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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: <i>A "vibe coded" AI app developed by entrepreneur and Y Combinator group partner Tom Blomfield has <a href="https://www.404media.co/vibe-coded-ai-app-generates-recipes-for-cyanide-ice-cream-and-cum-soup/">generated recipes that gave users instruction on how to make "Cyanide Ice Cream," "Thick White Cum Soup," and "Uranium Bomb</a>," using those actual substances as ingredients. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding">Vibe coding</a>, in case you are unfamiliar, is the new practice where people, some with limited coding experience, rapidly develop software with AI assisted coding tools without overthinking how efficient the code is as long as it's functional. This is how Blomfield said he made RecipeNinja.AI. [...] The recipe for Cyanide Ice Cream was still live on RecipeNinja.AI at the time of writing, as are recipes for Platypus Milk Cream Soup, Werewolf Cream Glazing, Cholera-Inspired Chocolate Cake, and other nonsense. Other recipes for things people shouldn't eat have been removed.
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NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit behind the annual novel-writing challenge, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/02/creative-writing-nanowrimo-to-close-after-20-years">shutting down after 20 years</a> but will keep its websites online temporarily so users can retrieve their content. The Guardian reports: <i> A 27-minute <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6NnjgeIIY">YouTube video</a> posted the same day by the organization's interim executive director Kilby Blades explained that it had to close due to ongoing financial problems, which were compounded by reputational damage. In November 2023, several community members complained to the nonprofit's board, Blades said. They believed that staff had mishandled accusations made in May 2023 that a NaNoWriMo forum moderator was grooming children on a different website. The moderator was eventually removed, though this was for unrelated code of conduct violations and occurred "many weeks" after the initial complaints. In the wake of this, community members came forward with other complaints related to child safety on the NaNoWriMo sites.
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The organization was also widely criticized last year over a statement on the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. After stating that it did not support or explicitly condemn any approach to writing, including the use of AI, it said that the "categorical condemnation of artificial intelligence has <a href="https://slashdot.org/story/24/09/03/2232245/nanowrimo-is-in-disarray-after-organizers-defend-ai-writing-tools">classist and ableist undertones</a>." It went on to say that "not all writers have the financial ability to hire humans to help at certain phases of their writing," and that "not all brains have same abilities ... There is a wealth of reasons why individuals can't 'see' the issues in their writing without help." </i> "We hold no belief that people will stop writing 50,000 words in November," read Monday's email. "Many alternatives to NaNoWriMo popped up this year, and people did find each other. In so many ways, it's easier than it was when NaNoWriMo began in 1999 to find your writing tribe online."<br>
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A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/01/five-vpn-apps-in-the-app-store-had-links-to-chinese-military/">have ties to Qihoo 360</a>, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac notes have "racked up more than a million downloads." The five apps in question are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder VPN, Snap VPN, and Signal Secure VPN (not associated with the Signal messaging app). The <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/709df467-7a96-4d2a-a9f6-18242fcb0ddf">Financial Times</a> reports: <i> At least five free virtual private networks (VPNs) available through the US tech groups' app stores have links to Shanghai-listed Qihoo 360, according to a new report by research group Tech Transparency Project, as well as additional findings by the Financial Times. Qihoo, formally known as 360 Security Technology, was sanctioned by the US in 2020 for alleged Chinese military links. The US Department of Defense later added Qihoo to a list of Chinese military-affiliated companies [...] In recent recruitment listings, Guangzhou Lianchuang says its apps operate in more than 220 countries and that it has 10mn daily users. It is currently hiring for a position whose responsibilities include "monitoring and analyzing platform data." The right candidate will be "well-versed in American culture," the posting says. </i><br>
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: <i>Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-tier-for-colleges-and-universities/">launching a new Claude for Education tier</a>, an answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access to Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, with a few additional capabilities. One piece of Claude for Education is "Learning Mode," a new feature within <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects">Claude Projects</a> to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than simply obtain answers to questions. With Learning Mode enabled, Claude will ask questions to test understanding, highlight fundamental principles behind specific problems, and provide potentially useful templates for research papers, outlines, and study guides.
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According to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/india-tech-startups-worth-100-billion-seen-seeking-ipos-by-2027">Bloomberg</a>, India is set for a surge in tech startup IPOs <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/business/start-ups/india-set-for-100-billion-startup-ipo-surgeby2027/3796476/">valued at around $100 billion by 2027</a>, with major players like Flipkart, PhonePe, and Oyo preparing to go public. From a report: <i> A report from Indian investment bank The Rainmaker Group suggests that the new wave of IPO hopefuls is in a stronger financial position than their predecessors. Many of the startups that were listed during the 2021-2022 boom struggled post-IPO, with fintech firm Paytm losing roughly 63% of its value and beauty retailer Nykaa slipping 4% since going public.
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To mark Microsoft's 50th anniversary, Bill Gates has <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/319244/bill-gates-celebrates-microsofts-50th-by-releasing-altair-basic-source-code">released the original Altair BASIC source code he co-wrote with Paul Allen</a>, calling it the "coolest code" he's ever written and a symbol of the company's humble beginnings. Thurrott reports: <i> "Before there was Office or Windows 95 or Xbox or AI, there was Altair BASIC," Bill Gates writes on <a href="https://gatesnot.es/3FF4Sbv">his Gates Notes website</a>. "In 1975, Paul Allen and I created Microsoft because we believed in our vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Five decades later, Microsoft continues to innovate new ways to make life easier and work more productive. Making it 50 years is a huge accomplishment, and we couldn't have done it without incredible leaders like Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella, along with the many people who have worked at Microsoft over the years."
