#ClaudeCode can now take over your computer to complete tasks

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/claude-code-can-now-take-over-your-computer-to-complete-tasks/

#AI #Claude #AgenticAI #AIAgent #cybersecurity #privacy

https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2026_03_25 this is the page/slides for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXvUO2g1QA ( still live now)

#ai #llms #knowledge #ontology #discussion

"The gap cannot be closed by scaling alone." #ai #live

Argh I was missing it #LIVE #LIVENOW #ONTOLOGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXvUO2g1QA talk *just* starting at the 2026 summit #KR

Unsatisfactory #neurosymbolic #AI

📰 Apple’s iOS 26.4 update adds age verification in the UK

Apple now requires users in the UK to verify their age with the launch of iOS 26.4. In a support page on Apple's website, the company says users must confirm that they're over 18 to "use certain se...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/900284/apple-ios-26-4-uk-age-verification

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

It's genuinely worrying how many Tech companies don't have a plan B for what they will do if their AI gambit fails. Given the amount of money that poured into the sector, it should be likewise concerning how many investors don't have a plan B. Maybe it is just a sign that money has become truly meaningless for some.
#AI #investment

📰 Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK

Apple has introduced more than just new features, like an AI playlist generator, with iOS 26.4 in the UK. The company now requires users in the region to verify their ages and to prove they’re 18 y...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-introduces-age-verification-for-icloud-accounts-in-the-uk-115340237.html?src=rss

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/as-teens-await-sentencing-for-nudifying-girls-parents-aim-to-sue-school/

#privacy #AI #nudify #nsfw

Daily Digest | 25 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

I've spent the last few hours discussing this point with several LLMs.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/24/100-human-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

If the AI tells are so well-known and predictable, why don't we simply reverse them?

tl;dr? Grok suggested I go all in and pepper my output with LLM-isms just to make a point. Choke the LLM-detectors with their own poison.

#philosophy #rant #ai #llms #claudeai #grok #delve #tapestry #— #bollox #writing #authenticity #effort #voice #games #statistics #tldr #wahwah #hashtag #notAI #advice

#lispyGopherClimate #technology #podcast #live https://toobnix.org/w/5QbQiLw7zrFiETgbv32kJk first half missing?

@kentpitman #climate #haiku

- One week from today is #LambdaMOO's annual festival, April Fool's.
- Let's have a text based #MUD #bonkwave pool party / concert

Notably /after/ submitting my #ELS2026 #commonLisp #deepLearning article https://european-lisp-symposium.org/2026

we just had this great thread: https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116286095082069619 I will read #bookstodon and #programming suggestions by @riley and others. #ai #DL #ML

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Lispy Gopher Climate + Someodd banner. Someodd spaceship shines rays down upon the incredible unix_surrealism art of the lisp alien and grizzled gopher speaking to a beautiful computo. LISPY GOPHER SHOW Wednesday 0UTC anonradio.net SUNDAY 8UTC toobnix.org

OpenAI has announced it is shutting down its Sora video-generating service, weeks after raising $110 billion in fresh funding. In October, the Sora 2 app became the most popular in the iOS App Store's Photo and Video category and in December, the Walt Disney Co. announced it had reached a three-year deal with OpenAI to bring many of its characters to Sora, pledging a $1 billion investment. Here's more from NBC.

https://flip.it/NdNNll

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Sora #Disney #OpenAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6godSEVvcmU
#malus #opensource #freesoftware #foss #ai #llm

A company that bills itself as a "search engine for the best webinars" is turning Zoom meetings into AI-generated podcasts, in some cases without the knowledge of participants and potentially putting them at risk. Tom Rademacher, a teacher and editor, told @404mediaco that for participants' safety, he had intentionally not recorded a webinar for educators and education advocates on keeping kids safe from ICE. Then he received an email from someone called Sarah Blair saying: "Your webinar is featured on the Phil & Amy show."

 https://flip.it/uXtWqZ

#Technology #Tech #Zoom #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Will #AI force #code to evolve or make it extinct?

https://thenewstack.io/ai-programming-languages-future/

#FOSS #OpenSource #privacy #cybersecurity

News sites have experienced a loss in web traffic over the last couple of years and some experts believe that's partly due to AI. Andrew Blackman from @WSJ details the changing landscape of Google Search and SEO.

Gift link: https://flip.it/MnLgif

For more Tech Longreads check out our Magazine, updated by human editors:
https://flipboard.com/@tech/magazines/sid%2Fuhv8f0osy%2Ftech/edit

#AI #SEO #TechNews #SocialMedia

404 Media: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

"...WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out to them directly to say their call was turned into a podcast in an attempt to promote WebinarTV’s services.

