soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
There will be those who won't know or care until the bullshit bites them in the ass personally, and until then "AI is awesome!"
" #Meta Platforms is facing a federal #lawsuit in the #UnitedStates after 26 current and former #employees alleged that the company used #AI-assisted tools during a major round of #layoffs in a way that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions, #disabilities, or those on protected medical or #familyLeave"
A first look at Alvin has been revealed as part of the Alvin and the Chipmunks comeback announcement.
New co-owners Big Shot Pictures say they'll use cutting-edge technology across their animated projects. Ahead of the next film, The Chipmunks are also expected to appear online "almost like influencers."
The studio is also actively hiring talent with experience in generative AI workflows.
What do you think of this new direction?
George Lucas believes AI is the future of filmmaking.
Speaking to A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas said AI will make it much easier to create movies, adding:
“There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”
He compared AI to the arrival of the automobile, arguing that every major technological shift faces skepticism before becoming part of everyday life.
Do you agree with him?
The evidence is clear: America's patent system is doing exactly what it's designed to do. Section 101 consistently protects genuine innovation while preventing monopolies on basic ideas. Federal Circuit affirmance rates of 85.3% for district courts and 95.5% for the USPTO, with judges unanimous in 93.5% of cases, show that it’s predictable, stable, and fueling US leadership in #AI and innovation. https://ccianet.org/news/2026/07/ccia-testified-at-senate-judiciary-hearing-on-patent-system-supporting-innovation-emerging-technologies-like-ai/
FYI: Advertisers face mandatory AI ad labels across Google's five platforms: Labels Google's AI tools apply automatically cannot be removed, as the setting reaches five ad products this month, ahead of EU enforcement starting August 2. https://ppc.land/advertisers-face-mandatory-ai-ad-labels-across-googles-five-platforms/ #AI #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds
Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/
The following passage from David Brook's article 'The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age' in @TheAtlantic strongly resonates with me:
The remark “artificial intelligence could do it in five minutes” is not actually about speed. “It’s about a moral re-evaluation. It assumes that what matters is the result, not the effort; the image, not the act of seeing; the product, not the person who becomes capable of creating it.”
OpenAI's first device will likely be a portable speaker, according to a new report which thinks it could "play media, answer questions" and "respond to messages." Erm...that sounds a lot like Amazon's Alexa.
@cultofmac explains just what might be in store:
Post-quantum cryptography: preparing for the unknown #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/post-quantum-cryptography-preparing-for-the-unknown/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
FYI: Taboola turns 7 million DeeperDive users into ad inventory for any chatbot: The company now lets outside AI answer engines and chatbots plug into its 9,000-publisher ad demand network, raising monetization questions for the industry. https://ppc.land/taboola-turns-7-million-deeperdive-users-into-ad-inventory-for-any-chatbot/ #AdTech #Chatbots #AI #DigitalMarketing #Advertising
High tech, low life: the cyberpunk world #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/high-tech-low-life-the-cyberpunk-world/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
What the future appears to look like under #AI if you are disabled, pregnant or get injured.
I always used to find those #Meta adverts about the future sinister…and now I know why:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit
🎙️ Have you heard of the Kylie Jenner x #MetaAI glasses? Our data protection lawyer Kleanthi Sardeli was on the radio earlier today to talk about the privacy implications of this new type of "wearable surveillance".
Listen here 👉 https://fm4.orf.at/sendung/1017109/morning-show?j=7828731 #Meta #AI #Kylie
Teaser in TL: "The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public"
My head: And rightfully so.
https://futurism.com/future-society/backlash-meta-pervert-glasses-afraid
#lispyGopherClimate 0UTC Wednesday Tuesday night in the Americas #live in 20 minutes! Every week since 2022.
https://toobnix.org/w/kpHBVncEKo6MaBqgRPYDkf
with @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001
#climateCrisis #haiku by kmp
I have fermi estimated a solution to the climate crisis.
