Katelyn

The FCC Just Made It Harder to Get Low-Income Internet. Why Critics Are Calling It a 'War on the Poor' Stricter enrollment requirements will make it more difficult to qualify for this federally funded low-income internet program. State and local resources may help fill the gap.

the FCC is ending a $9.25-a-month internet subsidy to the poorest American families because a few million dollars went to dead people (the war in Iran has already cost $5 billion)

Nano Banana 2 Is Here: What Changed in Google's Popular AI Image Tool Google says the second-generation model uses the precision of the pro model with the speed of the original.

big day for fruitslop fans www.cnet.com/tech/service...

I hope whoever designed the Barnes and Noble website for mobile has a warm pillow every night until they rectify their wrongs

no bc wdym Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had to go to DC to tell Hegseth they wouldn’t remove the safeguards in Claude that prevent the US gov from using AI to SURVEIL US CITIZENS and power AUTONOMOUS WEAPONRY

Nearly 60% of Teens Believe Their Peers Use AI to Cheat at School, Survey Finds Teens are using AI for schoolwork, but it's not all aboveboard.

What could go wrong? www.cnet.com/tech/service...

How Team USA's Olympic Skiers and Snowboarders Got an Edge From Google AI Google engineers hit the slopes with Team USA's skiers and snowboarders to build a custom AI training tool.

A super fun story on using AI for good, practical purposes instead of slop. Plus, Olympics!
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If Apple asks me every time I open my Reminders app if I want to turn on alarms to go with them I am going to throw my iPhone off the balcony

Thank you for sharing!!

AI Slop Is Destroying the Internet. These Are the People Fighting to Save It AI slop is an oil spill in our digital oceans. The cleanup depends on all of us doing our part.

The fight against AI slop is a fight to keep the internet useful and human. These are tales from people on the front line of the internet's war to stop AI slop from taking over.

For @cnet.com's February cover story: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

AI Slop Is Destroying the Internet. These Are the People Fighting to Save It AI slop is an oil spill in our digital oceans. The cleanup depends on all of us doing our part.

For @cnet.com's February cover story, @katelynched.bsky.social waded deep into the toxic waste of AI slop so you don't have to. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

AI Is Taking Over Social Media, but Only 44% of People Are Confident They Can Spot It, CNET Finds Half of social media users said they want better labels on AI-generated and edited posts.

Only 11% of US adults who use social media find AI-generated content informative, useful or entertaining. Which makes a lot of sense to anyone who has scrolled on Facebook lately www.cnet.com/tech/service...

oh to be a brightly colored italian espresso maker dancing at the olympic opening ceremonies... hopecore at its finest

Anthropic Pinky Promises It Won't Add Ads to Claude Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny, but can we really trust them?

We can never say never. Anthropic didn't. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

ChatGPT-4o Fans, Get Ready to Say Goodbye: OpenAI Will Soon Retire Several Models For real this time.

Second time’s the charm? www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Bye Bye, ChatGPT-4o: OpenAI Will Soon Retire Several Models, Pushing New GPT-5 Ones The last time OpenAI tried to move users away from ChatGPT-4o, there was quite a bit of backlash.

Bye bye ChatGPT 4o, you may (?) be missed www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Legitimately my favorite AI story CNET has ever published www.cnet.com/tech/service...

There is nobody, and I mean NOBODY, that I hate more than Ticketmaster

Do we thing The Duffer brothers sent a gift basket to the Game of Thrones season 8 writers? Because if they didn’t, they absolutely should. Saved them from being responsible for the worst finale in recent pop culture memory

My Verizon service is down oh NO I will just have to sit by myself and read a good book with an ice cold glass of water and have the perfect excuse for being unreachable…

I Challenged an AI Bartender to Design Me a Cocktail. I Was Surprised With the Result Would you trust AI to be your bartender? I did. Here's how it went.

The best part of CES so far, hands-down. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

The Only Way to Stop AI 'Art' in 2026 Is to Make It Uncool Commentary: AI image and video generation took over 2025. We need some big changes to avoid an AI slop-filled future in 2026.

2025 was the year when AI image and video broke into the mainstream, for better or worse. If we want to see fewer tech bros claiming they made the next Mona Lisa with Midjourney, we need to make some big changes in 2026.
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Three magazines: People (Wicked for Good special edition), Cosmopolitan and Time (AI edition)

bringing more physical media into my life has been one of my best choices this year

can one of you internet therapists diagnose what mental illness leads to being in the top 5% of LinkedIn users according to LinkedIn Wrapped (asking for a friend)

Town of Cary spent $1 million on land. Elected leaders left in the dark. A former council member says she didn’t learn of the sale until over a year later, shortly before former Town Manager Sean Stegall was put on leave.

IDK man if I bought $1M worth of land for my local government without some of the town staff knowing and after being advised by other people not to, I would simply not. (gift link)
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This Is the Cheapest Way to Create Unlimited AI Images With Google's New Nano Banana Pro A rare Adobe promotion coincides with the release of Google's new image generation model.

If you want to go bananas (sorry, couldn't resist) with Google's new AI image model, here's how 🍌
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charli xcx starting a substack was not on my 2025 bingo card

You Can Use an AI Clone of Matthew McConaughey's Voice, if He Says It's 'Alright, Alright, Alright' Michael Caine, Maya Angelou, Judy Garland, Alan Turing, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Babe Ruth are other AI voices available to license through ElevenLabs.

Big thanks to @jondreed.bsky.social for creating this beaut of a headline www.cnet.com/tech/service...

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social

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There are a lot of things I wouldn’t pay for but I would probably pay Meta at this point to turn off the friend bubbles that cover up every single post on my Instagram feed

Yes! This! Why should we overfill our pockets if we don’t have to? Go Jessica’s dad!!