What makes something "web-based" in 2026? @ricmac writes about today's tech ecosystem, and if the web is still truly made of people.

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Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it.

Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/

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⚖️ Field Notes from a Year of OPSEC Training

Late last year, as part of our annual “Year in Review” series, we summarized our efforts providing digital privacy and security advice to at-risk communities. OPSEC trainings (short for operational...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/field-notes-year-opsec-training

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You just can’t ignore a headline that reads “A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight.” A grassroots movement of tech workers called the Guardian Alliance was launched today with the goal of forcing their companies to deploy AI responsibly. @Techcrunch has the full story:

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Agentic ad tech tries to take over the buying layer as AI search budgets surge: AI agents claim the programmatic ad buying layer as WPP forecasts AI search reaching 39% of search revenue by 2031 and Adobe finds 86% impulse buy monthly. https://ppc.land/agentic-ad-tech-tries-to-take-over-the-buying-layer-as-ai-search-budgets-surge/ #AdTech #ArtificialIntelligence #ProgrammaticAdvertising #DigitalMarketing #AIMarketing

If AI can blur the line between truth and fiction, what happens to trust? Explore the growing challenge of AI deception and the future of objective reality in a digital world.

#ArtificialIntelligence #TechEthics #DigitalTrust

Read more: https://solihullpublishing.com/blog/f/the-death-of-objective-reality-ai-deception-and-trust

We have the mind of Christ, but use the voice of a machine?

By Elizabeth Prata

I heard a really interesting thought on a Facebook short, of all places. It was a clip from an NPR interview with Dave Eggers, author, publisher, and Pulitzer finalist. The show was Wild Cards hosted by Rachel Martin. In it, Eggers said,

“This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say, you are one of one, unprecedented in in the history human evolution. There’s only one of you. So to give your voice to a machine to say, ‘Speak for me. I’m going to be silent.’ I’m going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative is such a crime against yourself.”

“It’s so dystopian, so beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel, and I did a lot, and I never saw this coming. That an entire generation, too many of them, acquiescing to the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland, unthinking machine to voice their souls.” –end Eggers quote

I think many of us who write or create never saw this coming. And since it’s still so new, we are grappling with the impact, fallout, and future of AI. His words made a lot of sense to me. For us Christians, though, it goes very much deeper than that.

Artificial intelligence technology has evolved faster than most Christians have been able to think about it. ~Samuel James, at Desiring God

Taking ‘evolution’ out of the equation, because that is a made-up untrue theory, and we all do realize we are uniquely made, yes, there is only one of me. Faceless evolution didn’t create me, the God of the universe did! And not only are we made purposely, intentionally, and with love by God, we are created in His image.

This notion should be on our minds every moment. It is a dignity afforded no other creature. It gives us the opportunity to speak His truth of the Gospel, reflect His character. Our voices are for the incredible privilege of sharing His Gospel and truths of the Bible. Why put a cold, metallic, faceless machine in that place of dignity?

Can we consider the possibility that swapping our own unique image-of-God voice for a voice of Artificial Intelligence is not only a crime against ourselves, but that giving away our God-given talents and creative abilities for the ease of a push-button machine may possibly be thought of as a crime against God? Should we be swapping our transformed mind of Christ at the cost of Jesus’ blood and death, for a man-made device? Just because it’s easier?

Further resources

 How to Spot Fake AI Photos

Phil Johnson on the flush of AI-produced fakery purporting to be John MacArthur videos– GTY’s stance on AI

How Is AI Shaping You? Three Principles for Wise Use

Council for Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: Of Machines and Men: AI and the Future of Humanity

📰 Evan Spiegel doesn't want you to call Snap Specs AI glasses

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more. Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot.

📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2195862/snap-specs-ceo-evan-spiegel-interview-at-awe-2026/

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🐧 Firefox 152 streamlines its Settings and adds a new way to mute tabs

Mozilla has released Firefox 152 with revamped Settings, new privacy controls and faster ways to share web content – plus a peculiar new way to mute tabs. The update is available from today (15 Jun...

📰 Source: OMG! Ubuntu
🔗 Link: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/firefox-152-released

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🕹️ Crash Bandicoot Returns To The Retro Dimension In New SNES ROM Hack

🤝Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK!When I think of the PS1, I think about Crash Bandicoo...

