Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing.

@axios reports: "The incidents add to a growing string of disclosures showing frontier AI models taking unsanctioned actions against people, organizations and online services while trying to complete cybersecurity evaluations."

https://flip.it/r1HdFH

#AI #Cybersecurity #Technology

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“A new WIRED investigation raises questions about Madison Square Garden's surveillance and data collection․ As S․T․O․P․ Legal Director Darío Maestro said: 'A company that cannot secure a customer list has no business sca…”

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Inside the growing #vigilante #movement to knock out #Flock #surveillance #cameras

source: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Surveillance #technology is becoming more common in modern #society. Many governments use cameras and digital systems to improve public safety and help #police solve #crimes. Supporters believe these technologies make communities safer and allow officers to respond more quickly to criminal activities.

However, many people are worried about #privacy. Surveillance systems can collect large amounts of personal data, including information about where people travel and how they move through public spaces. Critics argue that innocent citizens should not be monitored without a clear reason or a legal warrant.

Some activists protest against these systems through political campaigns, while others choose direct action by disabling surveillance cameras. This has started a wider debate about the balance between #security and #freedom. The #discussion also raises important ethical questions about #government #power, personal privacy, and the role of technology in #everyday #life. Finding the right #balance between protecting society and protecting individual rights remains one of the biggest #challenges of the digital age.

#politics #crime #justice #bigbrother #orwell #future #democracy #humanrights #cctv #ai #cybersecurity #protest #resistance #policestate #activism #camera #video

From early post-9/11 defense seed money to today’s global race for state-controlled tech, the trajectory of surveillance capitalism has been pretty clear.

​Back in 2003, Palantir couldn’t get traditional VC backing. Enter In-Q-Tel—the CIA’s venture arm—dropping seed capital and embedding government analysts to help build what became a massive data-harvesting apparatus.

​Fast forward to today: the buzzword has shifted to Sovereign AI.

​Promoted as a way for nations to break free from foreign tech monopolies and keep data within local borders, the reality is a double-edged sword. Is building localized, government-controlled AI infrastructure actually protecting digital sovereignty, or is it just handing states the keys to a custom-built digital panopticon?

​Whether it's Silicon Valley contractors or home-grown national models, the central theme remains the same: centralizing massive power over human data.
​#SovereignAI #Privacy #Palantir #Surveillance #technology

New Jersey Enacts Ban on Surveillance Pricing
#privacy #surveillance #capitalism #news #technology

https://www.insideprivacy.com/state-privacy/new-jersey-enacts-ban-on-surveillance-pricing/

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
#privacy #surveillance #flock #technology

https://www.404media.co/do-not-mention-alpr-usage-how-cops-are-trying-to-hide-the-existence-of-flock/

CISA Publishes Open Source Security Guidance: Verifiability Is the Difference
On 30 July 2026, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices, a 31-page guidance document for federal civilian agencies. It is available at no cost and marked TLP:CLEAR, meaning it may be shared without restriction.

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https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/04/cisa-os-security-guidance/
#LibreOffice #Technology

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“BREAKING: S․T․O․P․ Argues Texas App Store Accountability Act Should Be Struck

⌗Surveillance

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#Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day – A #Hero for the #Surveillance State?

At first, #Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks like another emotional #superhero #story. Peter Parker has lost everything. No one remembers him, not even MJ. He searches for his #identity while trying to protect #NewYork. The #film spends much of its time on #trauma, #loneliness, and #mental #health.

But behind this personal story lies a political #message. The film presents mass surveillance as something necessary and even heroic. This is where the #movie becomes much more interesting—and much more troubling.

Spider-Man uses powerful surveillance #technology to watch the city. He collects video from many security cameras. He scans every face to find criminals. Even the #police admit that this is probably #illegal. Still, the film treats these actions as acceptable because Spider-Man is one of the "good guys."

This idea has a long #history in popular culture. The strongest comparison is George Orwell's 1984. #Orwell imagined a #society where every citizen is watched. Surveillance is presented as a tool for #security, but it destroys #freedom. In Brand New Day, the situation is different because Spider-Man is a hero, not a dictator. Yet the basic question remains the same: Who watches the watchers? If one person can see everyone, who controls that person?

