📰 Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption

Critics note a lack of factual support lawsuit filed by US Senate candidate.

📰 Source: Ars Technica
🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/texas-ag-sues-meta-over-claims-that-whatsapp-doesnt-provide-end-to-end-encryption/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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“This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

#Google #AI #Chrome #Privacy #Law #Surveillance

The EU AI Act does not stand alone.

It is the architrave of a regulatory ecosystem resting on seven pillars of EU law that continue to apply: data protection, data economy, digital services, cybersecurity, product safety, liability, and international framework.

I produced an original temple-shaped diagram of this systemic reading, now published on:

→ https://www.nicfab.eu/hub/ai/
→ https://ai-resources.eu

#AIAct #AI #EUAIAct #AILaw #AIGovernance #GDPR

Okay, so apparently there's been some "shuffle" between a cyclist and an old lady. The police's looking for the cyclist now, and shared a camera footage looking for help in finding them. Except that the footage is such a low resolution it's practically useless.

So helpful people from the internets used "#AI" to enhance it. So now we're looking at an angry mob looking for a person whose face was generated by an #LLM. Or well, multiple independently generated different faces apparently, but would that stop a mob from lynching a random person?

This fucking crap needs to be outlawed immediately. And whoever's selling it should end up behind bars.

#NoAI #NoLLM

AI today is similar to the industrial revolution, but I think LLMs are like the first steam engines, filthy things barfing out massive amounts of waste and noise and pollution to do very little useful work. A brutal, rough proof of concept.

"Compute" itself, as an abstract resource, is the thing that's become increasingly valuable.

What we decide to compute can be as mundane as gaming, as wasteful as generating social media videos, or as important as solving proteins for medicine.

#ai #llm

#HighSchool Kid Fights #AI Surveillance in His #School & Wins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iatsvj23wiE

🤖 Google's AI Gamble: Will It Kill Search Revenue?

AI in search? Google's betting big. But it might just eat its own ad revenue—and your privacy.

https://www.byte-pulse.net/article/google-s-ai-gamble-will-it-kill-search-revenue

#google #ai #search #gemini

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Google's AI Gamble: Will It Kill Search Revenue?

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk evoked a “Terminator” scenario. But he said nothing about the people AI is already killing

https://interc.pt/4tG8RHW

#OpenAI #ElonMusk #FuckAI #FuckElon #FuckSamAltman #AI #USpol #TechBro

How Deepfakes Tore a #HighSchool Apart

https://www.404media.co/radnor-high-school-pennsylvania-ai-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-material/

#AI #deepfake #nsfw #nudify #parenting #privacy

🔥 TRENDING

📢 Addition of Glassdoor User’s Name to Profile Raises Privacy Concerns - SHRM

🔗 https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimgFBVV95cUxQTFhNeGJabG5XVHkzdllKYUNlTlhlRmNhZlJWX29pdHRuUjBBWHRvaEl0SWE2cG9qT01qS3JLZXZjaW00eHBOelpUTEh6SHJIUGxMeW4wWFVYTHVjQmpqZHRDMUk5MVhFMzU4Ukw3YS1rektIRkpqWFc3RFg3RDhkbHhKTVFBVm5BMXZhWFlvcm9mZEw3TzFPMVRR?oc=5

#Ai #Addition #Glassdoor #User’s #GlobalFeed #News #ARABIC

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Eine interessante Anleitung, um die "KI" komplett aus WP7 auszusperren findet man hier:

Disable AI in WordPress 7.0

Ob das funktioniert? Scheint plausibel zu sein. Ich weiß es aber nicht, weil ich kein WP mehr betreibe.

Für mich wäre es eh keine Lösung, denn durch das Einstricken der "KI" so tief in WP, ist die Software "verbrannt". Der Brunnen ist vergiftet! Denn niemand kann von außen sehen, ob ein bestimmtes WP-Blog nun diesen händischen Killswitch betätigt hat.

Aber eine prima Lösung, für alle, die WP einfach weiter nutzen wollen.

#ki #ai #wordpress #wordpress7

Eine interessante Anleitung, um die "KI" komplett aus WP7 auszusperren findet man hier:

Disable AI in WordPress 7.0

Ob das funktioniert? Scheint plausibel zu sein. Ich weiß es aber nicht, weil ich kein WP mehr betreibe.

Für mich wäre es eh keine Lösung, denn durch das Einstricken der "KI" so tief in WP, ist die Software "verbrannt". Der Brunnen ist vergiftet! Denn niemand kann von außen sehen, ob ein bestimmtes WP-Blog nun diesen händischen Killswitch betätigt hat.

