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AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers | WIRED

ai · labor

October 31, 2025 at 2:08:14 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-are-terrible-freelance-workers/?_sp=4af01b8e-3d8f-4410-8e3c-82d2225b8ce1.1761829883778

Fake PayPal invoice from Geek Squad is a tech support scam | Malwarebytes

scams

October 31, 2025 at 2:02:13 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/fake-paypal-invoice-from-geek-squad-is-a-tech-support-scam

How scammers use your data to create personalized tricks that work | Malwarebytes

510 · scams · surveillance

October 31, 2025 at 1:43:14 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/inside-malwarebytes/2025/10/how-scammers-use-your-data-to-create-personalized-tricks-that-work

Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out - Ars Technica

351 · ai · pedagogy · highered

October 31, 2025 at 1:40:12 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/when-caught-cheating-in-college-dont-apologize-with-ai/

Practical Defenses Against Technofascism

510 · security · opsec · activism

October 29, 2025 at 4:25:32 PM UTC · permalink

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https://micahflee.com/practical-defenses-against-technofascism/

School's AI system mistakes a bag of chips for a gun | Malwarebytes

644 · ai · k12 · policing · surveillance

October 29, 2025 at 3:06:29 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/schools-ai-system-mistakes-a-bag-of-chips-for-a-gun

Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’ | The Verge

351 · surveillance

October 29, 2025 at 2:57:30 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/807834/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-laws-wearables

OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts

ai · ai · privacy · policing · 351 · 644

October 29, 2025 at 2:42:34 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/10/20/openai-ordered-to-unmask-writer-of-prompts/

"As an Autistic Person Myself:" The Bias Paradox Around Autism in LLMs | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

351 · 500 · ai · ai · ableism

October 29, 2025 at 2:41:41 PM UTC · permalink

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713420

Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps - Nick Seaver, 2019

351 · 644 · recommenders

October 28, 2025 at 6:23:12 PM UTC · permalink

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518820366

The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries

644 · ai · libraries

October 28, 2025 at 5:38:50 PM UTC · permalink

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https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic

ai · ai · infolit · 601

October 28, 2025 at 5:08:14 PM UTC · permalink

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https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf316

Guest column: When publishers’ fear of AI prohibits basic uses | Colorado State University

658 · ai · databases · libraries · acadlibs · licensing

October 28, 2025 at 5:00:45 PM UTC · permalink

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https://source.colostate.edu/guest-column-when-publishers-fear-of-ai-prohibits-basic-uses/

Ransomware profits drop as victims stop paying hackers

510 · ransomware · orgbehavior

October 28, 2025 at 2:50:41 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-profits-drop-as-victims-stop-paying-hackers/

A Quarter of Scam Victims Have Considered Self-Harm - Infosecurity Magazine

Yet courts can't find a cognizable harm. The law is an ass.

510 · scams

October 28, 2025 at 2:02:41 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/quarter-scam-victims-considered/

Cities reverse course on automated license plate reader cameras amid privacy concerns | The Record from Recorded Future News

FOR THE WIN

351 · 644 · 510 · surveillance · activism

October 28, 2025 at 2:00:45 PM UTC · permalink

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https://therecord.media/cities-reverse-course-on-automated-license-plate-reader-cameras

The glaring security risks with AI browser agents | TechCrunch

510 · ai · browsers · privacy

October 28, 2025 at 2:00:20 PM UTC · permalink

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/the-glaring-security-risks-with-ai-browser-agents/

Post by @astrokatie.com — Bluesky

Excellent basic explainer of why chatbots are "right" and/or "wrong"

351 · 644 · ai · infolit

October 27, 2025 at 6:33:12 PM UTC · permalink

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https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3lrxfsxnkms2c

Not another work email with exclamation marks!

500 · emotionallabor

October 27, 2025 at 5:04:12 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.ft.com/content/dd8111ae-4b30-48a3-a35a-e918a024e230?accessToken=zwAGQh_OQ9-wkdPdgRGuSzBIo9OjWukYoCTiMA.MEYCIQChuTZSJQgyceyCPs2sWSeljWos5R1VMElSWeF5r0wvlwIhAMUdXJLIi9YBtcg4qtInBT9x2jqvA29USKGS219PF7xr&sharetype=gift&token=5f7d6759-9844-43cf-aff1-cdf10c600eb6

20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me – Hedgehog Librarian

601 · ai · libraries · labor

October 27, 2025 at 4:59:05 PM UTC · permalink

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https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/20-ways-ai-has-created-more-work-for-me/