Daily Digest | 10 February 2026

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5 stories you should not miss.

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#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

"Instead of desecrating an easily available classic, Saatchi aims to resurrect a lost one. Rather than trampling a human artist’s vision, the project positions itself on the side of the auteur." —Michael Schulman for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece?src=longreads #movies #film #journalism #longreads #ai #artificialintelligence

@EUCommission Get rid of #AI EVERYWHERE.

"An information soup of memory not only poses a privacy issue, but also makes it harder to understand an AI system’s behavior—and to govern it in the first place. So what can developers do to fix this problem?

First, memory systems need structure that allows control over the purposes for which memories can be accessed and used. Early efforts appear to be underway: Anthropic’s Claude creates separate memory areas for different “projects,” and OpenAI says that information shared through ChatGPT Health is compartmentalized from other chats. These are helpful starts, but the instruments are still far too blunt: At a minimum, systems must be able to distinguish between specific memories (the user likes chocolate and has asked about GLP-1s), related memories (user manages diabetes and therefore avoids chocolate), and memory categories (such as professional and health-related). Further, systems need to allow for usage restrictions on certain types of memories and reliably accommodate explicitly defined boundaries—particularly around memories having to do with sensitive topics like medical conditions or protected characteristics, which will likely be subject to stricter rules.

Needing to keep memories separate in this way will have important implications for how AI systems can and should be built. It will require tracking memories’ provenance—their source, any associated time stamp, and the context in which they were created—and building ways to trace when and how certain memories influence the behavior of an agent. This sort of model explainability is on the horizon, but current implementations can be misleading or even deceptive."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1131835/what-ai-remembers-about-you-is-privacys-next-frontier

#AI #GenerativeAI #DataProtection #Privacy #LLMs #Memory #AIExplainability

Daily Digest | 9 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

Data Poisoning: The Fatal Flaw in Mass Surveillance
#Surveillance #technology #AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJf4SNuDnoI

Remove Windows AI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security.

❌ https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

#windows #ai #Win11 #removewindows #privacy #security #copilot #recall #win #ms #features #feature #blockit #remove

Alt...

Windows AI logo crossed out

States are probing “surveillance pricing,” where retailers use personal and location data to set individualized prices, led by a new California privacy investigation. 🕵️
The cases highlight opaque algorithmic pricing, discrimination risks, and pressure for stronger transparency and data rights rules. ⚖️

🔗 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/states-probe-firms-using-personal-data-location-to-set-prices

#TechNews #Privacy #Data #Surveillance #Pricing #Algorithms #CCPA #California #Retail #Grocery #Hotels #AI #ConsumerRights #Transparency #Regulation #BigData #USA #US

Microsoft is reportedly rethinking its Windows 11 AI push, scaling back intrusive Copilot integrations and reassessing Recall after strong privacy and usability backlash from power users. 🤖
The focus is shifting from “AI everywhere” toward more meaningful, less invasive features that better respect user control and data practices. 🛡️

🔗 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

#TechNews #Windows11 #Microsoft #AI #Copilot #Privacy #Security #UX #Software #PC #Data #UserControl #Productivity #Cloud #Trust #Windows

The manual of EMYCIN, a rare document published in 1981, is now available at @bitsavers Bitsavers. Developed in Interlisp at Stanford University, the EMYCIN expert system shell was derived from the early expert system MYCIN.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/Stanford_CS_TR_Collection_2025-12-12/PDF/1981/CS-TR-81-885_The_Emycin_Manual_198110.pdf

#ai #ExpertSystem #interlisp #retrocomputing

European AI ≠ automatic data sovereignty.

Mistral AI is a French company operating under EU regulatory frameworks and offers open-weight models with self-hosting options.

But using cloud APIs or hosted chat tools may still involve US infrastructure depending on deployment.

Privacy is about architecture and hosting decisions, not just company geography.

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #DigitalSovereignty #Infosec

What are some good ways to leverage AI, such as LLMs, to show proficiency with the technology and provide actual business value?

Right now I mainly use AI when I've drawn a blank on how to use some function while programming and can't connect the dots using the official docs. "Show me some examples of X function in Y language," etc.

With sysadmin stuff, it's more like "this my understanding of technology X, is that accurate?"

#ai #llm #askfedi #programming #chatgpt

@screwlisp

Coincidentally, I assume, Abhijit Rao posted on LinkedIn earlier today a very interesting blurb, reporting on his use of this condition handling structure in conjunction with LLMs.

(Works for me in an incognito window, but you may not be able to see past the first comment if you don't have a LinkedIn account.)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/quasiabhi_commonlisp-lisp-agents-activity-7425847332560293888-fYf9

The blurb references this more detailed account of the work, which I haven't been through in detail yet:

https://quasilabs.in/blog/2026/02/07/conditions-restarts-and-the-agent-that-chooses/

#CommonLisp #Lisp #ConditionHandling #Errors #Restarts #Continuations #ErrorHandling #ConditionHandling #LLM #LLMs #AI #Modularity #QuasiLabs #Reflection #Introspection #MetaProgramming

As someone who now has a feedforward neural network of a single hidden layer implementation (in #commonLisp) I learned a lot about what has a spot to be stuck into the algorithm.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/sharpsign-sharpsign-input-referential-ffnn-dl-data/

Something that turns out to be easy to stick in is making training data which copies data out of the current context or even to simply point the training data definition into the #deepLearning inference input context though I did not prove convergence for the latter case.

