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

📰 Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public

It was late January, and Pinterest engineer Teddy Martin was on edge about recent layoffs at the company. Martin had just survived a round of cuts, but he and other employees were confused about wh...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/policy/906122/pinterest-employee-fired-obstructionist-speaks-out

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

🤖 Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracks user frustration and raises new questions about AI privacy

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📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1sap7bz/anthropic_leak_reveals_claude_code_tracks_user/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

#AI #OpenAI #privacy #technology

https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069

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Image of a computer screen with the Open A.I. logo and the words "Open A.I."

#Cloudflare Announces #EmDash As #OpenSource "Spiritual Successor" To #WordPress

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-EmDash

#FOSS #cybersecurity #AI

Docker Expands Reach with Local LLM Deployment Tool

Docker Model Runner (DMR) allows users to download and run AI models like LLMs on their local computers, saving money and improving privacy. Learn how it works.

#Docker #AI #LLM #Tech #LocalAI

https://newsletter.tf/docker-model-runner-local-ai-deployment/

Critics can’t dismiss evidence they don’t like. CCIA-backed research shows #AI development is deeply reliant on text & data mining, 99% of firms say it’s essential, and without a UK TDM exception, investment could drop 17–38% as projects move abroad. Smart policy should follow the data, not ignore it. Read more from an article by CCIA’s Matthew Sinclair (@mjhsinclair): https://buff.ly/dcoujny

It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills.

From @AssociatedPress: "Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, researchers have identified an unprecedented number of false and misleading images that were generated using artificial intelligence."

https://flip.it/Y8sSPf

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FactCheck #Tech #Technology #Iran

Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir

ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, has withdrawn from the controversial AI company Palantir, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Palantir is known to provide services to the American immigration service, ICE, and the Israeli army.

Six months ago, ABP still held €825 million in investments in Palantir. The pension fund for civil servants in the Netherlands has sold those shares, according to FD.

Palantir is globally renowned for its advanced AI data analysis software, which can combine colossal amounts of seemingly unrelated data such as online communications, DNA, fingerprints, financial transactions, travel records, contacts, and surveillance footage. The software is used by hundreds of intelligence and investigative services worldwide to track down all kinds of suspects. Amnesty International has warned multiple times that the use of Palintir’s software violates human rights.

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#palantir #ABP #ICE #USA #uspol #AI #surveillance

https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/largest-dutch-pension-fund-cuts-ties-controversial-tech-firm-palantir

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116334612940112223

"what's objectionable about Anthropic – and the AI sector – isn't copyright. The thing that makes these companies disgusting is their gleeful, fraudulent trumpeting about how their products will destroy the livelihoods of every kind of worker [...] And it's their economic fraud, the inflation of a bubble that will destroy the economy when it bursts [...] It's their enthusiastic deployment of AI tools for mass surveillance and mass killing" - @pluralistic

#AI #anthropic #Claude #unions

📰 Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements For AI Sneakily Backed By OpenAI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: OpenAI hasn't been shy about spending money lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with child safety adv...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/0345206/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-sneakily-backed-by-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

#Mercor says it was hit by #cyberattack tied to compromise of #OpenSource #LiteLLM project

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-open-source-litellm-project/

#cybersecurity #AI

Daily Digest | 2 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

"Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. "All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/
#AI #linux

Mobile video surveillance: AI, smart city e trasporti: della Redazione La videosorveglianza mobile si conferma uno dei segmenti piu' dinamici dell'industria della sicurezza, grazie alla capacita' di offrire monitoraggio flessibile e in tempo reale in contesti operativi complessi. A differenza dei sistemi fissi, le soluzioni di mobile video surveillance...
#surveillance #videosorveglianzamobile #AI #smartcity #trasporti http://dlvr.it/TRqbw8

This is the script from my national network radio report last Monday on recent court decisions holding #Meta and #Google's #YouTube liable in cases involving their impact on children. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yeah, so this is a rather complicated situation and frankly I don't think most of the media is doing a really good job explaining this, though I don't feel that they're doing this on purpose, there's just a lot of layers to understand.

So there have been new court rulings that found Meta and Google's YouTube liable for issues related to how their social media platforms interact with children. YouTube I should note insists that it's a video streaming platform not a social media platform per se, and there is some merit in that argument though as we'll see this is something likely to be determined down the line.

The overarching principle here is that some observers view these kinds of outcomes as being Big Tech's "tobacco" moment, drawing parallels with historical court cases related to smoking and cancer. But many legal experts who've looked at this in depth are less certain where this will all go. There are of course differences between someone physically addicted to cigarettes vs. the assertion that someone's mental state has been negatively affected -- by some percentage -- by say social media, along with all the other components that also affect mental state.