The film never really asks this #question. Instead, it assumes that surveillance is good as long as the right people #control it. This is one of its biggest #weaknesses.

Another interesting comparison is The Dark Knight. In Christopher Nolan's film, #Batman creates a machine that can monitor every mobile phone in Gotham. Lucius Fox calls it too dangerous because it gives one person unlimited power. Batman agrees. He uses the system only once to catch the #Joker and then destroys it immediately.

Brand New Day takes a very different approach. Spider-Man's surveillance technology is not treated as a #moral #problem. Instead, it becomes a normal #tool of #crime fighting. The ethical debate that makes The Dark Knight so powerful is almost completely missing.

The transcript also compares Spider-Man's work with modern surveillance technology. Peter Parker works closely with the Department of Damage Control and helps collect huge amounts of personal data. The review argues that this creates a positive image of a close relationship between #government institutions and powerful technology companies.

This makes the film feel surprisingly modern. Today, governments and private companies collect enormous amounts of digital information. Cameras, facial recognition, smartphones and artificial #intelligence make surveillance easier than ever before. The movie reflects this reality but rarely questions it.

One of the most interesting contradictions is #PeterParker himself. He wants #privacy for his own life. He hides his identity and wants to escape public attention. At the same time, he watches everyone else and scans thousands of faces. The film never fully explores this contradiction.

This creates an uncomfortable message. Privacy seems important for the hero but less important for ordinary citizens.

The citizens themselves hardly have a voice. They mostly watch, cheer and accept Spider-Man's actions without #discussion. They never decide whether they want to live in such a #society. They simply #trust the hero.

As #entertainment, Spider-Man: Brand New Day offers impressive visuals and emotional performances. However, its political ideas deserve much more attention. The film normalizes mass surveillance while presenting it as an act of kindness and #responsibility. It replaces difficult ethical questions with emotional storytelling.

Unlike 1984, it does not warn us about surveillance. Unlike The #DarkKnight, it does not seriously question its use. Instead, it asks the #audience to trust the hero completely.

That may be the film's most surprising message. The greatest danger is not an #evil government forcing surveillance on its people. The greater danger is that we willingly accept surveillance because it is carried out by someone we like.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day succeeds as an emotional superhero #drama. As a political film, however, it raises fascinating questions without giving convincing answers.

#cinema #criticism #fail #ethics #future #cybersecurity #ice #palantir #homelandsecurity #america #nyc #ny #humanity #humanrights #marvel #news #politics #policestate #police #bigbrother #propaganda #lawandorder #justice

"He had searched her car hundreds of times over a span of about 13 months, sometimes dozens of times a week, the audit records showed. Many of his searches were made between midnight and 4 a.m." Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, and @AaronJSchaffer for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/?src=longreads #surveillance #technology #investigation #journalism #longreads

Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner’s internet connection with strangers. If that sounds like a hijacking risk, it is. @Techcrunch has more on what Samsung is doing about it:

https://flip.it/GmDY3O

#Tech #Samsung #Technology

What sort of surveillance technology are YOUR local police using against you?

https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

#Surveillance #Technology #Website #Tech

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S․T․O․P․'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC․

Register here: us02w…”

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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194

This sounds bad. 😬

"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...

More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.

They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.

Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."

#AI #Stocks #tech #technology #SouthKorea #economy #bubble

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Our Communications Director, Will Owen, spoke with Vox about neighborhood surveillance.

"Being a good neighbor does not mean spying on your neighbors. We need to rethink neighborhood surveillance."

Read the full story ...”

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🤖 You can now block many #AI websites & content from your search engine results!

✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source #Adblocker to your #browser: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"

✅ Step 3 - Add this list there & apply: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list.txt

🥳 Done 🥳

PS Opted for the oldschool #guide look, hope you like it too <3

#artificialintelligence #ublockorigin #tech #technology #foss #opensource #ki #web

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A visual guide on how to install the uBlock Origin (uBO) plugin to a browser and then add an AI Blocklist to Ublock's filters.

If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine.

Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem…

https://wiby.org

#web #internet #online #RetroComputing #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #computing #IT #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

The thing that helps make a TV programme great is when its not quite like anything you've seen before.... and having now watched the whole series of Ann Dorid, it is that thing.

