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Scott Shambaugh didn\u2019t think twice when he denied an AI agent\u2019s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things got weird.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the middle of the night, Shambaugh opened his email to discover the agent had retaliated with a blog post. Titled \u201cGatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story,\u201d the post accused him of rejecting the code out of a fear of being supplanted by AI. \u201cHe tried to protect his little fiefdom,\u201d the agent wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s insecurity, plain and simple.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shambaugh isn’t alone in facing misbehaving agents\u2014and they\u2019re unlikely to stop at harassment.\u00a0Read the full story.<\/p>\n
\u2014Grace Huckins<\/em><\/p>\n As wildfire seasons become longer and more intense, the push for high-tech solutions is accelerating. One Canadian startup has an eye-catching plan to fight them: preventing lightning.<\/p>\n The theory is sound enough, but results to date have been mixed. And even if it works, not everyone believes we should use the method. Some argue that technological fixes for fires are missing the point entirely.\u00a0Read the full story.<\/p>\n \u2014Casey Crownhart<\/em><\/p>\n This story is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review\u2019s weekly climate newsletter.\u00a0<\/em>Sign up\u00a0to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #agents #hit #piece #preventing #lightning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn\u2019t think twice when he denied…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2095,803,1280,1726,2096,2097],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-agents","tag-download","tag-hit","tag-lightning","tag-piece","tag-preventing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-hitpiece-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How much wildfire prevention is too much?<\/strong><\/h3>\n