Guilty until proven Innocent, its the Mahmoud way

The Met’s approach to live facial recognition is being challenged in the Hight Court this week

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/high_court_lfr/

#Policing #FaceRecognition #AI #Law #BigBrotherWatch #ECHR

#AI and facial recognition to be used in policing.

Facial recognition has a high rate of false positives when the subjects are non-white.

What could possibly go right?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html

📰 Daily Digest | Jan 27, 2026

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

5 stories you shouldn't miss.

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#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

ICE’s Mobile Fortify facial recognition app misidentified a detained woman twice in an Oregon raid 👤
ICE still calls the app a definitive way to determine immigration status, even over documents 📱
Raises major concerns about wrongful targeting, due process, and biometric policing ⚖️

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ices-facial-recognition-app-misidentified-a-woman-twice/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #ICE #FacialRecognition #AI #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Security #LawEnforcement #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #PoliceBrutality

Palantir is developing a mapping tool for ICE that scores targets & flags “high-density” deportation areas 📍
Internal docs show data flows from HHS into ICE systems via Palantir’s ELITE platform 🧩
Raises serious privacy, oversight & civil liberties concerns ⚖️

🔗 https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Palantir #ICE #AI #CivilLiberties #HumanRights #Security #LawEnforcement #Transparency #Ethics #DigitalRights #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump #Law #Police #Policebrutality

Kaye Menner sold a #Tapestry (68" x 80") to a buyer from Davis, CA (United States)

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/saleannouncement.html?id=fff4f0b82536594d742c24408346114d

Link to image: https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/palm-sunset-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#ai #colorful #mosaic #cutglass #digitalart #palms #sky #lake #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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The January 2026 Linux Foundation Newsletter kicks off the year with highlights from the 2025 Annual Report and insights into how open source is advancing AI and cloud native technologies.

Read the newsletter and stay connected to the work shaping open source in 2026.
🔗https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/linux-foundation-newsletter-january-2026

#OpenSource #LinuxFoundation #Developers #CloudNative #AI

Web scraping to train #LLMs has surged in the past few years, overwhelming #OpenAccess infrastructures like #DOAJ with bot traffic.

DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O'Connell discusses how we’re responding to these challenges.
🤖 #AI #OpenInfrastructure #Chatbots

https://blog.doaj.org/2026/01/26/open-access-vs-open-excess-doaj-and-ai-scraper-bots/

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DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O’Connell

Important blog about a threat few people understand.
"AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy. When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away""
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-bot-swarms-threaten-to-undermine

Underlying paper (preprint), https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06299

#AI #Democracy

Apple and Google recently announced their AI partnership, and we could get our first real look at the Gemini-powered Siri assistant as soon as February. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/i1fv3z

#Tech #AI #Apple #Google #Siri #Gemini

@camwilson
I have indeed had similar experience. Day job is 85% working in #IntelliJ IDEA, which has a clever suite of #AI agents combined into one plugin. Prompt (in clear detail) what I want it to do, & it delegates to several agents to solve it. It knows which LLM is best at #python, #java, #perl, bash, #SQL, etc.

So far, I’ve used it to build 3 python #HamRadio apps which are specific to my needs & desires, & my pile of radio gear & software.

"Four in five young people in the UK have used an artificial intelligence companion - with almost one in 10 having intimate or sexual interactions with one, a landmark study shows.

AI companions are artificial personas which often incorporate human-like avatars, customisable personalities and long-term memory.

Researchers at the Autonomy Institute say its study - which it said is the first major one of its kind in the UK - shows the companions are reshaping the emotional and social lives of young adults.

Some 79% of young people in the UK have used an AI companion, according to polling of 1,160 youngsters aged 18 to 24, commissioned by Autonomy. Around half of those are ‘regular’ users, interacting multiple times per week.

Some 40% have used an AI companion - which attempts to mimic human conversations - for emotional advice or therapeutic support, while 9% reported intimate or sexual interactions.

Half of young people said they’d feel comfortable discussing mental health issues with a confidential AI companion - yet only 24% said they trust the bot “completely” or “quite a lot”.

Nearly a third (31%) of youngsters said they’ve shared personal information with an AI companion despite widespread privacy concerns."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/young-people-having-intimate-sexual-36437027

#AI #GenerativeAI #AICompanion #Privacy #DataProtection #UK

@MichaelRoss Who knew malicious extensions would be a liability?

Programming is much more than just coding. Be a good programmer and use your skills. When you use #ai to do (some) work for you you lose your skills.

Code that 'works' isn't necessarily the right code for the job.

