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[ PFIR ] The AI racket

Thu, 28 May 2026 03:01:13 GMT

2026/05/28 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] More embarrassing AI Slop from Google: Why Google's AI can't spell Google (or anything else)

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:37:27 GMT

2026/05/28 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] [Department of Nazis] BREAKING: Fascist Trump's Fascist DOJ launches criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:18:20 GMT

2026/05/28 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] DOJ charges Googler with insider Polymarket trades using Google internal corp data

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:06:33 GMT

2026/05/28 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] When the AI collapse comes ...

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:34:55 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Uber's COO says the company's AI spending is getting harder to justify

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:23:15 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] How to disable Google Gemini AI Slop in the Chrome browser

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:39:11 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Of course, it's all saved: Republicans Scramble to Erase Anything Bad They Said About Ken Paxton

Wed, 27 May 2026 15:56:23 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Firm wants to grow "brainless" human clones

Wed, 27 May 2026 01:49:44 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Panel of federal judges blocks Alabama redistricting plan -- state appeals to Supreme Court

Wed, 27 May 2026 01:39:21 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] GOP does NOT proceed with redistricting in South Carolina as early voting begins

Wed, 27 May 2026 01:28:53 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Paxton will win GOP Texas Sen. primary, giving Democrats best chance in over 30 years at winning statewide office in Nov. -- Thanks Donald!

Wed, 27 May 2026 01:16:30 GMT

2026/05/27 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Wikipedia under fire for anti-labor behaviors

Tue, 26 May 2026 22:34:20 GMT

2026/05/26 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] U.S. Space Command wants to put active duty soldiers on the Moon, presumably on green cheese patrols

Tue, 26 May 2026 17:53:52 GMT

2026/05/26 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Trump trying to brand anti-AI efforts as terrorism

Tue, 26 May 2026 17:43:07 GMT

2026/05/26 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] California moves to exempt Linux (and most other open-source OSes) from its upcoming age-verification law

Tue, 26 May 2026 17:31:41 GMT

2026/05/26 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] 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

Tue, 26 May 2026 16:04:04 GMT

2026/05/26 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: After proclaiming Iran deal imminent, Madman Trump attacks Iran again

Tue, 26 May 2026 01:56:50 GMT

2026/05/26 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Report: Amazon employees are running unproductive AI tasks to meet mandated AI usage quotas

Mon, 25 May 2026 17:20:10 GMT

2026/05/25 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Major study: Beta blockers may be useless after heart attacks, or even harmful

Mon, 25 May 2026 14:28:25 GMT

2026/05/25 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] An insidious new aspect of Google Search

Sun, 24 May 2026 15:33:59 GMT

2026/05/24 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google's giant step

Sun, 24 May 2026 02:50:55 GMT

2026/05/24 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] IRAN WINS! - Proposed deal Trump says is nearly done apparently frees up billions in frozen Iranian assets. Iran's agent in the Oval Office comes through?

Sun, 24 May 2026 01:46:00 GMT

2026/05/24 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google crassing the rubicon

Sat, 23 May 2026 21:03:07 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google search quality is plummeting

Sat, 23 May 2026 19:37:15 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google Gemini accused of 30, 000-line code purge and fake recovery report

Sat, 23 May 2026 19:02:01 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Fascist White House forcing vulnerable political propaganda app onto all government mobile phones

Sat, 23 May 2026 16:03:02 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Fascist Trump DOJ removes references to cases and convictions of Jan 6 defendants from DOJ website, calling them "partisan propaganda"

Sat, 23 May 2026 14:52:53 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Animal-Hater Trump moves to evict thousands of disabled tenants with support animals from public housing

Sat, 23 May 2026 03:19:37 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google Search goes nuts, helpfully promises to give wrong answers!