A fundamental complication of course is that for example while you can measure the amount of nicotine in the blood and determine the degree of addiction and direct effects like lung cancer, trying to make similar determinations regarding complex factors such as one's mental state seems like a different kind of problem, even if you could somehow separate out the various influences in a rigorous manner. So putting this all together it appears to many in the legal community that as these cases move up the court system, and I believe the companies have already pledged to appeal, appellate courts may take a different view than the lower courts when they consider these same issues and associated matters such as the first amendment, privacy and other concerns surrounding attempts at age verification, and so on -- issues we've talked about here in the past.

So in a very real way it's widely felt that there is a long road ahead likely all the way to the Supreme Court, which has already expressed some skepticism about broadly blaming Big Tech social media for these kinds of issues. This is one situation where it's not at all clear how the current Supreme Court might actually rule, especially because these issues are controversial among both political parties.

However, I do want to draw a sharp line where often it seems that very different issues are being inappropriately blurred together. And that's the difference between social media and large language model AI, e.g. AI chatbots. And this seems like a very different category than social media. Social media traditionally has mostly dealt with third party content and been protected by what's called Section 230, and the controversies regarding that protection are deeply enmeshed within this entire complex of issues.

But at least in my view, #AI chatbots -- which you'll recall have been implicated in suicides and a murder -- represent FIRST party content on the part of their Big Tech firms, and without any doubt these firms should be held fully responsible for all effects that their chatbots have on individuals.

And this difference between third party content and first party content IS something that is all too often muddled in discussions about Big Tech, and I don't think that kind of confusion helps solve these problems. These issues will be getting more complex. For example, Google is now facing a new class action related to their AI Search and the Epstein victims. We're NOWHERE near the end of these controversies. We've really only just begun.

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#Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/oracle_cuts_jobs/

#cybersecurity #AI

CCIA supports the bipartisan Future of AI Innovation Act, an important step to strengthen U.S. leadership in #AI. Advancing standards, boosting research, and deepening public-private collaboration will help ensure the next wave of AI breakthroughs is built in America. Read our statement here: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/03/ccia-supports-senates-bipartisan-future-of-ai-innovation-act/ 1/2

#Claude #AI finds #Vim, #Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/claude-ai-finds-vim-emacs-rce-bugs-that-trigger-on-file-open/

#cybersecurity

"Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned." The point is to create a chilling effect. #AI https://werd.io/the-right-is-using-ai-content-scanners-to-try-to-supercharge-book-banning/

Proton reports a 770% rise in Big Tech data requests, with Google, Apple, and Meta sharing data from millions of accounts with authorities. Centralized data collection enables disclosure, raising risks for children’s privacy and long-term digital profiles 🔍

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-government-requests-parenting

#TechNews #Proton #BigTech #Privacy #DataRequests #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Encryption #DataProtection #Security #AI #Technology #Internet #Families #IT #Google #Apple #Meta

Daily Digest | 1 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

Proton Workspace launches a privacy-first productivity suite combining Mail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet, VPN, and Lumo AI. Businesses retain full control over encrypted data, shielded from Big Tech and external surveillance 🔒

@protonprivacy

🔗 https://proton.me/business/blog/proton-workspace

#TechNews #Proton #ProtonMail #ProtonVPN #ProtonWorkspace #PrivacyFirst #Privacy #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Encryption #VPN #Office #Collaboration #DataProtection #DigitalSovereignty #AI #Compliance #Security #OpenSource

Popular #AI gateway startup #LiteLLM ditches controversial startup #Delve

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/popular-ai-gateway-startup-litellm-ditches-controversial-startup-delve/

#cybersecurity

@nixCraft

The npm installation method is now deprecated.
Native installer is faster, requires no dependencies, and auto-updates in the background.
...the main cleanup step is making sure the old npm version is fully gone.

I almost didn't want to post, but since the wood folk have so little joy in their lives they dance around the fire in the woods, every time they think clankers stumble.

Youse are getting excitable over deprecated code, which in #Ai is last Friday push to prod.

#claudecode #vibecode #claude

Tim Cook talks #Apple's 50th anniversary, future of #AI and #privacy

https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/tim-cook-talks-apples-50th-anniversary-future-ai/story?id=131137939

It’s Apple’s birthday tomorrow. We’ve put together a collection of articles reflecting on its 50-year history, from humble beginnings to major triumphs and failures, and what the future might hold for the tech giant.

https://flipboard.com/@tech/50-years-of-apple-h1gulfo0hno2af65

#Apple #SteveJobs #TimCook #AI #TechNews

📰 OkCupid settles claims it shared user photos with a facial recognition company

Dating app OkCupid agreed to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived millions of users by sharing their photos with a third-party facial recognition company without their c...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/policy/903999/okcupid-settles-claims-it-shared-user-photos-with-a-facial-recognition-company

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📢 If you’re based in the EU 🇪🇺 , don’t miss the chance to get financial support for your @w3c #WebStandards work and present your contributions at #w3cTPAC, taking place in #Dublin 🇮🇪 this October!

⏰ Submit you rproposal(s) by 24 April: https://standict.eu/open-call/open-call-2

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Daily Digest | 31 March 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