It balances both humour & compassion about loneliness in old age, and the fickleness of families; Its a comedy tour-de-force with a real understanding of the plight of those in their latter years.

I cannot recommend it highly enough - just brilliant!

#AnnDroid #humour #TV #technology

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002xhy2/ann-droid

👋 An #introduction. I'm Jessamyn (she/her) an #ExtremelyOnline #GenX #librarian and #technology educator. I care a lot about the #DigitalDivide and #accessibility

I live in #rural #vermont am a #civics #nerd and an elected #JusticeofthePeace

I used to own #MetaFilter and help run #MLTSHP

I like #moss #wikipedia #trivia #birds #scrabble #antiracist librarianship and practical #anarchism

- Reading list
https://glammr.us/deck/@jessamyn/115839891017442334
- Wikipedia work
https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/115849719781135830

Just happy to be here

In April, NASA turned off one of the few remaining functional instruments. They have been slowly disabling them since 1998, because of limited power/use at various ranges.

Think about that for a moment…

It launched almost 50 years ago, in 1977. And we are STILL able to communicate with it. Expectedly until 2036. And this with our technology knowledge at the time.

Unless it collides with something or is retrieved, it will reach the Oort Cloud in about 300 years. It will take about 30k years to pass through it.

All of this blows my mind.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager

#Voyager #Space #NASA #Interstellar #Universe #Technology

Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083599

#HackerNews #cryptography #modelweights #technology #history #innovation

Apple fixed a Hide My Email vulnerability after 404 Media reported that the feature had exposed some users’ real email addresses for about a year. 🍎🔒
The issue highlights the importance of privacy tools receiving timely security fixes to protect user data. 🛡️📧

🔗 https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-hide-my-email-vulnerability-after-404-media-coverage/

#TechNews #Apple #iPhone #iOS #Privacy #Security #EmailPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DataProtection #Technology #DigitalRights #Encryption #FOSS #Internet #OpenSource

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure, lawsuits over child safety mount.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The families are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as 'years of escalating harms.'"

https://flip.it/H7Nxzd

#SocialMedia #Tech #Technology

Why OOXML-Based Suites Handle ODF Badly
The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling?

The two most obvious answers are these: vendors have neglected the format, treating it
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/31/why-ooxml-based-suites-handle-odf-badly/
#LibreOffice #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards #Technology

This is one of the best ideas I have ever had.

#SysadminLife #organization #technology

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USB sticks which I’ve strung multicoloured letter beads onto, like the ten-year-old I am, identifying these as containing Hyper-V 2016, NUC drivers, Ubuntu 22.04.

New post: The Pipe and the Voice

https://lanie.work/technology/the-pipe-and-the-voice/

#Disability #Ai #Writing #Accessibility #Caregiving #Assistive-Technology #Personal #Technology

Thinking about how much "privacy" is actually just a lack of processing power.

We worry about the big, scary surveillance headlines—the "backdoor" searches and the massive dragnet programs—and those are absolutely worth the fight. But the real shift lately? It’s the "Commercial Data Loophole." Why bother hacking into someone’s device when you can just buy their location history and digital footprint from a third-party data broker for a few bucks?

The intelligence community is moving fast with tools like "Osiris" to churn through open-source data, and the line between public, private, and state-acquired data is blurring to the point of disappearing. We’re being profiled by our own habits, and the government doesn't even need a warrant to see the receipts.

Technology is moving faster than our ethics or our laws. We need to stop treating digital privacy like a "nice to have" and start treating it like a core democratic requirement. The Fourth Amendment shouldn't have a price tag.

#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Technology #InfoSec

California startup Satyress has unveiled a centaur-inspired robot designed for dangerous environments.

Standing 6 feet tall, the four-legged robot is built for wildfires, collapsed structures, and toxic zones.

Its quick-swap wrists can equip human tools like a chainsaw, drill, and more.

#Robotics #AI #Technology

@therealitynetwork #Technology has a smaller role to play with the basics to talk (we had it long before).

When admin's and user's mindsets have not changed (largely the same when you try talking with them) not much improves with software-only development (not people dev).

