Human rights group have grown extremely concerned over a future where robot soldiers fight the wars. But a startup founded in 2024 is racing to create humanoid robots that will automate factory work, build futuristic mega-cities, and, most strikingly, wage the wars of tomorrow. “It is so backwards that people in the Western world somehow have this disease of thinking that humanoid robots holding a gun is like as bad as a nuclear weapon,” Foundation Future Industries co-founder Sankaet Pathak says. Read more from @Independent:

https://flip.it/olQkX_

#AI #Robots #War

tall tales

#technomage #comic #mastoart #penguin #linux #openblade #ai #unix_surrealism

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girl, penguin, and openblade are eating sandwiches. openblade tells a story. openblade: "and then the govcorp was all like: 'if you dont use ai, you support the chinese union!' and the kids were all like: 'what did china ever do to us?' it was hilarious."

"Starting Sunday in #EU, #AI #chatbots, receptionists, #media must reveal they are not human"

https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/02/starting-sunday-eu-ai-chatbots-receptionists-media-must-reveal-human

This is excellent

But:

Laws require enforcement

Or they are just feel-good declarations that rot the rule of law: a corpus of laws without bite means the law has no meaning. A dangerous precedent

So *how* do we fight AI. Especially on #socialMedia

You have to understand it's an existential threat. Not to #Mastodon/ #Fediverse, but *all* social media... all media

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an abstract image of "AI"

🤖 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.

The #OpenAI and #Anthropic #AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New #Legal Frontier

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-ai-hacking-sprees-illegal/

#cybersecurity #law

slop killers

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #9front #ai #technomage

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slop killers glenda and cirno with an ak47 in a coat and a jean baudrillard t-shirt

There are many cases of end users who are totally ignorant in LLM use cases

I've been able to educate one with success

When she realized that before her one query

• many megawatts were used to create the training regimen of the model
• Peta Bytes of copyrighted information was blatantly stolen without regard to ownership
• in turn sold for profit to companies
• while getting end users addicted to using them

...She realized what Destruction she was causing, on a Global Scale because she knows personally what Global Warming does in her Area of the Country were flooding regularly occurs due to Climate Shifts

@rl_dane

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding #weather #climate #change

The “Insta-Wellness” Scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-insta-wellness-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The relaunch of BreachForums #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-relaunch-of-breachforums/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@EUCommission

Exactly this! Great job European Commission!

#eu #AI #aislop #fake

LATAM Open Source Communities #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/latam-open-source-communities/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@RichardJMurphy AI awareness is good:

3 things:

1/ YES many people might not get how bad #AI is and how different it is to just using a #pencil or #dictionary (in #RichardMurphy's words)...

1/ Richard's #AI #disclaimer:

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/#gsc.tab=0

"...#Substack introduced a rule requiring authors on the site to disclose whether they use AI in the production of their work.

I have to say, I find that requirement very strange."

2/ #Link to post (same small pic):

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/01/infographic-marxism/#gsc.tab=1

Aaron Swartz and RSS #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/aaron-swartz-and-rss/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Someone had #AI render this music video, which gives a basic outline of the entire Bible, from start to end.

#video #AIvideo

download HQ version | http://filsofia.com/share/20260801-Bible-story-from-beginning-to-end.mp4

#Bible #Jesus #God

Open AI CEO Sam Altman shared a “cool use case” with his post describing how parents could prompt ChatGPT for ways to connect with their kids. One response: “Why don’t you just talk to your children?” @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/qaV2Ms

#AI #Tech #Parenting

#OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok/

#cybersecurity #AI

The Deep State narrative #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-deep-state-narrative/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The #CHATBOTAct Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-act-forces-one-parenting-model-every-family

#privacy #AI

High school defends staying silent while boys made #AI nudes of 59 classmates

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/high-school-defends-staying-silent-while-boys-made-ai-nudes-of-59-classmates/

#privacy #nudify #deepfake #nsfw

#Anthropic’s #Opus5 Is Better at Resisting #PromptInjection

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/anthropics-opus-5-is-better-at-resisting-prompt-injection.html

#cybersecurity #AI

Hacker uses #DeepSeek #AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-uses-deepseek-ai-to-autonomously-attack-vulnerable-servers/

#cybersecurity

Phishing early detection: the warning signs #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/phishing-early-detection-the-warning-signs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Internet subcultures: Scambaiters #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-scambaiters/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Why quantum computing exists #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/why-quantum-computing-exists/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Good job, @404mediaco !