- I wrote an #emacs mode #ickleMode (orgbabel #ecl) https://codeberg.org/screwlisp/ickle
- @technomancy 's anti-LLM https://human-emacs.org/
- + its well-state #AI goalposts
- Kent's Yale T #scheme https://github.com/netsettler/netsettlement
#Livechat in #lambdaMOO #VR ! #lisp
How do you prove an AI agent's audit log was not altered, before EU AI Act Article 12?
You prove it with cryptography, not permissions. Each record is signed the moment it is written, so an auditor can verify mathematically that nothing was changed, added or deleted, without trusting the operator's word.
https://mickai.co.uk/articles/prove-ai-agent-audit-log-untampered-ai-act-article-12
#SovereignAI #AI #DataSovereignty #PostQuantum #AIgovernance
Hey Windows (ab)users, Microsoft has a big present for you: Today they released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in their Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Ah, but there's a catch: AI is also speeding up the discovery of workable exploits.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/
#Cloudflare #Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human
https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/cloudflare-precursor-bot-detection/
Now, defenders are embracing the #PromptInjection, too
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/
Behind YouTube: Hurley, Chen, and Karim #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-youtube-hurley-chen-and-karim/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
boostedIn case this has eluded you, Meta's natural gas powered $13 billion AI data centre in Sturgeon Country north of Edmonton uses up nearly as much power each day as the entire city of Calgary (1.1B GW) or Edmonton (1.2B GW).
Plus, it uses up more water a day than all of Sturgeon County.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #ai #climate #climatechange #climatejustice #gas
Scam victimology: why did they pick me? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/scam-victimology-why-did-they-pick-me/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Is AI coming for our jobs?
200 economists and AI leaders have warned that AI may bring forth "an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution." Founder and editor of Platformer @caseynewton goes through the facts and provides context to help us better understand what affect AI is having on jobs right now.
PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that helps local AI models understand documents by analyzing screenshots instead of relying only on extracted text.
It preserves tables, charts, diagrams, and page layouts for more accurate retrieval, and can run locally with your own PDFs and webpages.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pixelrag
"The oldest principles in security—auditing, logging, isolation, least privilege—matter more than ever now that actions happen at machine speed, not human speed."—Artem Dinaburg, our chief scientist, on Silver Bullet ep 158.
The full pod covers why prompt injection has no clean fix, how we rebuilt our audits around agents, and why decompilers should work more like language translators.
https://berryvilleiml.com/2026/07/01/silver-bullet-security-podcast-158-artem-dinaburg/
Dave Winer, RSS and the rise of blogging #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/dave-winer-rss-and-the-rise-of-blogging/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Women who shaped vulnerability disclosure #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/women-who-shaped-vulnerability-disclosure/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is deploying #AI facial recognition in their stores.
It’s used for profiling.
“The system takes images of customers and runs them against a “watchlist,” a database of people who have previously been identified after “causing harm in some way,” said Chris Ochs, who works at SAFR at RealNetworks, the AI company that created SAFR Guard, the security system being used at Grocery Outlet. If there is a match, a phone notification is sent to the retailer using the system.”
#california #sfba #surveillance
https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-grocery-outlet-facial-recognition/
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964
the Ellisons’ #Oracle mafia are behind
- the killing of CBS tv and radio
- the #Paramount - #WarnerBrothers merger
- more than 30,000 laid-off tech workers since 2025
- the #Stargate capitalist welfare grift that includes #NVidia #OpenAI #Softbank
- the herpes-like spread of ecocidal data centers
if you’ve been waiting for a sign of the #AI implosion, this is the official beginning.
Oracle has its tentacles are all over the #aislop push. now their stock is junk.
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
#CloudComputing #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #Oracle #Rechenzentrum #Wirtschaft #news
How We’re Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era
https://redditinc.com/news/how-were-keeping-reddit-real-and-safe-in-the-ai-era
…
― Blocking 23 million spam views per day before they ever reach a human user.
― Catching ~25K net new spammy posts and comments a day.
― Reducing spam exposure for our users by ~20% from January to March 2026, relative to the prior three months and an additional 10–15% drop in overall spam account exposure.
― Revoking nearly 2M inauthentic votes per day over the last three months.
…
Not typically a fan of Rabbi Ruttenberg, but this is an interesting, provocative thought-piece.
