Flagged as Abuse in 2018, Michael Smith’s AI-song Bots Kept Getting Paid for Six Years
Michael Smith collected $8,091,843.64 in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music for plays that no person…
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OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Ran up a Bill, and Wikipedia’s Donors Are Paying It
The Wikimedia Foundation, the donor-funded nonprofit behind Wikipedia, says agents operated by OpenAI sent millions of automated requests to its…
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Russia Put 906 Fake Reports Under the Names of 163 Real News Outlets
Russian influence operations have published at least 906 fake news reports under the names of 163 real news outlets in…
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Microsoft’s Data Centres, Singtel and Santos Took Billions From Australia and Paid No Tax
Microsoft’s Australian data-centre business brought in $2.3 billion last financial year and paid no income tax. Optus owner Singtel took…
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Texas Rejected Alpha’s Charter. Its Education Agency Helped Alpha Reach Public Schools Anyway
Texas’s education board rejected Alpha School’s proposed charter on June 27, 2025. Afterward, Education Commissioner Mike Morath and his agency…
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Amazon Drops Government NDAs After Keeping County Data-Center Talks Secret
Amazon Web Services barred Pima County, Arizona, from revealing even that the two were discussing a data-center project without AWS’s…
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Safari Now Blocks The Trade Desk’s Ads. Google’s Still Load.
Apple’s iOS 27 update, released September 14, stops Safari from loading ads bought through The Trade Desk, an independent ad-buying…
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Cloudflare, Google and Proton Helped Keep 38 Deepfake-Abuse Sites Running
Cloudflare, Google and Proton supplied services used by 38 sites dedicated to sexual deepfakes made without their subjects’ consent, researchers…
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Did Covid Fry Elon’s Brain?
We rated 60 of Elon Musk’s public statements, from 2011 to 2026, as intelligent, unclear or unhinged. The unhinged ones…
