https://youtu.be/LFnu0iYwDFc

#meta #facebook #ai

Network downtime disrupts essential services. AWS is using a new agentic #AI approach to cut network troubleshooting times from hours to minutes, keeping critical systems online and running smoothly.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/awsforsap/accelerate-sap-network-troubleshooting-from-hours-to-minutes-agentic-ai-approach/

Social media in the world: beyond the US #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/social-media-in-the-world-beyond-the-us/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Bill Gates has warned the transition to the AI era will disrupt white and blue-collar jobs and introduce cyber and biological risks as humans struggle to control its ever-advancing development.

Axios offers the takeaways from Bill Gates' memo:
https://flip.it/AcSt5T

Here's the full memo from Bill Gates:
https://flip.it/dF76mw

#BillGates #AI

RE: https://social.karotte.org/@moehrenfeld/117160783957960800

I totally agree, and have always thought this was a terrible end-user experience. It comes about because someone, somewhere, is tracking 'number of open tickets' and thinks that a smaller number is better than a big number.

No. A big number means your software is being used. ... OR, admittedly, it could be because the #AI #SlopBots have decided to dump their slop all over your project.

#github #opensource

PIPEDA, Canada’s approach to PI #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/pipeda-canadas-approach-to-pi/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

How an email address ousted AlphaBay #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-an-email-address-ousted-alphabay/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

QAnon: The Digital Cult #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/qanon-the-digital-cult/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Alabama launches investigation into #OpenAI’s hack of #HuggingFace

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/alabama-launches-investigation-into-openais-hack-of-hugging-face/

#cybersecurity #AI

How to improve the healthcare system with AI? Monica Bertagnolli, President Elect of the National Academy of Medicine, shares her insights in a recent #ACMBytecast episode.

Check out the full conversation here: https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep83-monica-bertagnolli

#AI #healthcare #computing #research #podcast

TeaMp0isoN: hacktivism with a cause #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/teamp0ison-hacktivism-with-a-cause/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday on the rapidly accelerating backlash against data centers. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yep, this story keeps getting bigger exploding into the public consciousness as we get closer to the midterm elections. Reports everywhere about massive public backlash to data centers and AI, all over the country in blue states and red states, in all demographic groups, republicans, democrats, independents, people of all ages. Surveys say more than 70% of U.S. residents oppose data centers with very few differences related to political preferences or really any other factors.

Many politicians are suddenly scrambling to align their public positions with the enormous negative public sentiment toward data centers, even when just months ago in some cases these same politicians were publicly pro-data centers. States are enacting moratoriums and new data center regulations even in some states that were previously massively boosting the idea of inviting data centers in with open arms and massive financial incentives.

The politicians are realizing that ordinary people whether in unspoiled rural areas or in urban areas or anywhere in-between mostly despise these massive, monstrous data centers. These data centers are the physical manifestations of the AI that spews out misinformation and deep fakes and scam product promotions, phishing attacks, inept and sometimes dangerous AI agents, and all the rest that most people hate and that the AI firms mostly refuse to take responsibility for.

It's understood now that after construction finishes these data centers are run by just a handful of people, sometimes just a dozen or less -- significant long term job improvements mostly don't happen. People realize that many of these data centers drive up regional electric rates, can cause water shortages, can pollute the air with gas-powered generators and create 24/7 noise from their equipment rumbling nearby homes continuously, driving residents crazy, and destroying homes' property values.

The billionaire Big Tech CEOs thought that they could push this all through as they've done so often in the past, but it appears that they've finally spewed the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. Some of the firms are now warning investors and potential investors that the financial risks from this massive backslash are getting very real.

In a matter really of just months, data centers and associated AI have fallen victim to the trust deficit that Big Tech has been building up for decades. Pretty much everyone knows that trusting these firms to care about society and not just mainly their bottom lines is not a good plan.

So now we're actually seeing data centers as a primary topic of discussion at politicians' town hall meetings and increasingly in major political TV commercials, where lines like "we don't want crime or data centers in our neighborhoods" are actually being heard -- yes data centers and crime in the same bucket labeled as community destroyers, and rightly so.

