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AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/
Poison Fountain starts with "We agree with Geoffrey Hinton: machine intelligence is a threat to the human species". This is a tarball of wrong. (1)
The rest of the website is absurd, and the "Poison Fountain Usage" list doesn't make any sense. There are far more efficient and safer ways to poison data that don't require you to proxy content for an unknown third party. Some of these are implemented in software, as opposed to <ul> in HTML. That bullet list reads like an amateur riffing on what they read about AI web scrapers, not like industry insiders with detailed information about how training works.
Recommend viewing the top level https://rnsaffn.com , which I suspect The Register may not have done.
The Register:
Our source said that the goal of the project is to make people aware of AI's Achilles' Heel – the ease with which models can be poisoned – and to encourage people to construct information weapons of their own.Data poisoning is not easy, Anthropic's "article" notwithstanding. Why would we trust Anthropic to publicly reveal ways to subvert their technology anyway?
None of this passes a smell test. Crithype (and poor fact checking, it seems) from The Register it is.
(1) Hinton stands to gain professionally and financially from people believing this. Hinton personally bears a large amount of responsibility for setting off this so-called species level danger. Hinton, like all of us, cannot possibly know whether "machine intelligence" is even possible, let alone dangerous to people; that's a fanciful notion that serves the agendas of the wealthy and powerful quite well. In other words, crithype. Etc.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #PoisonFountain #UncriticalReporting #crithype #TheRegister
OMG #Lego … just, NO! 🤦♀️😬
Can nothing be left untouched by this insanity?
"You might hear our SMART Brick roaring like a jet plane or flushing like a toilet," Lego explained in a rundown of how the system could work.
"Every SMART Play Minifigure reacts uniquely to any given play scenario," the company added.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/lego_crams_an_asic_in/
#TheRegister
If only Microsoft hadn’t trained computer users over the last several decades to fear BSODs so very much 🥺🤦♀️
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/russia_hackers_hotel_bsods/?td=rt-3a
#TheRegister @carlypage #Infosec
“…security tends to look fine until politics gets involved. Systems can be locked down and fully certified, but still come unstuck if they depend on a few foreign vendors, closed platforms that can't be swapped out quickly, or cloud services that ultimately answer to lawmakers in another country.“
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/uk_urged_to_unplug_from/
#TheRegister @carlypage #Infosec
Wouldn't be fun if we could block entire known bot domains at the web server level instead of expecting these larcenous companies to respect robots.txt files?
Via #TheRegister:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/cloudflare_report_bot_traffic/
Wow. Just... Wow. #Crucial had/has the best warranty in the business. Yeah, Micron permanently alienated me when it was revealed they "donated" (read: paid a bribe) to the destruction of the White House. This is still truly shocking.