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[?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
@TechDesk@flipboard.social

Can you fight AI with...AI?

Reddit seems to think so. The social media platform announced it's using AI tools to combat the rise of "manipulated and spammy content" (which we know is often created by AI.)

Engadget has the details:
flip.it/6.7egv

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    [?]Nicola Fabiano » 🌐
    @nicfab@fosstodon.org

    Daily Digest | 7 July 2026

    Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

    5 stories you should not miss.

    Read more: nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

      [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
      @negativepid@mastodon.social

      Organized cybercrime: the global fraud factories negativepid.blog/organized-cyb

        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
        @negativepid@mastodon.social

        From shadows to leadership: women shaping cybersecurity negativepid.blog/from-shadows-

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          [?]Mickai » 🌐
          @Mickai@mastodon.social

          Homomorphic Encryption and Sovereign AI

          Fully homomorphic encryption lets a machine compute on ciphertext it can never read. Inside a sovereign intelligence operating system that runs on hardware the customer owns, that mathematics becomes a working boundary: the data stays concealed, the brains stay owned, and every action is signed before it runs.

          mickai.co.uk/articles/homomorp

            [?]Sam » 🌐
            @samd@social.coop

            What kind of work is it still good for a human to do, even if a machine could or does do it “better?” Definitions of “good” and “better” are free for you to define.

              [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
              @negativepid@mastodon.social

              The Internet’s hidden libraries and archives negativepid.blog/the-internets

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                [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                "AI surveillance raises a range of public policy challenges: technical biases, unauditable systems, and inflexible automated law and social rule enforcement that can promote discrimination and undermine transparency, accountability and the rule of law. But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects.

                In a new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, Jon Penney explains how surveillance, technology and power can be weaponized to influence behavior at scale. Surveillance, personalization, uncertainty and authority are all key mechanisms to increase the scale and impact of chilling effects. They cause people to self-censor their words and actions, to become more conformist and compliant and thus easier to manage and control. And the effects are additive: the more mechanisms employed, and the more powerful the form, the greater the chill.

                Computerization has long allowed data collectors to track our locations, collect lists of whom we communicate with, and monitor our spending habits – unless we use cash. What’s new is an unprecedented fusion of each of these mechanisms, persistent and unrelenting. AI brings an analytical ability to spy on the contents of our communications, and to answer sophisticated questions about our whereabouts and activities: actions that previously required human analysts are now automated. The result will be a kind of supercharged societal level of chilling effects where fear, self-censorship and groupthink reign, and dissent, creativity and innovation become increasingly rare."

                theguardian.com/commentisfree/

                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                  @negativepid@mastodon.social

                  Behind OnlyFans: Leonid Radvinsky negativepid.blog/behind-onlyfa

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                    [?]input » 🌐
                    @feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com

                    📰 Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps

                    The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly r...

                    📰 Source: Slashdot
                    🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/06/2144244/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-require-age-verification-for-mobile-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

                    #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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                      [?]knoppix » 🌐
                      @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                      Meta paused its employee-tracking MCI tool after an internal exposure made monitoring data accessible beyond intended staff. 🔒
                      The AI training program logged keystrokes, mouse activity and screen content, and remains paused while data protection controls are reviewed. 🛡️

                      🔗 wired.com/story/meta-pauses-em

                        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                        @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                        The "Willy Wonka" story is becoming a reality show, and Gene Wilder's AI-created voice is going to appear in it (with the consent of the late actor's wife). @Variety explains what you need to know. Tell us in the comments what you think.

                        flip.it/-rxpK7

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                          [?]Blaze Trends » 🌐
                          @theblazetrends@mastodon.social

                          AI stylometry algorithms can identify anonymous authors with up to 99.8% accuracy just by counting subconscious function words. The technology is so precise it is sparking debates about whether writing style is biometric data.
                          blazetrends.com/how-ai-stylome

                            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                            @negativepid@mastodon.social

                            The role of data in AI negativepid.blog/the-role-of-d

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                              [?]Terence Eden [He/Him/♂/男] » 🌐
                              @Edent@mastodon.social

                              🆕 blog! “I'm just so bored of AI”

                              I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is.

                              Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little…

                              👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-ju
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                                [?]Adrianna Tan » 🌐
                                @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

                                I’m on a panel at WSIS in Geneva. Someone asked what the judiciary system around the world needs to know about AI

                                I said that the judiciary anywhere should be aware of algorithmic injustice and who it can harm, especially victims of surveillance and bias (like with facial recognition), and to demand more evidence of proof from police rather than more from defense. It is untenable that people can now be accused of crime in places they were not even physically in.

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                                  [?]PrestelPirate » 🌐
                                  @prestelpirate@freeradical.zone

                                  Why hire someone in to the C-suite and expect them to use AI?

                                  Why search for someone with decades of experience, a deep level understanding of their subject matter from years seeing first hand what works, what fails, what matters, what's fluff - only to then demand that they defer all of that to a chat bot?