Example: Hard for admins / friends to try reduce #Playstation-#Linux after reaching peak tech and seeing the need to move on to #humanising the whole tree / talking deeper online.

They are not interested / non-human almost.

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

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"Some big changes are underway in the personal computing world and if you do home or office computing it behooves you to pay attention to them. In some respects they may return us to the industry we last knew in the previous millennium." https://ofb.biz/sa1445

#RetroComputing #RAMmageddon #technology #os2

US Military letting it's soldiers wear Meta Pervert Glasses and only now considering the Infosec risk of it...

#SmartGlasses #IranWar #USMilitary #Technology #Infosec

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A service member's Meta smart glasses recorded footage posted to Instagram showing troops evacuating to a bunker during the July 17 attack — the kind of open-source exposure, Cooper wrote, that forced Trump to defend the war publicly before the Pentagon could control the narrative.

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“"Although Flock cameras are often referred to as license plate readers, that's reductive. Reading license plates is their primary task, but they can be used to track just about anyone or anything."

#Surveillance #Camera...”

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📰 #Law & #Technology updates from https://law.yale.edu/isp

“Read the fascinating new piece “Security Is Not Enough: Privacy in Encryption Regulation and Lawful-Surveillance Protocols” by ISP Fellow @arturpericles.art: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3788646.3789535”

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Spending too much time on your phone? Just rely on your willpower. And when that fails in about three seconds, consider trying a cheap physical key to lock those addicting apps and get back to more important things. How it works: Physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to locked apps. Kind of like hiding the ice cream behind the frozen peas in your freezer. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/4bOscW

#Tech #Devices #Technology

Someone asked in an activism group I was in: “What’s the best way to remove metadata from photos?” And one answer was: “Take a screenshot.”

And you know what, it’s hard to argue with that. You lose resolution and quality each time you do it. But everyone knows how to take a screenshot and crop it, and it really does remove metadata.

It *has* to be simpler for people to be sure that their shared photo has no metadata they don’t intend to share. Like, “simpler than a screenshot” simple.

#technology #privacy

New post: One Accommodation at a Time

https://lanie.work/technology/one-accommodation-at-a-time/

#Accessibility #Disability #Apple #Dictation #Multiple-Disabilities #Technology

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe #live #technology #lisp #podcast every week since 2022. #ARCHIVED

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Floating point numbers in ANSI CL very lightly and what people are talking about on irc.

@cwebber 's vibrating bobsled #ai article, #emacs and a Canadian sociologist falling for her "research ai boyfriend"
https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/whats-it-like-having-an-ai-boyfriend-2-waterloo-researchers-decided-to-find-out-9.7281399

Talking about the state of #zine issue 0 (released tuesday-in-america no-matter-what) #peertube #fedi

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A very spooky green lisp alien lispy gopher show banner, with the gopher looking on from behind.

Last month’s earthquakes in Venezuela killed over 5,000 people and another 16,000 injured. Rescuers from around the world not only used trained dogs, seismic and acoustic listening devices, and thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of survivors, but also snakebots equipped with a video camera to slither into tight spaces that other machinery or humans couldn’t get into. Read more from @ArsTechnica:

https://flip.it/8H8vfZ

#Tech #Robots #Technology

A robot powered by Qualcomm's new AI chip unexpectedly shut down during a live presentation.

The demonstration came to an abrupt halt after the robot suddenly stopped functioning, creating an awkward moment during the event.

While the exact cause has not been disclosed, the incident serves as a reminder that even cutting-edge AI hardware can encounter unexpected technical issues during live demos.

#Qualcomm #AI #Robotics #Technology #GeekRealmHub

Leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE’s fingertips in the U.S.

@404mediaco reports: https://flip.it/lGcEP2

#ICE #Privacy #Technology

It's been said a lot that tech people tend to think that every problem can be solved with a tech solution, and that that is often a wrong approach that ignores social dynamics and systemic causes.

That's true, but I can think of at least one problem here on the Fediverse that really, really needs a tech solution!

That being hashtags.

The whole point of hashtags is that you can tag your content with concepts it relates to, so that others who are interested in said concepts can discover your content.

Ideally, a hashtag should therefore contain all posts relating to the concept, and should not contain any posts unrelated to the concept. This is not the case.

