The State of California has finally disclosed the use of 6 high-risk automated decision making (AI) systems in operation including pretrial, unemployment claims processing, test proctoring and plagiarism detection. #AI https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/california-admits-government-ai-risk-after-denying/

#Firefox #AI #Chatbot feature exposed users to #email theft risk

https://cyberinsider.com/firefox-ai-chatbot-feature-exposed-users-to-email-theft-risk/

#privacy #cybersecurity #LLM #Mozilla

New video about Signal📽️

Signal's President @Mer__edith on The Mishal Husain Show @bloomberg

About data-driven business models, AI assistants, and more!

Watch it here 🍿👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/ai-wants-your-life-tech-boss-meredith-whittaker-says-no-the-mishal-husain-show/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #AI #privacy

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116775461671762518

I've known about this back in early 2024 and it was pretty awesome first time I tried it, albeit with a really small model since I only had a 1050 Ti, Ryzen 3 1300X and 16 gigs of ram back then. I was getting like < 5 tk/s.

I mean it's to be expected but it's better than nothing when we don't have internet which happens sometimes.

This stuff's been out there for a while that I'm a little surprised people are only catching up with local stuffs

#ai #localllm #llm

"It's possible to come up with entirely fictitious solutions to entirely real problems." #digitalsovereign
No way.... #AI #blockchain #crypto #ponzi

If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI
Then: AI = 0

"If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:"
Thank you so much, @pluralistic !

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

If you hit a writer's block, it's because you don't know something. Learn something!

And don't for the love of god try to fix it by using a fucking #LLM

#noAi #ai #art #writersblock

Well, that didn't take long. There was never a good reason for #Mozilla to force unwanted #AI into #Firefox. Zero.

Firefox pipes the page title into the user prompt, creating a prompt injection vector that lets attackers trick the AI into accessing and exfiltrating personal information like email verification codes.

https://insinuator.net/2026/06/vulnerability-disclosure-stealing-emails-via-firefoxs-ai-features/

Daily Digest | 19 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

Stop the use of facial age estimation tech in the UK asylum process!

Some of the most vulnerable children in the world will be exposed to inaccurate and biased AI tools.

Read the open letter to the Home Office signed by ORG and 60 organisations, led by Foxglove and Human Rights Watch ⬇️

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/open-letter-home-office-facial-age-estimation-children/

#RefugeeWeek #ai #asylum #immigration #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

#libreoffice #joplin #microsoft #office #copilot #opensource #oss #ai #linux #macOS #windows

ICYMI: Agentic ad tech tries to take over the buying layer as AI search budgets surge: AI agents claim the programmatic ad buying layer as WPP forecasts AI search reaching 39% of search revenue by 2031 and Adobe finds 86% impulse buy monthly. https://ppc.land/agentic-ad-tech-tries-to-take-over-the-buying-layer-as-ai-search-budgets-surge/ #AdTech #ProgrammaticAdvertising #AIMarketing #DigitalMarketing #AI

Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

New post: Highly Verbal Does Not Mean Words Are Easy

https://lanie.work/advocacy/highly-verbal-does-not-mean-words-are-easy/

#Advocacy #Accessibility #Disability #Neurodivergent #Communication #Writing #Ai #Personal

hate to say i told ya so, but...

(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)

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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces

WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals

WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.

The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup

The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.

https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/wa/wa-police-launch-ai-camera-surveillance-to-catch-criminals-20260619-p608c7.html

#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy

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A 2018 Facebook post from me: tbh, i can see police body cameras being linked to facial recognition databases in the future, and becoming a tool of state surveillance used against the populace instead of tools surveilling the state and protecting the populace.

Why is every website like this now

#ai

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Screenshot of a website with the headline "AI-Native AI For AI Companies," subtitle "AI helps you scale AI at the speed of AI so you can have more AI in your AI," main button "Chat with AI." Page footer: "Our customers do more AI with AI than any other AI company." Menu links: AI Features, Agentic Integration, MCP, Current Prices, Build with AI, Layoff Announcements, Talk to our Sales Agent. The background image appears to show little glowing boxes moving on conveyor belts and through LED-covered pipes.

