#Microsoft to invest $10 billion in #Japan for #AI and cyber defence expansion

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/

#cybersecurity #politics #cyberdefense

#OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/heres-why-its-prudent-for-openclaw-users-to-assume-compromise/

#AI #cybersecurity

Daily Digest | 6 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

"First, you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) use this technology for mission-critical work; only for low stakes tasks, or questions to which a clever (and significantly more energy efficient) human can recognize a wrong answer.

Second, that the idea that scaling will make for better models is nonsense: no amount of compute chucked at an LLM will make it a less-hallucinogenic product. Creating AI that rewires itself and creates new information the same way humans do and avoids the kinds of catastrophic errors we see at the moment needs a full fresh start (something Marecki and many others are already working on).

And third, that the massive spending by the hyperscalers (much of it via debt) on giant data centers might be one of the the greatest misallocations of capital of all time. It just isn’t required. That’s particularly the case given there are already free LLM models you can download to a laptop (no data center needed, and better still, your privacy guaranteed) that do what the very large models do. If the paid-for versions have already hit their ceiling and just aren’t going to get any better (it looks like they aren’t), why pay for them? Quite."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-04/waiting-out-ai-s-super-spending-false-start-merryn-talks-money

#AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #LLMs #Chatbots #AIBubble

A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis predicts this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/language-insufficiency-meets-generative?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#philosophy #language #midjourney #images #rendering #communication #vectors #ai #genai #generativeai #languageinsufficiency

ICYMI: Basis launches Compass: the DSP that turns a brief into a live campaign in minutes: Basis today launched Compass, an agentic AI tool that converts campaign briefs into omnichannel media plans in minutes, cutting planning time by up to 90%. https://ppc.land/basis-launches-compass-the-dsp-that-turns-a-brief-into-a-live-campaign-in-minutes/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #AI #Omnichannel #MarketingAutomation

ICYMI: Adthena's 29M-query report reveals what's actually working in AI search ads: Adthena analyzed 29.1 million queries across 10+ industries to map how ads perform in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT - here are the numbers. https://ppc.land/adthenas-29m-query-report-reveals-whats-actually-working-in-ai-search-ads/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #SearchAds #PPC #AdTech

Japan’s population has been in decline since around 2011, creating something of a demographic and labor crisis. Enter the AI-powered robot. Companies are increasingly deploying the machines across factories, warehouses and other areas. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/1H8v6c

#Tech #AI #Japan #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries

11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac. For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 sec...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/04/05/0120236/apple-brings-device-level-age-verification-to-two-more-countries?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

@Tutanota @Mastodon @ecosia @nextcloud

I've been avoiding Ecosia since they started in with #AI services.

#NoAI

Basis launches Compass: the DSP that turns a brief into a live campaign in minutes: Basis today launched Compass, an agentic AI tool that converts campaign briefs into omnichannel media plans in minutes, cutting planning time by up to 90%. https://ppc.land/basis-launches-compass-the-dsp-that-turns-a-brief-into-a-live-campaign-in-minutes/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #MediaPlanning #CampaignManagement

Using AI in a legal context is perfectly defensible. Not following up and not performing due diligence is lazy and derelict. This extends to any serious endeavour.

https://www.whro.org/2026-04-03/penalties-stack-up-as-ai-spreads-through-the-legal-system

#philosophy #law #legal #ai #negligence #lazy #duediligence #performance #article #npr #lawyers #lawschool #attorneys #authoship #responsibility #accountability #references #citations #writing #publishing

Adthena's 29M-query report reveals what's actually working in AI search ads: Adthena analyzed 29.1 million queries across 10+ industries to map how ads perform in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT - here are the numbers. https://ppc.land/adthenas-29m-query-report-reveals-whats-actually-working-in-ai-search-ads/ #AI #SearchAds #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #PPC