#ai #programming #dl

"what's a tailnet?" is one of the questions i wish every #openclaw user asked upon installation.

here's an explainer and how i sling my AIs around the Internet to help me.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sporage/p/brief-explainer-for-openclaw-gateway

#ai #pai #mcp #vpn #tailnet

The Paradox of the State. Claude and I continue our dialogue about the parable of the Two Valleys, effectively invoking Hobbes and Rousseau.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/07/comrade-claude-4-libertarians-and-anarchists/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #politics #democracy #property #freedom #liberty #authority #violence #power #protection #police #authroity #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #justice #choices

A NotebookLM user myself, good description why it is such a good tool.
I tried replacing ChatGPT with NotebookLM — and it changed how I research https://www.xda-developers.com/replacing-chatgpt-with-notebooklm-changed-how-i-research/
#ai #notebooklm #research

BNN has an interesting take on AI, Privacy, and Canada's dependency on US tech.
#digitalsovereignty #tech #AI
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/the-street/2026/02/05/look-at-canada-we-are-very-dependent-of-us-tech-companies-williamson-of-digital-sovereignty/

Pretty surprising to learn that for Education users, "their chats with Gemini are not human reviewed or used to train AI models," and it "supports compliance with industry regulations like COPPA, FERPA and HIPAA." #LLM #AI #Gemini https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/gemini-enterprise-grade-data-protection/

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Openclaw Is More Fun to Fiddle With Than To Use: Of course I have to write about #openclaw, the latest viral #AI sensation: stuff.interfree.ca/2026/02/06/openclaw.html

Daily Digest | 6 February 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

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#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

Given that Bitcoin is a speculative instrument (and so, normally, I wouldn't bother tracking its movements), it is notable its now dropped down to the level it was trading at before the start of the Tangerine Tyrant's second term, losing all the 'value' it had gained in the last 18 months.

Look like the speculative gamblers (and dark economy) are having a crisis of sentiment, which may be yet one more indicator that the fast approaching AI-crash will be soon upon us?

#AI #Bitcoin
h/t FT

My #lisp #symbolic #deepLearning #ffnn #condition streamlined.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/lisp-symbolic-deep-learning-streamlined/

The pretty and overtly useable rewrite of my earlier brace of articles.

An important condition handling style mistake I cleaned up was that I had previously put HANDLER-BIND /inside/ my INFER. But this freezes it in place; I might as well have used functions as such. Now the algorithm graph is essentially the condition handlers and restarts outside the function at runtime.

#commonLisp #ai #programming

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#AI #CloudNative #OpenSource #CNCF

I am getting so tired of my executive leadership pushing me to use LLMs instead of consulting expertise. Just no, if I cannot find out myself through my numerous tools, I'm going to ask an expert. Full stop. It's not worth the cost of #AI

What are some good responses to this? I fully understand that 'No.' is a complete sentence.

#LLM #JustSayNoToAI #TrustExperts

I am so disappointed with so many companies that I used to consider privacy and security defending companies, jumping on the AI bandwagon. In my latest search for a new search engine, I found that most, not all, but most, are now pushing AI.

And to the search companies describing their AI search services as "privacy respecting search", how can it be privacy respecting when you're using AI, which steals data to train models, as "privacy respecting"?

Get out of here with your unethical bullshit.

#fuckai #noai #ai

India’s draft AI copyright proposal, “One Nation, One License, One Payment,” would impose a centralized, mandatory licensing regime that risks constraining #AI development. CCIA filed comments warning that the approach is legally flawed, economically harmful, and out of step with global best practices that enable #Innovation and competitiveness. Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/02/ccia-files-comments-on-indias-ai-and-copyright-consultation/

Google’s quarterly financial results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age.

@AssociatedPress reports: "Google’s successful evolution has helped drive up Alphabet’s stock price nearly 60% in the past five months, giving it a $4 trillion market value."

https://flip.it/7jfCfr

#Google #Alphabet #Tech #Search #AI #Technology

Google accused of breaching AI principles and helping Israel’s campaign in Gaza

A former Google employee is accusing the tech giant of breaching AI ethics policies by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage in 2024.

This is what a whistleblower complaint seen by The Washington Post and filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says.

The complaint alleged that Google breached its own “AI principles,” which, at the time of the incident detailed in the report, outlined that the company would not utilize AI technology to conduct surveillance in a manner “violating internationally accepted norms” or in relation to weapons.

According to The Washington Post, a customer support request allegedly sent from an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) email address was received by Google’s cloud-computing division.

The customer name attached to the support request matched an employee of CloudEx, an Israeli tech company. The SEC complaint additionally – and correctly – alleged that CloudEx is an IDF contractor.

,,,

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/google-ai-policy-israel-surveillance-whistleblower/

#gaza #google #AI #palestine #israel #IDF #genocide

My local Python installation on my Windows 11 laptop was a complete mess and i am not an experienced developer/programmer (far from it). I used Google Antigravity to fix and improve this. It fixed problems , installed "uv" and my life is simpler now... Agents have a role to play i think.
#google #antigravity #python #uv #agents #AI

Daily Digest | 5 February 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

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#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw