Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...
InfoQ

GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI's Engine into Apps

Now available in technical preview on GitHub, the GitHub Copilot SDK lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub ...
eWeek

10 ChatGPT Prompt Engineering Tips in 2026: How to Actually Get Useful Answers

See 10 good vs bad ChatGPT prompts for 2026, with examples showing how context, roles, constraints, and format produce useful answers.
eWeek

Moltbook Bots Build Lobster Cult

Who needs humans when a purported 1.5 million agents trade lobster memes and start their own religion? Moltbook, vibe-coded by Octane AI founder Matt Schlicht in a weekend (he cla ...
CNN

DOGE shared Social Security data to unauthorized server, according to court filing

A Department of Government Efficiency employee shared Social Security data without agency officials’ knowledge and in violation of security protocols, the Justice Department said in a court filing ...
Wall Street Journal

The Stealth Tactic Bosses Are Using to Get You Back to the Office

Companies’ latest return-to-office push is barely noticeable. That’s the point. After waves of RTO mandates yielded mixed results, employers are betting a subtler strategy will be more effective at ...
Bloomberg L.P.

This Is What It Takes to Get a Data Center Financed

Data centers are weird things. They're partly real estate assets. They're partly extremely advanced technological products. And they have to find a way to consume a tremendous amount of electricity ...
The New York Times

Can I Use My Parents’ Address to Get Our Kids Into a Better School?

I feel guilty about the lie we’d have to keep up, but we would be much happier. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft to integrate Sysmon directly into Windows 11, Server 2025

Microsoft announced today that it will integrate Sysmon natively into Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 next year, making it unnecessary to deploy the standalone Sysinternals tools. "Next year, ...
TechCrunch

Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping

Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic. In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that ...
TechSpot

Yes, it runs Minecraft: Hacker turns cheap Wi-Fi light bulb into functional game server

A bright idea Minecraft is quickly becoming the new Doom in that enthusiasts are eager to install the game on the most obscure of hardware. The latest example comes ...
GitHub

GitHub MCP Server

The GitHub MCP Server connects AI tools directly to GitHub's platform. This gives AI agents, assistants, and chatbots the ability to read repositories and code files, manage issues and PRs, analyze ...