Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Following 404 Media’s reporting that book database company ISBNdb claimed to source printed books to then sell to AI companies for AI training, the company deleted the part of its website offering the service and walked back claims that it would train AI models, and instead cal … ⌘ Read more

Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel
A UK parliamentary inquiry found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defense breach exposing 18,700 Afghans could have been prevented with basic Excel training, after an employee unknowingly shared a hidden worksheet containing their details. The Independent reports: The leak, in February 2022, exposed the details of 18,700 Afghans who said they were … ⌘ Read more

AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands
An anonymous reader quotes a New York Times report on how AI companies are pouring money into training and recruiting electricians, carpenters, and other skilled tradespeople to build data centers: There is no parallel in American history for the boom underway in the construction of data centers, fueled by companies with functiona … ⌘ Read more

Bwahahaha, these security folks have a great sense of humor! :-D Got a phishing test e-mail disguised as an overdue anti-phishing training e-mail:

We receive these test phishing e-mails every now and then at work. When you follow the links and log in at the fake login, you probably get assigned another (real) training.

When I got this e-mail, I immediately thought of such a test. Since I actually do have some stupid training deadlines coming up soon, I wasn’t 100% sure, but still doubted that this was one of them. To make the timing even better, in the team meeting last week, our bosses reminded us to complete outstanding trainings before the deadlines. Ideally well in advance. Notifications about deadlines coming closer are sometimes not only sent to the individuals but also to the bosses and their bosses. And then things can get out of hands when somebody doesn’t read the e-mails properly and mistakes them for deadline exceeded reports.

Anyway, the URL also looked kinda legit. It really doesn’t help a single bit that domain names change all the fucking time. So, still with the test program in mind, I thought, I just give it a quick shot out of curiosity. Since I just had logged in before, the empty SSO username field was totally obvious then. Looking at the e-mail headers confirmed that this was indeed one of security’s field checks. :-)

Google’s Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed
A U.S. district court “has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models,” reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting copyright holders — and that SerpApi’s actions breached America’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

[Google] made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technol … ⌘ Read more

Humans Can Learn To Echolocate In Just 10 Weeks, and It Rewires the Brain
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A study published in PLOS One in 2021 by researchers from Durham University in the UK showed that with 10 weeks of training, both blind and sighted people could learn to echolocate using verbal clicks. While the technique is already used by a number of people with impaired v … ⌘ Read more

South Korea Plans To Train Entire Military As ‘Drone Warriors’
“South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms,” reports Ars Technica:

The goal is to make drones a “universal combat tool” for all troops by training them to use drones like a “second personal weapon,” said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea’s Minister of … ⌘ Read more

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors
After Ford’s automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. “Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” Ch … ⌘ Read more

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is … ⌘ Read more

A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. ⌘ Read more

Gibbons looks to ride Cups path with promising Baker stayer
Bjorn Baker-trained Thebudgiesmugla will follow the path of Half Yours after winning the listed Queen Elizabeth II Cup. ⌘ Read more

Casey McLean ruled out of Origin II after training injury
Mark Nawaqanitawase is poised to make his NSW debut after Penrith centre McLean strained his right quad at training on Saturday morning. ⌘ Read more

Pokemon Go als KI-Training für Drohnen
Das Kultspiel Pokemon Go hat auch knapp zehn Jahre nach seinem Erscheinen noch Millionen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer. Diese lieferten bei ihrer virtuellen Suche nach den kleinen Fantasiewesen in dieser Zeit über ihre Handys so viele Geodaten über ihre reale Umwelt, dass das auch Entwickler von Systemen künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) interessiert. Besonders brisant: Laut einem Bericht des „Guardian“ vom Freitag könnten diese Daten auch für die Steuerung von Drohnen in Kriegsgebieten genutzt werden. ⌘ Read more

Gauntlet AI will fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give $200k+ job
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Pokemon Go Data Was Used To Help Train AI Systems Being Developed For Military Drones
Pokemon Go players’ optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial’s visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is unavailable or jammed. According to DroneXL, that technology is now being paired with Vantor’s drone navigation software for milita … ⌘ Read more

Comment l’épargnant européen finance assidument les licornes américaines qui vont l’écraser
Le constat est connu, répété, et toujours aussi déprimant : la croissance a déserté l’Europe. Le World Economic Outlook d’avril 2026 du FMI le confirme sans ménagement, avec une croissance mondiale autour de 3,1 %, des États-Unis à 2,3 %, une Inde à 6,5 %, une Chine qui tient à 4,4 %, et une zone euro qui se traîne à […] ⌘ Read more

Finanzämter: BfDI sieht KI-Training mit echten Steuerdaten kritisch
Die Finanzbehörden wollen KI-Modelle mit echten Steuerdaten trainieren. Die Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte warnt vor einer Memorisierung. ( Datenschutz, KI)