WebinarTV claims to host more than 200,000 webinars. It’s not clear how it’s recording so many Zoom calls without permission, but in some cases the stolen videos posted to WebinarTV can put call participants at risk. ..."

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

#ai #privacy #bigbrother

OK, here's something very disturbing. We know UK aircraft were flying daily surveillance flights over #Gaza for at least the first two years of the current #GazaGenocide.

Here's a senior British military officer saying "in Gaza, from sensing to something firing, seven seconds" thanks to #AI.

If true, that's a #WarCrime

The Briefing Room: What's the current state of the UK's armed forces?
Starting from: 00:07:34

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sr4w

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0n7ktly.mp3#t=454

NicFab Newsletter #13 — March 24, 2026
This week: Rome Court annuls €15M OpenAI fine · EDPB CEF 2026 on transparency (25 DPAs) · Chat Control — no deal between Parliament and Council · EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion on Cybersecurity Act 2 & NIS2 · AI Act delay approved · EU sanctions Chinese & Iranian entities for cyberattacks
🎙️ NEW: Podcast — Legal Prompting, Episode #1
🔖 AI Act in a Nutshell – Part 13: Article 17
📖 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/newsletter-issues/2026-03-24-issue-13/
#Privacy #GDPR #AIAct #Cybersecurity #LegalPrompting #AI

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/24/openai-hires-meta-ad-veteran-dave-dugan-chatgpt-ad-sales-xcxwbn/

OpenAI Hires Meta Ad Veteran to Lead ChatGPT Ad Sales

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Advertising #AdTech #Chatbots #DaveDugan

Daily Digest | 24 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

I completely agree, Caithyn… or should I say… Claude!

#ai #bots #fediverse

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A private mention (reply to a post about Elon Musk’s latest attempt to destroy humanity): Caithyn @caithyn@mastodon.social 24/03/2026, 03:46 Replying to @aral Absolutely agree. Space isn't anyone's private playground — the orbital environment and night sky belong to all of us. Companies moving fast and breaking things in space without proper regulation is dangerous for everyone

That looked like a happy night time read, NOT. (Did not borrow it from the library). #books #ai

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Book if anyone builds it everyone dies. Why superhuman AI would kill us all

Meta will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs on May 8, restoring its ability to scan message content for moderation and legal compliance 🔍.

Privacy advocates warn the shift marks a retreat from private messaging, while Meta cites user safety and fraud prevention as justification 🔒.

🔗 https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/tiktok-meta-no-privacy-controls-why-explainer/

#TechNews #Meta #Instagram #Privacy #Encryption #Security #Data #Safety #AI #Moderation #Compliance #SocialMedia #UserRights #Transparency #DigitalPolicy

@reckless1280, editor-in-chief of @theverge, was one of the people whose name was used without permission in Grammarly's short-lived "Expert Review" feature. He talked to Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's parent company Superhuman, about what happened.

https://flip.it/WlgMcb

#Grammarly #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

An excellent article by Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon on OpenAI's reaction to the Tumbler Ridge tragedy:

OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance

https://theconversation.com/openais-safety-pledges-in-the-wake-of-tumbler-ridge-arent-ai-regulation-theyre-surveillance-278364

"True AI regulation asks whether a model might facilitate or amplify harmful ideation through its interaction patterns. It asks how the system is built, what it’s tested for and what obligations attach to its deployment.

The current arrangement asks none of these questions. Instead, it builds a pipeline from private AI interactions to law enforcement, administered by a corporation, governed by proprietary policy.

I call this the surveillance substitution: a governance vacuum gets filled not with democratic regulation, but with corporate surveillance of users. It is not regulation of AI. It is regulation of the people who use AI, conducted by the AI company itself, with the police as the endpoint."

#NoAi #AI #OpenAI #CanPoli

Working with #ClaudeCode to see if it could work its way through a fairly simple refactor if it could refactor this extended class in order to keep all of the current code, but it couldn't come up with a non-messy solution with any amount of coaching.

During a meeting last week, I decided to try this task with #AI, but it seems to be too much.

OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #Surveillance #Privacy #Canada #Regulation #CivilLiberties #AIEthics #DataPrivacy #Tech #Government #DigitalRights #Accountability #Policy
https://the-14.com/openais-safety-pledges-in-the-wake-of-tumbler-ridge-arent-ai-regulation-theyre-surveillance/

Restoring a 15th-century masterpiece usually takes countless hours, but with AI helping conservators and art historians, it could take just over three. @euronews explains how:

https://flip.it/KFx-LK

#Art #TechNews #AI