Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to become a project manager of a team of LLMs.

Your ability to accumulate skills and experience will prevent you from "falling behind" all those who are now spending their days writing markdown and managing slop PRs.

#ai #llm #developers #softwareengineering

✊️ It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for J.R.R. Tolkien: a humanist breakdown of surveillance architecture https://www.zig.art/p/its-time-to-reclaim-the-word-palantir

#tolkien #palantir #ai #surveillance #democracy

"Following the New York City premiere at Metrograph, Matt Godbolt moderates a panel discussion featuring Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Gabriel Dos Reis, Nina Ranns, and Eric Lubow." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMYZ5MFQAho #ai #softwaredevelopment #cpp

SOCMINT fundamentals for solid investigations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/socmint-fundamentals-for-solid-investigations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Toho says it has no plans to actively introduce AI at this time.

The company acknowledged AI could improve efficiency but said using it in creative work remains "a very troubling and difficult issue."

It also noted ongoing legal concerns, adding:

"There are also various legal challenges that remain. Therefore, at this stage, we do not intend to take the lead and actively introduce AI."

#Toho #AI #Anime #GeekRealmHub

HUMINT: the art of getting human intel #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/humint-the-art-of-getting-human-intel/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The U.S. government has lifted its block on Anthropic’s powerful Mythos 5 AI model, a major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump administration and one of the world’s most valuable private companies. Read more from @Semafor, including why the timing of the announcement raises some intrigue:

https://flip.it/TkKmFm

#Anthropic #AI #Mythos5

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

NC Newsline: Police use of artificial intelligence grows as rules lag behind. “As law enforcement agencies increasingly embrace AI, some civil liberties advocates, legal scholars and policing experts warn that the technology could amplify surveillance, introduce hidden biases into investigations and make it harder to challenge evidence in court. They also worry about a future in which AI takes […]

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

Thinking of introducing DuckDuckGo AI CLI into my minimalist bashcore CLI distros 🐧

​I know, adding cloud AI to a sec-focused distro is controversial. But thanks to DDG's proxy, IP addresses are stripped for maximum privacy.

​"That's one small step for a dev, one giant leap for CLI-kind"? 🌕🚀

​What do my fellow linux friends think about this big step? Worth it?

#SysAdmin #Privacy #AI #CLI #Bash #Distro #Infosec #DevOps #Linux

How to safely explore the hidden web #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-to-safely-explore-the-hidden-web/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@david_chisnall anyway - memes!

#goose #AI #memes

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angry goose chases guy meme: who created the value? who created the value, motherfucker?

Mythos broke into secure systems within hours. I guess it's great that quantum encryption is considered 'hack proof' by AI right? Right?? https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/14/donald-trumps-blocking-of-anthropic-is-capricious-and-chaotic #AI #policy #scifi

maybe they outsourced to ChatGPT the job of checking there haven't been any other projects with names like terra/luna that would evoke extremely negative reactions

#ai

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Tweet by OpenAI: Sol is our new flagship and a step function better than GPT-5.5. Terra delivers performance competitive to GPT-5.5 at 2x lower cost. Luna is our most cost-efficient model, delivering strong capability at our lowest cost. Together, the GPT-5.6 family gives people and developers more choice in how they balance intelligence, speed, and cost.

Organized cybercrime: nation states and criminal partnerships #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-nation-states-and-criminal-partnerships/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Social media profiling: mapping IDs and behaviours #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/social-media-profiling-mapping-ids-and-behaviours/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

AI meet robotics: putting a brain in a machine #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ai-meet-robotics-putting-a-brain-in-a-machine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

As so often what once happened in a Philip K Dick book (in this case Minority Report) has now come to pass... here are Liberty's investigative journalist team on the worrying & expanding experience of predictive policing, and how it produces a large number of false positives when trying to predict criminality.

Once that has been compounded through police prejudice & bad culture, this looks not just unwelcome but positively dangerous!