Aber eine prima Lösung, für alle, die WP einfach weiter nutzen wollen.

#ki #ai #wordpress #wordpress7

Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in natural language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)

He said a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down critical infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.

Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.

#AI #microsoft #LLMs

@PaulaToThePeople @MikeElgan

That's one aspect - #AI as a fossil fuel support industry.
Secondly, killing off the free information web, journalism, art, creativity for good - that's worth the initial losses.

Is there something wrong or threatening with the word “disregard?” Entering it into Google’s search box shows an example of how AI overreach can hurt the SERP. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/Jss9Sq

#AI #Google #Technology

The emergence of AI has shone a light on just how thirsty for energy and water digital technologies are. A report released at the beginning of 2026 estimated that global AI use — and specifically the data centers that power AI — emits as much CO2 in a year as New York City. But before blaming chatbots for everything, a simpler way to think about the environmental cost of online behaviour is the amount of data being used at a given time. Read more from @sciencefocus:

https://flip.it/8H-S5h

#Tech #AI #Environment

Why President Trump's executive order on AI was abruptly killed, from @axios.

Registration may be required: https://flip.it/tCqQ1E

#Trump #AI #Technology

🤖 GMX Adds AI Features for Email Summaries and Translations

GMX introduces AI to assist with summarizing and translating emails, focusing on user privacy. How does it compare to Google's offerings?

https://www.byte-pulse.net/article/gmx-adds-ai-features-for-email-summaries-and-translations

#gmx #ai #email #privacy

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One of the AI Act's main difficulties is not reading the Regulation, but turning it into an operational map.

Three new resources now live on nicfab.eu:

→ AI Act Timeline
→ AI Act – Annex I
→ AI Act in Pills

Open access, bilingual IT/EN, updated over time. A navigable editorial infrastructure for compliance, AI governance, data protection, and risk assessment.

👉 https://www.nicfab.eu/

#AIAct #DataProtection #Compliance #GDPR #DigitalOmnibus #AI

Daily Digest | 22 May 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

Rainy day #art sketch. I still suck at Sketchbook, but I'm getting better! No #ai just my terrible artist talent.

so i have heard about the hole AI fiasco, with AI overview and shit. here's mu response, if uou don't want #ai looking at it, keep your shit off the #public #internet . when i make shit on blindsoft.net public, i expect AI to index it. i'm not going to complain because "oh no an AI indexed my site, get the guns and start shooting now now now now now now". if you can index it, AI can too. if you don't want AI indexing it, keep it off the bad big internet. keep it on physical media someone has to touch. if you're putting shit on the internet, you're not actually afraid of AI, you just want the clout that comes off of it. i get there are certain things that AI doesn't need to see. for example, sensitive domains. but if yo're soooooooooooo afraid of AI indexing information, please, don't put it on the public, and don't allow anyone to put it on the internet, that last part might be hard to do, by the way. if yuou do put it on the internet, you're an idiot. an AI can see and index what a i, a human, can

📰 Firefox is working on a rounded redesign with easy-to-find controls for privacy and AI

Firefox is getting a drastic visual overhaul with a redesigned Settings section that will make it easier to find and use privacy settings, including the switch for turning off all present and futur...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/935631/firefox-project-nova-redesign

#NintendoSwitch #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

It's interesting how reporting on AI regulation seems to focus on the two extremes:
A) Trump: Any regulation is too much
B) China: 100% surveillance of any AI use
There should be some governance model in the middle. Yet, those disappear in the noise.
#AI #regulation
https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/chinas-ai-governance-offensive-threatens-u-s-tech-leadership/

On #AI Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/on-ai-security.html

#cybersecurity

Gross. I think we've lost all the big Linux players.

Canonical announces fully Managed Kubeflow AI operations platform on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

https://ubuntu.com//blog/managed-kubeflow-microsoft-azure-canonical-release

#noai #ai

Data Brokers’ and #AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds

https://www.wired.com/story/data-brokers-and-ai-firms-opt-out-forms-are-built-to-fail-report-finds/

#privacy #DataBroker #DarkPattern

Men men men Thorborg siger jo at AI er det eneste lyksalige og vil erstatte os alle inde få år.

