Hackaday

Pinch Puts An Arduino On A USB-C Connector

Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of processing ...

RedHook Malware Just Got Scarier — It Can Now Control Your Android Phone Wirelessly

Researchers have discovered a more advanced version of the RedHook Android malware that abuses Wireless ADB to gain ...

RedHook Android malware now uses Wireless ADB for shell access

A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to ...
The Atlantic

AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing

Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
Inside Higher Ed

Curation, Taste and the Writing Classroom

Last fall I delivered a keynote address at a one-day conference about teaching writing in the age of AI at Iona University. As part of the conference, there were also additional talks by Iona faculty ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right

T ell a roomful of academics that you use AI in your writing and watch what happens. A few will nod. Most will go quiet in that particular way that means they’re embarrassed on your behalf. Someone ...
VentureBeat

43% of AI-generated code changes need debugging in production, survey finds

The software industry is racing to write code with artificial intelligence. It is struggling, badly, to make sure that code holds up once it ships. A survey of 200 senior site-reliability and DevOps ...
Fast Company

AI writing is the technology’s bleakest use case

This question has polarized much of the internet. On one hand, you have the ardent defenders who believe that AI writing speeds up their process, allowing them to quickly transform bullets of ...
Christianity Today

To Write Well Is Human

Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better. A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong ...
The Conversation

A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...