MarketWatch

Store loyalty programs are taking your personal data and may use it to charge you more. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...
YouTube on MSN

I learned SQL in 15 minutes! Here's how

Learn SQL basics in just 15 minutes with this tutorial focused on using SQL with MySQL. Topics covered include: - What SQL is ...
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 ...
9to5google

Google’s interactive world builder, Project Genie, will drop you in real places using Street View

Google just announced its world-exploring game, Project Genie, is getting a new feature that drops you in real-world locations, like your own street. Project Genie rolled out at the beginning of this ...
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 ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Mountain View declares State of Emergency as water is unsafe to use following water main issue

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- Mountain View residents whose water service was contaminated during maintenance work will have to wait until at least midweek before they can safely use tap water for ...
Hartford Courant

CT law enforcement pauses AI program use. Why experts say caution is needed to protect justice.

Connecticut prosecutors and police chiefs have put the brakes on the rapidly expanding acquisition by police agencies of artificial intelligence-powered law enforcement tools until the emerging ...
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 ...
The Boston Globe

AI is destroying good writing

Zoe Yu is a writer and student at Harvard College. In my first encounter with ChatGPT, I used it to generate a sonnet. My friends and I were crowded around a laptop in the back of a high school ...
The Boston Globe

Colleges ban generative AI in writing classes. My classmates use it anyway.

Looking for workarounds in required writing courses is nothing new for college students. Those trying to avoid writing essays and reports could always buy them. It was expensive and risky: Would the ...