https://youtu.be/rXHhpafZcaI

#ai #economy

#AI #Surveillance and Social Progress

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

#privacy

🔌 Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/11/irish-datacenters-now-guzzle-23-of-the-countrys-electricity/5270013

#datacenters #ireland #ai #energy

The Drive: How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me. “The Plymouth Police Department had been tracking me for days using Flock license plate cameras, waiting for the right moment to strike, because they thought I’d stolen the Range Rover. And the reason I was ID’d as a dangerous car thief was a simple data error made 2,000 miles away in […]

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

📰 EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says 'We Need You in the Fight'

"We need you in the fight," says the American legal expert in privacy, surveillance, AI, and Internet freedom of speech who became the EFF's new executive director in March. As EFF celebrates the a...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/10/2241251/eff-celebrates-36th-anniversary-says-we-need-you-in-the-fight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent Police to Arrest Him

"Are you armed?!" the police officer screamed. "Get out of the car!" A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how "a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law enforcem...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/11/0556236/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-a-journalist-for-days-then-sent-police-to-arrest-him?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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

Axiom reports only 7% of legal teams have moved beyond AI pilot programs. The roadblock? Data privacy and governance. With tools like ChatGPT Work launching, SMEs must lock down their vendor SLAs with strict anti-training clauses before automating workflows. #legaltech #AI

Huawei’s camera mistook a plane for a bird and…

…I really dislike “AI-enhanced” photography. It makes it harder and harder for me to trust any photo, even those taken by people I know on their personal devices.

Source: https://nitter.catsarch.com/youy1qwq/status/2075444313132351828#m

#ai #photography #computationalPhotography

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A photograph of a passenger plane in a plain blue sky, but all of its flight surfaces have the appearance of feathers.

📰 AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-ai-found-a-root-bug-in-linux-that-everyone-missed-for-15-years/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Linux #OpenSource

If you don't want to chat with an AI bot, but with real friends and family, privately and securely...

Use Signal: https://signal.org/install 💙

No AI bots. No ads. No tracking. Just your conversations.

If your friends aren't on Signal yet, invite them this summer. Let the blue sky be your reminder ☀️

#signal #signalmessenger #signalapp #privacy #ai

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Blue story post with the Signal logo, a waving hand, and the text: "I'm on Signal now."

Learning to recognize artificial pseudo-photographs is a very interesting domain (if "interesting" is the word).
Again, repetition is the mother of learning, naturally.

Myself, I failed the sample tests (four and four images) in the article.
I partitioned them into two classes mostly correctly (real vs. artificial), but I swapped the classes.

BBC article:
See if you can spot an AI deepfake with our test
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d2wgvg55jo>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#FakeImageRecognition
#FakeImages
#ImageRecognition
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM

FEAR OF AI OUTRAN A FRIENDSHIP

A friend of more than thirty years appears to have left my life because I use AI.

Not because I handed my thinking over to a machine. I did not.

Not because I stopped being myself. I became more myself by using AI as a mirror.

Not because I stopped caring about truth, privacy, kindness, or human relationships.

I use AI because writing has been slow and laborious since a major stroke some years ago.

I use AI to think more clearly and understand what I am trying to say.

But for some people, the word AI closes the door before the conversation can even begin.

That has been very painful.

Not because I need everyone to approve of how I live.

But because I thought a friendship that old could survive one new tool.

Perhaps it could not.

I do not hate her.

I do not want to punish her.

The door remains open.

But I will not pretend that losing a friend over this has not hurt.

These first years of AI are going to sort people out.

Not into good and bad.

Into those who are willing to look carefully at how the tool is actually being used, and those who decide what it means before they even look.

I know how I use AI.

I know what AI is not.

I know what AI gives me back.

And I know the human being is still there, holding the tool.

#friend #machine #mirror #stroke #conversation #painful #friendship #painful #survive #punish #door #FEAR #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #pretend #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

How scammers choose their targets #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-scammers-choose-their-targets/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🤖 Meta ditches Muse Image AI feature because it ‘misses the mark’ on users’ privacy

Meta was criticised for feature launched on Tuesday that automatically lets users generate images using content from public Instagram accountsMeta has said ⁠it is discontinuing an AI feature launch...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/11/meta-ditches-muse-image-ai-feature-instagram-privacy

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Image for: Meta ditches Muse Image AI feature because it ‘misses the mark’ on users’ privacy

Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dy6e8klw0o

'The feature quickly sparked blowback due to privacy concerns, leading Meta to admit it had “missed the mark" so it was "no longer available”.

Muse Image was the tech firm's first foray into AI image generation but faced backlash as Instagram users were opted in by default. '

#AI #GenAI #Meta #Instagram #MuseImage

This is peak.
I'm even sorry for the machine. 😂

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=lk3jCuITwcE

#ai

New post: Learning Enough to Change Direction

https://lanie.work/technology/learning-enough-to-change-direction/

#Accessibility #Disability #Chronic-Illness #Executive-Dysfunction #Education #Ai #Technology

Oh, ima gonna barf.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

#surveillance #ai #🤮

"...To do so, users must go to Instagram's settings menu, select "Sharing and Reuse" and switch off "Allow people to reuse your content on Instagram and with AI features at Meta" for posts and reels...." #instagram #AI #privacy #meta

BBC: Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9lee19y1yo

#ai #privacy #meta #instagram #AIpocalypse

The global economy is overly dependent on U.S. tech giants for digital infrastructure, data, and artificial intelligence. U.S. laws and corporate dominance threaten external control over digital systems, putting sovereignty, privacy, and democracy at risk.