#police #politics #AI #technology

https://www.wired.com/story/british-police-built-a-sprawling-crime-prediction-machine-some-results-couldnt-be-trusted/

8 Internet experiments and living labs #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/8-internet-experiments-and-living-labs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Your #AI coding tools may soon cost more than you - https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-coding-costs-developer-salary-gartner-2028 "AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. "

Responsible AI for Museums: From Policy to Practice.
See what 290 professionals in GLAMP—galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and performing arts—shared about AI, policy gaps, and what needs to happen next.
https://terentia.io/webinars/responsible-museum-ai-policy/?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #museums #AI #webinars

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Responsible AI for Museums: From Policy to Practice - presentation

Organized cybercrime: how investigators track cybercrime networks #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-how-investigators-track-cybercrime-networks/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

“For most of history, surveillance ran into the same wall: payroll. A Soviet censor could open your letter. He could not open everyone’s letter, because steaming envelopes takes hands and there were never enough hands. The Stasi got closest, running files on a share of the East German population large enough that historians still argue the exact fraction, and it took warehouses of paper and a network of informants the size of an army to do it. The ceiling was human. Reading you cost a person a day, and a person’s day costs money.”

“What protected the ordinary person was the price of attention. You were boring, and boring was expensive to read.”

“AI removed the ceiling. A model reads every message at a cost rounding to zero, sorts them, flags the interesting ones, and never asks for a raise. The thing that made mass reading impossible was arithmetic, and the arithmetic just inverted. Two variables remain: who holds the data, and what they say when the state asks.”

(Denis Stetskov)

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-cost-of-reading-everyone-just

#ai #surveillance

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

LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

#LLM #AI #software #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #coding #AmbroseBierce

AI use is over hyped by the MBA-itis crowd not competent engineers: it's the new Dot Com Bubble. Yet I don't expect AI to go away anymore than the web did, post crash.

* When do you think the bubble bursts?
* What sorts of corporate Darwinism events will be required to see that happen?
* Post bubble, what do AI workflows actually look like, 5 or 10 years from now?
* What does a Jr. Dev job look like, post bubble?
* Who really succeededs and who really fails, when the bubble bursts?

#ai #corporatedarwinawards #askfedi

AI tools have powered the World Cup but thousands of behind-the-scenes data workers may be some of many to thank for its expected $9 billion revenue. Human annotators, some of them footballers, from Brazil, Cambodia and the Philippines, are logging real-time gameplay to help train computer algorithms for teams, broadcasters and the betting industry.

Read Rest Of World's Rina Chandran and Michael Beltran deep dive:
https://flip.it/ACH2ID

#WorldCup #Soccer #AI

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

Five Eyes Cyber Security Agencies Statement
As the leaders of the Five Eyes cyber security agencies, we are united in our call to action: the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming cyber risk, and we must act swiftly to remain ahead.
https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/4523810/five-eyes-cyber-security-agencies-statement/
#AI #NSA #cybersecurity

One particularly bizarre facet of business's current fixation with #ai is how it ignores everything they know about pricing.

Almost any human, and some gifted species of trout, can see it's in "loss leader" mode. Fine, exploit the below-cost pricing now, but don't hollow out your organization and become dependent until you've seen the final price card.

It smacks of watching a co-worker roll up in a new $1200 per month car, despite his $30k salary, because "hey, no payments til September!"

Becoming quantum-ready: the challenges #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/becoming-quantum-ready-the-challenges/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I stopped by Best Buy and bought this external Seagate 24TB drive for $279.99 and thought to myself at the register while paying for it, "Damn, this is expensive."

I just looked and the same drive at Best Buy is now $709.99 (and that's the sale price after a $50 discount!). The sale price is a whopping 153.6% increase in just six months!

This is insane. Thanks #AI techbros for making everything tech more expensive.

#compute #hardware #harddrive #gaming #videogames #gog #storage

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Screenshot of a purchase of a Seagate external 24TB drive at Best Buy for $279.99.

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Screenshot of a Seagate external 24TB drive at Best Buy for $709.99.

