Clay Shirky

A developer used an AI agent to reverse engineer every peripheral within arm's reach, gaining full control over devices such as a microphone, webcam, and key light, and documented the process. Another…

A programmer spent about $260 in AI tokens to jailbreak an abandoned Amazon Fire tablet, and AI is being used to repurpose off-patent drugs for new diseases, illustrating a new 'cognition surplus' tha…

In a 2003 essay, technology writer Clay Shirky argued that the W3C's Semantic Web project is fundamentally limited because it is based on syllogistic reasoning, which has little practical use in the r…