I'm unaware of any major issue involving technology or perhaps even not including tech, that has so rapidly gathered such powerfully negative public reaction in such a manner. It's like the rebelling crowd's refrain from the end of The Who's rock opera "Tommy": "We're not gonna take it!", or the famous line from the film "Network": "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" And of course there's the Twisted Sister song too.

Data center and AI backlash is a veritable tsunami headed directly at the political careers of politicians everywhere. And politicians regardless of their party who don't understand this, are liable to be finding those careers deeply underwater and nothing but a memory, very soon indeed.

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#AI

Kevin Poulsen, the story of “Dark Dante” #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/kevin-poulsen-the-story-of-dark-dante/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@collectifission

Nope, sorry, did not watch. My apologies if they had viable solutions in there. :-)

The post said "Say we'd take the suggestions seriously to shoot all nuclear waste into the Sun." And that comment was what I was responding to.

The YouTube video has the #AI #slop looking title screenshot that makes me immediately discount the content.

Might I miss something, sure? But experience has shown its not worth my time.

Happy to discuss space and nuclear disposal though.

New #AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and #VisualIntelligence

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/new-airpods-leak-reveals-built-in-cameras-and-visual-intelligence-3400062/

#Apple #AirPod #AI #privacy

Are you using LLMs to write Free Software?

Then you should know whether your software is copyrightable, the situations in which you can license it, and what risks it may create for maintainers.

Our new Legal Corner explains what you need to consider:
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Copyright #LLM #AI #generativeAI #VibeCoding

Data centres in Scotland are being given a (rightfully) hard ride

Yes, we do need data storage and processing capacity in this country - but not for what much of their capacity, land, power and water usage is proposed to be ‘spent’ on.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/never-seen-this-level-of-objection-scotland-pushes-back-against-datacentre-boom

#DataCentre #AI #Scotland #Resistance

Gaia-X, the European cloud ecosystem #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/gaia-x-the-european-cloud-ecosystem/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Behind Twitter: Jack Dorsey #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-twitter-jack-dorsey/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Well this is forking depressing. 😞

https://hypersubject.net/posts/on-adaptation,-again

#AI #slop #SelfRespect? #WeAllBowDownToBabylon, eventually, I guess

Cybersecurity in France #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cybersecurity-in-france/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Sabu, the man who brought down Anonymous #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-sabu-brought-down-anonymous/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Organizations are moving at a rapid-fire pace to adapt AI, in many cases going straight from experimentation into something business critical. But as companies are finding new ways to use it, many are leaving their security teams scrambling to patch up the related vulnerabilities. @TechRadar has more:

https://flip.it/6aYzZD

#Tech #AI #CyberSecurity

@LuisCrespo

Guessing here, but looks like #AI #slop to me.

10 seconds long (a limit on a lot of the free generators) the cats don't seen to be visually tracking the ball (this is the big tell, anyone who has cats knows the laser focused tracking look) and the ball does something weird at the end.

Can't say for sure though, but would love to know where the later got it from.

Cyber warfare groups: SEA #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cyber-warfare-groups-sea/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Should we be worried about AI going rogue and hacking us all?

Carly Page investigates how AI models have evolved, what they're capable of today and what that means for our online safety.

https://flip.it/VjcALD

#AI #Cybersecurity

@ashwin @trashheap @MsDropbear42 @lianna I agree with this, while at the same time:

I weight the #infrastructure damage from #computing #power as the higher priority to avoid which includes:

+ #datacenters
+ #people running it
+ #banks funding it (and @wars at the same time)

This is the higher #priority than most cost.

Avoiding #AI therefore saves the demand (whole #list above) because of what it uses / involves [most bad / wasteful / consumptive things and same style people behind it].

Artificial intelligence boosts automated biolabs.