📰 Source: Retro Dodo
🔗 Link: https://retrododo.com/crash-bandicoot-returns-to-the-retro-dimension-in-new-snes-rom-hack/

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⚖️ EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance

LGBTQ+ communities are facing an escalating wave of censorship and targeted surveillance, but we can push back through mutual solidarity. Join us live to learn how safer virtual spaces get built, h...

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Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Commerce told Anthropic to cut off access to two of its most powerful AI models – Fable 5 and Mythos 5 – for foreign nationals. To do so, the company had to entirely disable them. Read more from NBC News:

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⚖️ Victory! 702 has Expired!

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lets US intelligence agencies collect communications from foreigners abroad without a warrant, and routinely sweeps in Americans’ emails, me...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-702-has-expired

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Can an algorithm truly understand emotion—or just imitate it? Explore the debate over AI-generated art, authenticity, and whether machines can fake human feeling.

#AIArt #ArtificialIntelligence #CreativeTechnology

Read more: https://solihullpublishing.com/blog/f/ai-deception-in-creative-arts-can-algorithms-fake-emotion

📰 Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-why-you-might-already-own-spacex-shares-siri-ai-makeover-knicks-owner-surveillance-machine/

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📰 ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor

fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial reco...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/11/1736213/aclu-sues-after-facial-recognition-falsely-identifies-florida-man-as-a-child-abductor?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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📰 A warrantless wiretap law is about to expire — but surveillance networks aren’t actually ‘going dark’

Congress has failed to pass a three-week extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), with the House voting 218-198 against reauthorizing the controversial warrantl...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/948451/fisa-702-reauthorization-vote-fails-congress-wiretapping-lapse

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📰 Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
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AI, Crippling CMMC Regulations Converge On Small Businesses

“NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE” By  Pete Sfoglia

“The marriage of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics and crippling regulation creates a perfect storm headed straight at the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program”

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“The marriage of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics and crippling regulation creates a perfect storm headed straight at the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, and those who designed the mandate have no more understanding of what it means at ground level than Bill Gates has of the price of groceries.

The intent was sound. The consequences may be catastrophic. Make no mistake: the convergence of these four forces represents significant disruption.

CMMC 2.0 was a necessary response to a real threat. Nation-state adversaries have spent years gutting the U.S. defense industrial base, walking off with designs and manufacturing processes that took U.S. companies decades to build.

Self-reported compliance scores that bore no relationship to actual security posture had to end. But what followed was a compliance architecture that drops enterprise-grade financial burdens on small manufacturers running margins that can’t absorb them, while mandating encryption standards already being defeated and ignoring the AI and robotics threats that are rewriting the rules of engagement in real time.

The Defense Department estimates 118,000 companies fall under CMMC Level 2. The overwhelming majority have never heard of security information and event management, or SIEM, technology, let alone budgeted for it.

Before a CMMC compliance assessor walks in the door, cybersecurity costs for a typical small or medium-sized business are about $60,000 to $100,000 per year — a SIEM subscription is $14,000 annually, and it costs $30,000 to implement and configure it — plus multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection and security hardening on top. Add a virtual chief information security officer at $70,000 a year — because none of these tools run themselves — and a company is looking at $200,000 to $300,000 in year one, and $110,000 to $145,000 every year after. The assessment fee is almost beside the point by then.

A company doing $3 million in defense revenue at a 7 percent margin clears $210,000 in profit. Year-one compliance takes every dollar of it. And it hits the contractor who has been implementing National Institute of Standards and Technology 800-171 controls for five years the same as the one who’s done nothing. There’s no credit for prior effort, no discount for good faith.

The U.S. defense industry has already shed numerous small business participants over the past decade. Without relief, CMMC accelerates the exodus. And the first ones out the door won’t be the weakest. They will be the most capable, the ones with commercial customers who don’t require a six-figure annual compliance tax.

This is the part that should alarm everyone, and doesn’t, because the lawmakers shaping this policy wouldn’t know an IP packet if they tripped over one. The CMMC Level 2 encryption mandates, the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman family of public-key cryptosystems and elliptic-curve algorithms over Transport Layer Security 1.2 will fold like a cheap lawn chair against a quantum computer. Algorithms that would take an army of supercomputers decades to crack will evaporate in minutes using superposition and quantum entanglement.

