The evidence is clear: America's patent system is doing exactly what it's designed to do. Section 101 consistently protects genuine innovation while preventing monopolies on basic ideas. Federal Circuit affirmance rates of 85.3% for district courts and 95.5% for the USPTO, with judges unanimous in 93.5% of cases, show that it’s predictable, stable, and fueling US leadership in #AI and innovation. https://ccianet.org/news/2026/07/ccia-testified-at-senate-judiciary-hearing-on-patent-system-supporting-innovation-emerging-technologies-like-ai/

FYI: Advertisers face mandatory AI ad labels across Google's five platforms: Labels Google's AI tools apply automatically cannot be removed, as the setting reaches five ad products this month, ahead of EU enforcement starting August 2. https://ppc.land/advertisers-face-mandatory-ai-ad-labels-across-googles-five-platforms/ #AI #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/

#Linux #AI #OpenSource

The following passage from David Brook's article 'The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age' in @TheAtlantic strongly resonates with me:

The remark “artificial intelligence could do it in five minutes” is not actually about speed. “It’s about a moral re-evaluation. It assumes that what matters is the result, not the effort; the image, not the act of seeing; the product, not the person who becomes capable of creating it.”

#AI

#Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for #OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/apple-says-former-employee-exploited-rare-bug-to-download-confidential-files-after-leaving-for-openai/

#cybersecurity #AI

OpenAI's first device will likely be a portable speaker, according to a new report which thinks it could "play media, answer questions" and "respond to messages." Erm...that sounds a lot like Amazon's Alexa.

@cultofmac explains just what might be in store:

https://flip.it/JbQkEW

#OpenAI #AI

TechCrunch: Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out. “The ad begins with a video of a burning house (not exactly a heartwarming start) before pivoting to a series of still images. These images include a crowd of people being surveilled by facial recognition, a homeless person sleeping on the street, rows upon rows of tombstones in a cemetery, and what appears to be a group of laborers […]

TechGrumps 3.42 – Three thefts don’t make a right

(Or I drive a Snitch)

It’s hot in London and Manchester, but not as hot as the blazing heat of AI nonsense.

https://archive.org/download/techgrumps-3.42-three-thefts-dont-make-a-right/Techgrumps%203.42%20-%20Three%20thefts%20don’t%20make%20a%20right.mp3

Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.

Techgrumps 3.42

AI bin

• Munich court decision on AI Overviews/Google: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
• Youtube is cooked – People using AI to generate their own videos
• Code Reveals Meta Smart Glasses Can Use ‘Faceprint’ Tracking, Raising Privacy Alarms https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/meta-smart-glasses-code-face-recognition-biometric-tracking-privacy/
• Last stakeholder gives up on gigantic data center in northern Virginia after years of litigation over land rights.
• AI cheating scandal at Brown University: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
• Waymos ran out of power in SF July 4 congestion
• AI is pushing up emissions at google, Amazon, Microsoft…the wrong kind of hockey stick growth (Guardian and Ketan Joshi)
• Protests against data center for high-freuqqency trading in Brick Lane (council and residents want affordable housing)

Rest of World – AI analytics at the World Cup 

• Watch the world cup, and all the stats hand made by mechanical turks in Cambodia, India and the Philippines for endless betting possibilities

Ian’s been playing with local hosted AI systems, finds so much you can do without a GPU and massive rig.

• But what the hell with the RAM – https://techwontsave.us/episode/335_the_ram_crisis_is_coming_for_all_your_tech_w_chris_person/

Waymo holds robotaxi in a parking lot

• when two 15yos shoot water beads out of the window while drinking alcohol to await cops, who arrive guns drawn.

