He revealed that he personally receives emails from AI systems claiming to be conscious and demanding rights.

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...

Thanks to smart comic timing and witty dialogue, humor never gets lost or weighed down in the play’s underlying morbidity.

In some ways, data and its quality can seem strange to people used to assessing the quality of software. There’s often no observable behaviour to check and little in the way of structure to help you ...

An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...

A toddler uses a doorbell camera to call his dad, creating a sweet and unexpected moment.

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A Cinderella Story has it all: a stacked cast, fairytale inspiration, and a cinematic kiss in the rain. It’s *almost* the perfect film — except for one glaring plot hole. In the 2004 rom-com, Austin ...