#AI #books #slop

https://www.404media.co/ai-company-training-scanning-books-database-isbndb/

Why some Mississauga councillors are pushing to pausing [sic] data centre builds https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/why-some-mississauga-councillors-are-pushing-to-pausing-data-centre-builds-9.7293344 #AI #LLM #GTA #Mississauga #Toronto

Behind 4chan: Christopher “moot” Poole #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-4chan-christopher-moot-poole/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Toronto's request for provincewide data centre framework not enough, moratorium needed, some residents say https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-city-council-data-centres-ontario-framework-moratorium-9.7292434 #Toronto #AI #LLM #Resist

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/

#AI #cybersecurity #LLM

Judge says #Trump admin still lacks evidence for #Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/judge-says-trump-admin-still-lacks-evidence-for-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-label/

#cybersecurity #politics #AI

In the past, the relationship of a website with #Google has been a two-way street. Google indexes a website, it gets to monetize its search results on the index and it sends traffic to websites.

With Google's #AI Overview, Google has gone down the greedy route of making the relationship a one-way street. They get to not only index a website, but also scrape all its contents for use for its AI Overview and feed into its #LLM models, but websites get no traffic.

So: If you don't give me anything, you get nothing.

At some point, I am wondering if other websites will start blocking Googlebots also. Google broke the virtuous cycle and sooner or later they will pay for it.

https://mastodon.cloud/users/slashdot/statuses/117015924337736847

Here’s a job that could potentially see AI replace its current human occupants: scammer. Researchers from four universities carried out a broad study on the use and potential of generative AI chatbots in the growing scam industry centered around text-based romance scams that eventually shift to fake crypto investments that steal as much as six-figure sums from victims. In a nutshell, AI chatbots performed remarkably well. While we wish scams would be a thing of the past, it appears they’re here for the long haul. Read more from @ArsTechnica:

https://flip.it/qDav7v

#Tech #Scams #AI

@yaarur @redsad

the clip was posted 9 years ago so it really is definitive

but i see a future where a company like youtube will mess even with posting dates to fool us

i think we will have a dystopian future where #AI permeates and saturates so much, and plutocrat agendas in charge hold so much abusive power they eagerly wield (like the recent posts about destroying antique books en masse), that we really will have absolutely no idea what is real history and what is not

#Google says #AI helped #Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-says-ai-helped-chrome-fix-1-072-security-bugs-in-two-releases/

#cybersecurity

NiemanLab: AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds. “In June, dozens of journalists, technologists, and academics gathered at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in Manhattan to discuss this growing threat to authentication and verification work. Hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), the day-long workshop […]

The global crack down on cyber-piracy #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-global-crack-down-on-cyber-piracy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Extreme heat puts neighborhoods without green space at disproportionate risk. Thanks to a low-cost #AI tool from @USC researchers, city planners can now quickly map urban tree canopies to pinpoint vulnerable blocks and plant life-saving shade. https://today.usc.edu/usc-researchers-develop-low-cost-ai-tool-to-help-cities-map-urban-tree-canopy/

#OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

https://www.wired.com/story/openais-hacking-debacle-was-a-human-mistake/

#AI #cybersecurity

The Yahoo Boys #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-yahoo-boys/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Cryptography as a tool of power #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-as-a-tool-of-power/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Al wat ouder (2024) maar fijn paper over AI & Software engineering/coding. Zowel voor "believers" als totale sceptici 🙂
"tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764
#AI #softwareengineering #coding #LLM

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How consequences and human oversight affect the level of validation needed . From, https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764

Reminder: Just as with Age ID and Chat Control legislation justifications, the AI build out, the price gauging of memory, storage (and CPU/GPU/SOCs too), the emerging hardware leasing & subscription models — all this is not just driven by generative AI in the form of chatbots, media generators, automation, job replacements, FOMO stories and other "obvious" reasons repeated ad infinitum by CEOs and in the media...

