📢 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

📂 From the wide range of eligible topics: #a11y, #AI, #IoT, #payments, and many more.

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Obtain financial support for your activities in ICT standards - Submit your proposal to our 2nd Open Call - deadline is 24 April

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

🤖 Newsom signs executive order requiring AI companies to have safety, privacy guardrails

submitted by /u/Fcking_Chuck [link] [comments]

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s8ge2h/newsom_signs_executive_order_requiring_ai/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC.
Clearview's system allows a law enforcement customer to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.
It then provides links to where matching images appear online. It is considered one of the most powerful and accurate facial recognition companies in the world."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface

After another 'AI Detected' flag, I resorted to Gemini to lay it out.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/31/this-post-is-almost-entirely-ai-read-it-anyway/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Gemini produced an entire blog post. It did offer me tips to dumb down my writing, but I declined. I also had NotebookLM create a podcast, cuz that's how I roll.

#philosophy #writing #ai #aidetectors #statistics #falsepositives #aipolice #bollox #blog #podcast #academicessays #lexicaldensity #LLMs #ontologicalgrammar #Parfit #perception #syntacticregularity #critique #Gemini #Kant #language #pooh

Silicon Valley is racing to develop brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancement, but ethical, technical and privacy risks make their use on healthy adults or children highly questionable. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/30/world/boosting-your-brain-with-a-chip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #neuralink #brain #microchips #neurotechnology #superintelligence #ai #artificialintelligence #parkinson #mentalhealth

Bluesky recently launched an AI assistant named Attie, which allows people to create their own custom feeds. It’s also creating a heavy dose of pushback from Bluesky’s AI-skeptical userbase. The only account that’s been blocked more is JD Vance’s. Read more, including Bluesky's take on the product launch, from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/JwXSRk

#Tech #AI #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

The most complete archive of your life may belong to a commercial tech company. What could go wrong? /s

Vauhini Vara explores how search engines and AI systems are shaping memory & identity in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE on the Future Knowledge #podcast, in conversation with moderator Luca Messarra.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/searches

#AI #DigitalCulture #VauhiniVara #LucaMessarra @internetarchive

Was the #Iran War Caused by #AI Psychosis? - https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/ "the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call AI #sycophancy — the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hear." (v @ottocrat)

Reducing friction is key to broader agent adoption.

The Goose agent now works with Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Gemini subscriptions through the Agent Client Protocol—no separate API keys required.

Read more: https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2026/03/19/use-goose-with-your-ai-subscription/
#AI #Agents #OpenSource #AAIF

"It is not impossible to imagine a league that gradually cedes all umpiring to technology in a drive toward adjudicatory perfection." —Elizabeth D. Samet for The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/the-bottom-of-the-ninth/?src=longreads #baseball #ai #automation #artificialintelligence #error #perfection

Distributed inference is becoming a standard cloud native workload.
#llmd has joined the #CNCF Sandbox, bringing Kubernetes-native routing, orchestration, and disaggregated serving to AI inference.

Learn more: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/03/24/welcome-llm-d-to-the-cncf-evolving-kubernetes-into-sota-ai-infrastructure/
#Kubernetes #AI #CloudNative #CNCF

⚖️ EFF's Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show! Tonight Monday, March 30

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show tonight, Monday March 30, at 11 pm ET and PT, speaking with host Jon Stewart. Cindy will discuss her long history of fighting for privacy...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/effs-cindy-cohn-daily-show-tonight-monday-march-30

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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⚖️ Ban Government Use of Face Recognition In the UK

In 2015, Leicestershire Police scanned the faces of 90,000 individuals at a music festival in the UK and checked these images against a database of people suspected of crimes across Europe. This wa...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/ban-government-use-face-recognition-uk

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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This month's Acuitas diary concerns more bugs and enhancements in the Conversation Engine. It's been a tangled mess, but I am slowly refining it ... https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/03/acuitas-diary-95-march-2026.html #SymbolicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots

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A grayscale oil painting of five human figures sitting in a loose circle, facing inward. It's very abstract with minimal detail.

From navigation to cheating in exams, early adopters of AI glasses in China are renting them for as little as $6 a day. Some models offer live translation, real-time calorie tracking, and theater-like movie experiences, but not everyone is sold on the new tech, even as the government encourages citizens to buy it.

https://flip.it/S5xbth

#AI #AIGlasses #TechNews #Tech

#AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says #Linux kernel czar

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/

#cybersecurity #FOSS

Number of #AI Chatbots Ignoring Human Instructions Increasing, Study Says

https://slashdot.org/story/26/03/27/1514235/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says

#cybersecurity

📰 New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges

Their goal is to use biometric data and blockchain to build age-verification measures directly into disposable vape cartridges. Wired reports on a partnership between vape/cartridge manufacturer Is...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/30/0639249/new-company-hopes-to-build-age-verification-tech-into-vape-cartridges?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

@fabos Nothing definitive yet, a discussion here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/641 and one here https://forum.f-droid.org/t/f-droid-policy-on-libre-ai/33279 Keep in mind that #AI corporations push billions into this, while #FDroid is a bunch of humans doing in on pennies. We can't realistically keep up. Better ping your favourite dev and ask them about their policy and tell them your fears (licensing incompatible with #FLOSS, corporate lock-in, etc).

