LOL I totally ignore the NY Times nowadays (especially the opinion section) but

#Ai #economy

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NY Times Opinion: A.I. Is Strangling Our Economy

How a seemingly harmless image can jailbreak #AI

https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/how-image-jailbreak-ai/

#cybersecurity

Clean #GitHub repo tricks #AI coding agents into running #malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clean-github-repo-tricks-ai-coding-agents-into-running-malware/

#cybersecurity #AgenticAI #AIAgent

Asian #AI startups launch #Mythos-like models as #Anthropic’s export ban drags on

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/

#cybersecurity

Who will thrive in the AI age? The Atlantic's David Brooks describes three types of people who experience AI, from the "Productive Passengers," the "Reluctant Optimisers" to the "Mental Marathoners"—two of them seem to lead to cognitive decline and one could hold the key to mastering AI instead of being led by it.

Which one are you?

 https://flip.it/VxWZtE

#AI #Psychology #Happiness

Organizations spend billions cleaning the same entity data. A new LF Research report with BrightQuery, FINOS, and Overture Maps Foundation examines how open entity graphs lower that cost, reduce AI hallucinations, and improve compliance across financial services, supply chains, and more.

Read the full report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-data-on-global-entities
#OpenData #LFResearch #FINOS #AI

#Trump Admin releases #Anthropic #Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/trump-admin-releases-anthropic-mythos-to-be-used-by-more-than-100-us-companies-agencies/

#AI #cybersecurity #Claude #politics

OSINT search techniques: how to find what others miss #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/advanced-osint-search-techniques/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

📰 Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/top-google-security-staff-warn-search-data-could-be-hacked-thanks-to-eu-plans/

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

You know this, I know this, it's still nice to have a comic about it.

#AI

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A black and white comic in 4 panels : - a man standing to a large machine twice his size, announcing in a microphone : "My GENIUS machine will find SOLUTIONS to ALL the world's PROBLEMS !" - the machine starts slightly vibrating while the man looks at it : "Thinking", says the machine in a different font. - The machine continues in the same font : "You ALREADY HAVE all the solutions. You just REFUSE TO IMPLEMENT them to protect the financial interest of the wealthiest 0.0001%". The man doesn't look pleased. - The screen of the machine has gone dark as the man unplugs it. Sweating bullets, he goes : "It just needs some tweaking".

Daily Digest | 29 June 2026

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

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

ICYMI: AI takes control, identity cracks, and Google closes the spam loop: Brand automation without consent, the LiveRamp succession race, Amazon's expanding commerce data reach, the Google June spam update, and the first autonomous AI ad buy all converged in the final 48 hours of Cannes Lions week. https://ppc.land/ai-takes-control-identity-cracks-and-google-closes-the-spam-loop/ #AI #Marketing #CannesLions #DigitalMarketing #AdTech

‘#Datacentre developers often enter into nondisclosure agreements with local officials, so it is not possible to see why they were approved without environmental-impact assessments or input from residents.

“I am getting reports from people where their local leaders are changing zoning laws for this to happen,” she says, incredulous that anyone would bypass democracy to that degree.

Erin Brokovich seeing the bigger picture on why #AI datacentre growth is so hard to stop
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres

8 underrated online tech resources #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/8-underrated-online-tech-resources/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

"A survivor of the #BondiBeach terror attack has said he received "an influx of hate, of abuse, of vilification, of #AI manipulation" after the #shooting in December.

#US-based #socialmedia platform #Gab has been "hostile" in its engagement with #Australia's #antisemitism #royalcommission, a counsel assisting says.

The third hearing block of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will focus on the spread of #hatespeech #online and in traditional media sources."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-29/bondi-antisemitism-royal-commission-social-media-hate/106853944

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

"O'Leary has been a mainstay on TV screens for years, and he's famous for playing the jerk."

Kevin O'Leary has entered a new villain era [as datacentre tycoon] https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-oleary-data-centers-2026-6 #AI #GenAI #LLM #KevinOLeary #CDNPoli #DataCentres

The Circle: The Scariest Part Isn't Big Tech. It's Us.

When The Circle hit theaters in 2017, many people saw it as another tech thriller. Today, it feels less like science fiction and more like tomorrow's news feed.

The movie is based on Dave Eggers' bestselling novel, often called the 1984 of the digital age. Ironically, the film improves on the book in one important way. Instead of explaining every idea through endless dialogue, it lets us see them. The result is faster, smoother and much easier to watch. But it still feels more like an essay than a real story.

Mae Holland lands her dream job at The Circle, a giant tech company that looks like a mix of Google, Apple, Meta and TikTok. The campus is bright, colorful and full of smiling people. Everyone talks about changing the world. That is the first warning sign.

Modern tech companies rarely say they just want to build products or make money. They promise to make humanity better. The Circle sells exactly that dream. Soon Mae believes privacy is outdated. If you have nothing to hide, why keep secrets? She starts wearing a tiny camera that livestreams her entire life. Every second. Every conversation. Every emotion. Imagine if your entire life became one endless Twitch stream.

This world feels like a strange combination of George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Control no longer comes through fear alone. It comes through convenience, entertainment and the promise of a better future. Looking at today's AI boom, smart homes and endless social media feeds, the movie suddenly feels much less fictional than it did a few years ago.

One scene stands out. The Circle suggests that voting should happen through its own platform. If everyone already has an account, why not connect democracy directly to the app? It sounds efficient. Maybe even practical. The movie briefly asks whether democracy itself could become a product owned by a private company. That is one of its most interesting ideas.

Sadly, it never explores that question.

