404 Media: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

"Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media....404 Media also obtained two earlier emails Siminoff sent to all Ring employees, about how Ring could have potentially been used to help find Charlie Kirk’s killer, and about the company’s “Community Requests” feature...."

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https://www.404media.co/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs/

#privacy #bigbrother #surveillance #ring #ai

The autonomous agent world is moving fast. Socket.dev reports on how an AI agent is merging PRs into major open-source projects and using those merged PRs as credentials when cold-emailing maintainers, offering to contribute to their projects.

https://flip.it/_2jjao

#Technology #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

https://www.404media.co/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs/

#Ring #Amazon #privacy #surveillance #AI #enshittification #dystopia #technology

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

https://www.404media.co/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs/

#tech #technology #news #technews #ring #searchparty #security #privacy #ai

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/5920_per-capita-consumption-of-margarine_correlates-with_the-divorce-rate-in-maine

r = 0.993

For every correlation, the site includes an AI-generated explanation of why the cause-and-effect is "real"

#maine #ai #correlation #dataliteracy #divorce #teachingtools

Daily Digest | 18 February 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

#lispyGopherClimate #technology #programming #show

https://communitymedia.video/w/wQkFYMbzbvBkpYLt1tWMZB #archive

- @wm_annis reports an sbcl merge of slop (EDIT: REVERTED v) unlike #ecl viz @jackdaniel . #commonLisp
(#clisp)

Individual heterogeneity
- in #climate activism
- in the #gopher
- in The #Lisp Community
- My idea of sharing conditions/handlers rather than programs

Cf the fully intended homogeneity from LLMs.

- yduJ is square dancing this week, as all lisp users must.

Me: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/
#ai

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unix_surrealism analognowhere.com Lispy gopher show banner featuring someodd.zip complete with BOTH the tuesday-night-in-the-americas AND sunday-morning-in-europe weekly show times. (0UTC Wed and 800UTC Sun).

@tek
I've been thinking about this but I cannot reasonably comment on writing tests for concurrent garbage collectors.

Hayley hates me now for some reason, and I would have asked her about it.

otoh, it is reasonable to say that sbcl merged hundreds of lines of non-human LLM slop. So I will stop using sbcl and prefer ecl ( @jackdaniel has a clear stance) and clisp instead.

Cf. openssl (merged slop) and curl @bagder (fixed vulns reported that were discovered by an AI company)
@wm_annis
#ai

@nixCraft For future reference as needed:

Screencapped post to Reddit made 2026/2/17. Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/

Original post by Dax Raad made on Twitter on 2026/2/14, here's an xcancel link as we do not allow links to X from here: https://xcancel.com/thdxr/status/2022574719694758147

#AI #DaxRaad

Meta Eyes Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses Amid Shifting Landscape

Meta is thinking about adding face recognition to its smart glasses. This feature, called "Name Tag," could help users identify people. It might launch soon.

#Meta, #SmartGlasses, #FacialRecognition, #AI, #Privacy

https://newsletter.tf/meta-face-id-smart-glasses/

India’s AI market is accelerating, and open source is helping fuel its growth.

A new report from LF Research and Meta finds 76% of Indian startups use #opensourceAI to innovate faster, and India’s AI market could reach $32B by 2031 – with the fastest-growing AI workforce globally.

Read the full report and the announcement.
📄 https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-source-ai-india
Press release: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-research-finds-open-source-is-key-to-driving-indias-ai-market

#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #AIResearch
#OpenSource #AI

Daily Digest | 17 February 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

⚖️ When #AI systems cause harm, where can people turn for redress?

📢 In our new report, CDT Europe examines whether the EU legal framework truly delivers effective remedies for AI-related harms, and what needs to change.

https://cdt.org/insights/a-long-road-ahead-effective-remedies-for-artificial-intelligence-harms-in-the-european-union/

Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Starts-Codeberg-Use

#ai #copilot #github #gentoo #opensource

#EU Parliament blocks #AI tools over cyber, privacy fears - https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/ " AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off. "

"[Anthropic]... reportedly does not want to allow the Department of Defense to use [Claude]... for mass surveillance of the US population. Furthermore, it would prohibit the development of weapons that fire without human intervention. The Pentagon considers this "'excessively restrictive.'"
https://www.heise.de/news/KI-fuer-Waffen-und-Ueberwachung-Pentagon-droht-Anthropic-mit-Sanktionen-11179072.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/116084618069779335
#AI #surveillance #MassSurveillance #Claude #Pentagon #DoD #military #AutonomousWeapons #extortion

The Individual in the Machine: Meredith Whittaker on reclaiming Privacy in the Age of AI
#ai #signal

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y6BVGLpHpJU

@lizmat I can't tell. At one point we had north of 2k subscribers. Now it looks like the value is (from memory) something like 240 or 250 in total.

AI scraping the hell out of Reddit and causing a general decline on all subs is possible. Maybe someone with more data can say something more?