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Today, Gates says that the 50th anniversary of Microsoft is "bittersweet," and that it feels like yesterday when he and Allen "hunched over the PDP-10 in Harvard's computer lab, writing the code that would become the first product of our new company." That code, he says, remains "the coolest code I've ever written to this day ... I still get a kick out of seeing it, even all these years later."</i><br>
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Europol has <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/vast-pedophile-network-shut-down-in-europols-largest-csam-operation/">shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world</a>, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join for free to preview low-quality videos depicting child sex abuse materials (CSAM). To see higher-resolution videos, users had to earn credits by sending cryptocurrency payments, uploading CSAM, or "verifying video titles and descriptions and assigning categories to videos."
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Europol seized the servers and found a total of 91,000 unique videos depicting child abuse, "many of which were previously unknown to law enforcement," the agency said in a <a href="https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-crackdown-kidflix-major-child-sexual-exploitation-platform-almost-two-million-users">press release</a>. KidFlix going dark was the result of the biggest child sexual exploitation operation in Europol's history, the agency said. Operation Stream, as it was dubbed, was supported by law enforcement in more than 35 countries, including the United States. Nearly 1,400 suspected consumers of CSAM have been identified among 1.8 million global KidFlix users, and 79 have been arrested so far. According to Europol, 39 child victims were protected as a result of the sting, and more than 3,000 devices were seized.
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Online scam operations across Southeast Asia are <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/02/asia/myanmar-scam-center-crackdown-intl-hnk-dst/index.html">rapidly adapting</a> to recent crackdowns, adopting AI and expanding globally despite the release of 7,000 trafficking victims from compounds along the Myanmar-Thailand border, experts say. These releases represent just a fraction of an estimated 100,000 people trapped in facilities run by criminal syndicates that rake in billions through investment schemes and romance scams targeting victims worldwide, CNN reports.<br> <br>
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The European Commission has announced its intention to <a href="https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal">join the ongoing debate</a> about lawful access to data and end-to-end encryption while unveiling a new internal security strategy aimed to address ongoing threats. From a report:<i> ProtectEU, as the strategy has been named, describes the general areas that the bloc's executive would like to address in the coming years although as a strategy it does not offer any detailed policy proposals. In what the Commission called "a changed security environment and an evolving geopolitical landscape," it said Europe needed to "review its approach to internal security."<br> <br>
Among its aims is establishing Europol as "a truly operational police agency to reinforce support to Member States," something potentially comparable to the U.S. FBI, with a role "in investigating cross-border, large-scale, and complex cases posing a serious threat to the internal security of the Union." Alongside the new Europol, the Commission said it would create roadmaps regarding both the "lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement" and on encryption.</i><br>
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Wang, who leads the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing established with a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, was terminated on March 28 via email from the university provost. The university had contacted Wang in December regarding a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed him as a researcher, questioning whether he properly disclosed the funding to IU and in applications for U.S. federal research grants.<br> <br>
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An AI system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft -- a difficult task requiring multiple steps -- <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01019-w">without being shown how to play</a>. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learned in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI. From a report:<i> "Dreamer marks a significant step towards general AI systems," says Danijar Hafner, a computer scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco, California. "It allows AI to understand its physical environment and also to self-improve over time, without a human having to tell it exactly what to do." Hafner and his colleagues describe Dreamer in a study in Nature published on 2 April.<br> <br>
In Minecraft, players explore a virtual 3D world containing a variety of terrains, including forests, mountains, deserts and swamps. Players use the world's resources to create objects, such as chests, fences and swords -- and collect items, among the most prized of which are diamonds. Importantly, says Hafner, no two experiences are the same. Every time you play Minecraft, it's a new, randomly generated world," he says. This makes it useful for challenging an AI system that researchers want to be able to generalize from one situation to the next. "You have to really understand what's in front of you; you can't just memorize a specific strategy," he says.</i>
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An anonymous reader <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/media/amazon-tiktok-bid.html">shares a report</a>:<i> Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid.<br> <br>
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon's bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President JD Vance and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, according to a person briefed on the matter. Amazon's bid highlights the 11th-hour maneuvering in Washington over TikTok's ownership. Policymakers in both parties have expressed deep national security concerns over the app's Chinese ownership, and passed a law last year to force a sale of TikTok that was set to take effect in January.</i><br>
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Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will <a href="https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/95-of-coding-will-be-ai-generated-microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-makes-bold-predictions-about-coding-jobs-article-12982772.html">generate 95% of code</a> within five years. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Scott said AI would not replace software engineers but transform their role. "It doesn't mean that the AI is doing the software engineering job.... authorship is still going to be human," Scott said.<br> <br>
According to Scott, developers will shift from writing code directly to guiding AI through prompts and instructions. "We go from being an input master (programming languages) to a prompt master (AI orchestrator)," he said. Scott said the current AI systems have significant memory limitations, making them "awfully transactional," but predicted improvements within the next year.
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