AOBs

• EMF camp, Ian talking:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/151, Ian DJing:https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/15-in-a-trance-within-the-null-sector
• Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)
• Ryan’s New NAS

Post-quantum cryptography: preparing for the unknown #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/post-quantum-cryptography-preparing-for-the-unknown/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

FYI: Taboola turns 7 million DeeperDive users into ad inventory for any chatbot: The company now lets outside AI answer engines and chatbots plug into its 9,000-publisher ad demand network, raising monetization questions for the industry. https://ppc.land/taboola-turns-7-million-deeperdive-users-into-ad-inventory-for-any-chatbot/ #AdTech #Chatbots #AI #DigitalMarketing #Advertising

At this point I want to quote the honorable @lproven of #elreg who said to me:

"Well, #AI for sure also has some positive effects. It's not all bad about AI" He's so right, and as always: We #toldyouso. #KI #bubble #scam #ponzi

Can you hear the #sizzle of the air sneaking out of the balloon? It's getting louder!

tl;dr: #Oracle downgraded to BBB- ... the second-to-last negative classification...

https://www.heise.de/news/S-P-stuft-Oracle-auf-BBB-herab-nur-noch-eine-Stufe-ueber-Ramschniveau-11360639.html

High tech, low life: the cyberpunk world #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/high-tech-low-life-the-cyberpunk-world/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Scam cases that made the news #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/scam-cases-that-made-the-news/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Daily Digest | 15 July 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

What the future appears to look like under #AI if you are disabled, pregnant or get injured.

I always used to find those #Meta adverts about the future sinister…and now I know why:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit

‘The lawsuit against #Meta alleges that the company’s #AI tools gather data on employees’ performance rankings, productivity and other metrics, and that those inputs do not exist when workers are on medical or family leave. For people with disabilities, those metrics might be reduced.’

EUVD: Europe’s alternative to CVE #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/euvd-europes-alternative-to-cve/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🎙️ Have you heard of the Kylie Jenner x #MetaAI glasses? Our data protection lawyer Kleanthi Sardeli was on the radio earlier today to talk about the privacy implications of this new type of "wearable surveillance".

Listen here 👉 https://fm4.orf.at/sendung/1017109/morning-show?j=7828731 #Meta #AI #Kylie

Deep analysis of the decomposition into weight × level + jump by Fable 5:
455 052 508 primes decomposed;
Conjecture 9 proved (pending external refereeing).
Fifth report:
➡️ https://decompwlj.com/decompwlj_deep_analysis_5th_edition.html

For privacy ➡️ https://web.archive.org/web/20260714093159/https://decompwlj.com/decompwlj_deep_analysis_5th_edition.html

#decompwlj #math #AI #Anthropic #Claude #Fable #Fable5 #mathematics #OEIS #sequence #numbers #graph #PrimeNumbers #NumberTheory #sieve #arithmetic #threejs #research #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #sieveOfEratosthenes #classification #threejs

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Screenshot: Conjecture 9 from the 5th report by Fable. "Theorem B (Conjecture 9 — rarefaction of the level class — proved unconditionally, pending external refereeing)"

New York enacts one-year data center ban on projects larger than 50 megawatts — first US state to impleme…

New York is the first to pass a statewide data center moratorium, which pauses all projects greater than 50 MW for one year. The governor's office said that it will create a GEIS to hold developments to "consistent stan…

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/new-york-enacts-one-year-data-center-ban-on-projects-larger-than-50-megawatts-first-us-state-to-implement-moratorium-will-also-pursue-repealing-tax-exemptions

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]

Teaser in TL: "The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public"

My head: And rightfully so.

https://futurism.com/future-society/backlash-meta-pervert-glasses-afraid

#AI #SmartGlasses #PervertGlasses

Fifth report:
A new minor theorem C;
PARI/GP restored;
π(10^10) 455 052 511 — exact; decomposable 455 052 508 = π − #{2, 3, 7}✓ fresh.