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These ballet dancers eat hundreds of bananas a day. Here’s why
Australian Ballet stars have never trained harder than they have for Copland Dance Episodes. Weirdly, peak fitness has also made them vulnerable. ⌘ Read more

Interview: “Heute werden selbst feinste Gesichtsausdrücke erfasst”
Lara-Croft-Schauspielerin Alix Wilton Regan spricht über Performance Capture, körperliches Training und die Arbeit der Animatoren. Ein Interview von Peter Steinlechner ( Tomb Raider, Interview)

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Moses skips training again
NSW halfback Mitchell Moses sits out another training session due to his troublesome hamstring. ⌘ Read more

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029

Points: 16

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Daley wanted Moses going ‘full clip’ on Thursday. It didn’t happen. So what now?
Blues playmaker trained away from the main group on Thursday – with Ethan Strange running at No.6 – as he continues his rehabilitation from a hamstring strain. ⌘ Read more

All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)
Article URL: https://jivx.com/eki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475100

Points: 7

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NSW Blues stars sit out of training
Mitchell Moses and Casey McLean were spotted sitting out of training the day before Origin II, but both are adamant they’ll be ready for the MCG clash ⌘ Read more

Adam Driver’s Movie Future Isn’t Star Wars, It’s Fighting James Bond
Adam Driver wants to continue playing Kylo Ren in the Star Wars universe. However, his real future as a movie villain should be with the James Bond franchise. In the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Driver played Kylo Ren, born Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa. Kylo trained to be a Jedi […]

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Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing your code
I’m Dimitrios at Cosine. Quick orientation first: the read-only scan is free and you can run it right now: that’s the part to try. The pen-test mode is gated behind written authorisation, because it’s live offensive testing against real systems; I’ll explain that below, it’s not a paywall thing.

The reason `cos` exists: most “AI security” tools wrap a general model, so they inherit its refusals — point one at a real offensive task and it hedges or declines, b … ⌘ Read more

Australian Football Hall of Fame - A Haydn Bunton jnr-coached publican who trained tied to his wife’s ute: Footy’s newest Legend
Bill Walker is the newest Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, on the night some of the game’s biggest names were inducted. ⌘ Read more

**Turquie: «La nature du régime politique est en train de changer» **
Alors que le dirigeant du principal parti d’opposition vient d’être destitué, le chercheur Yohanan Benhaïm décrit la dérive suivie par le pouvoir présidentiel de Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Il analyse également le positionnement de la Turquie dans la recomposition en cours du Moyen-Orient. ⌘ Read more

Netflix Drops New Human Vapor Trailer From the Creator of Train to Busan
Netflix has released the trailer for Human Vapor, an upcoming series from Yeon Sang-ho. The Train to Busan creator reimagines Toho’s 1960 movie as an eight-episode thriller, releasing July 2. How Yeon Sang-ho is reimagining Human Vapor for Netflix The trailer introduces a killer who can transform his body into gas, slipping through any barrier […]

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Zombie master’s new film flags a modern virus that has already infected us all
In Train to Busan, Yeon Sang-ho warned us of the dangers of unchecked capitalism. His new film, Colony, tells us we may already be too far gone. ⌘ Read more

Lara’s 25-year fight for better rail safety in WA just took a big step forward
The WA opposition has announced it will introduce a bill to state parliament to legislate mandatory train lighting, a safety measure that aims to save lives at passive rail crossings across Western Australia. ⌘ Read more

Machete fight breaks out at Melbourne train station
A man has been charged over a machete fight involving teenagers at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station. ⌘ Read more

340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking the Internet Archive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history … ⌘ Read more

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John Wick: Donnie Yen’s Spin-off Movie Casts How to Train Your Dragon Star
Donnie Yen’s John Wick spin-off Caine has added How to Train Your Dragon star Mason Thames to its stellar cast.

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Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes
Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a … ⌘ Read more

He-Man Star Nicholas Galitzine Was ‘Pooping A Lot,’ Reveals Why
Masters of the Universe star Nicholas Galitzine reveals he was “pooping a lot” in preparation for his role. Galitzine shares that he had to undergo intense physical training, which also involved following a strict diet. The actor’s new He-Man movie comes out later this week. Nicholas Galitzine was pooping a lot after He-Man diet Nicholas […]

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It’s Not Just X. It’s Y
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350149

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Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
Article URL: https://peninsulaforeveryone.org/blog/atherton-spent-145k-to-delay-caltrain-electrification-the-rest-of-us-paid-400-million-and-waited-3-extra-years/

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@bender@twtxt.net Now that’s an interesting philosophical viewpoint right there. But this assumes that the “AI” we seemingly have available to us today is actually telligent, understands and has cognitive reasoning. It does not. All of these LLM models from big-tech companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Alibaba are all just very powerful, very large multidimensional neural networks with attention that are very good at statistical probabilities of ‘what comes next”. I think we get really upset over the wrong things sometimes. We need to continue to be upset that these 🤬 companies have basically destroyed any meaningful value of the concept of Copyright and Intellectual Property and Works of art. The so-called “AI” we have today is just a tool. Can you say for certain that the typewriter and the computer ruined our ability to write? Perhaps yes, but we still learn how to do so, likewise, I still think that learning to write code, research, read and write are all valuable skills to learn. Later on once you have the basics, you can defer some of the “tedious” work to these models, because frankly, they’re far better at inferencing and pattern matching than you or i will ever be, not because they’re better at pattern-matching per se, but because they have been trained on a very large corpus and they are much much faster at doing the same basic things we are far superior at.

