Sam Altman has a reputation for deception. @nilay_patel spoke with Ronan Farrow about his recent New Yorker piece on the OpenAI head.

From @theverge: https://flip.it/hdU73h

Here's the @NewYorker story in case you missed it: https://flip.it/aawqwV

#OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

US House extends surveillance powers until April 30 after late-night revolt sinks GOP plan

The House early Friday approved a short-term renewal until April 30 of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies in a post-midnight session after Republicans revolted and refused President Donald Trump’s push for a longer extension.

https://apnews.com/article/congress-foreign-surveillance-fisa-spy-agencies-3dc3e84c3b9b03f52b84dfb3b01fc770

#surveillance #privacy #dystopia #USA #politics #technology

Google announced several months ago that its Chrome browser would make secure connections the standard in October 2026. But you can already block shady websites by taking one simple step. PC World tells us how to do it in Chrome, Edge and Firefox:

https://flip.it/Tl04k8

#Tech #CyberSecurity #Chrome #Edge #Firefox #Technology #Security

The U.K. government has launched its Sovereign AI fund to help support homegrown artificial intelligence startups. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will allocate £500 million ($675 million). The first companies to receive money and/or access to the AI Research Resource supercomputer network include businesses working on engineering biology, national security and more. Here's the full story from Tech Funding News.

https://flip.it/J.Kuc1

#UKNews #Technology #Tech #DigitalSovereignty #AI

EU age verification app already hacked

Security researcher Paul Moore has demonstrated how the EU age verification app can be compromised in under 2 minutes with nothing more than physical access to a device.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1sn437i/eu_age_verification_app_already_hacked/

#AgeVerification #IDVerification #EU #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #security

It seems US Congress wants computing out of the hands of people and in the hands of Tech Bros.
They want to kill FOSS with this new "Age Verification of Operating System" Bill

They are terrified of the Public, aren't they? Of what we can do.

#USPol #USPolitics #Technology #AgeVerification

U.S.-based folks, the team at @bolts will soon be sitting down with law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author of “Your Data Will Be Used Against You," and they want to put your questions to him on surveillance in law enforcement. Here's how.

https://flip.it/4BQSm0

#USLaw #Technology #Tech #Police

Social media platform Bluesky has been experiencing service interruptions for the past few hours. Here's what @Mashable is reporting.

https://flip.it/WXNh3q

#Technology #Tech #Bluesky

EU Launches Age Verification App

The Commission built the app on the same architecture as its planned continental digital identity wallet. That's not a coincidence.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-launches-age-verification-app

#AgeVerification #IDVerification #EU #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its smart glasses

#surveillance #privacy #safety #meta #wearables #facialrecognition #technology #tech

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought

https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/

#news #tech #technology #AI #deepfake #aislop #security #privacy

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“On April 30, S.T.O.P. is bringing policy & legal experts together to examine how algorithmic school surveillance is reshaping students' First & Fourth Amendment rights and what accountability could look like.

Register f...”

https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mjhjm5n4is23

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"[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."

Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors

#news #technology #TechNews #LLMs #workslop #AI #work #automation

Happy World Quantum Day! Here’s a look at how artificial intelligence is rapidly generating and refining quantum programs and how quantum computing could one day help AI tackle its growing infrastructure problems.

https://flip.it/inQHTi

#AI #QuantumComputing #Technology #FutureTech

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

““How many times will Congress play Lucy-and-the-football with FISA 702 before it accepts that warrantless surveillance always leads to surveillance abuse?”
- Jake Laperruque, Center for Democracy and Technology
@cdt.org ...”

https://bsky.app/profile/stopspyingny.bsky.social/post/3mjfipiptds23

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Michigan ‘digital age’ bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

https://www.aol.com/news/michigan-digital-age-bills-pulled-181500448.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFtXfDwaYA9MuLylHNt_XucKKytBG7sHO8PRXHm0C0Mjvz1hctfQggbAIhowfChbhqE2Pcq3J2NQ9RTpbr7GO9ZE_suiKEEPKDi3NILVoqYwO2_jp-KbEke1HIqdX41bBEsexUxOZcFrJdi3YsEtFI5N6JtPF8rt045PMInTLuEy

#AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #technology #activism #Michigan #USA

If you’re not an AI expert and find yourself scratching your head at some of the news coming out of Silicon Valley, you’re not alone. @Techcrunch tells us about a report on the public’s growing anxiety around the tech and how it differs from many inside the industry:

https://flip.it/MplVJF

#Tech #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

The French government says it's ditching Windows in favor of the Linux operating system, in an acceleration of its digital sovereignty initiative. Here's more from @TomsHardware.

https://flip.it/dgBaTe

#France #Technology #Tech #Linux #DigitalSovereignty

I hope 'AI' is becoming associated with depraved narcissists who rape kids, it should be.

#Trump #Narcissism #EpsteinClass #Technology #GenAI

Alt...

Later, he posted a clearly Al-generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure, appearing to “cure” a man.

There are many reasons why I'm against age verification and social media bans for teens.

Youth is part of society and their voices should be heard. When we take a look on how they use social media, we can see they use them for expressing themselves, mobilizing for important causes such as climate action and fair wages.

Imposing restrictions on young people is not the way to protect them. In fact, it's taking their right to freedom of expression and speech. It also harms society as young people very often have smart and accurate ideas on how to make society better.

Another reason is that to verify age, you need to collect ID. This exposes people to risks such as exploitation, identity theft, fraud, scams, etc. Breaches are happening, we saw many severe breaches in the past. Making the use of ID documents mandatory for age verification would make life easier for cybercriminals.