                                  Brought to you by today's abortive interview with a CEO who wanted to know my experience of "applying AI to meet regulatory approval".

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                                    [?]Adrianna Tan » 🌐
                                    @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

                                    Maria Ressa talks about how in an Eritrean language, AI changes ‘smallpox’ to ‘syphilis’, and sometimes confuses ‘medicine’ and ‘insecticide’, which obviously has public health implications.

                                    This type of work ‘AI performance and safety issues in other languages and its impact on people’ is 50% of the work I do.

                                    I’m glad Maria Ressa is involved in this work. She’s now talking about chatbots, teenagers, suicide.

                                    “Civil society has been saying this for years. You now have more evidence now for what you’ve been saying.”

                                    un.org/independent-internation

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                                      [?]Regendans [they/them/he/him] » 🌐
                                      @regendans@todon.eu

                                      Opinion
                                      "AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
                                      Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

                                      These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it"

                                      theguardian.com/commentisfree/

                                      (the images cover about half of the article)

                                      In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong – shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it – the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities … and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce not just speed limits, but any other rule you can imagine. And you won’t receive a ticket weeks later by mail; you’ll be informed about and fined for your violation immediately. These systems will combine powerful AI, public and private surveillance via real-time facial recognition technology and digital tracking, mass databases and highly personalized enforcement. If deployed at scale, they will have profound chilling effects not just on personal freedoms, but democracy and social progress itself. China has been developing its surveillance infrastructure for years. The country has over 600 million surveillance cameras, increasingly powered by AI and facial recognition to enforce legal and social rules. Take the case of Lao

                                      Alt...In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong – shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it – the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities … and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce not just speed limits, but any other rule you can imagine. And you won’t receive a ticket weeks later by mail; you’ll be informed about and fined for your violation immediately. These systems will combine powerful AI, public and private surveillance via real-time facial recognition technology and digital tracking, mass databases and highly personalized enforcement. If deployed at scale, they will have profound chilling effects not just on personal freedoms, but democracy and social progress itself. China has been developing its surveillance infrastructure for years. The country has over 600 million surveillance cameras, increasingly powered by AI and facial recognition to enforce legal and social rules. Take the case of Lao

                                      Duan, a Chinese citizen blacklisted by the system after he lost his job and was unable to repay a series of loans. When he visited Beijing, the city’s AI surveillance system identified him by his face at a major intersection and displayed his face, name, and citizen ID number on a large electronic billboard nearby with a message that he was an untrustworthy person. Similar systems are now being deployed across China and integrated with its infamous online monitoring, censorship, and social credit systems. AI surveillance is now being experimented with in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to a new report, the US Department of Homeland Security is rapidly increasing its use of AI-based surveillance, including facial recognition and the monitoring of social media accounts, to keep tabs on immigrants, dissidents, journalists, legal observers and protesters. While the systems are ostensibly used to maintain security and public safety, the real aim is often social control. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle – a powerful tech giant that works closely with the Trump administration – has said: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting.” The chilling effects are the point.

                                      Alt...Duan, a Chinese citizen blacklisted by the system after he lost his job and was unable to repay a series of loans. When he visited Beijing, the city’s AI surveillance system identified him by his face at a major intersection and displayed his face, name, and citizen ID number on a large electronic billboard nearby with a message that he was an untrustworthy person. Similar systems are now being deployed across China and integrated with its infamous online monitoring, censorship, and social credit systems. AI surveillance is now being experimented with in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to a new report, the US Department of Homeland Security is rapidly increasing its use of AI-based surveillance, including facial recognition and the monitoring of social media accounts, to keep tabs on immigrants, dissidents, journalists, legal observers and protesters. While the systems are ostensibly used to maintain security and public safety, the real aim is often social control. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle – a powerful tech giant that works closely with the Trump administration – has said: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting.” The chilling effects are the point.

                                      AI surveillance raises a range of public policy challenges: technical biases, unauditable systems, and inflexible automated law and social rule enforcement that can promote discrimination and undermine transparency, accountability and the rule of law. But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects. In a new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, Jon Penney explains how surveillance, technology and power can be weaponized to influence behavior at scale. Surveillance, personalization, uncertainty and authority are all key mechanisms to increase the scale and impact of chilling effects. They cause people to self-censor their words and actions, to become more conformist and compliant and thus easier to manage and control. And the effects are additive: the more mechanisms employed, and the more powerful the form, the greater the chill.

                                      Alt...AI surveillance raises a range of public policy challenges: technical biases, unauditable systems, and inflexible automated law and social rule enforcement that can promote discrimination and undermine transparency, accountability and the rule of law. But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects. In a new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age, Jon Penney explains how surveillance, technology and power can be weaponized to influence behavior at scale. Surveillance, personalization, uncertainty and authority are all key mechanisms to increase the scale and impact of chilling effects. They cause people to self-censor their words and actions, to become more conformist and compliant and thus easier to manage and control. And the effects are additive: the more mechanisms employed, and the more powerful the form, the greater the chill.