Sat, 23 May 2026 02:43:35 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google's New Search AI Loves to Lie

Sat, 23 May 2026 02:31:24 GMT

2026/05/23 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Trump's 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' faces 2nd federal lawsuit

Fri, 22 May 2026 21:08:19 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] MA, DT, and Big Tech Billionaires

Fri, 22 May 2026 20:56:48 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: U.S. consumer sentiment hits lowest point since 1952

Fri, 22 May 2026 20:45:25 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Looking forward to the day the Trump administration is in a snow globe

Fri, 22 May 2026 19:34:36 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Fri, 22 May 2026 19:23:14 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Gabbard resigns as National Intelligence Director

Fri, 22 May 2026 18:46:25 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] CalTech has run JPL since 1936, now Trump's NASA wants someone new who can wreck JPL for him starting in 2028

Fri, 22 May 2026 18:35:02 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Fascist Trump moves to eject green card applicants from the U.S.

Fri, 22 May 2026 18:24:26 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Please report new "AI Slop"

Fri, 22 May 2026 18:11:48 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google's brain dead Search AI can't deal with "disregard"

Fri, 22 May 2026 17:02:56 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] GOP to attach permanent daylight savings time to transportation bill -- states would apparently be able to opt-out (?)

Fri, 22 May 2026 15:19:34 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Trump and House Republicans pushing again for permanent daylight savings time, despite risks of death to children and others

Fri, 22 May 2026 15:08:53 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses

Fri, 22 May 2026 14:58:28 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] CEO of Standard Chartered: I'm sorry for 'lower value human capital' comments

Fri, 22 May 2026 14:48:24 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] An AI hate wave is here

Fri, 22 May 2026 14:36:06 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] 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

Fri, 22 May 2026 03:07:55 GMT

2026/05/22 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] ATT sues California to let them dump landline customers, demands Trump FCC let them cut off landlines and screw residential and business subscribers and end lifeline services

Thu, 21 May 2026 21:30:59 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Departments of Transportation and Energy weigh dumping humans and giving AI agents full control. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL COULD GO WRONG?

Thu, 21 May 2026 21:15:01 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] 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.

Thu, 21 May 2026 19:27:13 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] 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

Thu, 21 May 2026 18:40:36 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse

Thu, 21 May 2026 17:40:33 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] The new college graduation ritual: booing AI

Thu, 21 May 2026 17:28:10 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

Thu, 21 May 2026 17:12:55 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Valley graduation ceremony disrupted by AI name-reading mishap

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:59:02 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo

Thu, 21 May 2026 14:54:48 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] [What color is that kettle?] BREAKING: In obvious lead-up to another "Trump War", U.S. indicts Cuba's 94-year-old Raul Castro, and argues that Cuba's leadership is corrupt

Thu, 21 May 2026 02:01:20 GMT

2026/05/21 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

Wed, 20 May 2026 20:14:07 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] People get life in prison for stealing a candy bar, Trump steals $2B to give to criminals

Wed, 20 May 2026 19:39:05 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] [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

Wed, 20 May 2026 19:28:41 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] [Tax billionaires back into the stone age] BREAKING: Bezos heaps praise on Trump's Second Term, calling it more mature

Wed, 20 May 2026 19:18:33 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Trump demands firing of Senate parliamentarian for blocking funding of his horrific and disgusting ballroom

Wed, 20 May 2026 19:08:09 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Bezos spouts fountains of garbage about how AI will make everyone so very happy!

Wed, 20 May 2026 18:57:42 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Clinics increasingly using AI receptionists -- patients hate them

Wed, 20 May 2026 18:44:46 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKIHNG: Intuit laying off 3000, 17% of workforce, to concenterate on AI Slop

Wed, 20 May 2026 16:20:20 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Police officers who defended US Capitol on January 6 sue to stop Trump's anti-weaponization fund

Wed, 20 May 2026 14:46:50 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Town bans Flock cameras after repeated vandalism, pro-surveillance council member proposes return to 1800s

Wed, 20 May 2026 14:33:44 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Trump Mobile site reportedly leaking customer data via basic security flaw