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t believe you. For example, you are programming something, and you are planning the steps, or you struggle at certain point. Any train of thought, of any kind, has an addressing. “If I move this here, what will it happen?”. “Hmm if we’re to place this logic here, will it do what we need?“. “If I were to do this, will it work?” “Damn it, you are so stupid, James, how could you miss that?!!” And so on. 😅 And that’s just a minor thing.

Trust me, you do. We all do. Even the crazy ones.

Of course, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Most of my points are also included in your list.

First of all, programming is what I really do enjoy the most. So, it doesn’t make any sense at all to not do this anymore. “But you could use your now free time to do something much cooler and more valuable!”, others might reply. Fuck no, I don’t want to waste my time with other shit that doesn’t fulfill me, why on earth would I want to do that?

All this hallucination reduces quality badly. In my experience, it’s also happening much more rapidly than I expected. Even though developers are still supposed to own and understand whatever has been generated under their name and even be responsible for that, the sad reality is that teammates often blindly trust the AI output. “But I asked the AI and it told me that $this was impossible”, “I’ve no idea either, but the AI just generated it” are responses I get more often. What really makes my angry is when I point out a flaw and suggest an alternative and this is the reaction. It happened several times that just trying it out and seeing it clearly work to proof my point only took me half a minute, but people still did something handwavy else instead.

The learning effect is drastically reduced. The more time I spend on a topic, the better the odds that whatever I learned actually makes it over into long-term memory. It’s like if a collegue just says “do it like that” or “this solves your problem”, but neither explains the why or how. Somehow, people are still convinced that it’s a completely different story when you replace the human counterpart with a computer program in this equation.

Skills are unlearned. It’s like with automation in general, just much worse. You end up in a state where you’ve no clue how anything works under the hood or how to actually find out important information that are needed to solve your problem. You’re screwed when a process breaks out of the blue. Even though it can become also rather terrible, with classical automation you’re typically still be able to decipher how exactly the thing was supposed to do something.

The energy consumption is sooo high, I absolutely do not want to be a part in burning down our planet. I’m sure I find (and probably have long found without knowing) other ways to contribute to worsen our climate crisis.

The scraper part is already covered in detail in your list. :-)

I’m convinced that license and copyright violations are only played down or even refused entirely because companies want to make big money quickly. With the work of others of course. Their double standards are obvious, they still try to actively keep their own stuff secret and out of any training sets. At most for internal use only. Virtually noone in charge is interested in good long-term solutions. Short-term for the win, when disaster eventually strikes, the causers are long gone, the responsibilities in other hands.

Vendor lock-in is something that lots of folks are only realizing very slowly. It’s completely crazy to me. This drug dealer routine should be well-known by now. It’s fucking everywhere. Yet, people are always surprised when they found themselves caught in it.

Adding new AI stuff only increases complexity. But complexity is the enemy that everybody should fear and reduce as much as possible. Of course, this is not limited to AI at all. And everywhere I look around, people in charge looooove to make things way more complicated than they ever need to be. Yet, simplicity is the real art and much harder to achieve.

I don’t understand why we have to go back full force to the ambiguity of natural languages. This alone should be more than enough to realize what a stupid idea all that is. Linked to that is that the “instruction set” is interpreted differently with newer model versions. I mean, is has to be. Why else would somebody want to upgrade in the first place than to get more Powerful™ Features™?

Some people argue that with AI the democratization is empowered. However, in my view, the exact opposite is the case. Models are getting so large that you can basically not run them locally or even train them. So, you have to rely on whatever the vendor offers you and runs for you. In the end, this only gives the owners more power, the multi billionaires. Not exactly what I understand by democratization.

Finally, technology assessments are missing completely. Or they are faked such that mostly only the (questionable) benefits are listed. But all the negative impact is just ignored.

Let’s keep some popcorn around for when this all explodes. :-)

PostHog will train AI models with your data (opt-in by default)
Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296359

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A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy. When an aircraft or car body moves at high speed, a thin layer of air cal … ⌘ Read more

Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand man
By Meghan Bobrowsky

Tensions were running high at Meta Platforms.

For weeks, rumours circulated that the company was planning a large layoff as it poured tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. Then, employees were told their keystrokes and mouse clicks would be recorded to help train AI agents to use computers. ⌘ Read more

Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know. ⌘ Read more

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who’s the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences. ⌘ Read more