ExtraEmily announces break from streaming amid Twitch viewbot allegations
Twitch star ExtraEmily says she’s taking a break after being accused of using viewbots to inflate her viewers during streams.
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APC governorship aspirant accused of using AI-generated photo to exaggerate crowd
Adnan Muktar accuses Ahmed Wadada of using an AI-generated photo to exaggerate turnout at a Nasarawa political event, ...
Send him to a lab: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi accused of using AI chip in his bat
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been accused of foul play.
Worker at swanky country club accused of using AI to create explicit photos of teen: police
Florida man Thomas Christopher Ball allegedly used AI to generate explicit photos of a teen co-worker and threatened her at a Boca Raton country club, police say.
Show HN: MindCheck – Analyze your AI coding logs for over-delegation
Hi HN, I built MindCheck after running into a problem in my own AI-assisted workflow.A couple months into using Codex heavily, I realized I had delegated too much of a data pipeline without really tracking the details. When the model results degraded, I traced it back to feature-processing decisions that had quietly changed across iterations. The mistake was fixable. The uncomfortable part was realizing I no longer knew exactly where I had stopped following the logic.MindCheck reads local AI con
How schools introduce AI to young students
As colleges and high schools try to figure out how to integrate AI into the classroom responsibly, students aren’t waiting ...
Colleges split on student use of AI in applications
U.S. colleges are increasingly using AI in admissions, from essay review to plagiarism checks, while adopting widely different rules on whether applicants can use AI themselves. Some institutions, ...
Colleges reshape admissions and curriculum amid AI expansion
U.S. colleges are rapidly integrating AI into admissions and academic programs, prompting shifts in essay evaluation, plagiarism checks, and curriculum design. Institutions from Duke to Virginia Tech ...
What Is the Best Dissertation Writing Service? An Honest Breakdown
Deciding on a dissertation writing service is never an easy task. A dissertation is a high-stakes academic project, and for ...
Writing around an AI taboo
A new collection of AI-assisted writing assignments co-edited by University Writing Program lecturer Carly Schnitzler offers teachers practical ways to incorporate AI into their work while setting ground rules for its use
Wayne County attorney accused of making CSAM of relatives presumably used AI software
A Metro Detroit attorney is being held on a $1 million bond Wednesday night accused of disturbing behavior, including being in possession of child pornography.
‘Cheating scandal’ in Purdue class sparks debate over AI’s place in college
Chaos ensued after a “cheating scandal” that blew up on social media over the weekend and caught the attention of students on campus and others beyond.
Pa. coach's attorney accused of using AI citations after $293K verdict
Sanctions are being sought against the attorney for a former Montoursville Area High School assistant baseball coach who lost ...
Reform deputy leader accused of using AI picture of campaign event
Extra fingers, melted faces and jumbled signs. It is not your average group of political canvassers. Reform UK’s deputy ...
CEO of AI $1.5 Billion Startup Accused of Massive Fraud by Justice Department
"The defendants exploited investor excitement over the AI boom and presented a rosy financial outlook to investors and ...
A novelist was accused of using AI. Why the literary world is still grappling with guardrails
The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?
Show HN: I built a blogging platform (5 years in, struggling with distribution)
A bit of context…I've been building https://blogmaker.app since April 2021, 5 years now. The launch tweet: https://x.com/BlogmakerApp/status/1383742023627247630I had built it initially as a personal challenge to see if I could have a working product for 20 hours worth of work, and I did it. This was way before AI tools.A few months later, I included a Stripe button and the first payment came immediately in.In September 2022 I decided to focus (give up my c
Show HN: DialtoneApp Network, card payments for bot commerce
We started with a simple question.Can a bot buy a DialtoneApp membership?We looked at Stripe machine payments, Skyfire, Crossmint, Worldpay, Google Universal Commerce Protocol, MCP, A2A, and a bunch of other new agent payment ideas. There is a lot of good work happening. The whole space is moving fast, and it feels like the early web again, except now the user agent may actually be an agent. (ha!)Trying to get bot allowed merchant account credit card processor (that's not crypto) is like th
Ask HN: Does Syntax Highlighting Help?
Given the fact that famous programmers like Ken Thompson, Linus Torvalds, Rob Pike, etc. don’t use syntax highlighting, I was wondering if syntax highlighting helps in writing better code, understanding faster the structure of the code or it is just a distraction and is better to read and write code without syntax highlighting?
Ask HN: People who moved away from tech business/career, what do you do?
20 years ago when I was choosing my career, I was thinking that it is so amazing that I can build digital things to help people and companies with their day to day lives. Little I knew that tech progress has probably peaked at around early 2000s.After that, tech mainly became grifting and scamming for as much money as possible. Between companies that raise absurd amounts of money for a pin that is your "friend"; companies that use open source as GTM (grift-to-market) strategy in order