❓ Intellectual Property and privacy are interlinked, and the lack of "Intellectual Privacy" is a hindrance to Freedom of Thought (FoT) and creativity.

#privacy #privacymatters #IntellectualProperty #intellectualprivacy #datapoisoning #ai #freedomofthought

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The text describes the psychological impact of AI data theft on human creativity.

Virtual sightseeing: exploring the world’s greatest museums #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/virtual-sightseeing-exploring-the-worlds-greatest-museums/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

"Genet’s agents live on a cluster of five Mac Minis and one $10,000 Mac Studio that hums along on a shelf in her home like a little data center."

Lane Brown for The Cut /New York: https://www.thecut.com/article/jesse-genet-ai-agents-household.html

#Longreads #AI #Tech #Parenting #AgenticAI #Mothers

A really thoughtful and layered conversation with Cory Doctorow about AI.

"As a science fiction writer, the one thing I know to be very true is that what a machine does is way less important than who the machine does it for and who the machine does it to.”

#AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-bubble-layoffs-workers-copyright

The ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures guides readers through envisioning possible futures in which #AI has reshaped the landscape of research, higher education, and research libraries.

This CNI session shares how Johns Hopkins University libraries and the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press ran strategic planning sessions using the AI Scenarios, details the strategic themes that emerged, and shares how each is implementing findings: https://youtu.be/J03URv7x3aE

"During a conversation lasting about 20 minutes, OpenAI's chatbot gave me extensive advice on weapons and tactics as I simulated planning a mass shooting."

Chilling article by Mark Follman for Mother Jones:

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/

#AI

So there is value in oral examination (literally oral).

At Stanford University:
«Some classes have started reintroducing proctoring - the supervision of candidates during an examination - and spoken-word tests to avoid cheating, [Lucy Zimmerman, a computer science major who served as a teaching assistant] said.»

This is, of course, a detail of a much bigger picture.

BBC article:
Stanford was their golden ticket - could AI help or hinder that?
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c872j82j2qyo>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Education
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM
#LLMs
#UniversityEducation

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

Just reminding you all that #KeePassXC allows contributions from LLMs. https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/ #KeePass #AI #LLM #Security #InfoSec

Influencers: turning attention into money #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/influencers-turning-attention-into-money/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

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

“META LEFT POTENTIALLY sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and three current employees familiar with the issue.

The data, which was collected as part of a divisive initiative to train artificial intelligence models, is believed to include keystrokes, mouseclicks, and content displayed on the computer screens of Meta’s US employees.

Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton initially confirmed to WIRED that the company is investigating the security issue. As this story was being published, he added that Meta is pausing the data collection program indefinitely. "We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate," Clayton says.

The security notice sent out Monday indicated that “employee data across 45,000 hive tables,” had been exposed. Those tables included employee activity such as “full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data,” according to documents viewed by WIRED.“

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-keystroke-data/

#Meta #DataProtection #AI #Privacy #BigTech

Odysseus is an open-source, self-hosted AI workspace that brings chat, AI agents, deep research, documents, email, notes, tasks, and calendars together in one platform.

Supports local & cloud AI models, MCP tools, web research, IMAP/SMTP email, CalDAV calendars, document editing, and scheduled AI workflows.

Perfect for users who want more control over their data and AI tools.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=odysseus

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #AI #Privacy #Productivity #Linux

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Screenshot of Odysseyus, a self-hosted AI workspace dashboard. Header shows "Yours for the voyage" and nav links (Quick Start, Setup, Contributing, Roadmap). Left sidebar menu: New Chat, Search, Chats, Email, Tools, Brain, Calendar, Compare, Cookbook, Deep Research, Gallery, Library, Notes, Tasks, Theme.

How to extract intelligence from images and videos #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-to-extract-intelligence-from-images-and-videos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🗣FINALLY!

in 2016 the king of Saudi Arabia BRAGGED to the Obama administration about how they had become The Whale that moved Wall Street. it’s no coincidence Qatar, long before that quarrel, decided #quantum computing and #AI were at the heart of their 2030 economic development plans.

