Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-haha-im-in-danger/ #AI #Journalism

How to Prove That Your Writing is Not AI https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/11/how-to-prove-that-your-writing-is-not-ai/ #AI #Authorship

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986 #AI #Agents #Hacking

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students’ Written Work to Counter AI Cheating https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ "The ministry is also urging upper-secondary schools to use screen-monitoring tools during exams and introduce firewalls to restrict the content students can access during classes and final assignments." #AI #Cheating

AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02235-8 #AI #Science #Research

Why are Women Leaving Computer Science? https://cacm.acm.org/news/why-are-women-leaving-computer-science/ #ComputerScience #Diversity

Vinyl albums are expensive, elaborate – and may not contain all the music. After Olivia Rodrigo, Charli xcx and more sent out incomplete or unfinished vinyl versions, fans are feeling shortchanged https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/04/a-pressing-issue-vinyl-albums-riddled-with-mistakes-charli-xcx-olivia-rodrigo #Vinyl #Music

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement https://lalitm.com/post/github-alternatives/ #Git #GitHub #Alternatives

Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise Into Answers https://spectrum.ieee.org/biggest-probabilistic-computer #ProbabilisticComputers

AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/31/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules #AI #AIAct #EU