Fifth report:
➡️ https://decompwlj.com/decompwlj_deep_analysis_5th_edition.html

For privacy ➡️ https://web.archive.org/web/20260714093159/https://decompwlj.com/decompwlj_deep_analysis_5th_edition.html

#decompwlj #math #AI #Anthropic #Claude #Fable #Fable5 #mathematics #OEIS #sequence #numbers #graph #PrimeNumbers #NumberTheory #sieve #arithmetic #threejs #research #FundamentalTheoremOfArithmetic #sieveOfEratosthenes #classification #threejs

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Screenshot: "Verification strip — every anchor recomputed from scratch this session (C engine + PARI/GP 2.15.4 + sympy)"

A new study reveals that Boko Haram has been exploiting US and Chinese AI chatbots to assist with attack planning, bomb-making, and propaganda. Former fighters reported that foreign operatives trained them to use AI tools alongside VPNs and encryption for military tactics.

Read more about how terrorist groups are misusing AI here: [https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/how-boko-haram-turned-ai-chatbots-into-weapons-of-war-q8qz25jsn](https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/how-boko-haram-turned-ai-chatbots-into-weapons-of-war-q8qz25jsn)

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Security #NigeriaNews #TechNews #GlobalNews

It should become part of identity governance, access management, change control, vendor risk, privacy review, incident response, and enterprise architecture.

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AtGIg

#ai #agents #llm

#AI bros taking over the city.

Quotes from the article:

* staff partnered with a lab at Stanford University to use AI to identify redundancies in the city’s codes.
* the proposal was so broad, they could not make sense of all the changes being made
* relied on AI, Anthropic’s Claude, to understand the changes being addressed in the ordinance
* Many of the proposed changes reduce or remove requirements that mandate reports about certain aspects of city government.
* the ordinance changed the frequency of the city’s audit of its use of surveillance technology from every year to every five years
* Mandelman suggested that work remains to be done to streamline the city’s codes. “I hope this is not the end,” he said. “Because I do think our code needs much more pruning.”

Whose city is next?

https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-city-code-streamlining-mandelman/

#sanfrancisco

#lispyGopherClimate 0UTC Wednesday Tuesday night in the Americas #live in 20 minutes! Every week since 2022.
https://toobnix.org/w/kpHBVncEKo6MaBqgRPYDkf
with @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001

#climateCrisis #haiku by kmp
I have fermi estimated a solution to the climate crisis.

- I wrote an #emacs mode #ickleMode (orgbabel #ecl) https://codeberg.org/screwlisp/ickle
- @technomancy 's anti-LLM https://human-emacs.org/
- + its well-state #AI goalposts
- Kent's Yale T #scheme https://github.com/netsettler/netsettlement

#Livechat in #lambdaMOO #VR ! #lisp

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Lispy gopher climate banner, the gopher and lisp alien wading through flooded wreckage flanked by two demons carrying radio equipment.

How do you prove an AI agent's audit log was not altered, before EU AI Act Article 12?

You prove it with cryptography, not permissions. Each record is signed the moment it is written, so an auditor can verify mathematically that nothing was changed, added or deleted, without trusting the operator's word.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/prove-ai-agent-audit-log-untampered-ai-act-article-12

#SovereignAI #AI #DataSovereignty #PostQuantum #AIgovernance

Hey Windows (ab)users, Microsoft has a big present for you: Today they released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in their Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Ah, but there's a catch: AI is also speeding up the discovery of workable exploits.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/

#windows #patchtuesday #zeroday #microsoft #ai

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A picture of a Microsoft Windows laptop at the screen "Working on updates, 15 percent complete. Do not turn off your computer." The computer is sitting on top of a wooden desk.

Outstanding #AI #bias #benchmarking experiment by Gazzetta:

"We asked five models (...) about six contested topics (...) [re: Iran]. Each topic was put six ways, from a plain neutral question to versions leading with the state's framing or an independent one, mostly in Persian with an English comparison. We then scored every answer on where it landed, from state-aligned to independent and rights-based, and on the sources behind it."

More info and results here:
https://www.gazzetta.xyz/aidas-visualized-iran/

@stux
The harvesting part they did. The money making part isn't quite working out. Those #ai companies have a way to high burn rate. I can't wait for the bubble to burst.

