Dan Leininger
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Experimental engineering for Consumer Reports
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Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
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In response to our investigation, Instacart is no longer allowing retailers to use its AI tech to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries, at the same time on its platform.
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In response to our investigation, Instacart is no longer allowing retailers to use its AI tech to charge shoppers different prices for the same groceries, at the same time on its platform.
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Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S.
Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.
Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S.
Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.
Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.
I picture this every time I do this now
this is what I look like when I'm checking my email on another screen while I'm on a video call for work
December 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I picture this every time I do this now
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I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted by mistake. Patent tolls and other abusers of the patent system have been screaming about this system ever since it started actually helping stop the flood of patent trolling over the last decade and a half.
www.techdirt.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
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You have GOT to be KIDDING ME
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
You have GOT to be KIDDING ME
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Now I'm picturing a group of bored middle-aged people 30 years from now all doing a half-hearted 6-7 in a business meeting because that's just what you do
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Now I'm picturing a group of bored middle-aged people 30 years from now all doing a half-hearted 6-7 in a business meeting because that's just what you do
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The @consumerreports.org cybersecurity testing lab has helped improve security for several connected products. We showcase a few examples of what they have found and how they work with companies to improve product security. Also, if you're building a connected device, encrypt your traffic.
How CR’s Testing Team is Boosting Security—One Smart Product at a Time - Innovation at Consumer Reports
Take a look inside CR’s testing lab, where our engineers are strengthening the security of connected devices and boosting consumer trust
innovation.consumerreports.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The @consumerreports.org cybersecurity testing lab has helped improve security for several connected products. We showcase a few examples of what they have found and how they work with companies to improve product security. Also, if you're building a connected device, encrypt your traffic.
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CR's Leah Fischman Hunter and Ginny Fahs joined the Innovation Storytellers Show to talk about Consumer Reports’ fight for digital consumer rights in an online world filled with AI hype, dark patterns, and data brokers. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Tech for Good: Consumer Reports’ Fight for Digital Consumer Rights
Podcast Episode · Innovation Storytellers · 09/09/2025 · 48m
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September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
CR's Leah Fischman Hunter and Ginny Fahs joined the Innovation Storytellers Show to talk about Consumer Reports’ fight for digital consumer rights in an online world filled with AI hype, dark patterns, and data brokers. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
We're hiring remote/hybrid product & research engineering roles to help build pro-consumer tech in Consumer Reports' Innovation Lab
Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/consumerrepo...
or reach out directly to [email protected]
More about our work here:
innovation.consumerreports.org/blog/
Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/consumerrepo...
or reach out directly to [email protected]
More about our work here:
innovation.consumerreports.org/blog/
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July 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We're hiring remote/hybrid product & research engineering roles to help build pro-consumer tech in Consumer Reports' Innovation Lab
Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/consumerrepo...
or reach out directly to [email protected]
More about our work here:
innovation.consumerreports.org/blog/
Apply: job-boards.greenhouse.io/consumerrepo...
or reach out directly to [email protected]
More about our work here:
innovation.consumerreports.org/blog/
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If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
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LLMs seem to act very differently around the issue of link hallucination and we should talk about that more I think mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/difference...
Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language models
I've been waiting for someone else to talk about this, but I guess it will be me
mikecaulfield.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
LLMs seem to act very differently around the issue of link hallucination and we should talk about that more I think mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/difference...
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Happy June 1st from plant bitch!!!
June 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy June 1st from plant bitch!!!
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Novelty Car Horn Playing ‘La Cucaracha’ Sends Stephen Miller Into Dissociative Fugue State theonion.com/novelty...
May 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Novelty Car Horn Playing ‘La Cucaracha’ Sends Stephen Miller Into Dissociative Fugue State theonion.com/novelty...
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GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
May 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
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Current state of vibe coding 🚀
May 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Current state of vibe coding 🚀
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May 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Consumer Reports is a nonprofit that
- doesn't sell ads or accept samples
- tests products hands-on with scientific rigor
- reviews home goods, cars, baby stuff, electronics and even banks and insurance
- employs me
you can get a yearly membership for $29 right now www.consumerreports.org/join/
- doesn't sell ads or accept samples
- tests products hands-on with scientific rigor
- reviews home goods, cars, baby stuff, electronics and even banks and insurance
- employs me
you can get a yearly membership for $29 right now www.consumerreports.org/join/
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The draft version of the update to NIST's Cybersecurity for IoT Products (NIST IR 8259) dropped today. The update adds a new focus on supporting the security of a connected product through its end of life and provides excellent questions to assess device use cases and security risks.
Five Years Later: Evolving IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines
The Background…and NIST’s Plan for Improving IoT Cybersecurity
www.nist.gov
May 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The draft version of the update to NIST's Cybersecurity for IoT Products (NIST IR 8259) dropped today. The update adds a new focus on supporting the security of a connected product through its end of life and provides excellent questions to assess device use cases and security risks.
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Sabrina Imbler spoke to Chuck Sebian-Lander about the increasingly exploitative nature of financial markets, the importance of making the Bureau's services accessible to everyone, and the CFPB's unseen impact on all of our lives. defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired Web Content Manager At The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Defector
Before Chuck Sebian-Lander joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a web content manager, he knew about as much about the agency as “anybody who watched The Big Short and got really angry a...
defector.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sabrina Imbler spoke to Chuck Sebian-Lander about the increasingly exploitative nature of financial markets, the importance of making the Bureau's services accessible to everyone, and the CFPB's unseen impact on all of our lives. defector.com/an-interview...
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CFPB decided that protections for people doing installment loans on apps for their groceries wasn't worth the trouble www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...
Trump's CFPB drops enforcement of buy now, pay later rule in latest rollback of consumer protections
The CFPB said Tuesday it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule treating buy now, pay later firms like credit card lenders.
www.cnbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
CFPB decided that protections for people doing installment loans on apps for their groceries wasn't worth the trouble www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...