In a post from 2024, I made a point on the insufficiency of language to faithfully render an image from a prompt. In this example, I wanted it to depict a specific woman and dog oriented to a tree in a forest. Although me endeavour was unsuccessful, it made my point.
https://philosophics.blog/2024/11/08/the-insufficiency-of-language-meets-generative-ai/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #language #llm #genai #ai #image #translation #interpretation #cognition #consciousness #perspective #mediation #representation #blog #history #instruction #art

📰 Ireland is testing out a digital wallet that conducts age verification for social media users

Before it's publicly available later this year, the Irish government is trialing its Government Digital Wallet, which includes a way to verify a user's age to access social media platforms. In its ...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/ireland-is-testing-out-a-digital-wallet-that-conducts-age-verification-for-social-media-users-175002131.html?src=rss

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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AI scribes in health care raise risks for patients and privacy
#Canada #HealthCare #AI #Health #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy #DataProtection #MedicalEthics #Technology #PublicHealth #Policy #DigitalHealth #Innovation #PatientSafety #MedicalCare
https://the-14.com/ai-scribes-in-health-care-raise-risks-for-patients-and-privacy/

#Perplexity’s “#IncognitoMode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/perplexitys-incognito-mode-is-a-sham-lawsuit-says/

#privacy #AI

I find it hard to keep track of what news organizations, book companies*, etc. now publicly acknowledge that they publish AI slop. I feel like someone must be trying to keep a DB/list tracking this, and if so Fedi would surely be the place someone would know about it. So, does it exist?

* the specific inspiration here was seeing a promotion for O'Reilly books and thinking, "wait, didn't I see somewhere that they're allowing LLM-generated text now?"

#AI #LLM #journalism #books

#microsoft #ai #satya #slop

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Today in #Overmorrow: “Sora, and the cost of real things.”

No, Sam Altman, what your users made DIDN’T matter.

Read it online or subscribe for free here:
https://overmorrow.tech/sora-and-the-cost-of-real-things/
#tech #ai #newsletter

#ClaudeCode leak used to push #infostealer #malware on #GitHub

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/claude-code-leak-used-to-push-infostealer-malware-on-github/

#Claude #AI #cybersecurity #DataBreach

I saw https://gist.github.com/greenstevester/fc49b4e60a4fef9effc79066c1033ae5 pop up online today. Unified memory is very important if you want to run #Ollama on a Mac. The more memory you have, the better the model you can run. A Mac Mini with 64 GB of memory is $2,109, while a Mac Studio with 128 GB of memory is $3,149. It takes 16–18 weeks to receive the Mac Mini, whereas the Mac Studio takes 4–5 months.

I kind of want to get a Mac Studio to do this sort of thing, but I don't have $3k sitting around, and even if I did, it would take half a year to get it.

#AI #Apple #MacStudio

"My cohort started referring to ourselves as the forgotten year. As we progressed, the program was vanishing behind us."

Kennedy Lashley, as told to Jes Mason, at Toronto Life: https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/this-generation-was-pummelled-by-covid-high-school-now-the-job-market-wants-to-replace-them-with-ai

#Longreads #GenZ #GenerationZ #Education #AI #Animation #College #Learning

CCIA and tech associations sent a joint letter to the White House warning that singling out U.S. companies in the Anthropic dispute could undermine #AI leadership. Clear rules, not sanctions, are needed to protect innovation and maintain global competitiveness. Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/03/tech-associations-ccia-send-white-house-letter-on-preserving-us-ai-leadership-in-response-to-anthropic-dispute/

Researchers at MIT are using #AI to create personalized, durable 3D-printed items. By simulating stressors during the design process, their new system ensures everyday objects and critical assistive technologies remain structurally sound and functional.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/genai-tool-helps-3d-print-personal-items-sustain-daily-use-0114

Group Pushing #AgeVerification Requirements For #AI Sneakily Backed By #OpenAI

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/0345206/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-sneakily-backed-by-openai

#privacy #World

Is OpenAI chasing vibes? CNBC says the company's M&A strategy gets more confusing with TBPN purchase.

