📰 AI Blog Daily Digest — 2026-05-11
AI-curated Top 8 from 92 leading tech blogs
Today’s Highlights
Today’s tech landscape is marked by a blend of AI skepticism and pragmatic security moves. While debates intensify over the true pace and risks of AI advancement, governments are doubling down on cybersecurity, with more national agencies joining platforms like Have I Been Pwned. Meanwhile, developers continue to refine their toolchains and embrace leaner web technologies, signaling a shift toward simplicity and resilience in engineering practices.
Editor’s Top Picks
🥇 Quoting New York Times Editors’ Note
Quoting New York Times Editors’ Note — simonwillison.net · 6h ago · ⚙️ Engineering
A New York Times article mistakenly attributed a quotation to Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre that was actually an AI-generated summary of his views. The error occurred because the reporter failed to verify the AI tool’s output, leading to the publication of an inaccurate quote. The article has since been corrected to accurately reflect Poilievre’s actual speech from April, clarifying that he did not use the term ‘turncoats’ for politicians changing allegiances. The incident highlights the risks of uncritically relying on AI-generated content in journalism.
💡 Why read this: Essential reading for anyone concerned with AI’s impact on media accuracy and editorial standards.
🏷️ AI, journalism, misattribution, fact-checking
🥈 Misplaced panic over AI progress
Misplaced panic over AI progress — garymarcus.substack.com · 10h ago · 🤖 AI / ML
Breaking down what METR’s latest “time horizon” graph does and does not show
🏷️ AI progress, METR, time horizon, analysis
🥉 Welcoming the Costa Rican Government to Have I Been Pwned
Welcoming the Costa Rican Government to Have I Been Pwned — troyhunt.com · 5h ago · 🔒 Security
Today, we welcome the 42nd government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Costa Rica.The CSIRT of the Government of Costa Rica now has access to monitor government domains agains
🏷️ Have I Been Pwned, Costa Rica, government, cybersecurity
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1. Quoting New York Times Editors’ Note
Quoting New York Times Editors’ Note — simonwillison.net · 6h ago · ⭐ 24/30
A New York Times article mistakenly attributed a quotation to Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre that was actually an AI-generated summary of his views. The error occurred because the reporter failed to verify the AI tool’s output, leading to the publication of an inaccurate quote. The article has since been corrected to accurately reflect Poilievre’s actual speech from April, clarifying that he did not use the term ‘turncoats’ for politicians changing allegiances. The incident highlights the risks of uncritically relying on AI-generated content in journalism.
🏷️ AI, journalism, misattribution, fact-checking
2. Out With the JS, In With the HTML
Out With the JS, In With the HTML — blog.jim-nielsen.com · 11h ago · ⭐ 21/30
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions. Now I’m gonna post another example. On my icon sites, I have a little widg
🏷️ HTML, JavaScript, web development
3. The linear algebra of bit twiddling
The linear algebra of bit twiddling — johndcook.com · 11h ago · ⭐ 20/30
The previous post looked at the tempering step of the Mersenne Twister, formulating a sequence of bit operations as multiplication by a matrix mod 2. This post will look at the components more closely
🏷️ linear algebra, bit manipulation, Mersenne Twister
🔒 Security
4. Welcoming the Costa Rican Government to Have I Been Pwned
Welcoming the Costa Rican Government to Have I Been Pwned — troyhunt.com · 5h ago · ⭐ 24/30
Today, we welcome the 42nd government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Costa Rica.The CSIRT of the Government of Costa Rica now has access to monitor government domains agains
🏷️ Have I Been Pwned, Costa Rica, government, cybersecurity
5. Weekly Update 503
Weekly Update 503 — troyhunt.com · 6h ago · ⭐ 23/30
Well, it’s the day before the Instructure “pay or leak” deadline (at least by my Aussie watch), and the company remains removed from the ShinyHunters website. In its place sits a press statement
🏷️ data breach, ShinyHunters, Instructure
🤖 AI / ML
6. Misplaced panic over AI progress
Misplaced panic over AI progress — garymarcus.substack.com · 10h ago · ⭐ 24/30
Breaking down what METR’s latest “time horizon” graph does and does not show
🏷️ AI progress, METR, time horizon, analysis
🛠 Tools / OSS
7. Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot
Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot — utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks · 2h ago · ⭐ 21/30
Recently, I decided to take my long standing, perfectly good GNU Emacs lsp-mode setup and completely replace it with Eglot, the now built in GNU Emacs LSP solution. At one level I didn’t have any part
🏷️ Emacs, LSP, Eglot, lsp-mode
💡 Opinion
8. Fear is information.
Fear is information. — joanwestenberg.com · 2h ago · ⭐ 15/30
The motivational industry has built any number of small empires on the notion that fear is a problem to be either managed, suppressed or out-manoeuvred. Fight the fear, etc. The language is typically
🏷️ fear, motivation, psychology
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