The Pokémon Company has announced the Pokémon TCG AI Battle Challenge!

Developers will compete to create an AI capable of defeating human players and rival AIs in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Grand Prize: $50,000

#PokemonTCG #Pokemon #AI #GeekRealmHub

📰 Evan Spiegel doesn't want you to call Snap Specs AI glasses

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more. Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot.

📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2195862/snap-specs-ceo-evan-spiegel-interview-at-awe-2026/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Most publishers aren't ready for agentic advertising, Optable's test reveals: Optable's agent readiness self-assessment maps six pillars publishers must fix before agentic AI buying reshapes how inventory is discovered and transacted. https://ppc.land/most-publishers-arent-ready-for-agentic-advertising-optables-test-reveals/ #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AI #MarketingStrategy #AdTech

"There's a (false) story that's told about people who championed the early internet: that we were blithely certain that technology could only be a force for good, and negligently disinterested in the possibility that technology could control, extract and harm. That's demonstrably untrue: recall cyberpunk's dualism of "the street finds its own use for things" and "cyberpunk is a warning, not a suggestion."

More true is to say that early internet champions were alive to the importance of the internet, and therefore both excited about the possibilities of the internet to deliver a world of connection, idiosyncrasy, love and solidarity; and about the danger of the internet as a dystopian system of surveillance and manipulation:
(...)
History isn't finished. Long after the AI bubble pops, there will be local models and people vibe coding homemade software that respond directly to their needs. The stuff we make on our own computers, for ourselves, is deplatformed from its inception. It's part of the life we can build in technology's "shadowy corners" that we used to just call "technology." The fact that this stuff is utterly unsuited to be production code makes it inherently unmonetizable. It's how the street finds its own use for things:"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/

#AI #LLMs #BigTech #LocalLlamas #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #OpenSource #FLOSS #OpenWeights #Amateurism

Chainguard's new Athena coalition uses AI to fix open-source flaws - before attackers exploit them https://www.zdnet.com/article/chainguard-athena-coalition-fixes-open-source-flaws-before-ai-attackers-exploit/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

#Opensource security has a new #AI problem. But @chainguard_dev has a plan, and plenty of friends, to help you get on top of it.

Doing things wrong really fast is not the same as doing things right

#AI

#Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on #Anthropic’s most powerful models

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/

#Mythos #Fable #AI #politics

ICYMI: Brainlabs' Ali Reed on why independent agencies are winning the AI era: Brainlabs Chief Growth Officer Ali Reed argues that independent agencies are seizing the high-margin, AI-driven layer of work that legacy holdcos are ceding. https://ppc.land/brainlabs-ali-reed-on-why-independent-agencies-are-winning-the-ai-era/ #AI #Marketing #IndependentAgencies #AdTech #DigitalMarketing

Can someone tell me where we get that new planet to produce the energy and water needed for all these AI gadgets? Worst, most of them are likely coming with severe privacy violations and planned obsolescence.
#AI #IoT
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/qualcomm-ceo-ai-devices-agents.html

New attack turned #Microsoft365 #Copilot into 1-click data theft tool

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-attack-turned-microsoft-365-copilot-into-1-click-data-theft-tool/

#Microsoft #AI #cybersecurity

🐧 Firefox 152 streamlines its Settings and adds a new way to mute tabs

Mozilla has released Firefox 152 with revamped Settings, new privacy controls and faster ways to share web content – plus a peculiar new way to mute tabs. The update is available from today (15 Jun...

📰 Source: OMG! Ubuntu
🔗 Link: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/firefox-152-released

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

#FBI disrupts massive #AI-powered #phishing service using a million URLs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-disrupts-massive-ai-powered-phishing-service-using-a-million-urls/

#cybercrime #OutsiderEnterprise

#Amazon CEO’s Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on #Anthropic Models

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/amazon-ceo-s-talks-with-us-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models/ar-AA25yS3I

#Fable #Mythos #AI #cybersecurity #politics

Voice Age Verification

https://agewarden.ai/

#HackerNews #Voice #Age #Verification #technology #AI #age #verification #security #privacy

#OpenAI investigated by coalition of state attorneys general

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-investigated-by-coalition-of-state-attorneys-general/ar-AA25wmMD

#privacy #AI #ChatGPT #LLM

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116515611978395782

@mike_k the linked gist includes a few places of interest.

Cc @rl_dane @governa

#AI

🕹️ Crash Bandicoot Returns To The Retro Dimension In New SNES ROM Hack

🤝Like our website? Support us as an independent publisher by tipping, joining our paid community or checking out our accessories brand GAMENOOK!When I think of the PS1, I think about Crash Bandicoo...

📰 Source: Retro Dodo
🔗 Link: https://retrododo.com/crash-bandicoot-returns-to-the-retro-dimension-in-new-snes-rom-hack/

#RetroGaming #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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The US Supreme Court has upheld Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods, ending a 6-year battle. Meanwhile, Canada introduced Bill C-36—its biggest privacy reform in 25 years—and Relativity launched aiR Assist to bring generative AI to case analysis.
#tariffs #legaltech #AI

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

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Daily Digest | 16 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

"Fix This Code". And Fable did. And that's why the US govt banned it, according to Katie Moussouris.

https://www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fable-5-export-controls-harm-us-cyber-defense

#FixThisCode #Fable5 #AI

Given these days you can't even expect #Gentoo contributors to be respectable, I'm working on adding a git hook that rejects commits with #LLM attribution. Could you help me find all the common patterns used to mark LLM-assisted #git commits?

So far I'm checking for author and Co-authored-by using the following e-mail patterns:

• copilot@github.com
• *@anthropic.com
• claude@users.noreply.github.com
• *+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@openai.com
• *+chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@cursor.com
• *@x.ai
• *@google.com

I think some people came up with some other tags to mark LLM commits but can't find that right now.

EDIT: added Assisted-by.

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI

The Guardian: Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion

"...The Gwangju massacre is a painful memory for many. Over 10 violent days, paratroopers crushed pro-democracy protests against military strongman Chun Doo-hwan. Victims’ groups say hundreds were killed.

Starbucks branded the date of its promotion “Tank Day”. It also featured the slogan “thwack on the desk”, evoking a notorious police explanation for the 1987 torture death of student activist Park Jong-chul. Authorities falsely claimed he had died after an officer “hit the desk with a thwack” during questioning.

Marketers chose the “thwack” slogan after consulting an AI tool for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said...."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/starbucks-korea-shut-all-stores-tank-day-promotion

#starbucks #AI #fiasco #korea

ICYMI: AI Overviews drain publisher traffic as ad tech's trust seals lapse: Google AI Overviews drained two publishers' search traffic and closed one site after 21 years, while Google and The Trade Desk let their TAG fraud seals lapse. https://ppc.land/ai-overviews-drain-publisher-traffic-as-ad-techs-trust-seals-lapse/ #AI #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #SEO #Traffic

A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/15/world/gen-z-tech-trend-anti-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #analogartificialintelligence #ai #cyberdeck #alphabet #google #ebay #siliconvalley #microsoft #siliconvalley #genz

⚖️ EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance

LGBTQ+ communities are facing an escalating wave of censorship and targeted surveillance, but we can push back through mutual solidarity. Join us live to learn how safer virtual spaces get built, h...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/effecting-change-lgbtq-solidarity-against-tide-surveillance

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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What a good read!

> A growing economy used to be a rising tide that lifted all boats. Post-AI, it may only lift a handful of yachts.

It's really long, but very well worth it. Puts some real substance and lessons from history against arguments, to try and paint an extrapolated picture of what #BigAI will likely do to us and our society.

**A true risk that #AI poses to liberal democracies.**

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

#GenAI #LLM #BigTech

"We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.

We therefore call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to take all steps to ensure that other AI systems they provide do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This includes the use of AI decision-support systems, including target generation systems, remote biometric surveillance, and multimodal AI models, including large language models (LLMs). AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at speed and at scale, and currently no technical or procedural fixes can effectively prevent the lethal and devastating consequences that stem from the fundamental challenges it poses to international law."

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-ai-in-warfare/

#AI #AIWarfare #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw

Daily podcast: Facial Recognition use is accelerating... and our laws are doing almost nothing to protect us...

#News #TechNews #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #FacialRecognition #AI #podcast

https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/fra

Facial Recognition use is accelerating... and our laws are doing almost nothing to protect us...

#News #TechNews #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #FacialRecognition #AI

https://youtu.be/FBKE7ZzK_So

Carbon before silicon.

#AI #ButlerianJihad

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All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To — And I Will Never Speak To You — I Do Not Want To Hear “Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

Oh, my. Well, this is awkward. Here I thought I'd become a daddy, all-knowing AI.

From Google:

You may have recently received an email from us with the subject line "Your child’s new privacy settings for Search services."

This email may have been sent to you in error. This communication was intended only for parents who manage their child’s Google Account. If you do not manage a child's account, no action is required on your part.

Thank you for your understanding, and we apologize for any confusion or concern this may have caused.

#Google #AI

LLMs don't "know" anything. They're just guessing the next word. 🤯

But that guess is built from 100B+ parameters, trained on basically the internet.

We explain how it works, why it lies sometimes, and how to run one (Gemma 4 / Qwen 3.6) on your own PC.
https://geekrealmhub.com/what-is-llm-guide-large-language-models-local-ai/

#AI #LLM #Tech