The "scattered" approach has included the $6.4 billion purchase of Jony Ive’s devices lab and health-tech startup Torch.

https://flip.it/zdxK3e

#OpenAI #AI #Technology #Tech #TBPN

If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.

Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.

What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right problem to solve, solving it elegantly, and doing so in a way that’s maintainable and sustainable given your means.

Code is not an artefact, code is a machine. Code is either a living thing or it is dead and decaying. You don’t just write code and you’re done. It’s a perpetual first draft that you constantly iterate on, and, depending on what it does and how much of that has to do with meeting the evolving needs of the people it serves, it may never be done. With occasional exceptions (perhaps? maybe?) for well-defined and narrowly-scoped tools, done code is dead code.

So much of what we call “writing” code is actually changing, iterating on, investigating issues with, fixing, and improving code. And to do that you must not only understand the problem you’re solving but also how you’re solving it (or how you thought you were solving it) through the code you’ve already written and the code you still have to write.

So it should come as no surprise that one of the hardest things in development is understanding someone else’s code, let alone fixing it when something doesn’t work as it should. Because it’s not about knowing this programming language or that (learning a programming language is the easiest part of coding), or this framework or that, or even knowing this design pattern or that (although all of these are important prerequisites for comprehension) but understanding what was going on in someone else’s head when they wrote the code the way they wrote it to solve a particular problem.

It frankly boggles my mind that some people are advocating for automating the easy part (writing code) by exponentially scaling the difficult part (understanding how exactly someone else – in this case, a junior dev who knows all the hows of things but none of the whys – decided to solve the problem). It is, to borrow a technical term, ass-backwards.

They might as well call vibe coding duct-tape-driven development or technical debt as a service.

🤷‍♂️

#AI #LLMs #vibeCoding #softwareDevelopment #design #craft

“- The AI Act prohibits specific biometric inference practices, not biometric categorization as such – Many forms of biometric categorization, such as categorization based on non-sensitive physical traits or for purposes that do not involve inferring the listed characteristics, do not fall within the prohibition.

- The objective and design of the system are central to determining whether the prohibition applies – The prohibition is not triggered only by the presence of biometric analysis, but by the intended inference of protected attributes from biometric data.

- The relationship between this prohibition and EU data protection law needs further clarification – Given that the AI Act itself clarifies that it does not affect the application of the GDPR, and some processing of biometric data that may result in biometric categorization can be lawful under Article 9(2) GDPR when following its strict conditions, further clarification is needed with regard to the intersection of the two laws.”

https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-understanding-the-prohibition-of-biometric-categorization-for-certain-sensitive-characteristics/

#EU #AI #AIAct #Biometrics #DataProtection

Daily Digest | 3 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

Anthropic source code leak #Guardian article yesterday #llms #claude #ai #news #zeroday https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Jeez. This Claude code leak. Sloppy sloppy slop.

> https://cyberpunk.gay/notes/akjr3ydangf7000m

The fact that this unbelievably shitty slop leaked is basically a crisis for every single Claude slopper (major global company), but one can assume all other GPT derivative comparable products are exactly this. Sheesh, and you wonder why they suck. Jeez Louise. #ai #llms #cybersecurity #programming #leak #sourceCode #zeroDay

📰 PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are "private by default," it makes them viewable to anyone wi...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906253/granola-note-links-ai-training-psa

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

California requires AI vendors working with the state to implement safety and privacy guardrails. Companies must adopt standards preventing misuse and protecting user rights. 🤖

🔗 https://www.cnet.com/tech/newsom-signs-executive-order-requiring-ai-companies-to-provide-safety-privacy-guardrails/

#TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy #Safety #Government #Public #Politics #GovTech #FOSS #Transparency #UserControl #Regulation #DataProtection #EthicalAI #Policy #OpenStandards #DigitalRights #California #US #USA