From @KnowableMag: "AI and machine learning are kicking synthetic biology up to new levels of innovation. Researchers see huge potential for novel drugs and other chemicals; some also see risks."

https://flip.it/suChRL

#AI #Biology #Science

Heard of Ox Alpha? It's a free AI model that appeared last week and it's already winning over developers. Who owns it? Nobody knows. Have you got any guesses?

https://flip.it/L-HWfz

#AI #OxAlpha

Cybersecurity certifications: entry level #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cybersecurity-certifications-entry-level/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

AI-generated passwords look like they would be bombproof. But tech writer Kim Key discovered just how easy the repetitive character sequences are to hack. Read more from PC Mag:

https://flip.it/aj7VE2

#Tech #AI #Security

Dr Jones here is a damn good presenter of linguistics, and he reports on things without judging or prescribing.

This video is talking about HOW to detect AI output being passed off as human; given that it's based on human language ... what do we look for?

Well, duh ... we look for evidence of *thinking* not just *speaking* ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgKY9AlybA

#ai and simultaneously, #noai

New post: The Ramp, Not the Shortcut

https://lanie.work/advocacy/the-ramp-not-the-shortcut/

#Ai #Accessibility #Assistive-Technology #Disability #Multiple-Disabilities #Nvda #Coding #Advocacy

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual theft #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-theft/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Understanding how people make decisions #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/understanding-how-people-make-decisions/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

As demand for #Meta #AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-ai-glasses-may-get-creepier-and-apps-that-detect-them-arent-perfect/

#privacy #SmartGlasses #PervertGlasses #Oakley #RayBan

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual robbery #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-robbery/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#AI is such an amazing thing. From agents to coding applications for accessibility, its incredible what's possible. Many of the games that #Blind people were unable to play before are now able to be played because of AI and that's huge, because a whole world is opening up to us and its been decades of people being excluded because gaming companies haven't even considered accessibility and while some have, its still a long way off.

#Pier Over #Ocean at #Sunrise by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://buff.ly/BvILBv0

#digitalart #ai #beach #water #waves #longexposure #colorful #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Alt...

**ACHIEVED 3RD PLACE IN FAA JURIED CONTEST - AI Sunset With A Building Creative Women ONLY A serene sunrise casts a warm glow over a tranquil sea or ocean with gentle waves breaking on the shore. A wooden pier extends into the water, offering a peaceful viewpoint to enjoy the vibrant skies. THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.

Extremely badly animated Chinese film is beating #AISlop big time.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=5Oegmcq5zaI

#animation #china #film #filmmaking #stopai #ai

Can a startup called Outer Biosciences figure out how to keep living human tissue alive outside the body? Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/F-ZN2H

#Tech #AI #Technology

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual stings #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-stings/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

After initially trying to ban AI use, a growing number of U.S. public schools are trying a new strategy: encouraging classroom experimentation. Will exposing students to AI keep them from outsourcing their thinking to chatbots? @AssociatedPress reports:

https://flip.it/MENvlC

#Tech #AI #Education

Chaos Computer Club (CCC) #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/chaos-computer-club-ccc/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual #AI Images Are Taking Over #X

https://www.404media.co/subtlefakes-slightly-altered-nonconsensual-ai-images-are-taking-over-x/

#Twitter #privacy #deepfake #nudify

#AI data giant #Alation confirms #cyberattack

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-giant-alation-confirms-cyberattack/

#cybersecurity

OSINT for human trafficking investigation #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/osint-for-human-trafficking-investigation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#US says hackers are targeting vulnerable #water systems with the help of #AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/us-says-hackers-are-targeting-vulnerable-water-systems-with-the-help-of-ai/

#cybersecurity #infrastructure

#Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-are-encrypted/

#AI #cybersecurity #X #Twitter

The science behind the Upside Down #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-science-behind-the-upside-down/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Pizzagate’s role in viral disinformation #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/pizzagates-role-in-viral-disinformation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I tested AI and it failed as a Hebrew teacher 🤷🏻‍♀️

#AI #HebrewLanguage #LearnHebrew #Language

A computer is just a tool, think for yourself! It’s actually pretty fun 🧠

#AI

ISIS recruitment on social media #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-isis-recruited-on-social-media/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The Christchurch mosque shooting #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-christchurch-mosque-shooting/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#OpenAI seeks to one-up #Anthropic with new customer #privacy protections

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/openai-seeks-to-one-up-anthropic-with-new-customer-privacy-protections/

#AI

Behind Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-facebook-mark-zuckerberg/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Played with #AIDungeon, tried telling a character "I don't use social media, but I tried one of those decentralized ones", and the character answered with, "so, you post on Mastodon?"

