Ask an AI coding assistant for the right library and sometimes it confidently names one that doesn’t exist. Attackers noticed. They’re registering those hallucinated package names and waiting for you to run install. It’s called slopsquatting, it’s disturbingly predictable, and here’s exactly how to keep it out of your projects.
ChatGPT can now plug straight into the apps where your real work already lives — Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, Notion — and OpenAI is testing a feature that reads your past messages to write in your own voice. It’s genuinely useful and quietly risky. Here’s exactly what app connections do, how to set them up, what each one unlocks, and how to get the payoff without handing over your whole digital life.
Three hikers used Google’s Gemini to plan a Mount Shasta climb, got advised to pack far too little food and water, and had to be rescued off the mountain. It’s a perfect, low-stakes-sounding cautionary tale about a high-stakes habit: trusting AI for real-world plans. Here’s what went wrong, why AI does this, and a practical checklist for using it on things that actually matter.
Google just launched Google Pics, an AI design tool built into Workspace where you prompt to create posters, social posts, and visuals instead of dragging templates around. Here’s what it actually does, how it stacks up against Canva and Adobe Express, the honest catch about how it’s trained, and whether it’s worth switching for.
OpenAI just launched GPT-6 Astra and called it the start of the AGI era. Here’s what’s genuinely new, why the rollout locked out paying users on day one, how loud the AGI claim really is, and what any of it means for how you actually use AI.
ChatGPT can now run prompts on a clock — daily briefings, reminders, and monitoring that show up without you asking. Here’s what Scheduled Tasks actually does, how to set one up in two minutes, the automations worth creating, and the honest limits.
Most people use a coding agent by dumping a vague request and hoping. The developers getting real work out of these tools do the opposite: they write a short plan first. Here’s why the spec beats the prompt, and exactly how to write one your agent can follow.
Most people’s ChatGPT writing sounds like everyone else’s ChatGPT writing. Here’s the practical, repeatable setup — custom instructions, a style sample, memory, and Projects — that teaches it to sound like you instead.
