Silicon Valley’s psychedelic obsession has a new accouterment: integration therapists. [@WSJ]( ) reports: "More people in the tech world have been turning to psychedelics, often with the explicit purpose of unlocking efficiency, potential or meaning." Gift link: https://flip.it/AB3mdr #Psychedelic #Drugs #Tech #Technology #Psychiatry #TechBros
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app. Check out the latest Decoder podcast from @npub1j302...tme2: #Airbnb #App #Tech #Technology #Travel
Vibe coding — writing software using LLM chatbots — is a growing trend, according to @npub1zzy7...9edy. He writes for his blog, Augment, about whether or not it's really useful, and his misgivings. "Where I begin to get nervous is when it's used for production code that serves real users, especially when sensitive data is involved," he writes. "Semafor's Reed Albergotti reported that apps developed via the vibe coding tool Lovable were found to have, er, significant security issues." Find Albergotti's [@Semafor]( ) story at the second link. #Tech #Technology #Coding #VibeCoding #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Silicon Valley is really trying to make chatbots happen — and now that companies like Google are testing ads in their products, they're doing their best to figure out how to keep people talking to them. [@Techcrunch]( ) breaks down what works, what doesn't work, and the chatbot traits that could be dangerous. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SiliconValley #Technology #Tech #Chatbots #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Google
“Lord of the Flies” but for AI? [@Futurism]( ) explains: #Tech #AI #ArtificalIntelligence
Is it possible to reduce screen time by using greyscale on an Android phone? Tech writer Chris Hall, bothered by how much time he was spending on his device, gave it a try. Read about what he discovered from [@TechRadar]( ): #Tech #Android #ScreenTime
It's not your imagination: the adoption of AI feels different from any tech revolution before. [@Techcrunch]( ) goes into the details: #Tech #AI #ArtificalIntelligence
X had its second outage in just over a week today. @npub19g4w...6a0t reports for [@Techcrunch]( ) that the outage took place just after the platform rolled out its new DM feature. "It’s not clear if any of these changes impacted X’s stability, and the company no longer responds to press inquiries since Musk took ownership," she writes. #Tech #Technology #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
The U.S. government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal database used by local, state, and federal law enforcement. Via a report from [@WIRED]( ). #ICE #Immigration #GeneticData #DNA #Privacy #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/EALFoQ
The New York Times has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Amazon that will include summaries and short excerpts of The Times’ content in products like Alexa, and will also use Times articles to help train its AI models. Read more at [@theverge]( ). #AI #NYT #Amazon #Journalism #Tech #Technology