The Web AI Amazon's Alexa can now generate podcasts on whatever topic you want. But, will anyone listen? Two AI "co-hosts" cover news, sports, and more, pulling from outlets like the AP, Reuters, and Washington Post By Daniel Sims, May 18, 2026, 7:02 PM
The Web AI ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers with AI slop LLM or not, paper authors will be responsible for whatever they post to the archive By Alfonso Maruccia, May 18, 2026, 2:32 PM
AI Microsoft Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted Microsoft is calling it a bug By Alfonso Maruccia, May 6, 2026, 3:04 PM 10 comments
Software Microsoft Windows 11 will be force-updated to version 25H2 using machine learning Microsoft is putting a lot of trust into machine learning By Alfonso Maruccia, April 6, 2026, 12:58 PM 12 comments
Software Microsoft Microsoft halts Windows 11 update after users report installation errors The number of issues with Windows 11 keeps growing despite Redmond's early promises By Alfonso Maruccia, March 31, 2026, 1:09 PM 8 comments
Gaming AI Kingdom Come: Deliverance II studio axes human translator in favor of AI "I won't keep quiet about my experience." By Alfonso Maruccia, March 30, 2026, 4:14 PM 19 comments
The Web Microsoft Microsoft blocks the word 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord, and the server melts down What started as spam control became a microcosm of the company's broader AI struggle By Skye Jacobs, March 2, 2026, 11:14 PM 16 comments
AI Microsoft Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says no one wants "sloppy" AI after urging critics to drop the term Nadella previously asked people to move beyond the "AI slop" debate By Rob Thubron, February 26, 2026, 7:37 AM 16 comments
Software AI AI browsers are about to eat the internet The future of on-device AI might just be... Chrome By Bob O'Donnell, January 30, 2026, 3:40 PM 13 comments
The Web AI Nine out of ten DuckDuckGo users don't want AI anywhere near their search People have spoken By Alfonso Maruccia, January 28, 2026, 5:07 PM 38 comments
Software Microsoft Microsoft rushes out emergency updates to fix a broken Windows Patch Tuesday Microsoft breaks Windows again By Alfonso Maruccia, January 19, 2026, 5:05 PM 35 comments
AI The Web Google removes AI answers from some medical searches after experts warn of risks to users' health Not as bad as eating glue, but still wrong and dangerous By Rob Thubron, January 12, 2026, 6:47 AM 10 comments
Microsoft AI Satya Nadella starts blogging about AI, wants to move the conversation beyond "slop" Microsoft CEO invokes "bicycles for the mind" for the AI era By Skye Jacobs, January 4, 2026, 3:31 PM 32 comments
AI Tech Culture More than 20% of YouTube's feed is now "AI slop," report finds The US ranks third in AI slop consumption and subscribers By Rob Thubron, December 29, 2025, 7:16 AM 23 comments
Tech Culture AI Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "slop" All the worthless stuff dumped on our screens, in just four letters By Alfonso Maruccia, December 17, 2025, 1:36 PM