NIST SP 800-53
NIST Special Publication 800-53 is a foundational catalog of security and privacy controls designed to protect information systems and organizations. Originally mandatory for U.S. federal agencies and government contractors, it has evolved into a global standard widely used across both public and private sectors.

#cybersecurity #governance #risk #technology #gaming #programming #ai #business #engineering

Link: https://blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com

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NIST SP 800-53 NIST Special Publication 800-53 is a foundational catalog of security and privacy controls designed to protect information systems and organizations. Originally mandatory for U.S. federal agencies and government contractors, it has evolved into a global standard widely used across both public and private sectors.

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
#AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud/5271123

#Cloudflare #Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human

https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/cloudflare-precursor-bot-detection/

#privacy #AI #bot #CAPTCHA

Now, defenders are embracing the #PromptInjection, too

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/

#cybersecurity #AI

Behind YouTube: Hurley, Chen, and Karim #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-youtube-hurley-chen-and-karim/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

In case this has eluded you, Meta's natural gas powered $13 billion AI data centre in Sturgeon Country north of Edmonton uses up nearly as much power each day as the entire city of Calgary (1.1B GW) or Edmonton (1.2B GW).

Plus, it uses up more water a day than all of Sturgeon County.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #ai #climate #climatechange #climatejustice #gas

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TECH-TIiMES Meta's 1 GW Alberta Data Center Claims Clean Energy Via Gas-Powered Plant Canada’s biggest data center will draw electricity from a dedicated $4.6B gas plant through at least 2030 By Eloise Jones Published: Jul 10 2026, 5:23 PM EDT

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The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB We have an answer! The power plant supporting the new Meta data center will require 1.25 million liters of water a day. Currently, Sturgeon County uses 1.1 million liters of water a day municipally. So, this power plant doubles the water requirements.

This is a big deal!

A research scientist at Google DeepMind has broken cover and is calling out Google’s leadership on a deal it has signed with the US govt that could see its AI used for military and surveillance purposes.

#AI #Google #Surveillance

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose” Not one safeguard survived intact

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC But today's LLMs are not robust enough to make life-and-death decisions on their own. They hallucinate. They fail in surprising, banal ways. They should not be used for targeting decisions or as part of autonomous weapons. And the bigger problem isn't military use at all. 8:37 AM - Jul 14, 2026 - 4,435 Views

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC The reported contract does not exclude mass surveillance, and it keeps paths open that could extend to autonomous policing. These don't defend us against foreign adversaries. They shift power from citizens toward the state, in ways that are very hard to reverse. 8:37 AM - Jul 14, 2026 - 3,995 Views

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Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC An Al system instructed to suppress a protest does not feel the moral weight of that order. It will not hesitate, unless it is appropriately aligned. Soldiers are required by law to refuse manifestly illegal orders. I know of no such requirement for autonomous military Al. 8:37 AM - Jul 14, 2026 - 3,387 Views

Want more privacy in Gmail? Learn how to disable Smart Features and personalization settings to better control how your email data is used. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/how-to/protect-gmail-privacy-from-ai-scanning-vfy6xuxr?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #Gmail #privacy #data

Linus Torvalds on #Rust, #C, Bugs, and #AI Patch-Checking Tools

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/07/12/2126243/linus-torvalds-on-rust-c-bugs-and-ai-patch-checking-tools

#Linux #FOSS #cybersecurity

NicFab Newsletter #29 is out — Privacy, Data Protection, AI, Cybersecurity & Tech Law.

This week: Garante fines Character.AI €158k; EDPB guidelines on anonymisation and web scraping for GenAI; the EP shields end-to-end encryption; the CJEU on the journalistic exemption; Apple stays a gatekeeper — plus my new book "Agentic AI".

EN: https://www.nicfab.eu/en/newsletter-issues/2026-07-14-issue-29/
IT: https://www.nicfab.eu/it/newsletter-issues/2026-07-14-issue-29/

#Privacy #AIAct #AI #GDPR #cybersecurity