The Next Web

LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

LinkedIn runs a hidden JavaScript script called Spectroscopy that silently probes over 6,000 Chrome extensions and collects ...

Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

Karpathy proposes something simpler and more loosely, messily elegant than the typical enterprise solution of a vector ...

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan ...
PCMag

Hackers Are Using Claude Code Leak As Bait to Spread Malware

With Anthropic rushing to wipe out the Claude Code leak, hackers are posting malware-laden files on GitHub that they claim ...

Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub

Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar ...
Search Engine Land

LinkedIn updates feed algorithm with LLM-powered ranking and retrieval

The new feed system will analyze what users read, like, and discuss to connect related topics and push insightful posts to wider audiences. LinkedIn is launching a new AI-powered feed ranking system ...
WFSB

How to file federal and Connecticut taxes for free

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Benjamin Franklin famously said the only things certain in life are death and taxes, but while taxes are certain, it isn’t certain there will be someone at the IRS available ...
The Economist

The best new novels to read this spring

WHEN WAS the last time you read a truly memorable book? You know the kind: a story that keeps you up long past bedtime and has you waxing lyrical to any friend who will listen. If you cannot remember ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...
New Scientist

Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

Russell stood with his hand on the door, wondering whether to go in. It just wasn’t his scene. He was only here because his doctor had told him to come. It had started with a stroke. He’d been walking ...
The Conversation

Using AI responsibly means knowing when not to use it

Sam Illingworth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Inc

How Mass Layoffs Transformed LinkedIn Into the Internet’s New Thought Leadership Hub

Something quietly changed on LinkedIn over the past two years. Besides the algorithm, there’s been a shift in how people are showing up on the platform and in the content they’re sharing. During the ...