Strong 2025 vibes #MagnusRobotFighter #HappyHolidays #AI #BetterLuckNextYear

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A man in a shot pink onesie and white boots karate chops the head off of a wiggly armed robot in a 70s comic book. The text reads "these perfect servants had become the masters of men and only through the incredible powers of Magnus could the human race be saved!"

I know a guy who spent hours playing the stock market during the dot-com boom. He invested in every buzz word company in the news. He became a millionaire!

On paper. In December.

Then came the crash, and he couldn't sell. He lost everything. Wiped out.

The IRS came calling to collect taxes on all of his dot-com wealth from the year before. Well, he said, I'm wiped out! Too bad, they said, you owe us for that year. Pay up!

They were brutal.

Say, kids, how many of you are invested in AI or crypto in December, 2025?

#AI #crypto

BBC: AI app apologises over false crime alerts across US

A company behind an AI-powered app called CrimeRadar has apologised for the distress caused by false crime alerts issued to local US communities after a BBC Verify investigation.

CrimeRadar uses artificial intelligence to monitor openly available police radio communications, automatically generating a transcript and then producing crime alerts for users across the US.

BBC Verify has found multiple instances from Florida to Oregon of CrimeRadar sending misleading and inaccurate alerts about serious crime to local residents - as Thomas Copeland explains.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c4g4v3yd28yo

#AI #alerts #crime

@MichaelRoss

$830B evaluation for a company that makes billions in losses each year? With no plan for how to make any actual profit?
That is one serious ponzi scheme.

#aibubble #ai

404 Media: Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

#privacy #AI #surveillance #bigbrother #dystopia

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Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually, according to marketing material on Flock’s website. We watched Condor cameras zoom in on a woman walking her dog on a bike path in suburban Atlanta; a camera followed a man walking through a Macy’s parking lot in Bakersfield; surveil children swinging on a swingset at a playground; and film high-res video of people sitting at a stoplight in traffic. In one case, we were able to watch a man rollerblade down Brookhaven, Georgia’s Peachtree Creek

So the AI in "2001: A Space Odyssey" is HALlucination 9000?

#AI #artificialIntelligence #scienceFiction #movies

"#KarenHao joins Scientific American to discuss her new book #EmpireOfAI, exploring how companies like #OpenAI wield power that is reminiscent of historical empires. From ideological quests for artificial general intelligence to the environmental toll of massive #dataCenters, Hao reveals the hidden forces shaping our technological future—and the reasons we should all be paying attention."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8ZTI2Ft0w
#AI #AGI #artificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #books @bookstodon

Maybe some people don’t want unremovable generative AI software installed on their TV. Read more from @ArsTechnica:

https://flip.it/AO.4.x

#Tech #AI #TVs #SmartTV #Devices #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #Technology

What happened when @WSJ let an AI run its snack vending machine? It ordered a live fish, gave away a PlayStation, offered to buy cigarettes, and lost hundreds of dollars. [Gift link]

https://flip.it/nfxPuq

#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Tired of the endless scroll of dating apps? Known, a San Francisco-based startup, is using a voice-powered AI onboarding system that learns about users without requiring them to fill out a form. The intended outcome: IRL dates that make sense for each person. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/74YrOA

#Tech #AI #Dating #Apps #DatingApps #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

The Linux Foundation’s 2025 Annual Report reflects a year of global collaboration and steady growth across open source, AI, security, standards, and education.

Here are the highlight moments from this year’s report.

Read more: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/linux-foundation-annual-report-2025?hsLang=en
#OpenSource #FOSS #LF2025 #AI #Security #OpenStandards #Collaboration

I wanted to do basically this very thing, a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/4l4UWZGxvoc?si=1aCWa8GJ21SKg7KH

#MacOS #AI #LocalLLM

Visa says new AI shopping tool has helped customers with hundreds of transactions.

CNBC reports: "The payments network and rivals across the fintech industry are racing to build tools that allow consumers to task artificial intelligence agents with completing certain transactions."

https://flip.it/U_atWk

#AI #Fintech #ArtificialIntelligence #Shopping #Tech

🚀🇪🇺 Big news: Tuta has been accepted into the European Tech Sovereignty Catalogue by European Digital SME Alliance.

We're proud to help build a strong, sovereign European tech stack — with privacy-first technology made in Europe. 🔒

#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech

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Screenshot from the European Digital SME Alliance showcasing Tuta and Nextcloud in the Tech Sovereignty Table.

