The Unemployed Professor
The Best Art Supplies, Sensory Toys, and Activities to Help Kids Learn to Write
A few weeks back, I wrote about how families can build skilled readers at home and the best books, games, and activities to help do just that. Another big part of learning to read, as I often explain ...
Bentonville photographer facing AI-related CSAM charges due back in court
A Bentonville photographer facing 200 charges related to accusations that he used AI to create child sexual abuse material is set to appear in court again in December.
New hearing scheduled for Bentonville photographer accused of AI-generated CSAM
A Bentonville photographer accused of generating child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) using artificial intelligence (AI) was back in a Benton County courtroom on Monday.
Georgia politicians sounding the alarm over digital manipulation from AI deepfakes
From local retail scams to high-profile political smear campaigns, artificial technology is blurring the line between fact and fiction in Georgia.
What to Write College Essay About: Growing Up Between Shamokin’s Past and Future
With Shamokin being the town that you know like the back of your hand, finding the right topic for your college essay will ...
High School Entrance Exam Experience: When Should You Start Preparing for Short Essays? Looking Back at My Eldest Son Last Year
"Are short essays difficult?"When my second daughter, who is preparing for university entrance exams, asked me that, I ...
Karen Nikoghosyan Is Building AI Operating Layers for Multichannel Commerce
Karen Nikoghosyan works at the crossroads of AI, e-commerce operations, and talent development. As founder and CEO of eSwap Global, he offers a platform that unifies inventory, order, and shipping management for multichannel sellers, including Amazon...
Show HN: Bailout – The coding agent meant to be deleted
hey hn,i made bailout for a pretty specific problem. you boot a fresh vm and want an agent to help get it set up, except you dont have your agent set up yet. no gh, no config, no api key handy. might not even have codex / claude code / open...
Can AI help college students become better writers? A first-of-its-kind research center at UC Irvine is set to find out
Over the next five years, the WRITE AI Center will develop approaches to help colleges make informed decisions about how to ...
Microsoft executive alleges AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labour in human history’
Microsoft executive Brent Hecht has accused OpenAI, Microsoft and others of using vast amounts of internet data to train ...
Show HN: CRT – a local code review tool for agentic development
I built crt to help reduce the burden of reviewing AI generated code.As fun as it is to vibecode software to production, sometimes you still need to understand and be responsible for the code that agents write. "It's the agents fault"...
Ask HN: Losing motivation to work in the IT field, need advice
Hello folks,I am a senior Software Engineer working in the IT field for close to 16 years.Before AI coding tools became prevalent, I enjoyed writing code, architecting software systems, and speaking to the stakeholders. These past 2 - 3 years, since...
Show HN: I compiled FreeRDP into a Flutter app so my phone can do RDP and SSH
Hi HN, I'm the developer. XConnect is an SSH/SFTP client for iOS and Android that also has a real RDP client built in, so one app covers my Linux and Windows machines when I'm away from my desk. No account needed: tap "Continue Of...
Grandmother falsely accused of theft after alleged AI facial recognition match sues
The woman said she lost her residence, car and other personal property.
Ozzy Osbourne Fans Accuse His Family of a 'Cash Grab' as Sharon Osbourne Uses AI in Attempt to 'Turn' Black Sabbath Singer 'Into Elvis': Report
Ozzy Osbourne's family was accused of using the late rocker as a "cash grab" after plans to use his likeness for an AI-powered avatar were revealed. Sharon Osbourne and Jack Osbourne Revealed Plans ...
Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show
That's one way to put it. The post Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show appeared first on Futurism.
LLMs and the 'Blandification' of Writing
LLMs could be making writing blander, less personal, and more neutral, at scale. A recent peer-reviewed study reports that the use of LLMs to aid writing increased the number of neutral responses to ...
Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x
I’m writing this after receiving a Vercel bill that was 10x higher than usual.The worst part: The increase wasn’t caused by more users, but by +1M requests from meta-externalagent/1.1.The requests targeted a Vercel preview deployment that we had...
Show HN: Remind Cards – an offline-first flashcard app with AI generation
Hi HN,I’m a software engineer, and for the past several months I’ve been building Remind Cards, a flashcard app I originally made because I wanted a better way to study Estonian vocabulary.https://remindcardsai.com/appWhat started as a...
Show HN: I built a Mac app to make technical PDF textbooks easier to study
I've always been a lifelong learner and have always tried to get through digital textbooks. Anyone who's used pdf textbooks know how much of a love/hate relationship it is.There are so many foundational textbooks published online for f...