly full of AI hallucinations
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[ Google Issues ] OpenAI faces fresh lawsuit after ChatGPT allegedly encouraged Canadian woman's suicide
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[ Google Issues ] Android vs. text messaging -- SMS, MMS, RCS, and good luck
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[ Google Issues ] [gift link] Australia's Social Media ban for children is failing hard -- proponents continue their mystical thinking
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next national network radio tech segment: German court rules Google responsible for AI Overviews misinformation
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[ Google Issues ] COURT GETS IT EXACTLY RIGHT! - German court rules Google responsible for AI Overviews misinformation -- rejects Google excuses
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[ Google Issues ] Judge kills entire case when both lawyers submit AI Slop filings
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[ Google Issues ] Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers
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[ Google Issues ] WARNING: Apple MacOS 27 is reportedly loaded with massive, non-disableable Google Gemini AI SLOP
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[ Google Issues ] Senile Trump's FCC wants to destroy mobile phone privacy, morph U.S. into fascist nightmare model
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on users abandoning Google services due to concerns about their AI policies, plus discussion of related issues
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[ Google Issues ] Apple explains how their AI apps justify the destruction of communities
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[ Google Issues ] AI and Gasoline
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[ Google Issues ] Apple's partnership with Google AI: Not a single feature people actually need
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[ Google Issues ] Thought Experiment: New AI features coming? Shoes? Parents?
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[ Google Issues ] Apple promoting new antisocial AI capabilities
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[ Google Issues ] Tim Berners-Lee and the future of the Web
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[ Google Issues ] CEOs vs. Sci-Fi AI
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[ Google Issues ] [NEVER USE AI AGENTS. PERIOD.] OpenAI says "chat is dead" and wants everyone pay for AI agents
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[ Google Issues ] [Good luck with that, idiot] Moronic UK's Starmer gives Apple and Google three months to block nude images on children's devices
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[ Google Issues ] The AI Big Lie
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[ Google Issues ] Data Centers and Political Suicide
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[ Google Issues ] Famed activist Erin Brockovich launches effort to fight AI data centers and save communities from their damage
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[ Google Issues ] Google new privacy policy involving media is unacceptable
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[ Google Issues ] The most dangerous change in Google's privacy policies newly announced
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[ Google Issues ] Calif. assembly passes fascist, unworkable 3D printer "firearms control" ban
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next Monday national network radio tech segment: Users abandoning Google
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: "Experimental" flag in Chrome -- when enabled -- takes searchers directly to error-ridden Gemini AI for search queries
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[ Google Issues ] A Pro-AI Super PAC's Secret Meme Sockpuppets
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[ Google Issues ] New PBS Video: Massive pollution from gigantic, grotesque data centers
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[ Google Issues ] Changes to Google Privacy Policies
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[ Google Issues ] Googlers share memes berating Google AI
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[ Google Issues ] California AI initiative
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[ Google Issues ] Americans Are Starting to Really Hate Data Centers and It's Making the Tech Industry Nervous
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[ Google Issues ] Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
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[ Google Issues ] Google announces it will let websites opt-out of AI Overviews and AI Search ... but ...
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[ Google Issues ] Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
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[ Google Issues ] VIDEO: Google's AI Search Just Exposed The Whole Sh*tshow
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[ Google Issues ] Canonical is going all in on AI -- probably time to start planning to move everything away from Ubuntu
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[ Google Issues ] [Like a drug pusher] Internal docs reveal Microsoft wants people "addicted" to their new AI Slop Agent
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on the surprise $500 million dollar AI usage bill a firm received, and what this tells us about AI hype and slop
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[ Google Issues ] Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
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[ Google Issues ] Hackers claim Meta's brain dead AI support system let them easily hijack accounts
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my usual Monday national radio tech segment tomorrow: The firm that accidentally spent half a billion dollars on AI services in one month -- and what this means
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[ Google Issues ] Harvard students cheer graduation speaker encouraging them to mercilessly destroy AI
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[ Google Issues ] Google on another rabid, disgusting layoff binge -- pure evil
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[ Google Issues ] Study: AI fails to learn that claims are false even when explicitly told so
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[ Google Issues ] The AI racket
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[ Google Issues ] When the AI collapse comes ...
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[ Google Issues ] Uber's COO says the company's AI spending is getting harder to justify
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[ Google Issues ] How to disable Google Gemini AI Slop in the Chrome browser
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[ Google Issues ] Trump trying to brand anti-AI efforts as terrorism
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on booing of speakers at commencement ceremonies when they tried to boost AI, and what this tells us
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[ Google Issues ] Report: Amazon employees are running unproductive AI tasks to meet mandated AI usage quotas
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[ Google Issues ] An insidious new aspect of Google Search
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[ Google Issues ] Google's giant step
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[ Google Issues ] Google crassing the rubicon
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[ Google Issues ] Google search quality is plummeting
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[ Google Issues ] Google Gemini accused of 30, 000-line code purge and fake recovery report
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[ Google Issues ] Google Search goes nuts, helpfully promises to give wrong answers!