Wed, 20 May 2026 01:31:04 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google: From most trusted to one of the least trusted

Wed, 20 May 2026 01:18:15 GMT

2026/05/20 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Lyft driver accused of using AI to fake damage

Tue, 19 May 2026 21:33:51 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] 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

Tue, 19 May 2026 20:04:12 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] POLL: Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists

Tue, 19 May 2026 16:48:50 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Nonfiction book "The Future of Truth" in the age of AI turns out to contains quotes made up by AI

Tue, 19 May 2026 15:51:13 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Trump admin's castrated cybersecurity team causes massive leak of government credentials

Tue, 19 May 2026 15:39:01 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Script of my national radio report yesterday regarding malware and other issues related to CAPTCHAs

Tue, 19 May 2026 14:50:34 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Trump, Hegseth et al. hold big celebrations claiming U.S. is a "Christian Country", so people go out and murder Muslims. Not likely a coincidence.

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:12:19 GMT

2026/05/19 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Unconfirmed reports of major Bluesky outage in progress

Mon, 18 May 2026 23:45:47 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: 3 victims killed at Islamic Center of San Diego, reportedly teenaged shooting suspects are dead

Mon, 18 May 2026 23:20:00 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BETTER NOT GET SICK! - Two-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice - tough questions may get correct answers LESS THEN HALF THE TIME

Mon, 18 May 2026 23:08:23 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Amazon launches AI-Slop podcasts

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:41:48 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Thought Experiment: Does Trump want to give almost $2B to the Jan 6 insurrectionists so they can buy more powerful weapons for another try in 2028?

Mon, 18 May 2026 19:55:59 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] X reduces free original posts from 2400 to 50, and 200 replies, 'cause Elon needs the money

Mon, 18 May 2026 18:48:40 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] 404: The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

Mon, 18 May 2026 18:38:14 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Trump's FBI wants nationwide access to license plate readers, for warrantles tracking of everybody, everwhere

Mon, 18 May 2026 18:26:34 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] BREAKING: Jury rejects Elon Musk's claim in OpenAI trial

Mon, 18 May 2026 17:53:26 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] CACM: In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026)

Mon, 18 May 2026 17:30:35 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Google AI Overviews vs. "The Wizard of Oz"

Mon, 18 May 2026 17:19:18 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] DOJ announces 1.7B slush fund to enrich Trump's insurrectionist allies, foes vow to fight this sham

Mon, 18 May 2026 15:57:32 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

Mon, 18 May 2026 15:37:42 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] The AI Education Value Proposition

Mon, 18 May 2026 02:35:32 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] The AI warning in Eric Schmidt's commencement appearance

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:31:47 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] [gift article - NYTimes] Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:24 GMT

2026/05/18 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] In what some observers say is an effort to buy favor from Trump, Colorado democratic governor commutes sentence of convicted election denier

Sun, 17 May 2026 23:48:39 GMT

2026/05/17 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Prank 911 murder call escalates after AI spreads false crime alert

Sun, 17 May 2026 19:35:52 GMT

2026/05/17 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Video of Eric Schmidt being mercilessly booed over his AI comments at commencement speech

Sun, 17 May 2026 19:18:00 GMT

2026/05/17 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Corrected URL for Eric Schmidt being booed

Sun, 17 May 2026 16:33:08 GMT

2026/05/17 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Arizona students boo former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he talks about AI during graduation speech

Sun, 17 May 2026 15:23:48 GMT

2026/05/17 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Peter G. Neumann has died

Sun, 17 May 2026 14:37:21 GMT

2026/05/17 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] AI fake videos on YouTube -- Johnny Carson and Jack Lemmon

Sat, 16 May 2026 23:31:42 GMT

2026/05/16 -- Lauren Weinstein

[ PFIR ] Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative

Sat, 16 May 2026 17:10:07 GMT

2026/05/16 -- Lauren Weinstein