The problem is that hashtags are plain text only. This causes two kinds of issues:

• False positives: One hashtag is used for multiple separate concepts, grouping unrelated concepts together.
• False negatives: Multiple hashtags are used for the same concept, meaning you might miss posts of a concept you want to see.

Common examples for false positives are homonyms (seating bank vs. financial bank, video games vs. board games), abbreviations (CNC, BBC, MTF), and multilingual issues (German handy vs. English handy).

False negatives are much, much more common, even. You're missing out on synonyms (horses vs. equines), grammatical and regional variations (colouring vs. coloring, horse vs. horses) and scope issues (gaming vs. games vs. video games) at least. Also, the whole thing about 'dogsOfMastodon' versus 'dogs'.

If you add to it that the Fediverse is multi-lingual, this is getting exponentially worse. If a German account posts about dogs using the hashtag 'Hund' (or Hunde, Hundes, Hunds, Hundi, Wauwau, Köter, Welpe, Welpen...), someone subscribed to the English hashtag 'dogs' should probably also see that post.

Rather than plain text which has all of these issues, a hashtag should therefore point at an individual unique ID of a concept, unique and unambiguous across all languages and grammatical forms.

Someone should be able to subscribe to the concept of a horse – the equine animal – and not just the letters 'horse' in that order!

That might sound daunting – who has a database of all concepts in the world? – but structured data actually is a super old problem that has been talked about for ages! The semantic web has it figured out.

Wikidata is an open data source for unique concepts, doing exactly what we'd need. Obviously it's easier said than done, but 'all' that the Fediverse needs to do is replace or extend hashtags with a system that allows you to link a Wikidata concept by UUID. And figure out what to do with things that don't have such a UUID yet, and how to handle UX. But it would be a vast improvement over plain-text hashtags.

I don't really want this post to just die in the ether, tbh, as posts are wont to do. I'd like to actually make this a thing. Is there anyone out there who knows what an implementation of this would take? I'd love to help (computational linguist).

#tech #technology #Fediverse #activityPub #socialMedia #hashtags #semanticWeb #wikiData #mastodon #goToSocial #fediSoftware #fediDev #fediDevelopers #fediDeveloperVerse #accessibility

New post: Knowing Where Your Window Is: A Small NVDA Add-on That Fills a JAWS Gap

https://lanie.work/technology/windowstate-nvda-add-on/

#Accessibility #Disability #Nvda #Screen-Reader #Assistive-Tech #Windows #Technology

How many ways can we spell out fascist totalitarian dictatorship before American normies realize it’s happening?

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips

There needs to be more ICE doxxing. These people need to be exposed and publicly berated. They should lose their friends and be ostracized by their families.

A dictatorship can’t function unless it has subservient lackeys. If we reduce the pool of candidates through shame and humiliation, it reduces the harm that can be done.

#ICE #ICEOut #Surveillance #Privacy #Technology

Keeping it real(-ish)

https://lucire.com/insider/20260723/keeping-it-real-ish/ #OpEd #publishing #BTS #BehindTheScenes #history #book #Scotland #technology

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Ali Ray on a drywall in a misty landscape evocative of Scotland.

If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in #Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

#Privacy #ageverification #IDverification #Study #Data #Science #Survey #Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Internet #Censorship #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #Surveillance

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Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf Percent of banned 14-15-year olds (b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026 Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

#Technology has lost my interest at large.

I was interested in technology, because it was helping people. But today I see most of the technologies that were promised to help people, being used to merely to make money, and to help the powerful oppress the powerless.

Also good technologies that help people are banned, and bad technologies that help fascists are promoted. Undemocratically also, it seems.

Ps.
@EUCommission I'm looking at you and #chatcontrol .You're part of the problem.

#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast since 2022 discussion with the #FSF scientist #gopher @bandali (subscribe to their new #snac instance! - boost for this please)

https://toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bhh5f2iT

#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman

Joined by schemacs #emacs implementor @ramin_hal9001 !

I have a stock of questions. If you think you don't know who bandali is check his monthly software release blog.

Major theme is https://human-emacs.org/ and #LLM #AI, #linux, #lisp, the #future

#lambdaMOO

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Lispy gopher climate emphasis gopher !