                                      Computerization has long allowed data collectors to track our locations, collect lists of whom we communicate with, and monitor our spending habits – unless we use cash. What’s new is an unprecedented fusion of each of these mechanisms, persistent and unrelenting. AI brings an analytical ability to spy on the contents of our communications, and to answer sophisticated questions about our whereabouts and activities: actions that previously required human analysts are now automated. The result will be a kind of supercharged societal level of chilling effects where fear, self-censorship and groupthink reign, and dissent, creativity and innovation become increasingly rare. In this atmosphere of fear and conformity, risky ideas, social activism and self-reinvention – especially by disfavored groups and targeted populations – are also chilled. This will have long-term effects on social progress.

                                      Alt...Computerization has long allowed data collectors to track our locations, collect lists of whom we communicate with, and monitor our spending habits – unless we use cash. What’s new is an unprecedented fusion of each of these mechanisms, persistent and unrelenting. AI brings an analytical ability to spy on the contents of our communications, and to answer sophisticated questions about our whereabouts and activities: actions that previously required human analysts are now automated. The result will be a kind of supercharged societal level of chilling effects where fear, self-censorship and groupthink reign, and dissent, creativity and innovation become increasingly rare. In this atmosphere of fear and conformity, risky ideas, social activism and self-reinvention – especially by disfavored groups and targeted populations – are also chilled. This will have long-term effects on social progress.

                                        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                        @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                        Happy Monday and welcome to the age where agentic ransomware exists.

                                        Researchers discovered the first documented case of a ransomware operation called JadePuffer, that entirely relied on a large language model agent, according to cloud security company Sysdig.

                                        Bleeping Computer has the details:
                                        flip.it/lpoEoO

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                                          [?]input » 🌐
                                          @feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com

                                          🤖 AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

                                          These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject itIn the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track every...

                                          📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
                                          🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy

                                          #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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                                            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                            @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                            Who is building quantum computers and why? negativepid.blog/who-is-buildi

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                                              [?]Regendans [they/them/he/him] » 🌐
                                              @regendans@todon.eu

                                              "Bits of Freedom: AIVD en MIVD lijken eigen AI te trainen met data van burgers

                                              Inlichtingendiensten AIVD en MIVD lijken hun eigen AI te trainen met data van burgers, zo stelt burgerrechtenbeweging Bits of Freedom (BoF). De organisatie reageerde op een rapport van de Commissie Toezicht op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (CTIVD) over het onrechtmatig verwerken van persoonsgegevens in bulkdata door de inlichtingendiensten en dat die persoonlijke privacy beter moeten beschermen.

                                              Bij de uitvoering van hun taken maken de AIVD en MIVD gebruik van zogenaamde bulkdatasets. Het gaat om omvangrijke verzamelingen persoonsgegevens met soms miljoenen regels gegevens. Daarbij kan het gaan om namen en telefoonnummers maar ook om locatiegegevens, socialmediagegevens of inhoudelijke communicatiegegevens. De gebruikte datasets zijn afkomstig van overheidsinstanties. Het kan echter ook gaan om commercieel verkrijgbare datasets, of gestolen datasets die door criminelen worden aangeboden."
                                              .,,.,.,.,.

                                              security.nl/posting/943398/Bit

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                                                [?]Nicola Fabiano » 🌐
                                                @nicfab@fosstodon.org

                                                Daily Digest | 6 July 2026

                                                Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

                                                5 stories you should not miss.

                                                Read more: nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

                                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                                  @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                                  Transhumanists: the dream of upgrading humans negativepid.blog/transhumanist

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                                                    [?]MissConstrue [She/Her (Crone Extraordinaire)] » 🌐
                                                    @MissConstrue@mefi.social

                                                    conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as children while bombarding its competitors’ models with disturbing prompts ranging from suicide to cannibalism.

                                                    Internally known as “,” the project, run by Meta contractor , targeted ’s , ’s , and .AI chatbots using throwaway under-18 accounts.

                                                    Prompts focused on suicide and self-harm, eating disorders, and sex or romance, all written from the perspective of a child.

                                                    Wanna know where some child porn is coming from? is building it in to every AI he can pay to touch.

                                                    Eat the rich. Kill the . the data centers.
                                                    wired.com/story/meta-contracto

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                                                      [?]input » 🌐
                                                      @feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com

                                                      📰 Hundreds Support Legal Defense for Engineer Charged with Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

                                                      "Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer" who's been accused of damaging over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year and even knocking down their poles....

                                                      📰 Source: Slashdot
                                                      🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/06/0011246/hundreds-support-legal-defense-for-engineer-charged-with-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

                                                      #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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