Do you ever need a break?
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/17/i-need-a-break/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #writing #research #reading #commitment #law #ethics #ai #jobs #blog #podcast

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man sleeping on park bench

LOL, tabletop Disaster Preparedness Exercise

"AI Crisis Response Model Data Poisoning"

(caresiliency.org)

#disasters #ai #cybersecurity

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AI Crisis Response Model Data Poisoning Over the course of several months, an external actor subtly injected altered training data into a shared emergency management and crisis response AI model that your organization uses. The modifications are carefully designed so that no one piece of altered data seems outside of historical patterns or plausible forecast scenarios, making detection difficult. Collectively, they slowly skew the dataset. When a disaster occurs, the AI model generates outputs that appear internally coherent and data-driven but are quietly misleading. Early outputs resemble normal model uncertainty or gaps in situational awareness. As response decisions compound over time, the impacts grow and decision-makers unknowingly follow decision-making inputs shaped by an adversary’s hand. Some Questions to Consider: What types of subtle vs. overt adversarial inputs could realistically influence disaster-response AI models before or during an incident? How might seemingly benign data sources (sensor feeds, crowdsourced reports, historical incident datasets, social media signals) be leveraged for data poisoning? At what point does model error become difficult to distinguish from model compromise during a live response? How might reliance on AI recommendations evolve as organizational memory of “pre-AI” response fades?

Interested in helping identify best practices for using #AI in #ScholarlyPublishing? Then check out our #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore pre-conferences (Mon February 16)!

We have two half-day sessions on AI, one on managing AI access to content & the other on AI usage tracking. To join us: https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2026-baltimore/niso-plus-baltimore-2026-pre-conferences/

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404 Media: Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

(Requires an email signin to read the article; TLDR there are now networks of AI generated "influencers" hawking all kinds of stuff, and it's getting pretty tough to determine who is real and who isn't).

https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

#ai #llm #deepfake #influencers #tiktok

In light of Firefox sadly going full AI bullshit mode, what's your daily/regular non-AI web browser of choice (and why?).

Personally, I switched to Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com / @Vivaldi) after the first round of Firefox AI additions and it's been great.

I like the Chromium dev tools and how customisable Vivaldi is. Hoping to start making use of the built-in RSS reader too when I get time. You also get a built-in VPN and email client but I don't use those myself.

#AI #WebBrowsers

U.S. senators demand answers on AI toys from leading manufacturers.

NBC News reported last week that AI-powered toys gave answers about sex and Chinese Communist Party talking points in tests.

https://flip.it/fINqxY

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #China

@alberto_cottica - Basically the best we've got is LibreWolf (fork of Mozilla's Firefox) and Vivaldi (fork of Google's Chromium).

Both are privacy focused and reject AI.

#browser #mozilla #firefox #AI #librewolf #vivaldi

So speaking of browser wars...

Is Gophie the best browser or are there other gopher browsers that are better?

HTML/Javascript was a mistake.

https://gophie.org/

#mozilla #browser #gopher #ai #firefox

This is the script of my national radio report yesterday on the new #Google/Pentagon Partnership for #Gemini Military #AI. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented the report live on air.

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So yes, this has quickly turned into a rather strange Pentagon story but before we get further into it I want to answer a question I've seen posed frequently: Is it the Department of Defense or Department of War?

And this turns out to be a pretty easy one. Only Congress can change a name like that for legal or statutory purposes, and Congress has not done this. So the official legal name is still Department of Defense. An executive order created a secondary name which is Department of War, and that can be used in public communications and basically various other non-statutory contexts. It isn't clear how much has been spent changing various stuff to that secondary name, but apparently estimates are that to do total rebranding to Department of War would cost many billions of dollars and perhaps Congress doesn't want to rush into that. I have seen some references to Department of War as the "cosplay" name but I'm fine just saying the Pentagon so that's what I'll be using here today.

So as we know the Billionaire Big Tech CEOs want their AI in EVERYTHING, and Google apparently won a contract with the Pentagon to put a version of Google Gemini AI in front of several million U.S. armed forces members and other associated workers. This is being called "genai.mil" and I'm told it's designated for CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information and IL5 - Impact Level 5.

Secretary Hegseth and Google really made dramatic announcements about this and the Pentagon apparently has AI-generated posters of Hegseth in an Uncle Sam "I want you" pose saying "I want you to use AI!" and there are emails and popups and other promotions pushing use of this Google AI system for the military.

The announcements did raise many eyebrows because, among other reasons, Hegseth and Google didn't seem to quite agree on what this project is actually for. Hegseth talked in terms of increasing lethality, and Google seemed to be saying it's really for administrative purposes and some analyses -- but really oriented more toward routine paperwork and research.

Stories did come out quickly claiming that persons with access to the Google Gemini Military System asked it about the legality of that controversial "double tap" boat strike, and Gemini said it was illegal.

Now whether or not that's correct this does quickly take us to the heart of the matter which is as we all know how often Gemini and other AI systems are completely or partly wrong in their answers -- the latter being even more dangerous.