THERE IS NO #TECHBROS INEVITABILITY WITHOUT #OPEC #OIL MONEY

#SiliconValley are the #petromafia’s Trojan Horse against the #ParisAccords and an existential threat to Humanity.
http://www.euronews.com/2026/06/23/no-more-hidden-costs-un-chief-demands-ai-firms-come-clean-over-environmental-footprint

#monoku by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni, presented with the author’s permission on top of artwork generated by ChatGPT-AI and FreshOut Magazine.

Barbara Anna Gaiardoni is an award-winning poet and pedagogist crafting Japanese-style poems. Globally published, Barbara is guided by the motto: "I can, I must, I want."
http://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/ #poetry #pizzica #italy #AI

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While this may look like a Haiga, it is actually a #monoku by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni, presented with the author’s permission on top of artwork generated by ChatGPT-AI and FreshOut Magazine. The image features a slender woman in a black dress, a red sash about her waist, whirling in a tarantella dance. The accompanying verse reads, spider bite the body of the tarantata Barbara Anna Gaiardoni is an award-winning poet and pedagogist crafting Japanese-style poems. Globally published, Barbara is guided by the motto: "I can, I must, I want." http://barbaragaiardoni.altervista.org/blog/haikuco-2/ #poetry #pizzica #italy #AI

Hört Ihr auch das Pfeifen? Dieses Zischen? Das ist die Luft, die aus der KI-Bubble entweicht. Immer schneller. Vielleicht platzt die gar nicht, aber es passiert was ...

#KI #AI #bubble #scam

Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

#google #ai

Content analysis and trend tracking in social media #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/understanding-conversations-at-scale-content-analysis-and-trend-tracking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

New video about Signal📽️

Udbhav Tiwari discusses at @orangecon how Signal is structured as an organization, the reasoning behind its decisions, its global use, and technological and policy threats

Watch it here🍿👉️ https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/signal-and-the-platformization-of-surveillance-with-udbhav-tiwari/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #AI #privacy

"In an open letter sent to border security and asylum minister Alex Norris, 62 organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Liberty, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Foxglove, and the Open Rights Group, called on the Home Office to halt deployment of facial age estimation (FAE) technology, currently slated for rollout from 2027."

#AI

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/19/rights-groups-brand-home-offices-ai-age-guesser-for-asylum-seekers-as-biased-and-inaccurate/5258892

Organized cybercrime: a look into the future #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-a-look-into-the-future/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Genshin Impact developers have announced BSide: Olivia Lin!

An AI-powered digital companion that can:
Play piano from your MIDI files
Reply to your messages
Appear as a live desktop wallpaper

#BSideOliviaLin #GenshinImpact #AI #GeekRealmHub

Healthcare robotics, precision and care #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/healthcare-robotics-precision-and-care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.

So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

#Iceland #AI #Labor

What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry #AI company like #Anthropic to force it's users to do ID #verification?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id

Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source for biometric data for the #UK government: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed

As the #West is trying to imitate totalitarian states as of late, they might be better advised to imitate their #exports instead.

#Privacy #Asylum #UnitedKingdom #Britain #GreatBritain #Artificialintelligence #Tech #Technology #News #US #USA

#Amazon appears to be “investigating” three engineers who spoke up at a local #Seattle city council meeting to oppose Amazon’s data center expansion, and to call for more regulation.

#ai

“Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/amazon-engineers-ai-data-center-opposition.html

I thank that so many people have engaged in the many threads & hundreds of posts re: #SFC's #LLM-gen-AI Recommendations¹ . The threads are a bii scattered in a diaspora around the #Fediverse now as per usual #Mastodon deletion situation, threads go wonky even if a few people delete I post. I delete-and-redrafted a few of mine to fix massive typos, but I think others were deleting. I can only find you if @-mention me at this point. However …

¹ https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

#OpenSource #LLMGenAI #AI