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Today's topics:

AI crawlers hit creator websites - JavaScript educator Axel Rauschmayer took 2ality and his free online books offline after AI crawlers drove hosting costs up while book income fell to zero—highlighting scraping, sustainability, and creator pay.

Governance for AI coding assistants - Microsoft staff open-sourced a VS Code tool to analyze AI coding sessions locally, aiming for privacy-first governance, prompt anti-pattern detection, and workflow metrics without sending code to the cloud.

curl security reports in AI era - curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg says AI changed vulnerability reporting: after bounty spam, quality rebounded on HackerOne, reports doubled, and 2026 may bring an unusually high number of curl CVEs.

AI data centers spark backlash - Communities are pushing back on AI-driven data-center expansion over electricity, water use, noise, and local control—raising questions about who pays for AI infrastructure and who gets a say.

AI reshapes junior hiring pipeline - Surveys and reporting suggest AI may reduce entry-level roles while boosting demand for experienced workers, squeezing graduate opportunities and forcing a rethink of training and career pipelines.

Sensitive health data for AI - A reported database of labeled stool photos tied to an AI ‘gut health’ app underscores how intimate health data can be commodified, and how ‘de-identified’ datasets can still pose re-identification risks.

-2ality Creator Takes Blog and Free Online Books Offline Citing AI Crawler Traffic and Lost Income
-Microsoft Open-Sources AI Engineer Coach to Analyze AI Coding Assistant Usage Locally
-curl Sees AI-Driven Surge in High-Quality Security Reports, Raising CVE Counts
-AI Data Centers Face Growing Backlash as Communities Cite Power, Water and Legal Concerns
-CEO Survey: AI Pushes Companies to Cut Junior Roles and Favor Senior Workers
-AI May Be Starting to Squeeze Entry-Level Graduate Jobs
-AI Poop-Analysis App Pitched Sale of Users’ Stool Photo Dataset
-Study Finds ChatGPT Linked to Surge in A Grades in AI-Friendly College Courses
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