AI disclaimers often admit that you can't trust AI to be accurate, so it's understandable that there are concerns about bringing what's often called AI Slop into a military context, even if restricted to administrative operations.

I had an incident with Google's AI yesterday, not a critical one but something to ponder. I asked Google when an organization I know was taking their holiday break, usually some weeks. And the Google AI Overview came back and told me their break was from December 22nd to January 5th, and added that the duration was three weeks. And I'm looking at this and thinking THREE weeks? Yeah, Google AI in this case didn't know that 22 December to 5 January was only two weeks. Now if a student had gotten something like this wrong they'd probably get an F.

But you do have to wonder how Google AI could make an error like that. It's just a simple calendar query, no external information or context required. If you can't depend on AI for accuracy in something so simple and obvious, it's completely reasonable to be concerned about more complex information where errors would NOT be so obvious.

Thinking about the impact of AI loaded with misinformation in military situations can be rather chilling to say the least. While this isn't a sci-fi movie style evil AI, given what we all DO know about REAL AI now, there seems to be an almost endless array of ways that this Google/Pentagon partnership to push military AI could go very, very wrong indeed. And THAT'S a very serious concern.

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We think Merriam-Webster nailed it. Their 2025 word of the year: slop.

CNBC says the choice is another "sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence."

https://flip.it/fljaff

#Slop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology

@lugh_clyde Thanks Clyde, yes #ai is in my hashtags! I thought the same about the droplets, but also thought it was pretty 😀

Every hour, every day, our sites get attacked by either “#AI” theftbots or hackers. We have put some blocks and challenges up. For months we haven’t inconvenienced any readers, though last week we began to, as we had to broaden the criteria for the challenges. Yesterday, we had five readers needing to click a box to prove they are human, while stopping 19,940 bots and hacking attempts. We’re really sorry to inconvenience a few of you, but we need to do this so we can afford to deliver our work.

In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/meet-the-language-insufficiency-gpt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast #rhetoric #communication #truth #justice

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Language Insufficiency GPT Screenshot By Bry Willis Analyses English terms and short concept phrases using the Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH), diagnosing semantic stability, polysemy, connotation, and category drift in contemporary usage.

Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on AI being a valuable tool to help maintain code and details around the newly released Linux kernel 6.18 at #OSS Japan.

Read about it in ZDNet: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-ai-tool-maintaining-linux-code/

#AI #OpenSource

Militant groups are experimenting with AI, and the risks are expected to grow, @AssociatedPress reports.

"For loose-knit, poorly resourced extremist groups — or even an individual bad actor with a web connection — AI can be used to pump out propaganda or deepfakes at scale."

https://flip.it/0VrQVz

#AI #Terrorism #ISIS #Tech

#Dew-Kissed #Lily of the #Valley by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/dew-kissed-lily-of-the-valley-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#floral #flowers #whiteflowers #droplets #waterdroplets #pretty #digitalart #ai #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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Delicate lily of the valley flowers are adorned with glistening dew drops some with blue refractions of color. The lush greenery creates a vibrant contrast against the flowers. THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS. Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) also written lily of the valley is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring. It is native in Europe and western and northern Asia. Other names include May bells, Our Lady's tears, and Mary's tears. Its French name, muguet, sometimes appears in the names of perfumes imitating the flower's scent. family Liliaceae

"...Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact”..."

#ai #propaganda #toys

NBC News: AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956

#AI #llms

"Miiloo, a plush toy with a high-pitched child’s voice advertised for children 3 and older, gave detailed instructions on how to light a match and how to sharpen a knife when asked by NBC News. "

#ai #toys

"Some devs are using AI without understanding the code.

This has led to receiving packages with many unnecessary lines and bad practices. And once a bad practice is introduced in one package, it can create a domino effect, appearing on other extensions. ... At the start, I was really curious about the increase in unnecessary try-catch block usage in many new extensions submitted on EGO. So I asked, and they answered that it is coming from AI. "

https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/

#ai #slopsoftware #aislop

Thought this was the most compelling article so far to both acknowledge the bubble but also the differences. Very much worth a read. #ai

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/technology/ai-boom-unlike-dot-com-boom.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.EyZy.dF46_M0ETvpf&smid=url-share

(NYT gifted article)

#hubzilla #wordpress #cms #ai #ki #LLM

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QANT photonics accelerator does FP16.

Multiplies and adds aren’t converted to microinstructions, but they just happen in one element.

Photonics does the actual math cmos emulates.

And the companies building the best chips are European.. You don’t need 3nm foundries to build these.

You wanted a European technological revolution. Here it is. Now don’t fuck this up @EUCommission

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ubbv8eY87_k

#ai #tech #eu #photonics