The Post-Quantum Deadline

The encryption guarding today's AI systems and their records is being copied now to be broken later. Sovereign intelligence must be quantum-safe from genesis, not retrofitted, and the deadline is not a date on a calendar. It is today.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/the-post-quantum-deadline

#SovereignAI #AI #DataSovereignty #PostQuantum #Pantheon

🌎 We must take back control of our data and our mental and physical privacy in a way that respects human dignity.
💯 Technology must add value to human life, not degrade it through invasive and privacy-degrading practices.

#privacy #privacymatters #ai #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #freedom

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The text describes that unprecedented AI chaos must be faced with worker empowerment and solidarity and that privacy in intricately related to personal autonomy and freedom.

Brave Origin, minimalist paid build, launches at $59.99 one-time, removing AI, VPN, Wallet, Rewards, while retaining Shields and Chromium patches.🧭
Linux users get Origin free, while other platforms can toggle or strip optional features, reflecting a more modular, privacy controlled browser build.🔧

🔗 https://brave.com/blog/brave-origin/

#TechNews #Brave #BraveOrigin #Privacy #Browser #FOSS #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #Linux #AI #VPN #DataPrivacy #Tech #Security #Chrome #Chromium #Free

Enormous data pipelines powering major generative #AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of #privacy by design

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/global-enormous-data-pipelines-powering-major-generative-ai-systems-are-rooted-in-mass-invasions-of-privacy-by-design/

ICYMI: DoubleVerify launches DV Neura, its AI engine for agentic ad campaigns: DoubleVerify today launched DV Neura, its cognitive AI engine with MCP integration, agentic execution agents, and a nearly 300x rise in content classification. https://ppc.land/doubleverify-launches-dv-neura-its-ai-engine-for-agentic-ad-campaigns/ #DoubleVerify #DVNeura #AI #Advertising #AdTech

⚖️ Field Notes from a Year of OPSEC Training

Late last year, as part of our annual “Year in Review” series, we summarized our efforts providing digital privacy and security advice to at-risk communities. OPSEC trainings (short for operational...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/field-notes-year-opsec-training

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.

"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).

Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:

👇
https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-Use-Carbon-water-and-land-footprints

You just can’t ignore a headline that reads “A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight.” A grassroots movement of tech workers called the Guardian Alliance was launched today with the goal of forcing their companies to deploy AI responsibly. @Techcrunch has the full story:

https://flip.it/gXZa7I

#AI #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence

Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before.
#AI #Climateemergency

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Politico: News Energy and Climate Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

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West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

@bkuhn @conservancy @dalias

> While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for using #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.
>
> Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

Sorry, I usually really value your opinions on stuff, as you tend to run contrary to the so-pragmatic-they'd-pimp-their-own-mothers attitude that is far too prevalent in (F)OSS, but hard disagree.

There's a big difference between knocking someone for using a MacBook and knocking someone for using an LLM.

Using a MacBook harms the user in ways that are somewhat debatable. Its harm outside of the user is very negligible and even more debatable.

Using LLMs harms us all. I don't doubt that there are valid and ethical applications for LLMs in many sectors, but you don't build a giant baby shredder on top of an indigenous burial ground and then suddenly pivot to saying, "But wait, it can process potatoes, too!"

If we're not talking about the theft of human creativity, the theft of potable water, the theft of human labor and wages, the promotion of über-fascist plutocrats, and all of the other horrendous harms associated with LLMs, then we're not talking about LLMs. We're engaging in some kind of fantasy roleplay.

Respectfully,

—Some dingbat named Dane, or something, who loves humanity and freedom.

In a policy statement¹, @conservancy said:
> “#FOSS projects should not shun contributors who choose to use LLM-gen-AI systems.”

@dalias' reply:
>> “LOL WTF NOPE. 🤡”

While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for *using* #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.

Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

¹ https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

#OpenSource

Malicious #JetBrains Marketplace plugins steal #AI #API keys from developers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-jetbrains-marketplace-plugins-steal-ai-api-keys-from-developers/

#cybersecurity

Facial age estimation tech is being rolled out in the UK asylum system ⚠️

A damning investigation from Lighthouse Reports reveals that the Home Office’s own assessment of these tools found them to be deeply flawed.

Yet it's being rolled out regardless of the potentially dangerous consequences.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ai-migrant-border-age-technology-home-office-b2994568.html

#asylum #ai #immigration #RefugeeWeek #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

‘Dangerous’ #AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

https://www.wired.com/story/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/

#cybersecurity #Anthropic #Claude #Fable #Mythos