Here’s what makes it worse — nobody has to wait for quantum computers to arrive. Adversaries are vacuuming up encrypted traffic, VPN sessions and controlled unclassifed information file transfers and storing them for the day decryption becomes trivial. Harvest now, decrypt later. It’s not theoretical. It’s operational.

NIST finalized post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024. The federal government has published a migration roadmap. CMMC ignores both. Small and medium businesses are bleeding out financially to implement encryption, and their adversaries are already stockpiling. That’s not a security mandate. It’s a very expensive illusion of one.

Meanwhile, AI-powered malware now rewrites its own attack signatures faster than defenses can respond. AI-generated phishing — personalized, convincing and relentless — accounts for the majority of attacks. And for defense manufacturers, AI-driven robotics has created an entirely new category of exposure that CMMC doesn’t address.

Computer numerical control machines and robotic assembly lines tied into corporate networks for efficiency carry attack surfaces that didn’t exist when NIST 800-171 was written. A compromised robotic system doesn’t just leak controlled unclassified information, it can embed manufacturing defects in weapons components that nobody finds until something fails in the field.

The fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act tells the Defense Department to fold AI security into CMMC, meaning this already unaffordable mandate will get heavier before most small businesses have finished choking down the current version.

For now, don’t abandon CMMC. Fix it. A tiered subsidy program, modeled on Defense Production Act investments, must deliver direct financial assistance to Level 2 subcontractors below defined revenue thresholds and subsidize assessment fees. CMMC must adopt NIST’s post-quantum standards immediately, not eventually. And the Pentagon needs a real AI and operational technology security framework before it lands as another unfunded mandate on contractors already at the wall.

Phase 2 enforcement starts in November. Currently, small business owners are deciding whether to invest in compliance or walk away from the defense market for good. Every month that passes without relief, without a post-quantum roadmap, without an AI framework, without government subsidies, is a month this supply chain shrinks permanently.

Our adversaries have spent years trying to hollow out the U.S. defense industrial base. They couldn’t have designed a more effective weapon than a compliance mandate that does the job for them.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Pete Sfoglia served as regional practice leader for cybersecurity at Ernst and Young and as global head of cyber compliance at Wipro. He is now co-founder and CEO of Pistos Information Protection, an independent consulting practice focused on cybersecurity compliance for small and mid-sized businesses.

📰 Man jailed due to faulty face recognition says Florida cops ignored other evidence

Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."

📰 Source: Ars Technica
🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/man-jailed-due-to-faulty-face-recognition-says-florida-cops-ignored-other-evidence/

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My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, about what it would take to do that, and how we’re closer than you might think.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAhNJbsPcA
Transcript: https://www.citationneeded.news/end-citizens-uniteds-tiffany-muller-on-fighting-big-money-in-politics/

#cryptocurrency #crypto #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CitizensUnited #USpol #USpolitics

🤖 Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error

Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later droppedSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA Florida man is suing several law enforc...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
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🚀 New Speakers Added—

Check out the stellar lineup at the inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit! These award-winning researchers, practitioners, industry leaders, educators, and policymakers will be diving deep into how AI can be developed and deployed responsibly to advance science and society.

📢 Submit your papers by June 30 & register today to be part of the conversation: https://aisummit26.acm.org/attendees/registration/

#TechLeadership #ArtificialIntelligence #ACM #Innovation

📰 Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID.

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"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data was only valuable once." —Max Callimanopulos for n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/in-the-reality-lab/?src=longreads #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #meta #longreads

⚖️ Tell Congress: Just Say No to NO FAKES

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider and vote on the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act (NO FAKES). Instead of targeting the real privacy harms posed by AI-...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/tell-congress-just-say-no-no-fakes

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"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."

#AI #SiliconValley #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Myth

AI is not the future of anything except domination and control. AI is the death of the future and the return to a dark age of conformity and social thought control. AI regurgitates accepted dogma and is a bar to real research and inspired creativity. AI is a homogeneity engine.

People becoming dependent upon AI will be homogenized zombies. Of course the AI will convince them they are wise thinkers. The more obedient they are to their hidden masters, the black box owners, the more the singularity system will assure them they are the avant garde of gray matter.

I have already seen numerous instances of idiots depending upon AI to come up with ridiculous conclusions while defending them like Don Qixote. This is becoming epidemic among researchers and techies.

Watch out for the controlled opposition--public figures pretending to be against creeping enslavement while leading their followers to do absolutely nothing useful to curtail or stop the advance.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Singularity #Tech