Matplotlib and an AI agent controversy

Joe and Graham recap the AI agent PR, a hit-piece blog post, and the ensuing Ars Technica reporting disaster.

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Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.

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Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations