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!"

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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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❓ 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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#Meta's Keystroke-Logging Employee #AI Training Program on Pause After Internal Data Leak

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/06/23/metas-keystroke-logging-employee-ai-training-program-on-pause-after-internal-data-leak/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach

🤖 ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools

Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report saysA new report sheds light on the unprecedented ...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/24/ice-tech-surveillance-arsenal

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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📰 FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones

Privacy advocates and domestic violence groups say ID mandate is a big mistake.

📰 Source: Ars Technica
🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/fcc-plans-id-mandate-that-could-block-anonymous-use-of-prepaid-burner-phones/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Did you like the Web better before it got messed up by Big Tech and AI? It is still there, you just need to look for it.

#Vivaldi #BigTech #AI #Windows #Macos #Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ftIDyHJ3rs

#Mozilla: The web is evolving. So are we.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/announcing-mozilla-org-new-non-profit/

#AI #FOSS #Firefox #privacy

#Anthropic’s #ClaudeTag is learning your company, one #Slack message at a time

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/anthropics-claude-tag-is-learning-your-company-one-slack-message-at-a-time/

#AI #privacy #Claude

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"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

#Meta debuts new, cheaper smart glasses under its own brand

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/meta-debuts-new-cheaper-smart-glasses-under-its-own-brand/

#SmartGlasses #privacy #IoT #AI

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

🤖 Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns

Workers signed petition against tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer screen contentMark Zuckerberg’s Meta has paused a program that tracked employees’ computer activity ami...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/meta-pauses-employee-tracker-for-ai-training-amid-privacy-concerns

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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"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

Daily Digest | 24 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

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

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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

Interview in PC Magazine. I had a nice chat with Chris Hoffman about some of the choices we make at @Vivaldi, not least when it comes to AI, Crypto and data collection.

#Vivaldi #Linux #Windows #Macos #Android #ios #ai #BigTech #Crypto #Technology

https://www.pcmag.com/news/vivaldis-leader-has-a-bold-pledge-no-ai-in-your-web-browser

“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

Ran across several AI companies that offer services for customers to build their own Enterprise AI platforms.

The issue is that these services are exposing backend Mongodb databases with customer information.

I am not going to name and shame (India), but I cant help but get the feeling that these AI companies were created using AI and does not employ experienced DevSecOps / Engineering staff.

Take care interacting with these "New" AI companies. They have a fly-by-night feeling to them.

#AI #mongodb #devsecops #infosec

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📰 Meta halts worker tracking for AI training due to privacy fears

The company had started just two months ago tracking workers’ computer usage for AI training data.

📰 Source: BBC News
🔗 Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq615g3z36po?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence