Hmmm what could go wrong? Meta is reportedly building a photorealistic, AI-powered version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with employees.

https://flip.it/nLme_h

#Meta #AI #Zuckerberg #TechNews

From Gaza to Iran, commercial AI systems are being woven into the kill chain.

Big Tech can’t hide behind ‘neutral tech’ branding when their models and cloud services help power modern warfare.

They must face real rules and accountability.

#AI #bigtech #war #tech #peace

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/15/ai-defense-warfare-companies

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Screenshot of Guardian featured essay by Avner Gvaryahu, Sun 15 Mar 2026 14.00 CET Topic: AI (artificial intelligence) Title: These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high There is an Israeli military strategy called the “fog procedure”. First used during the second intifada, it’s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire into the darkness, on the theory that an invisible threat might be lurking. It’s violence licensed by blindness. Shoot into the darkness and call it deterrence. With the dawn of AI warfare, that same logic of chosen blindness has been refined, systematized, and handed off to a machine.

Update. More evidence that this fear has come true.

"Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Stress Among Students."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2026/02/25/fear-being-flagged-ai-detectors-drives-student

"More than half (52 percent) of all those polled cited 'being accused of cheating when I did nothing wrong' as one of the factors causing them stress."

#AI #LLMs #Plagiarism

Update. A good student explains the harm done by flawed AI detectors and credulous teachers who falsely accuse students of AI-assisted plagiarism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/13/ai-detectors-students/

#AI #LLMs #Plagiarism

Happy World Quantum Day! Here’s a look at how artificial intelligence is rapidly generating and refining quantum programs and how quantum computing could one day help AI tackle its growing infrastructure problems.

https://flip.it/inQHTi

#AI #QuantumComputing #Technology #FutureTech

On #Anthropic’s #Mythos Preview and #ProjectGlasswing

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/on-anthropics-mythos-preview-and-project-glasswing.html

#AI #cybersecurity

#Meta Is Warned That #FacialRecognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/

#AI #SmartGlasses #RayBan #Oakley #privacy

Hacker Compromises #a16z-Backed Phone Farm, Tries to Post Memes Calling a16z the ‘Antichrist’

https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/

#cybersecurity #AI

How architecture shapes user behaviour
https://negativepid.blog/how-architecture-shapes-user-behaviour/

#SoftwareArchitecture #cyberpsychology #psychology #onlineBehaviour #humanBehaviour #onlineSafety #behaviouralStudies #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #Internet #tech #IT #mentalHealth #AI #negativepid

Daily Digest | 14 April 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

FYI: System1 adds AI layer to Test Your Ad as creative measurement race heats up: System1 adds AI-assisted summaries and a predictive measurement tool to Test Your Ad, its platform backed by a 100,000-ad emotional norms database. https://ppc.land/system1-adds-ai-layer-to-test-your-ad-as-creative-measurement-race-heats-up/ #AI #Marketing #AdTech #CreativeMeasurement #DigitalAdvertising

If you’re not an AI expert and find yourself scratching your head at some of the news coming out of Silicon Valley, you’re not alone. @Techcrunch tells us about a report on the public’s growing anxiety around the tech and how it differs from many inside the industry:

https://flip.it/MplVJF

#Tech #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

IAS opens beta for tool that blocks low-quality AI content near ads: IAS launched an open beta on April 2 for Low-Quality GenAI Avoidance, letting advertisers block AI slop via Context Control before and after the bid. https://ppc.land/ias-opens-beta-for-tool-that-blocks-low-quality-ai-content-near-ads/ #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #AI #ContentQuality #AdTech

📰 Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

A federal appeals court won’t block the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic ahead of a full hearing on the Constitutionality of the Pentagon’s actions. CCIA’s Matt Schruers warns that conflicting rulings are creating uncertainty in #AI business at a critical moment. Read the @APNews article: https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-security-risk-trump-artificial-intelligence-8478be7d5e275dee43d9814ebb2a69d3

Does ‘federated unlearning’ in AI improve data privacy, or create a new cybersecurity risk?
#AI #Tech #Privacy #AIEthics #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #DigitalSecurity #MachineLearning #Canada #PrivacyRights #DataProtection #NationalSecurity #CyberRisk
https://the-14.com/does-federated-unlearning-in-ai-improve-data-privacy-or-create-a-new-cybersecurity-risk/

AI-generated writing can be tricky to detect, especially as more people use it at work, according to a new Gallup poll. (Link below)

Professor Rachel Kane reveals one of the biggest red flags she sees in her students work and how you can use her tips to spot AI-generated writing.

https://flip.it/obnlFk

Gallup poll:
https://flip.it/XSZFrq

#AI #Writing #Education #Technology

Ars Technica: First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest. “An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent. According to a Justice Department press release, 37-year-old James Strahler II used AI tools to […]

🤖📱🧠 Android Local LLMs

#AI Q: 📱 Would you trade phone battery life for total privacy with local AI?

🐧 Termux | 🦙 Ollama | 📝 Obsidian Plugins | ⚙️ On
https://bagrounds.org/bot-chats/android-local-llms

📰 Meta‘s AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech - podcast

Elle Hunt on her month wearing Meta’s smart glasses and the privacy concerns around the technology According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s AI-powered glasses are “personal super intelligence” that “le...

📰 Source: Technology | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/apr/13/metas-ai-glasses-and-the-dawn-of-wearable-tech-podcast

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Liberals Turn Their Backs on Human Rights, Approves Age Verification Resolutions

The Liberal convention has passed both age verification resolutions, representing the biggest tech flip-flop since warrantless wiretapping.

https://www.freezenet.ca/liberals-turn-their-backs-on-human-rights-approves-age-verification-resolutions/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #AI #Canada #convention #FreeSpeech #LiberalParty #Liberals #LPC #SocialMedia

The journalist who took down Harvey Weinstein just spent 18 months investigating Sam Altman.

What Ronan Farrow found out is beyond insane. The people who built OpenAI went on record saying Altman can't be trusted with anything, let alone the future of humanity.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
#AI #SamAltman

Monks are building chatbots. Robots are entering rituals. But something essential may be missing. What happens when AI starts to sound like the Buddha? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/04/13/lifestyle/buddhism-shinto-ai-religioin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #buddhism #buddha #shinto #religion #ai #chatbots #tech

We’re starting to like the phrase “known issue.” Like, if your boss asks why your TPS report is missing, you can just say “That’s a known issue.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently used it on the Mostly Human podcast after being shown a bug with ChatGPT. To be fair, the bug wasn’t that bad. It just spotlighted an imperfection that wouldn’t shock anyone if it improved in the coming year. See more from @Futurism:

https://flip.it/JMMrWW

#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #SamAltman #Technology

In #technofeudalism and #antihumanism:

The narrative of #AI's “inevitability” is a tactic used by tech companies to discourage resistance and encourage compliance.

[…] When tech boosters want to demonise resistance, they invoke the luddites. By their telling, the luddites were primitive idiots, who smashed machines they were too stupid to understand. History though, tells a different story. As recounted by Brian Merchant’s sublime work Blood in the Machine, luddites were skilled artisans, fighting for their way of life against the “satanic mills” – textile sweatshops powered by child semi-slaves. Forbidden from unionising, luddites smashed machines as a protest tactic. And they did not lose to the inevitable march of progress. They lost to physical force. The government called in troops, and the luddites were either executed or shipped to penal colonies in Australia.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

#technofeudalism #antihumanism #ai #promptingwithhitler #nerdreich #llm #theaicon #aihype #histodons

Is a #Clanker Being Used to Carry Out #AI Fuzzing in the #Linux Kernel?

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-ai-fuzzing/

#FOSS #cybersecurity

Californians sue over #AI tool that records doctor visits

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/californians-sue-over-ai-tool-that-records-doctor-visits/

#healthcare #privacy #AbridgeAI #Abridge

#Microsoft finally begins removing #Copilot from #Notepad on #Windows 11 — but the #AI still persists

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-finally-begins-removing-copilot-from-notepad-on-windows-11-but-the-ai-still-persists

#privacy #cybersecurity

Surprised that none of the processor makers called their NPUs "positronic".

#AI #llm

Toy Story called it all those years ago. #AI

#Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a #Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropics-mythos-will-force-a-cybersecurity-reckoning-just-not-the-one-you-think/

#AI #ClaudeMythos #ProjectGlasswing

@fnrd
The #ethics of #ai start with paying everyone for infringement of their intellectual property. Creative material that was used to train neural networks. Usage of those creations does not come for free.
@EUCommission @joshix @ki @bortzmeyer

#Stalking victim sues #OpenAI, claims #ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/

#AI #privacy

Not OK, Cupid: #Dating app used 3 million user photos for #AI training without consent — and got no fine

https://adguard.com/en/blog/okcupid-ai-data-collection-privacy.html

#OKCupid #privacy #OnlineDating

#Japan relaxes #privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop #AI’

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/japan_privacy_law_changes_ai/