@nixCraft Tell that to everyone happy to get a little farther ahead than the rest of the pack. They know it sucks, but money.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/115044736996663271

Even Shark Tank celebrity, Kevin O'Leary, is happy to burn through everyone's futures and lease it back to them. What a guy!

https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/115944687184088548

#AI #TheFinalGrift

Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike launches Confer, an end-to-end encrypted AI assistant. 🔒
Cloud-based models ensure only users access unscrambled data, blocking corporate surveillance of prompts and chats. ⚖️

This counters Big Tech's data extraction for ads and training, bolstering user rights. 📊

@signalapp

🔗 https://time.com/7346534/signal-confer-ai-moxie-marlinspike/

#TechNews #AI #Privacy #Encryption #Security #BigTech #Data #UserRights #AIethics #Cybersecurity #Innovation #Freedom #DigitalRights #OnlineSafety

🚀 NEW: Gemini Protocol - A Human-Centric Alternative to the AI-Driven Web

In an era of AI slop, pervasive tracking & algorithmic feeds, Gemini offers a refuge: mandatory encryption, no cookies, no JavaScript, pure content.

History, NASA connection, technical overview, privacy benefits & limitations.

I also maintain a capsule at gemini://nicfab.eu

🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/gemini-protocol/

#Gemini #Privacy #SmallWeb #DigitalRights #PrivacyByDesign #FOSS #AI @lagrange @jk

Google’s Gemini A.I. now scans your entire inbox to “help” you summarize, reply & organize. 📬
That’s not assistance — that’s surveillance wrapped in productivity branding. 🔍

If your emails need an opt‑out clause, maybe the feature shouldn’t exist by default. ⚠️

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/technology/personaltech/gmail-gemini-ai-email-inbox.html

#TechNews #Privacy #AI #Google #Gmail #Surveillance #Data #Security #UserRights #BigTech #DigitalEthics #OnlinePrivacy #TechPolicy #Accountability #AIethics #Cybersecurity #Gemini #Email

So I've been thinking since yesterday about Perspective Intelligence since Apple is making Siri into a chatbot. Will Siri sherlock Perspective Intelligence? No. This is because Perspective Intelligence runs on device and can still do the same things as Siri, so you will still have a more privacy focussed experience with our app. Plus, there are things that Intelligence can do that Siri won't, like our new vision features coming soon. #Apple, #AI

In 1985 Xerox announced support for Prolog on its AI workstations and awarded development to Quintus, which delivered the Xerox Quintus Prolog implementation fully integrated with Interlisp-D.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp-d/newsletters/AIDispatch_Aug85.pdf#page=9

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/prolog/#Quintus

#ai #prolog #interlisp #retrocomputing

Trump wants Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to Beijing. Washington’s China hawks are pushing back.

CNBC reports: "Lawmakers are split between security risks and the preservation of U.S. tech dominance."

https://flip.it/fZAGpH

#Nvidia #AI #China #ArtificialIntelligence #Trump #USPolitics #Tech

@nixCraft @JeffGrigg
Compare with Nft's and block chain..... It's our gold in comparison
#ai

New video about Signal📽️

Signal's President @Mer__edith with Emily Chang on @bloomberg about privacy in the age of data and AI

Watch it here 🍿👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/signals-whittaker-on-privacy-in-the-age-of-data-and-ai/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #AI #privacy

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/

Oh dear me are people not "adopting" lying autocomplete widely enough to keep the line going up? Oh noes. Nobody could have foreseen this! 🤯

I cannot wait for the official announcement of a new #Microslop programme, Adopt-an-AI. 🤣

What an absolute tool. "The bubble might burst if you all don't help pump it!" 🤡

#AI #Hype #SatyaNadella #Microsoft

As Wikipedia turns 25, @404mediaco talked to the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann. Listen to Emanuel Maiberg's conversation with her here.

https://flip.it/2iq_c9

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

📬 NicFab Newsletter #4 is out!
Weekly coverage of Privacy, Data Protection, AI Regulation, Cybersecurity & Tech Law — curated for legal professionals, DPOs and privacy officers.

🔗 Read: https://www.nicfab.eu/en/newsletter/2026-01-20-issue-04/

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#Privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #AI #artificialintelligence #AIAct #Cybersecurity #AIRegulation #TechLaw

I love this short AI video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBvbnb2hSeA

#ai #video #art #crows

Why is there such a huge enthusiasm and push for AI from most major tech companies? I’ve never met anyone who’s actually enthusiastic about having AI incorporated into their products.

And it’s not just the biggest tech companies either. It’s Mozilla, Brave, Gab and more. Who is AI for? Who is the target audience for this slop?

#AI #Artificialintelligence #Tech

😂😂

https://odysee.com/@samtime:1/everybody-hates-the-new-microsoft-office:2?r=2X6Lt4HUm5Kn8nTpuf9Waf7qqcHZCDc7

#AI #Microsoft #Microslop

This is what happens when you let AI run civilization.

#RetroGaming #NES #AI #AltText

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A screenshot from the NES game Power Blade that shows a cityscape with plumes of smoke rising from it. There’s a caption that reads: Then one day, something went wrong with the master control program. Chais ensued as people panicked.

Congratulations to Amazon's AI Ring Camera. It's a well-deserved "worst in show" award for this AI-powered privacy nightmare.
#AI #privacy #award
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/amazon-ring-ai-doorbell-humiliated-award-no-one-wants-worst-in-show