Honestly, I'm a bit impressed.

#ai #fediverse

Researchers say #OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/researchers-complain-that-openai-revoked-their-access-to-limited-cyber-program/

#TAC #cybersecurity #AI

"Silicon Valley has long had its own dialect. But lately, tech vernacular has taken a peculiar turn — people have started describing themselves as if they were chatbots."

@TheAtlantic explores the trend wherein people describe themselves as if they were large language models.

https://flip.it/UgGAX1

#AI #Language #Technology

America’s #AI leadership depends on a legal framework that supports innovation. Preserving flexible fair use in the U.S. while advancing interoperable rules abroad can reduce legal fragmentation and help American AI technologies compete globally, all while supporting mutually beneficial arrangements between rightsholders and AI developers. Read more of our policy recommendations for global AI leadership: https://ccianet.org/library/fair-use-and-artificial-intelligence-policy-recommendations-for-global-ai-leadership/

It's long past time I got into one or another speculative bubble.

Which one should I start so I fleece investors most effectively? 🙂🤷‍♂️

#Fraud #Corruptiom #AI

US warns of #AI-powered attacks on #Siemens PLCs in critical #infrastructure

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-warns-of-ai-powered-attacks-on-siemens-plcs-in-critical-infrastructure/

#cybersecurity

@rq 1/ Yes I know old hardware is accepted on #Win10

But Win 7 for example can be a choice not to have the #AI #copilot / added stuff integrated in Win10 - keeping the OS fast / uncluttered is priority.

2/ #MyPal is #Browser very similar mentality and format to #PaleMoon

I also recommend and have used MyPal:

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/

Not sure why I moved on from PaleMoon as it was / is great actually and might #reinstall.

https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml

I'm writing a quick test project with Claude Code for myself, and it decided to "build MRU history and calling with arguments". I consider myself technical, and write lots of code of my own, but I have no idea what an MRU history is, if I need one, if Claude Code should be building it, or if it should, what arguments it should have. Googling anything on the acronym MRU gives me results about Mount Royal University. If you weren't already a programmer, and didn't understand the concepts of calling and arguments, you'd be even more lost. But thanks to the complete enshittification of search, even I'm now completely stumped by an unfamiliar acronym. So I guess I just have to trust the #AI that an MRU is something this project has and/or needs, and that an MRU has or should have a history that has or should have arguments and can or should be called. It certainly wasn't something I specified or asked for, and thanks to big tech's complete destruction of all knowledge, it's not something I can easily learn about on my own. I guess I could ask the AI, though that kind of defeats the entire purpose of finding things out myself. One could argue that I don't need to know what MRU stands for, because the AI is taking care of it. But at that point I can no longer claim to understand my own project, and am just vibe coding, because I can no longer make knowledgeable decisions about parts of it. My point is that even for programmers, it's surprisingly easy to slip into vibe coding, and thanks to the modern Internet, it can be tricky to avoid, even for those with a programming background.

American schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots’ flaws, @AssociatedPress reports.

https://flip.it/iqCIfa

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

#AI is a zombie virus.

There were so many #FreeSoftware projects that were dead and buried with honors, or at least on life support. It was unfortunate. Sometimes it involved a lot of downstream scaffolding to keep everything working. But at least we had warm memories of them and respect to their authors.

And now slop virus is taking them over, one after another. It's pulling them out of their graves or hospital beds, deformed and mutilated. All the warmth is gone. They have no purpose anymore, beyond feeding.

Sometimes this is done by kids who don't understand the first thing about the project they're defiling, who just want to get credit for something important. However, more often this is done by their original maintainers, who not only don't seem to realize their prime time is over, but who are many years detached from honest software development work.

#NoAI #NoLLM

Social media crimes: Rachel DelTondo #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-rachael-deltondo/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? Apparently not. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright. EU copyright law has strictly human-centric foundation.