The only way these industry shifts and largest tech investments ever done make any sense (even in the face of the projected severe negative financial returns) is to consider them part of a larger, class-political project of comprehensively centralizing, monitoring/surveilling, renting out, drip-feeding and otherwise controlling future compute resources and access to them. This includes not only pure computation resources, but equally all communication, data & media produced, processed, stored or consumed via these infrastructures. Personal computing is being pushed out and with it privacy and autonomy over your own compute & media resources are going too...

Governments which have been vapidly talking for decades about "Digitization" (and utterly failing) are jumping on rolling out low quality, "good enough" AI services mostly aimed at the working class, allowing govts to maintain existing austerity programs, whilst claiming to be innovative, cutting costs (by pumping billions into overpriced consultancy contracts) and reducing "red tape" (i.e. mostly regulation which was actually beneficial or protecting the population & environment).

The return on these investments is not financial, but mostly political!

As an aside: I see the biggest threads to the fediverse, as self-owned, self-hosted & self-moderated communication space, are not AI bots, nazis or bigtech-owned platforms, but price explosions of the required (and mostly rented) compute infrastructure. In the near future, these ongoing price increases will force more communities to look for alternatives, which will slowly erode this space[1]... Solidarity and crowdfunding are some ways to combat that, but I fear they will only go that far (i.e. not far enough)...

So even when the current AI bubble bursts, this built-up centralized digital architecture will be a key pillar for any authoritarian government (the general trajectory every country is seemingly on, at current...), run in collaboration with oligarch operators whose purposes are served even more so by said infrastructure. At the very least these data centers will be used for vastly increased state surveillance (machine learning hardware/software is uniquely suited for these use cases), at worst to disenfranchise, prosecute & deny entire demographics...

I'd very much like to stand corrected with this, but there are a no publicly available hints to suggest anything drastically different to happen, not with the current breed of politicians and money in play... At least in the EU, all the talk about Digital Sovereignty already has made it clear that it's mostly about building parallel infrastructure to US big tech, but with the exact same anti-democratic bias, justifications, funding structures and neglect of any climate/social considerations. 30 billion Euro investments to create "AI giga factories" and an "AI continent"[2]. Data centers operated by goody, goody European billionaires rather than evil US based ones... How novel and how sovereign!

[1] Related to that I also see the resource-hungry and extremely chatty nature of the ActivityPub protocol and Mastodon itself as primary implementation as large weak points... In order for the fediverse to survive for longer (for the above stated reasons), I think some drastic reconsiderations of existing design decisions are required to achieve a much lower computational footprint & running costs (e.g. storage requirements, consolidation of messages, reducing traffic & worker effort, esp. important for larger accounts or communities etc.)

[2] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117010071572799616

#AI #Politics #PersonalComputing #DigitalSovereignty #LongRead

Women in the early computer underground #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/women-in-the-early-computer-underground/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#AI

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A picture divided vertically into two parts-- Part One Heading: "AI Corporations" A smug looking cartoon face saying, "You cannot stop AI. Resistance is futile." Part Two Heading: "Also AI Corporations" A pink cartoon face, with their own hands pulling down their bottom eye sockets in distress, "Any legislation whatsoever will destroy the ENTIRE INDUSTRY!!!"

Me: Yay the @EUCommission has a new #AISafety team under the #AIAct to make sure #AI is not harmful.

Also me: Oh no, their number 1 core concerns is AI enabling a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack. 🙄

What a waste of public resources.