Speakers:

#Avi Lewis, leader of the NDP (Canada)
Aisén Etcheverry, Broad Front (Chile)
Nancy Okail, President/CEO, Center for International Policy
Sigrid Segura iBroad Front (Costa Rica)

#AI #digitalsovereignty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EdD9uWI1R4

Proton users, what are your thoughts on the Lumo AI?

#proton #privacy #ai #lumo #security

#meta #instagram #ai #deepfake

https://mastodon.social/@verge/116898398585838581

When cryptography fails #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/when-cryptography-fails/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116898067548731485

“Personal anecdote: I was commissioned to ghostwrite an article. I researched and wrote the piece in my own words, but reflecting the author’s voice. A screening tool – operated by AI, checking for AI use – indicated that the article was more likely written by AI than a human. That in itself was infuriating, as my original material and writing style were being called into question. (More annoyingly, I suspect that my previously published material has been scraped and my style imitated by AI.) However, I kept tweaking the article until it had been approved by this gatekeeper and the client could formally submit their article. Counterintuitively, it didn’t pass until it sounded like all the other boilerplate garbage generated by AI and nothing like my original. The tool was enforcing homogeneity, blandness, and superficiality. All nuance, all stylistic quirks, were lost. Just another droplet in the AI swamp.”

#AI

Meta has removed a controversial AI feature from Instagram after users pushed back. The feature allowed people to create AI-generated images using public profile pictures, sparking privacy concerns. The company acted following criticism from privacy campaigners. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/ #Media #SocialMedia #AI

Keyfactor, an Ohio-based cybersecurity company providing digital identity and machine identity management software, has raised a 1B USD private equity round led by Summit Partners, with participation from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth. The company helps enterprises secure certificates, encryption keys and connected devices. https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/biggest-funding-rounds-billion-dollar-cyber-ai-keyfactor-sambanova/ #Tech #Startup #News #AI #Cybersecurity

#Microsoft expects more #Windows security updates from #AI-discovered flaws

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-expects-more-windows-security-updates-from-ai-discovered-flaws/

#cybersecurity

Computers should serve people not limit or control them. They are tools that can be used for good or bad, like any other item that can be a weapon.

To make LLMs useful for information security research I find myself constantly lying to it to get around the seemingly arbitrary guardrails.

Its social engineering against the machine on a scale that i never though I would have to engage in to get basic work done.

Having studied LLMs and how to secure / hack them, they are not the world ending technology that talking heads fear. They are tools, very powerful tools, but tools nonetheless.

#ai #llm #infosec #informationsecurity #paranoia #thecomputerisyourfriend

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The computer is your friend.

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A global emergent workspace in language models (J-space) https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

J-space wasn’t designed or programmed. It emerged on its own during training process. J-space has a number of unique properties:

- Claude can report on these representations. If you ask Claude what it's thinking about, it will tell you what’s in the J-space. Non-J-space representations are less reportable.

- It can also modulate them on request. If you ask Claude to think about something, or solve a problem silently in its head, it will light up the appropriate patterns in its J-space. By contrast, it has trouble modulating patterns not in the J-space.

- Claude uses its J-space for internal reasoning. If you ask Claude to solve a problem that requires multiple steps, the intermediate steps will light up in its J-space, even when it doesn’t say them out loud. These J-space patterns causally mediate its performance in such tasks, despite being smaller in magnitude than other representations.

- Representations in the J-space can be used flexibly for many tasks—for example, once “France” has lit up in Claude’s J-space, the model can recall its capital, or its national currency, or the continent it belongs to.

- However, despite its important role, the J-space is not involved in most of what a language model does—speaking fluently, recalling simple facts, using correct grammar, etc. In experiments where we prevented Claude from using its J-space, it still interacted normally, but lost its higher-order cognitive functions.

Full Paper:
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspace/index.html

External commentary https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzovbb/website/cc4be2488d65e54a6ed06492f8968398ddc18ebe.pdf

#consiousness #cogneuro #LLM #AI #cogneuro #cognitive #cognitiveNeuroscience

New #Forg365 #phishing platform uses #AI to target #Microsoft365 accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-forg365-phishing-platform-uses-ai-to-target-microsoft-365-accounts/

#Microsoft #cybersecurity

#KaiserPermanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse

https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/09/kaiser-permanente-nurses-say-technology-is-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse

#healthcare #privacy #AI #bossware #surveillance

The brains behind the machines: how AI learns #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-brains-behind-the-machines-how-ai-learns/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

‘EU regulators have accused Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, of failing to tackle the risks of its “addictive design” on the physical and mental health of users.‘

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/eu-accuses-meta-failing-tackle-mental-health-risks-addictive-design #law #tech #ai

#Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the #privacy light

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/962514/meta-privacy-light-tampering-smart-glasses-update

#AI #RayBan #Oakley #IoT #SmartGlasses

A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
#Meta #AI #Privacy

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/07/09/connecting-the-meta-privacy-dots/

A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
#Meta #AI #Privacy

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