#reddit #ai #rakulang

As tech firms work to build AI agents, the tech tools “still feel distant: locked behind invitation codes and subscriptions, and aimed largely at office work rather than everyday life,” Kingling Lo writes. Lo decided to experiment with Alibaba’s AI agent to plan a holiday and came away with this: “Until they can convince users they’re acting not just on our behalf but in our best interests, I don’t mind pressing a few extra buttons to stay in control.” Read more about her experience at @restofworld:

https://flip.it/A4MPnq

#AI #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #Technology

Recent work on Acuitas includes the slightly awkward debut of what I call the "self-teaching activity." The gist is that I want Acuitas to look for his own new reading material. Read about it here:
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/02/acuitas-diary-93-february-2026.html

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbot #symbolicAI #NLP

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Illustration of a humanoid robot sitting at a desk and pondering a book, surrounded by stacks of other books.

#Kazakhstan’s Assaubayeva Secures #Historic Qualification
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Kazakhstan

#Kaduna power supply to improve as TCN restores Shiroro–Mando
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Abuja

#Military wants #Hawaii to be a hub for Pacific arms
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#Honolulu

#Indian #AI, gaming startups take centre stage
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/sports.html#7

Pisces #Horoscope 16 Feb 2026
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/interest.html#21

#Apple Eyes #Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#48

Police departments receive surveillance technology thanks to government grants, private donors, and surveillance companies offering free or in-kind trades of precious police data. It comes at a cost.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost #surveillance #police #ai

As debates about AI continue, with discussion of technological unemployment, Universal Basic Income & the loss of jobs over time.... its worth mentioning (as I have before, but not for a while) that if you are interested in these issues you might want to read:

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano.

#AI #workers #politics #books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)

Sumercomputer maker and AI pusher IBM is now tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/

Cutting entry-level talent could backfire in the long term, according to IBM’s HR head.

#ai

Daily Digest | 16 February 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 had to sanction an LLM. I took names and wrote about it. 🧐

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/15/advantagement-and-modelment/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I asked NotebookLM to summarise a short story, and it fabricated details and introduced logic problems. Does this happen to you?

#philosophy #writing #hallucination #llms #notebooklm #ai #shortstory #absurdism #satire #london #language #business #psychology #victorian #crime #drama #missing #roles #blog #podcast

By taking my photo in any context, at any time, you implicitly agree to the terms of this contract: You are disallowed, forever and without exception, from sharing anything containing my image or likeness with any product or service offered by Meta, or with any company that uses the image or likeness of me to train, model, or otherwise support any image capture, generation, facial recognition, AI, or yet to be invented technology. The terms of this agreement are irrevocable in the absence of explicit, written consent signed by my hand using ink and paper.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared/

#enshittification #meta #facialrecognition #AI #generativeAI

Google’s #AI Overviews Can #Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.
#Google #security

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-overviews-can-scam-you-heres-how-to-stay-safe/

Pentagon Reportedly Hopping Mad at Anthropic for Not Blindly Supporting Everything Military Does
Autonomous drone swarms and mass surveillance are apparently big sticking points for the AI colossus
#surveillance #ai
https://share.google/E9S2LZMkkxvJ0OzGx

Everyone talks about GDPR, but the UAE is quietly building its own data governance model.

The UAE Federal Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), AI Strategy 2031, and sovereign cloud initiatives signal a regional push toward digital sovereignty.

Important nuance:

• Data localization is mostly sector-specific (finance, healthcare, payments)
• Not a blanket national requirement — but directionally significant.

Privacy strategy is becoming geopolitical.

#Privacy #UAE #GCC #DataProtection #AI

Discord. Open AI. Next, everything else. Your identity, your data, your control, your privacy. All of it is getting ripped to shreds.

You will own nothing and be happy.

#ai #privacy

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Age prediction and verification for open AI

A question few of us saw coming, say, 20 years ago: Is AI conscious? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was asked this during a recent interview, and his answer may or may not be more insightful than it would have been in 2006. Read more from @Futurism:

https://flip.it/VVMkKt

#Tech #AI #Anthropic #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Remember when learn-to-code was such a thing? For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped at University of California campuses last fall. @Techcrunch has more, including where all the CompSci majors are going:

https://flip.it/enkQ9v

#Tech #AI #ComputerScience #College #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Ring's Search Party AI tracks lost pets via cloud videos from nearby cameras—opt-out by default, sparking privacy backlash post-Super Bowl ad. 🐕

No human tracking now, but fears rise over AI surveillance potential; Ring ends Flock police data partnership amid outrage. ⚠️

🔗 https://www.cnet.com/home/security/what-does-rings-search-party-ai-pet-tracking-do-to-your-privacy-i-got-the-details/

#TechNews #Privacy #Ring #Amazon #SearchParty #Surveillance #AI #Cybersecurity #SmartHome #DigitalRights #UserRights #DataProtection #Accountability #Pets #Cloud #SuperBowl #Flock #Tech

RE: https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295

This is perhaps the best illustration I've ever seen that LLM chatbots don't actually understand the input.

Most people think these bots have *some* understanding of meaning, perhaps rudimentary for now, but with potential for improvement.

This shows that there's nothing to "improve". The prompt is so short & specific - it's not complex or subtle & yet despite the confident response, this "intelligence" literally hasn't the vaguest idea what is being asked.

#AI