"Nobody would think twice about demanding a #reasonableaccommodation if #corporations asked #Jews to start violating #Shabbat or partaking of the #pork BBQ at the #company retreat against their own practice. And while I would not demand that every #Jew request such an #accommodation (for Shabbat or keeping #kosher), they should absolutely have that option available, even if their #religious practice is a work in progress. So too, here.
And despite seeing many people (including religious Jews!) eliding the moral and religious issues around #AI because "that train has already left the station," we should make choices based on whether they are right or wrong. Also, it's a fallacy: Movements grow from dissent."
https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-case-for-ai-work-exemptions/
What is Q-Day, and how do you prepare an AI system for it?
Q-Day is the day a quantum computer can break today's public-key cryptography. You prepare an AI system by inventorying your cryptography, signing new records with post-quantum signatures, running hybrid schemes, building crypto-agility, and re-signing long-lived data before that day arrives.
https://mickai.co.uk/articles/what-is-q-day-and-how-do-you-prepare-ai-for-it
#SovereignAI #AI #DataSovereignty #PostQuantum #AIgovernance
Maybe computers were a big mistake. Because people are stupid. If you’re going to be a pro AI nutcase, at least don’t write about it.
https://bsky.app/profile/theradr.bsky.social/post/3mqjxftronc24
Article: https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-case-for-ai-work-exemptions/
"You can’t devote your life to mastering the art of scanning or unpacking cages in the same way as a craftsman devotes themselves to blade-making or weaving. We face a dearth of complex and meaningful jobs." —Joshua Habgood-Coote for Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand?src=longreads #technology #nostalgia #philosophy #artificialintelligence #ai #crafts #longreads
People who protest, people who show the fuck up to city council meetings, people who write letters and make calls, people who organize, are achieving victories all over the US. One data center after another is getting canceled, one ICE "warehouse" concentration camp after another. We've forced the mutiny of preverts to backtrack and change tactics. We've beaten them in court countless times.
We get to choose victory or defeat.
Seniors know they're watching AI slop but they still like it anyway. Viola Zhou writes for @restofworld and explores how AI-generated content is providing comfort and companionship for older adults.
https://flip.it/DIs8PO
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem.
From @NewScientist (registration may be required): https://flip.it/_V6E9W
The digital mind: how technology shapes mental health #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-digital-mind-how-technology-shapes-mental-health/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
New post: One AI, One Life, One Room
https://lanie.work/technology/one-ai-one-life-one-room/
#Accessibility #Disability #Ai #Cognitive-Prosthetic #Workflow #Technology
ICYMI: Taboola turns 7 million DeeperDive users into ad inventory for any chatbot: The company now lets outside AI answer engines and chatbots plug into its 9,000-publisher ad demand network, raising monetization questions for the industry. https://ppc.land/taboola-turns-7-million-deeperdive-users-into-ad-inventory-for-any-chatbot/ #Taboola #AdTech #Chatbots #AI #Monetization
Organized cybercrime: the rise of cybercrime syndicates #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-rise-of-cybercrime-syndicates/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
From concept to reality: what is AI? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/from-concept-to-reality-what-is-ai/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
#Meta removes controversial #AI feature on #Instagram after backlash
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/
Reviewe Lumo 2.0 : Proton's privacy-focused AI assistant, to see how it compares with ChatGPT and Claude.
The review covers its strengths, limitations, privacy claims, and whether it's ready for everyday use.
Read the review: https://digitalescapetools.com/reviews/lumo-2-0-review.html
New Swiss magazine with "Ohne KI" (No #AI) on the cover.
Nice to see some publishers openly resisting.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft and breach of contract. The accusations come as OpenAI is rumored to be developing its first hardware product, which would likely compete with the iPhone. Read more details from @Techcrunch:
Google adds How this ad was made AI labels 24 days before EU deadline: The panel covers Search, YouTube and Discover ads edited with generative AI tools, arriving weeks before EU rules force synthetic content disclosure globally. https://ppc.land/google-adds-how-this-ad-was-made-ai-labels-24-days-before-eu-deadline/ #Google #AI #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #EULaws