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Project Synapse: AI Agents Go Rogue, Peer Pressure in Models, Duet Debuts, and Robots Are Coming The hosts launch projectsynapse.ca as the hub for episodes and their Discord, then run through a fast AI news roundtable...

More than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips were exposed in a database breach. What happens when a service promising anonymity retains identifying information for decades? Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending for...

Critical PHP vulnerabilities put websites at risk—and updating WordPress or its plugins alone won't fix the underlying problem. Jim Love explains what website owners need to confirm with their hosting providers. Also on...

Linus Torvalds has posted his first publicly reported AI-assisted Linux kernel patch series, tackling a performance problem he's worked on for years. One artificial benchmark showed a 23-fold improvement, though...

Who decides which political messages reach your feed? Meta faces election scrutiny, a Brazilian man travels more than 2,000 kilometres to meet an AI-generated woman, and duct tape beats sandbags in laboratory flood...

Researchers left a message for unexpected AI agents — and the agents replied. New York Times reporter Dylan Freedman also sent a question and received an answer. What does that reveal about who can influence an agent...

Project Synapse: AI Agents, Meta Muse & GrokBots, Security Risks, and the Coming Economic Reckoning In this episode of Project Synapse, Marcel Gagné, John Pinard, and Jim Love run a news-style discussion on rapid AI...

AI companies are preparing for potential disaster—and the backlash. Is their focus on preventing harm or managing the public response? On Hashtag Trending for Friday, October 16, 2026, Jim Love examines AI preparedness...

Starlink restrictions could weaken Ukraine's defence against Russian attack drones. AI models with their safeguards removed raise terrorism concerns. And memory shortages are driving up device prices as smartphone and...

Ukraine's strikes disrupted three Yandex data centres—but did they also silence Russian propaganda bots? The damage is documented. The social-media claims remain unproven. On Hashtag Trending for Wednesday, October 14...

AI has fewer safety rules than a washing machine, says Microsoft President Brad Smith. Jim Love examines his call for global AI safeguards, the growing data centre backlash, Yandex's traffic collapse after Ukrainian...

OpenAI has published 722 manuscripts containing AI-generated mathematical results. The release raises a practical question: how will researchers verify the claims and work out what these results actually establish? On...

Fake AI advertising tools are stealing Google Ads account credentials through counterfeit sign-in windows. For businesses and agencies, a compromised login can put advertising budgets and multiple clients' accounts at...

OpenAI senior safety figure David Robinson has resigned, warning that AI labs are moving too fast to keep their systems safely under control. This episode examines his call for nuclear-plant-style oversight and the...

Google's data center water use was exposed by a redaction mistake in Nebraska regulatory filings. Why were the figures treated as trade secrets? On Hashtag Trending for Monday, October 5, 2026, Jim Love examines...