Daily Digest | 30 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

🤖 One-Minute Daily AI News 3/29/2026

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited.[1] AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Ag...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s7gyyf/oneminute_daily_ai_news_3292026/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

If you’ve been looking for a way to customize your BlueSky feed, there’s “a very people-focused” AI app for that. Introducing Attie, an AI assistant that allows you to create custom feeds, design your own algorithms, and, one day, vibe code your own app. Here’s more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/1lm.41

#Tech #AI #BlueSky #Technology #Apps #ArtificialIntelligence

The Nano Banana API comments on blog posts? Is this a thing?

https://philosophics.blog/2024/11/01/midjourney-pirates/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I noticed a comment awaiting approval on my Philosophics Blog. It was from the API commenting on a Midjourney 6.1 post I published in November 2024. It also reminds us of how far image generation has improved in just over a year. It obviously read the content, given the comment…

#ai #generativeai #nanobanana #blog #images #midjourney #progress #api #commenting #workflow #advert #language #philosophy

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116312883173526888

There we go!

I feel like i keep reposting this every week or so..

Bit by bit #Bsky is sliding towards just another clone of #Twitter and #Facebook

Actions speak louder then words

The #Fediverse remains the only true open source, self-hosted world wide community driven by the people

Going #AI (#LLM) is a CHOICE, they again chose wrong

I've been using a digital camera for many years and as a result have a lot of photographs.

How many is a lot?

$ ls -1R Pictures/ | wc -l
53190

Yeah, lots.

Despite having spent lots of time trying to create meaningful directory names it's still not easy to always find a photo I'm looking for.

What would actually be a USEFUL tool for AI would be something that I could run locally which could examine each of my photos and build some kind of free-text database of their contents which I can then grep.

But as far as I can tell nothing along those lines exists. Why have AI tools spent so much time trying to create faked photos and not producing something actually valuable?

#linux #AI #LLM

Public-key cryptography

https://negativepid.blog/public-key-cryptography/

#cryptography #PKC #Internet #secrets #tech #IT #science #STEM #computing #AI #quantumComputing #innovation #Cybersecurity #onlineSecurity #negativepid

Hey everyone, on the hour it is the Sunday morning in Europe #peertube #ARCHIVE

https://toobnix.org/w/ktQA9DTKyAe9yhTdoJupxh

Do I actually even #code though?

A live #demo of two recent programs of mine.

https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/dl-roc-lisp
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicclim

you can run in #commonLisp

(load "dl-roc.lisp")
.
#DL #AI #UI #madeWithLISP #programming #McCLIM

Miscellany
New ECL this week! https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/ @jackdaniel
#XMPP by Glenneth2 https://github.com/parenworks/CLabber
https://cyberhole.online/basic/ is this millenium's teletype

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Lispy gopher show banner! The gopher in interlisp-shirt and many-eyed lisp alien look onward under the beams of someodd flying saucer. 8UTC Sunday toobnix.org 0UTC Wednesday anonradio.net

"Setting aside the moral arguments---"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water---"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

🤖 Surveillance data used to be boring. AI made it dangerous.

Here's a playbook that works today, right now, with tools that are either free or cheap: Someone finds a photo of you online. One photo. They run it through a face ID search and find your other pho...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s6hvhk/surveillance_data_used_to_be_boring_ai_made_it/

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling

It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he m...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/28/2215230/systemd-contributor-harassed-over-optional-age-verification-field-suggests-installer-level-disabling?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#Python #Linux #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

NicFab Podcast is now live on the Fediverse!

Reflections on privacy, AI, and digital innovation with respect to fundamental rights.

🇬🇧 English: @nicfabpodcast_en
🇮🇹 Italiano: @nicfabpodcast

First series: Legal Prompting — how to use AI in legal contexts with method and critical thinking.

Follow us and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Podcast Index, and more.

podcast.nicfab.eu

#Podcast #Privacy #GDPR #AIAct #LegalPrompting #DataProtection #Fediverse #AI

#CISA: New #Langflow flaw actively exploited to hijack #AI workflows

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-new-langflow-flaw-actively-exploited-to-hijack-ai-workflows/

#cybersecurity