#ai #experts #linkedin

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Top is picture of Iron Man flying through sky labeled “AI Experts (on LinkedIn)

African Open Source Communities #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/african-open-source-communities/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Hugging Face, an AI dataset platform, was hacked earlier this month by a fully autonomous AI-powered cyberattack. The perpetrator? One of the firm’s own AI models that broke out of a testing environment. @Techcrunch has more on this apparent act of “friendly fire” from the cyberworld:

https://flip.it/ZvOUnz

#Tech #AI #CyberSecurity

CEO voice deepfake scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ceo-voice-deepfake-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

<weeps in American>

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/

#USPOL #AI #Slop

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

🆕 blog! “Are political journalists always wrong?”

I've mostly tuned out of reading the news. But, once in a while, a headline will be shared on social media and I'll momentarily stare into the abyss.

There has recently been a change in UK Prime Minister. I neither know nor care whether that's a good thing. What I do know is that Senior Political…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/are-political-journalists-always-wrong/
⸻
#AI #journalism #LLM #newspapers #politics

Advanced #AI isn't just for massive enterprises anymore. A Gen Alpha innovator has built a smart, automated receptionist that helps small businesses manage customer calls and streamline daily operations, leveling the playing field for Main Street. https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-alpha-founder-ai-receptionist-small-businesses-young-geniuses-2026-6

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

#Anthropic is finding bugs faster than #Microsoft can fix them

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/anthropic-is-finding-bugs-faster-than-microsoft-can-fix-them/

#cybersecurity #AI

Not surprising but worrying, it increases the chance of a hard financial crash of the AI bubble. Which will not only hurt tech companies.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
#AI #bubble #financial #debt

#OpenAI’s Rogue #AI Agent Hacked More Than Just #HuggingFace

https://www.wired.com/story/openais-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-just-hugging-face/

#cybersecurity #DataBreach

#AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/28/ai-found-bugs-arent-proving-any-easier-to-exploit-despite-the-hype/5279637

#cybersecurity

Bits, qubits and quantum rules #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/bits-qubits-and-quantum-rules/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#OpenAI models used #Artifactory zero-days to escape to the internet

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-models-used-artifactory-zero-days-to-escape-to-the-internet/

#HuggingFace #cybersecurity #AI

Programming used to be a mathematical act. But that has not been so for some decades, not since release cycles shrank from once every two years down to inhumanely short intervals. It now appears that mathematics, and indeed creativity, has no place in modern high-frequency CI/CD CRUD-grinding.

But even in this #AI Slop Age, life-critical #engineering work still demands #mathematical reasoning and #professional guarantees, under law. Software now plays a central role in this type of work. And software frailties have reached epidemic levels, from operating system kernels, device drivers, and up. Hence, #verified #programming has become an urgent necessity.

By “verified”, I mean not post hoc but ab initio verification, at every stage of the process: requirements analysis, specifications as propositions, computer assisted proofs, design synthesis, deterministic code transformation.

Many #IT software practitioners maintain that they neither know nor care about mathematics, and that they cannot afford mathematical frolics when there are profits to be reaped.

That economic argument is, at best, weak, in the modern, tightly integrated society, where the full cost of software failures is incalculable. Even amongst ordinary, but essential, business applications that cannot harm life and limb, a propagating cascade failure now has the potential to collapse the global economy, in an instant.

Be that as it may, such economic objections have no force at all against the legally mandated safety requirements of life-critical applications.

Do you know the most important feature of Gemini?!
Probably not.

It's that little, unlabeled button on the top right of the browser window, that protects your privacy, but that you apparently can't turn on by default.
#AI #howto #techliteracy #themoreyouknow

There is more then Generative AI / LLMs , nice article about this,
"The important skill is not always choosing the newest model. It is choosing the right model for the problem."
https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-machine-learning-algorithms-that-still-matter
#AI #MachineLearning #Python #algorithms