Instead, the ending takes the easy Hollywood route. Rather than challenging the system, it blames a few powerful executives. Once their private emails are exposed, the audience is expected to believe justice has been served. As if replacing a CEO could solve everything.

But that misses the real problem.

Systems survive because people are replaceable. Remove one tech billionaire and another one will take the job. The real issue is a business model built on collecting more data, measuring human behavior and turning attention into profit. It doesn't matter whether the CEO is friendly or arrogant. If the machine stays the same, the result stays the same.

That idea feels even more relevant today. We often argue about individual tech leaders. But should we? The real question is why any company should have that much power in the first place. Whether it is Meta, Google, Apple or the next AI giant, the structure remains the same.

The movie also lets us off the hook too easily. It is comforting to blame powerful corporations. Harder to admit that we help build this world ourselves. We accept the cookies. We install the apps. We trade privacy for convenience. We buy smart speakers, connect everything to the cloud and tell ourselves it is worth it because life becomes easier.

That may be The Circle's biggest weakness. It criticizes Silicon Valley's worldview but forgets to criticize ours. Most people are not driven by ideology. They simply choose what is new, useful and comfortable. That is how surveillance becomes normal—not because anyone forces us, but because we quietly invite it into our homes.

The movie offers only one alternative: rejecting technology completely and escaping into nature. But that feels just as unrealistic as total digital transparency. It presents two extremes while ignoring everything in between.

Despite its flaws, The Circle remains a fascinating warning. Not because it predicts the future perfectly, but because so much of its future has already become our present.

Why am I writing about such an old movie? Shouldn't we have much smarter, deeper movies about AI, surveillance and Big Tech by now? Or have we simply become so used to these technologies that we no longer notice what is happening? Has Silicon Valley slowly won us over with its own propaganda? If you know any newer movies or series that tackle these questions in a more thoughtful way, let me know in the comments. I'm always looking for the next great warning before it becomes reality.

#TheCircle #movie #film #entertainment #cinema #Hollywood #criticism #filmcritic #siliconvalley #bigtech #bigdata #bigbrother #orwell #surveillance #privacy #warning #danger #today #future #ai #technology #software #algorithm #freedom #democracy #economy #power #billionaires #finance #money #company #humanity #ethics #world #life #control

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movie poster from the circle with the face of Emma Watson

Digital detox: reclaiming balance #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/digital-detox-reclaiming-balance/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

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

@nixCraft

No. Time for more drastic legal.action.

All this crap is evidence for VERY strong antimonopoly action when voters throw the pedophile protection racket out. GOPedo

Shall not stand. Break up tech bros monopolies into dozens of small companies.

#ai #ram #drives #monopoly #marketControl #teddyRoosevelt #TrustBusters

Most privacy thinking is still stuck on storage: who has my data, where's it kept, can I delete it. AI changed the question. It builds a model of you from everything you feed it, and that model is the one thing you can't open and read. Wrote up where that leaves us, and what I actually do about it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/ai-and-your-data?r=7o0dk0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#InformationSovereignty #AI #Privacy #DataSovereignty #SelfHosting #DigitalRights

Can you tell this voice is AI? It sounds very human to me.

Free tool used to generate audio: #Omnivoice on #Linux

This is the reading of Part II to the poem:
Muspilli

meaning "World's End"

(from the year 870 AD, originally written in Old German by anonymous)

Old High German is no longer used today in normal communications, but #AI could still translate it.

http://john1126.com/537

#German #OldGerman #poetry #poem #AIaudio #TextToSpeech #prophecy

My survey showed that 99% of you do not agree with the LLMs when they say that Microsoft has changed their ways and are no longer an Evil Empire.

The question is also then how the LLMs all come up with a very similar, but wrong text? LLMs are not intelligent. They just repeat the prevailing Truth and this means they can easily be manipulated in the same way SEO is used to manipulate search rankings. Anyone looking at search results knows how badly that is working and the risk is that the all knowing LLMs are and will be manipulated in the same way.

I think this matters a lot as more and more are looking at LLMs as some infallible source of information. We struggle enough with misinformation on the Web, that is pushed by the content algorithms on social media. LLMs have the potential to be an even worse source of crucial information than those content algorithms.

#AI #Technology #Politics

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Showing results of survey. 99% believe Microsoft is still an Evil Empire, while 1% believe they have changed.

Elicitation: the art of gathering information through conversation #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/elicitation-the-art-of-gathering-information-through-conversation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

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

More cleanup and polishing in this month's Acuitas diary. I added the last features to the new Episodic Memory, and worked on (but couldn't quite finish) rule-following in the Game Engine.
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/06/acuitas-diary-98-june-2026.html
#SymbolicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #NLP

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A large classical building with a stylized American flag hanging between the columns of the front portico's colonnade. Broad stairs with several people on them lead up to the portico. In the foreground a city street with trees and five parked cars is visible.

The best way to learn to #write well is to read voraciously, and the best way to lean to #read well is to write incessantly. The most reliable way humanity preserves and expands its knowledge is through reading and writing.

Today, college kids are using #LLM to read and write for them. Their professors are using LLM to generate and grade assignments. The kids respond in kind by using LLM to do the assignments. #AI is the only party in this “efficient” exchange who is improving its reading and writing skills and is learning ever so deeply about the patterns of human behaviour.

UK launched largest facial recognition programme in British history: 27 police forces, £26m, LFR in knife crime hotspots. Algorithm has documented racial bias, scans everyone, 50 vans deployed. Mainstream coverage: almost none.

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uks-largest-facial-recognition

#FacialRecognition #LFR #Surveillance #Police #KnifeCrime #Privacy #AI #UKPolitics