A Covert LLM Persuasion Experiment Was Shut Down: How Far Did the Bots Get?
A 2026 analysis of the bot comment archive from a halted Reddit experiment catalogs fabricated identities and bias triggers, but early shutdown leaves harm unmeasurable.
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Where law, labor, and culture push back on machines that scrape, surveil, displace, and addict faster than institutions can write rules for them.
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Do LLMs Understand Idioms in Low-Resource Languages?
MIDI tests idiom comprehension across 18 languages and finds LLMs rely on memorization over reasoning, with the sharpest failures falling on low-resource communities.
Can Teaching Logical Fallacies Inoculate People Against AI Misinformation?
An ACL 2026 study finds Socratic LLM tutoring teaches fallacy recognition better than bare LLMs, but whether those gains transfer to real misinformation is untested.
Wikipedia's Foundation Is Running Big Tech's Anti-Labor Playbook, an Editor Argues
The Wikimedia Foundation fired union-organizing staff and dissolved the team that let editors direct product priorities. A veteran Wikipedian calls it Big Tech union busting.
US Researchers Hit With New Federal Limits on Publishing With Foreign Collaborators
NIH and NASA are requiring pre-approval for foreign co-authors on US-funded papers without issuing formal guidance, applying export-control logic to manuscript authorship.
Apple's $250M Siri Settlement: iPhone 16 Buyers Get $25 to $95 for Undelivered AI
Apple's $250M settlement over undelivered WWDC 2024 Siri features pays iPhone 15 Pro and 16 buyers $25-$95 per device, setting a legal precedent for AI marketing liability.
AB 566 Forces Chrome and Safari to Ship Opt-Out Signals by 2027. It Shields Them from Google's 86% GPC Failure
AB 566 forces Chrome, Safari, and Edge to ship opt-out signals by January 2027, shields browsers from liability, and leaves Google's 86% GPC failure rate for CPPA to fix.
EU phone battery rules: what buyers can verify now
EU battery rules improve repair rights without promising a snap-off battery in every new phone.
AI Diagnostics in 2026: Where Machines Now Outperform Radiologists
AI tools beat radiologists on narrow imaging tasks like lung nodule detection, yet only about 2% of U.S. radiology practices use them. The evidence, gaps, and barriers.
