We've got a real variety this week. First, Emanuel talks about Paradox.ai, a tool that massive brands like McDonald's, CVS, and FedEx are using to screen job applicants. It uses a bit of AI, but really this is more of a labor story. Then Jason breaks down Stract, an open source search engine that is trying to do search better than the increasingly bad experience of Google. In the subscribers-only section, the group goes long on how a viral story about a botnet of toothbrushes turned out to not be true, and how we've dealt with similar stories before.
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A Massive Google Leak
Google Somehow Got Even More Shit
Your Phone's Location is Exposed
Why the Solar Storm Broke Tractors and GPS
Facebook is the 'Zombie Internet'
A Lost Media Mystery
The Humane Ai Pin Is a Disaster
The 'Com World War'
The Wild World of Fake AI Influencers
The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis
The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers
Shrimp Jesus
How Hackers Steal Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
The AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State
A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware
Inside a Fraud Factory
This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
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