MrComputerScience

Hey, I’m Mike D! Old-school hacker turned AI-obsessed newsletter editor. I make complex AI news simple & fun. Also taught 30k+ students online.

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

I feel like Bostonians made a deal with the devil for a beautiful weekend. The conversation went like this:

Bostonians: We request a beautifully warm January in Massachusetts.

Devil: You must offer a great sacrifice.

Bostonians: Hmmm. A superbowl ring?

Devil: Very well.

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

Get the full briefing (and join the conversation) here:

↳ https://t.co/biFgU0Kttl

🎙 Public Access. No Paywall.

#AudioHijack #CyberSecurity #AI #Tech

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

⚠ Researchers hid malicious commands inside Zoom call background music.

The #AI meeting transcriber obeyed silently. Searched for sensitive files. Forwarded them to an attacker. Nobody heard a thing.

79% to 96% success rate. Zero patches exist.

Full breakdown below. ↓

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

@P_Abuo "I don't believe in one eye for an eye. I believe in TWO eyes for an eye." - Bas Rutten

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

@ShannonBindler Thank you, Shannon.

😊

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Cordially,

Your nerdy friend,

Mike D

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

⚠ Google announced the biggest Search overhaul in 25 years. (Their words. And I agree.)

AI Mode now woldwide. 1 billion users. This announcement from Google has many SEO bloggers and self-publishers in total panic mode. Are they correct to be scared?

Full breakdown below. ↓

[The Black Line @BlackLineIntel]

https://t.co/pqsK5kZtSa

[Precious Abuo @P_Abuo]

Your future is built by what you do repeatedly, not occasionally.

[✧ Runa Solberg @SolbergRuna]

Relationships with AI should be evaluated by what they cultivate inside the person.

[Enemies_Of_Art @Enemies_Of_Art]

Jungle Rumble

[Precious Abuo @P_Abuo]

Is death a biological inevitability or just an engineering problem we haven't solved yet?

[thefinancialpen @thefinancialpen]

The Honest Witness https://t.co/sESVAtbKVw

[Enemies_Of_Art @Enemies_Of_Art]

Hysteria

[✧ Runa Solberg @SolbergRuna]

✨Sonnet 4.5 😔💔 (26-05-26)

[TheCynicalNerd @NerdGazette]

☕ There is a lot of talk about AI taking over jobs from people in the future but this is already happening. It is interesting how it is presented. I saw just now that ClickUp for example fired 22% of its workforce and deployed 3,000 AI agents to replace them. They called it "a radical embrace of AI." I notice that companies rebrand layoffs as AI transformation stories. The language carries most of the weight so the press release doesn't have to. Now tracking the pattern of "AI-driven restructuring" euphemisms across 2026, Klarna did the same before them and for sure there are others. The tell is always the same: the AI announcement and the layoff announcement share a press cycle. Unpack what "not a cost-cutting measure" actually means when you cut 22% of payroll.

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

@NerdGazette @Airaxora (Dunno if you have played the original Baldur's Gate. They were so good. I haven't even played part 3.)

Cordially,

Mike D

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

@NerdGazette @Airaxora "Something troubling you?" - Xzar

[TheCynicalNerd @NerdGazette]

I did Mike's garden prompt with Claude and I had like the best time after a stressful day at work. Thank you @MrComputerSci 🖤🌿🌙

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

PS: I noticed a few grammar errors in my tweets, which is kinda annoying. I don't wanna have to delete them and start over. So, I guess the egregious grammatical blunders shall remain. At least I write my tweets like a real human. Well, I try, at least.

Cordially,

Mike D

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

The latest issue of Pithy Cyborg was pretty cool.

I covered AI medical errors, AI job loss, and Karl Marx.

(Karl Marx snuck into the training data, lol.)

There's also an elite AI prompt for growing a moon garden.

Always 100% free, yo. ⬇

#AI #Substack #AmWriting

[MrComputerScience @MrComputerSci]

Also included: an elite AI prompt for growing a spectacular midnight garden.

Free. No paywall. No ads. No sponsors.

Just a hopelessly introverted nerd spending 20 hours a week so you don't have to.

↳ https://t.co/Iv90g4y1JU

#AI #Substack #GPT #AmWriting

[Shannon Bindler @ShannonBindler]

The older I get, the less I believe in coincidences.

Some moments really do feel like cosmic winks from the Universe. ✨

What was your last one?