Daniel J. Gervais: 'When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it. That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content' https://euobserver.com/232898/interview-does-copyright-protect-your-ai-generated-content-in-europe-lets-find-out/

Gervais, Daniel J. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs (September 21, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4963711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4963711

"Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution. For businesses, this is ambivalent. On the one hand, content generated purely by AI can hardly be protected on an exclusive basis, which has implications for brand building and content strategies" https://www.germanlawinternational.com/intellectualproperty/copyright/from-the-printing-press-to-ai-how-the-eu-plans-to-modernize-copyright-law-164154/

#law #copyright #LLM #AI #iplaw #intellectualProperty #EU

What’s being browsed on the internet? Bots reading web pages written by other bots, apparently. @Techcrunch has more on the substantial AI wave crashing onto the shores of the web:

https://flip.it/hCHlC1

#Tech #AI #Internet

Behind Telegram: Pavel Durov #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-telegram-pavel-durov/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Flock Has a Powerful New #AI Tool for #Police. We Got Its Code

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

#privacy #surveillance #AI

Oh. My. Bob, you can override #AI guardrails with #encryption. Beautiful.

“Rony Utevsky, a researcher at security firm #Adversa, recently discovered a simple way to completely bypass that restriction. Rather than composing the harmful instruction in plaintext, the hacker encrypts it. The website hosting the ciphertext also includes plaintext instructions for decrypting the encrypted content, along with the decryption key. Using this simple sequence, #Grok then follows the command as soon as the user instructs the assistant to summarize the page. There is no warning, and no confirmation is required.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-are-encrypted/

Ahahahahahahahah. Turn them off my dudes, your techbro fantasies are disasters.

#infosec #llm #hacktheplanet

#Google is buying all of #Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its #AI models

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/business/google-spirit-airlines-data

#airline #SpiritAirlines #privacy #travel

LulzSec, hackers trolling the world #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/lulzsec-hackers-trolling-the-world/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its #AI Agents Went Rogue

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-overhauls-safety-protocols-after-its-ai-agents-went-rogue/

#cybersecurity #Astra

Your conversations with AI chatbots are not private. Researchers have tested 13 large language models to find which ones are the most trustworthy or perhaps...the least untrustworthy.

The two-dozen-page report by Incogni points out which LLMs have an off-switch to prevent chats from being used for training and offers techniques to minimize your privacy risk.

https://flip.it/DLVwpK
#AI #LLMs #Privacy

A 25% semiconductor tariff on data centers could mean a 15.6% tax on data center construction, putting America’s #AI buildout and economic growth at risk. A recent CCIA Research Center analysis found the result could be $450B in lost or delayed investment, $90B in annual GDP losses, and 243,000 jobs at risk. When you tax the infrastructure powering America’s AI future, you compromise that future. Read more: https://ccianet.org/articles/applying-semiconductor-tariffs-to-data-centers-would-cost-the-u-s-90-billion-a-year/

AI might be making the final decision when it comes to getting that medical procedure you need. Six states in America have been involuntarily enrolled in an AI programme that aims to cut down "wasteful" procedures. Is your state one of them?

https://flip.it/B-FCpj
#AI #Health #Medicare

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it

https://franciscotrindade.me/blog/the-kids-are-really-alright/

#ai

Operation Pacifier and the use of NIT #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/operation-pacifier-and-the-use-of-nit/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Micro-influencers: smaller audiences, more influence #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/micro-influencers-smaller-audiences-more-influence/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores

🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

#tech #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AISlop

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

Not just a year ago, you could find a lot of news articles promoting the idea that proprietary AI had higher privacy, better data protection, and enhanced cybersecurity. Now, businesses are switching to Open Source AI for exactly these 3 reasons. I guess reality has caught up with the hype.
#cybersecurity #privacy #opensource #AI
https://www.marketscale.com/industries/software-and-technology/enterprises-are-ditching-frontier-ai-models-for-open-source-alternatives-to-protect-proprietary-data

Autism, Asperger traits, and hacking #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/autism-asperger-traits-and-hacking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to #Nudify Female Politicians

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/

#privacy #deepfake #AI

FYI: AI agents buy like TV buyers: 86% fewer auctions, DataBeat finds: Agentic demand cleared $6.13 against $6.95 for conventional buyers, thinning yield. Rivals now wrap fixed-price deals at 1% fees. Is per-impression buying over? https://ppc.land/ai-agents-buy-like-tv-buyers-86-fewer-auctions-databeat-finds/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #PPC #AdTech