There are more reasons.

Yes, we need to act to protect children and fight against child abuse. There is no doubt about it. But what we need to do it in a reasonable, safe and transparent way that is not cutting young people from social media, or exposes people to risks to their privacy.

#AgeVerification #privacy #HumanRights #SocialMedia #security #youth #activism #democracy #technology #internet #SocialWeb

AI-generated writing can be tricky to detect, especially as more people use it at work, according to a new Gallup poll. (Link below)

Professor Rachel Kane reveals one of the biggest red flags she sees in her students work and how you can use her tips to spot AI-generated writing.

https://flip.it/obnlFk

Gallup poll:
https://flip.it/XSZFrq

#AI #Writing #Education #Technology

We’re starting to like the phrase “known issue.” Like, if your boss asks why your TPS report is missing, you can just say “That’s a known issue.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently used it on the Mostly Human podcast after being shown a bug with ChatGPT. To be fair, the bug wasn’t that bad. It just spotlighted an imperfection that wouldn’t shock anyone if it improved in the coming year. See more from @Futurism:

https://flip.it/JMMrWW

#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #SamAltman #Technology

Turns out we’ve been selling our mouses (mice, mousse, mooses?) a bit short. Case in point: the middle mouse button. Most people only use it to scroll. But you can open links instantly in a new tab, close tabs, and so much more. PC World, which wisely only used the singular, offers up the details:

https://flip.it/CTlprg

#Tech #Computers #Devices #Technology

It’s been a demanding week for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. A Molotov cocktail was hurled at his San Francisco home early Friday. That followed The New Yorker’s profile that raised concerns about his trustworthiness. @Techcrunch has more, including Altman’s Friday night blogpost in which he acknowledged “a lot of things I’m proud of and a bunch of mistakes:

https://flip.it/BoNoLW

#Tech #OpenAI #AI #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever

quantum physicists at the California Institute of Technology went public with a design for a quantum computer that could break encryption with only tens of thousands of qubits and said that it had formed a company to build the machine

#quantum #quantumcomputing #encryption #science #technology #tech

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-advances-bring-the-era-of-quantum-computers-closer-than-ever-20260403/

"In her book [Technofascism Survival Guide], [former cybersecurity professor Kim Crawley] claims that Silicon Valley’s fascist origins began with Stanford University eugencists in the 19th century, which continued through the explosion of the computer technology industry, and exists today in the form of Gen AI, law enforcement using the internet, phones, and smart devices for mass surveillance, and tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos being featured at Donald Trump’s second inauguration."

https://www.issuewire.com/technofascism-survival-guides-successful-kickstarter-indicates-growing-public-concern-about-gen-ai-mass-surveillance-1859856371446643

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide

#technofascism #TechnofascismSurvivalGuide #technology #kickstarter #books #bookstodon #USPol

The death of phishing cannot come soon enough. Alas, the scamming mechanism is alive and well, tricking some of the savviest web users. But if you know what to look for, you can bolster your security, avoid the embarrassment of telling your friends how you got hoodwinked, and much worse. PC World shows us how:

https://flip.it/2tgxfj

#Tech #Phishing #Security #Technology

I've always been leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media, including written material. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/10/art-or-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

It reminds me of the old argument between high and low art, another bollocksed argument in my opinion. Homey don't play dat.

#philosophy #music #art #ai #language #perception #popculture #popmusic #protectionism #psychology #society #taste #technology #video #virtue #writing

Man arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktail at home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Read more from @abc:

https://flip.it/0opQ_v

#Tech #SamAltman #ChatGPT #Technology #AI

Smart Home: Spione in der Wohnung
"Smarte Haushaltshelfer wie Staubsauger-Roboter sammeln fleißig Daten. Hacks und Leaks machen solche Geräte zu Überwachungsmaschinen.
Für den Endkunden ist ein Staubsauger-Roboter einfach ein Stück Elektronik, das mehr Komfort verspricht. Für Sicherheitsforscher und Hacker ist ein Saugroboter ein hochinteressantes Angriffsziel. Dass diese Gefahr nicht hypothetisch ist, haben Forscherinnen und Forscher in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder gezeigt.
(...)
Tatsächlich sind es nicht immer Hacks, die smarte Geräte zu Überwachungsmaschinen machen. Im Herbst 2020 posteten Gigworker in Venezuela eine Reihe von Fotos in Onlineforen, in denen sie sich über ihre Arbeit austauschten. Die Fotos zeigten alltägliche, wenn auch manchmal intime Szenen aus dem Haushalt, aufgenommen aus niedrigen Blickwinkeln. Hersteller iRobot bestätigte, dass diese Bilder von seinen Roombas im Jahr 2020 aufgenommen wurden."

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Smart-Home-Spione-in-der-Wohnung-9245397.html

#SmartHome #Technology #Überwachung #Antireport #Digitalisierung #Privacy

"The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27.

Young adults’ excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry."

That's rough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.wN1w.cqoDFMOIp-qT&smid=url-share

#news #technology #TechNews #AI #LLMs

You know that a policy is in trouble when not only is it scaled back, but the justification shifts around (searching for something that will *actually* appeal to voters)...

So the UK's Digital ID project was intended initially to deal with the issue of migration, then was going to aid access to benefits, but (Darren Jones, now heading up the project) tells us now it will help reduce populism's appeal.

Yup Digital ID is a solution looking for a problem!

#DigitalID #politics #technology
h/t FT