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[ Google Issues ] Google's New Search AI Loves to Lie
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[ Google Issues ] MA, DT, and Big Tech Billionaires
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[ Google Issues ] Please report new "AI Slop"
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[ Google Issues ] Google's brain dead Search AI can't deal with "disregard"
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[ Google Issues ] An AI hate wave is here
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[ Google Issues ] Trump was about to sign executive order to require inspection of AI models -- the Big Tech billionaries talked him out of it at the last minute
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[ Google Issues ] Departments of Transportation and Energy weigh dumping humans and giving AI agents full control. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL COULD GO WRONG?
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[ Google Issues ] Big Tech is using AI to screw tech graduates now desperate for jobs instead being filled by AI Slop. It's that simple. And that horrific.
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[ Google Issues ] The topic for my next Monday national network radio tech segment will be students booing the praise of AI by commencement speakers, and what this tells us
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[ Google Issues ] Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse
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[ Google Issues ] The new college graduation ritual: booing AI
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[ Google Issues ] Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
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[ Google Issues ] Valley graduation ceremony disrupted by AI name-reading mishap
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[ Google Issues ] GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories
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[ Google Issues ] [This is what happens when you replace humans with trash AI] In massive inept error, Google publishes longstanding Chrome/Chromimum exploit that has long been unpatched
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[ Google Issues ] Bezos spouts fountains of garbage about how AI will make everyone so very happy!
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[ Google Issues ] Clinics increasingly using AI receptionists -- patients hate them
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[ Google Issues ] Google: From most trusted to one of the least trusted
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[ Google Issues ] Lyft driver accused of using AI to fake damage
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Google pushes massive new amounts of AI Slop into Search, and new AI agents -- and when they go wrong, Google won't take responsibilty
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[ Google Issues ] POLL: Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists
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[ Google Issues ] Nonfiction book "The Future of Truth" in the age of AI turns out to contains quotes made up by AI
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: Trump admin's castrated cybersecurity team causes massive leak of government credentials
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday regarding malware and other issues related to CAPTCHAs
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[ Google Issues ] Amazon launches AI-Slop podcasts
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[ Google Issues ] CACM: In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026)
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[ Google Issues ] Google AI Overviews vs. "The Wizard of Oz"
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[ Google Issues ] Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop
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[ Google Issues ] The AI Education Value Proposition
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[ Google Issues ] The AI warning in Eric Schmidt's commencement appearance
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[ Google Issues ] [gift article - NYTimes] Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
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[ Google Issues ] Prank 911 murder call escalates after AI spreads false crime alert
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[ Google Issues ] Video of Eric Schmidt being mercilessly booed over his AI comments at commencement speech
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[ Google Issues ] Corrected URL for Eric Schmidt being booed
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[ Google Issues ] Arizona students boo former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he talks about AI during graduation speech
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[ Google Issues ] Peter G. Neumann has died
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[ Google Issues ] AI fake videos on YouTube -- Johnny Carson and Jack Lemmon
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[ Google Issues ] Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative
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[ Google Issues ] [gift article]: The JPMorgan Sexual-Assault Lawsuit Was Already Messy. AI Is Making It Worse.
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my next usual Monday national radio segment will be how AI is rendering traditional captchas useless, and how convincing fake captchas are spreading malware
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[ Google Issues ] [Almost a disaster] Caught on Camera: Waymo Robotaxi Runs a Red Light in Dallas, and the Footage Is Hard to Ignore
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[ Google Issues ] Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers
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[ Google Issues ] Gee, what a surprise! - Audit finds Ontario doctors' AI scribes inventing key medical details
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[ Google Issues ] Google quietly removes promise that local AI won't be sent off user devices
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[ Google Issues ] OpenAI sued after ChatGPT advised drug combos that killed a college student
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[ Google Issues ] Lauren's Blog: Big Tech's Catastrophic Layoffs Frenzy
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on the disastrous frenzy of Big Tech layoffs
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my Monday national radio tech segment: Mass firings at Big Tech firms and their implications
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: [Why bother asking?] Google may have downloaded a 4GB AI model to your system without asking or permission
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[ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on increasing problems with robotaxis and emergency first responders
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[ Google Issues ] Topic for my national radio tech segment tomorrow: Emergency responders rising concerns over robotaxis, and Alphabet/Waymo arrogance
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[ Google Issues ] I would not argue that generative AI has NO value. It is indeed a useful example of a rounding error.
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[ Google Issues ] Just what you wanted, huh? - ICANN opens submissions for new top-level domains
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[ Google Issues ] BREAKING: South Africa withdraws draft national AI policy found to contain multiple AI hallucinations
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[ Google Issues ] Yet another nasty Linux root access vulnerability (local, not remote)
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[ Google Issues ] Alphabet/Google under Sundar is turning into a genuine MAGA MONSTER -- caring about nothing but the money
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[ Google Issues ] IBM, Google, Nazis, and Trump
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[ Google Issues ] Every Google employee is disgraced
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