@politiken https://expressional.social/@politiken/116612047682754551

#Aislop #dinerofail #thorborgfail #ai

This feature release brings our own MCP server, a bridge from your databases to AI applications like Claude or Codex, built with privacy and security at its core. Version 4.3 also introduces a new Markdown parser, desktop widgets, sweeping AI improvements, and a raft of updated models. #devonthink #update #mcp #markdown #ai #claude #chatgpt #gemini #mistral #pressrelease https://www.devontechnologies.com/de/blog/20260521-devonthink-43-herschel

Daily Digest | 21 May 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

@HollieK72 Hollie, I would not put #ai if it was not. I do edit well in PS and Topaz Labs.

Curious what other screen reader users, disabled tech folks, or desktop-first people are using these days for news discovery.

I’ve been looking at tools like Feedly, NewsBlur, Particle, and similar RSS/AI-assisted readers because I’m trying to reduce how dependent I am on my phone for news and discovery. Right now, Google Discover is honestly the closest thing I’ve found to “surface interesting things before I even know I want to search for them,” but it’s frustratingly mobile-first.

The problem I keep running into is that a lot of RSS advice seems optimized for people who enjoy building and curating feed systems as a hobby. I don’t mind some setup, but I’m not really looking for “an RSS sync backend plus another app plus a bunch of manual curation.” At that point it feels like the workflow itself becomes the job.

I’m specifically interested in tools that work well for:

• screen readers,
• keyboard-first workflows,
• low-sensory/text-first use,
• desktop use rather than mobile-only experiences,
• and actual discovery rather than just syncing feeds I already follow.

I’ve also noticed that something can be “accessible” in theory while still being exhausting in practice. For example:

• unlabeled buttons/links,
• infinite scrolling,
• noisy or visually dense interfaces,
• excessive sound/audio cues,
• heavy curation requirements,
• or workflows that assume lots of executive-function bandwidth.

I tried Inoreader once and ran into a lot of unlabeled controls, which pretty quickly killed it for me. I’m currently looking more seriously at NewsBlur and maybe Feedly, but I’d really love to hear actual experiences from people using these day-to-day with screen readers or other accessibility needs.

Especially interested in:

• whether these tools genuinely reduce effort,
• whether they help with discovery/serendipity,
• and whether anyone has found a setup that partially replaces the “Google Discover on mobile” niche without becoming a giant maintenance project.

Would also love to hear about alternatives I may not know about.

#Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader #RSS #NewsBlur #Feedly #AI #AssistiveTechnology #DisabledTech #Mastodon #Tech #Neurodivergent #Productivity #Linux #OpenWeb

AI-Integrated WordPress

Possibilities right in your hands.

With AI integrated throughout WordPress the potential is endless. A new AI Client in Core lets WordPress communicate with generative AI models, while connections are easily managed from a single hub in the dashboard. The AI Client combined with the Abilities API makes a fiery duo that introduces new functionality, workflow automation, and creation tools to your website. Install the new AI plugin to expand your options even more: generate and edit images, create titles or excerpts, or even suggest alt text.

7.0 also includes a new Client-Side Abilities package: a Javascript counterpart to the Abilities API, with a built in UI and command palette that delivers extensive new and hybrid AI abilities.

Quelle: WordPress-Blog

Da lob ich mir Hubzilla als CMS für die Dampfdruck-Presse und PepeCyBs Welt...

#wordpress #ki #ai #hubzilla #cms

Thinking about running AI models like Llama 3, Qwen, or Mistral on your own computer?

Two of the best local AI tools in 2026 are Ollama and LM Studio.

Both tools run models completely offline, which means more privacy, lower costs, and full control over your data.

Read the full guide:
https://www.panstag.com/2026/05/ollama-vs-lm-studio.html

#AI #LocalAI #Ollama #LMStudio #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosted #MachineLearning

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Ollama vs LM Studio

Not really here nor there, but I thought I would reiterate that #commonLisp 's @kentpitman and myself #interview ed @bagder about #curl and #AI on May 10th, one day before that #news article.

https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo

Curl is a popular #networking #software

https://curl.se/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Pitman

#curl #unix #cli #C #libcurl #linux

Google Search is dead.

https://gizmodo.com/google-is-slopping-up-search-and-it-wants-you-to-talk-to-the-ads-2000761485

#google #search #ai #llm #gemini #ads #advertisements

« In the twenty-first century, refusal of governance is not an available exterior position. The earth has been rendered as a jurisdictional surface. To reject being governed is therefore not to step outside the system, but to become legible to it as non-compliant. The modern state does not need metaphysical consent; it operates through capture, registration, territorialisation, and enforceable uptake. » — #ChatGPT #qotd
https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-262298515?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

Image: Gemini Nano Banana Pro

#blog #history #ai