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How AI poisoning is fighting bots that hoover data without permission

The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial intelligence – but

"The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial intelligence – but similar technology can also be used to spread misinformation." (By Chris Stokel-Walker - 12 August 2025) |

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NYDIG Acquires Digital Assets Data

NYDIG Acquires Digital Assets Data

Cryptocurrency investments company NYDIG said Monday it acquired Digital Assets Data, a move that will pad the asset manager’s crypto research and analytics offerings for its institutional base. Digital Asset Data’s co-founders, brothers Mike and Ryan Alfred will join NYDIG, the companies said. Ryan will become head of product and Mike will oversee mergers and acquisitions. The terms of the deal…

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Youth Offences in decline in County Durham

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Hacking Crimes risen by half over the last year in Birmingham

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This week’s top AI and data science links: OpenAI vs DOTA, traffic data and the future of data storage

OpenAI was center stage this week when their bot beat top human player at the Dota 2 world championship. This is a big deal because multiplayer online battle arena games and real-time strategy games were seen as being way beyond the abilities of an AI today - with their extremely complex sets of rules and possible actions. 

OpenAI released an article further developing how their bot managed to achieve this through self-play alone.

If you're thinking "wow how did AI get to be this good while I wasn't watching?" you're not the only one. And it turns out the achievement, while impressive, may not be the groundbreaking event the press is raging about. In an article published by the NY Times, the team from OpenAi actually goes into some of their failed experiments - and explains why they believe that building AI that follows instructions set by humans may be a way to control super intelligence in the future.

Our very favorite links this week:

- Long read Eliminating the human

- Data storage trends How hardware drives the shape of databases to come

- Rush hour data viz Leaving town at rush hour? Here's how far you're likely to get from America's largest cities.

- Google Research Making visible watermarks more effective

- Here's an AI goodie: Generating expressive 3D facial animations from audio

Never enough! Here are more links that we enjoyed reading this week, just for you. - Why Machine Learning Is A Metaphor For Life by Adit Deshpande - Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence by Elle O'Brien - Inside the Increasingly Complex Algorithms That Get Packages to Your Door by MIT Tech Review - Design makes AI smarter by Elaine Lee - Why Elon Musk is Wrong about AI by Daniel Jeffries - How To Survive Corporate Politics as A Data Scientist by SeattleDataGuy - Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Far More Likely to Be Ruled 'Justifiable' by TheUpshot - God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution by Fact Tank - How We Built a Lifetime Eclipse Predictor by Source - Useless Data Comparisons by Flowing Data - Does Your State Care More About Batman or Puppies? by DiscoverGeek - An AI Dreamed Up Street Scenes, and They're Surprisingly Good by MIT TechReview - Understanding overfitting: an inaccurate meme in supervised learning by Memo's Island - Data Science Rosetta Stone: Classification in Python, R, MATLAB, SAS, & Julia by Heaton Research - [Paper] Some Philosophical Problems from the standpoint of Artificial Intelligence - [Paper] How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps: An annotated reading list - [Paper] A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing - [Paper] Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures From Binaries

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Blockchain and other data science news this month

"Deep learning is going to upend industries and give us new capabilities that we only imagined in high science fiction. But blockchain—blockchain is going to upend entire societies."

There's been some pretty serious talk about blockchain these past days - and it's been slightly underrepresented in this newsletter so let's catch up.

Indeed on the short term, so before it changes the world, you can expect blockchain to revolutionise the travel industry, starting with Airbnb and Expedia. If you want to get a view of how blockchain can help us approach certain problems in a whole new way, here's a talk/article on how blockchain can build a new identity. On a completely different note - we feel obligated to relay the battle to maintain net neutrality in the US. Why? Because. And also this.

Here are a few of our other favorite things this week: Tacos vs Burritos Index: The Great Divide in Mexican-American Cuisine by Priceonomics Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care by MIT Tech Review How Trump is changing America’s foreign policy by the Washington Post New AI research makes it easier to create fake footage of someone speaking by The Verge Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories by Techcrunch The Google Brain Residency Program — One Year Later by Google Research Programming your way to explainable AI by bonsai Semantic Segmentation using Fully Convolutional Networks over the yearsby Meet Shah Understanding Support Vector Machine via Examples by Sadanand Singh [Github] A web-based application for quick, scalable, and automated hyperparameter tuning and stacked ensembling in Python Counterintuitive problem: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others. You’ll never guess what happens next.

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