"In 1953, I realised that the straight line leads to the downfall of mankind. But the straight line has become an absolute tyranny. The straight line is something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling; it is the line which does not exist in nature. And that line is the rotten foundation of our doomed civilization. Even if there are places where it is recognised that this line is rapidly leading to perdition, its course continues to be plotted. .... Any design undertaken with the straight line will be stillborn. Today we are witnessing the triumph of rationalist knowhow and yet, at the same time, we find ourselves confronted with emptiness. An esthetic void, desert of uniformity, criminal sterility, loss of creative power. Even creativity is prefabricated. We have become impotent. We are no longer able to create. That is our real illiteracy."

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

What would this great 20th Century artist, architect, and activist think about the 21st Century IT's staunchly straight-lined dependence on the #AI?

#Microsoft #Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/microsoft-copilot-reveals-secret-input-that-allowed-it-to-be-hacked/

#AI #cybersecurity

#AI agents are moving phones from tools we micromanage to assistants that can understand goals and handle tasks for us, from scheduling appointments to drafting emails. Google is betting the next generation of smartphones will require less micromanagement. Its new Pixel 11 Pro uses a light to show when Gemini is processing a command, while Android’s upcoming Halo feature will let users see an AI agent’s progress as it handles tasks. 1/2

#Sainsbury’s store pauses #AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/humiliated-sainsburys-store-pauses-ai-scanning-after-false-shoplifting-accusation

#privacy #Facewatch #FRT #FacialRecognition #surveillance

Can #AI Coexist With #Privacy? #Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-andy-yen-proton/

#Lumo

Clear #AI rules can protect consumers without creating a litigation free-for-all. In June, CCIA testified against Delaware’s HB 306, warning that vague definitions, strict liability, and a private right of action could create legal uncertainty and costly compliance burdens for businesses developing AI tools. Transparency should build trust, not discourage responsible innovation. Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/06/ccia-raises-concerns-with-delaware-chatbot-regulation-proposal/

Jonathan James, aka “c0mrade” #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/jonathan-james-aka-c0mrade/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

Flock has said for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an AI tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, and it's already in use in some locations. Wired has the proof

#Flock #Privacy #AI

The trading trap of Instagram Forex scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-trading-trap-of-instagram-forex-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Designing Least Privilege in the cloud #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/designing-least-privilege-in-the-cloud/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Who remembered the 70th anniversary of the Dartmouth Workshop, just these days?

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
from (about) June 18 to August 17, 1956.

Organized by:
John McCarthy
Marvin Minsky
Nathaniel Rochester
Claude Shannon

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#ClaudeShannon
#DartmouthWorkshop
#JohnMcCarthy
#MarvinMinsky
#NathanielRochester

These days, I hardly ever see social democracy mentioned (while I see socialism, a different, but closely related concept, mentioned left, right, and center).

The blog post below was published about six months ago.
I haven't seen it mentioned around here, either, but that means little.
It is certainly yet another part of the "what shall we do with the present wave of artificial intelligence?" picture.
The blog post is not really about Norway, though that country plays an important role in presenting the author's thesis.

I am sorry I don't have a summary; in lieu of that, three sentences from the final paragraph:
«The gap between the magnitude of the AI transition and the policy imagination of the left is impossibly vast. Proposals to ban data center construction are a reflexive response, foreclosing the benefits of living in an automated, but collective, future in favor of naive localism. The Overton Window on AI governance is narrow to the point of absurdity.»

Blog post (about 850 words):
Norway Should Buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
by Zachary Jones
2026-02-05
<https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#SocialDemocracy

AI ad labels cut click-through 31.5%, IAB framework cites NYU study: Advertisers get 60 days to name a disclosure lead under IAB voluntary rules issued August 18. Which AI uses trigger a consumer label, and which stay exempt? https://ppc.land/ai-ad-labels-cut-click-through-31-5-iab-framework-cites-nyu-study/ #AI #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #ClickThroughRate