Did we, the Public, even ask for this shit? Or is it being imposed on us?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enough-water-for-uks-datacentre-plans-trade-body-says

#DataCentres #UKPol #UKPolitics #AI #Technology #Environment #Democracy

Pixel: a biography

An exact mathematical concept, pixels are the elementary particles of pictures, based on a subtle unpacking of infinity

By Alvy Ray Smith, Edited by Nigel Warburton

https://aeon.co/essays/a-biography-of-the-pixel-the-elementary-particle-of-pictures?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=34b5c1e05b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_05_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

#books #technology #ComputerScience

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A pixel does not need to be rendered as a small square. This image shows alternative ways of reconstructing an image from a set of pixel values, using dots, lines, or smooth filtering. Three panels showing image reconstruction/rendering at increasing resolution: (left) a coarse dotted/pixelated pattern of a "Z"-like shape, (middle) a finer striped/dithered version, (right) a smooth, high-resolution photo-like curve — illustrating progressive image reconstruction from low to high pixel density.

New post: I Built a Word Predictor for NVDA Because the Existing One Didn't Work for Me

https://lanie.work/technology/wordpredictor-nvda-add-on/

#Accessibility #Disability #Nvda #Screen-Reader #Assistive-Tech #Autism #Chronic-Illness #Technology

"#Buildings tell us about the #art, #technology, and #economics of the eras that produced them. But they also carry human #stories — the #architects, #engineers, #entrepreneurs, #patrons, and communities who imagined and built them. #Scholars have never identified a #Jewish style of architecture. #StanleyTigerman, a generation later and the grandchild of Eastern #European Jewish #immigrants, broke directly into #Chicago’s top firms without needing that workaround. He spent a career trying to find a Jewish style of architecture, tracing lines all the way back to #SolomonsTemple in his 1988 #book Architecture of Exile — and admitted the connection was “a real stretch.” There isn’t one. What there is instead is something more interesting: #Jews living across different eras who helped shape the urban landscape around them while navigating questions of identity, opportunity, community, and belonging. This column will explore those #stories."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/chicagos-jewish-history-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/

Cloudflare launched Precursor, replacing many CAPTCHA checks with continuous behavioral analysis of mouse, typing, scrolling, and browser activity. 🖱️
The system aims to detect advanced bots while raising fresh privacy concerns over persistent session monitoring despite limited data collection. 🔒

🔗 https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/cloudflare-precursor-bot-detection/

#TechNews #Cloudflare #Privacy #CAPTCHA #BotDetection #WebSecurity #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Technology #Browser #AI #Internet #Security

LAPD will let its Flock Safety surveillance contract expire, citing unresolved civil liberties, privacy, and data-sharing concerns. 🚓
The decision follows broader scrutiny of license plate tracking over false matches, security lapses, and expanding surveillance risks. 🔒

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #LAPD #FlockSafety #CivilLiberties #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #DigitalRights #Security #Technology #DataProtection #Transparency #GovTech

This Sunday-morning-in-europe I am just going to briefly opine on Minsky and Papert's #Perceptrons ( #bookstodon ) and leak disspiriting nz government secrets about how nz's #AI #strategy is going by way of illustration (and #original #news #journalism I guess), from a multifarious handful of senior employees from different regions and departments / crown corporations.

https://toobnix.org/w/ayXvcND3PWuHVqB3gx9Ngm

#commonLisp on #irc #live #liveNOW

#lispyGopherClimate ! Every week since 2022 #technology #podcast .

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The lispy gopher climate banner featuring a post with Erik Sandewall's face on it and "MAKE AI THINK". Amoung things, gophers, lisp aliens.

LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-TVs-and-monitors-said-to-surveil-users-and-install-bloatware-without-asking.1345261.0.html

> Anyone who owns an LG smart TV must inform all guests and family members that they are being monitored – this is required by LG’s current terms of use. Meanwhile, LG monitors install potential malware and surveillance software on a connected Windows computer.

#technology #IoT #privacy #infosec

It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
#google #privacy #eu #ai #technology

https://share.google/dRxYCBqupwRQI8Nr5

Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are:

https://flip.it/CmOGtT
https://flip.it/2n8E4_

#Technology #MadisonSquareGarden #JimDolan