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Google's I/O event has drawn sharp criticism this week, with observers at The Register describing the company's latest AI push as full-blown enshittification. The argument is pointed: Google isn't just adding AI features, it's fundamentally reshaping how users experience the web, and not necessarily in their favor. The trade-off between convenience and control has rarely felt starker.
Staying with artificial intelligence, Press Gazette is maintaining a live tracker of AI-related scandals and errors in journalism, and the list keeps growing. It's a sobering document — a running record of fabricated quotes, hallucinated facts, and editorial shortcuts that have eroded reader trust. The tool itself is a kind of accountability mirror the industry didn't know it needed.
And from the developer community, a piece gaining traction on Hacker News makes the case for Jujutsu as an antidote to what the author calls Git rigour fatigue. The idea is simple but resonant: version control should reduce cognitive load, not add to it. Whether Jujutsu becomes a genuine alternative or stays a niche tool, the frustration it addresses is clearly widely shared.
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