There are seasoned IT practitioners, who did not need to work but stayed in the industry out of the love for the work. These people are retiring, out of disgust over the #AI #enshitification of #IT. And with them went the last reserves of knowledge, experience, skill, and professionalism.

And just like that, the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial is over. A jury in California took less than two hours to determine that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit against his former business partner, ending the three-week trial in which Musk alleged that Altman and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman committed a "breach of charitable trust.” Read more from @npr:

https://flip.it/GabOrr

#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech

The complaint says park visitors don't get sufficient notice they're being scanned.

📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2176016/disney-faces-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-facial-recognition-tech/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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"The problem isn’t that OpenAI is necessarily going to behave badly. The problem is that we are building systems whose usefulness increases the more intimate the data we give them, and whose economic value increases the better they can infer our intentions. Financial personalization can be extraordinarily beneficial, but it can also become the most sophisticated form of business segmentation ever invented. A searcher knew what you wanted to find. A social network knew what made you react. A financial assistant will know what you can afford.

And then there is Plaid. A widespread fintech infrastructure, in 2021 it accepted a $58 million class action privacy, data uses and transparency settlement, although it did not involve an admission of guilt. Today Plaid offers services to manage connections and erase data, but the precedent reminds us of something basic: in finance trust is about more than policy statements.

The regulatory dimension also matters. The Consumer Finance Protection Board’s open banking rules aim to give users more control over their financial data, facilitate portability, and prevent unwanted secondary uses, including the use of financial data for targeted advertising unrelated to the requested service. That’s the right direction: that the user can move their data, yes, but under clear constraints of purpose, retention, security, and liability."

https://medium.com/enrique-dans/chatgpt-for-personal-finance-digital-banking-meets-surveillance-capitalism-24531f363147

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection

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These researchers clearly don't have children because, if they did, they should be locked up for this kind of privacy invasion.

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/

#Research #AI #Children #Teachers #Tech

📰 The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets

The CFTC says it is ramping up efforts to catch insider trading and market manipulation in prediction markets, using AI tools, blockchain tracing, and other surveillance systems to flag suspicious ...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/18/0347213/the-us-is-betting-on-ai-to-catch-insider-trading-in-prediction-markets?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Generative #AI has moved from emerging technology to a central focus of policymaking. In the 2025 legislative session alone, nearly every state introduced AI-related legislation, creating a rapidly evolving web of inconsistent rules across the country. 1/2

This was invented for #AI. However, I'm finding it really nice for screen readers:
RTK rewrites output from chatty terminal commands that produce a lot of output, often in complex tables, in order to make the output 80 to 90 percent shorter. Just put rtk in front of the command you want to compress. So "rtk git status" instead of "git status". And you can be sure the compacted output is correct because it's just using regular expressions and deterministic rules under the hood to rewrite output from the tools it knows about. If it doesn't know about a particular command, it just passes the output on unchanged.
github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
Now I've got to figure out how to wire this up in #bash so it'll just happen without me typing rtk all the time.

#a11y #screenreader #accessibility #commandline

https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/

University of Washington researchers wanted preschool teachers to wear body cameras that recorded everything from the teacher’s perspective, including the kids, so the footage could be used to train AI models. Instead of requiring explicit consent, parents had to opt OUT.

The idea that recording preschoolers for AI training should be the default is genuinely disturbing. Privacy and consent apparently just don’t matter anymore

#Privacy #AI #Surveillance #DigitalRights

An AI startup gave four AI models free rein over their own radio stations and "things started to get...weird" and quite frankly...dark. Find out what happens when LLMs attempt to be radio hosts and producers.

https://flip.it/q5yPnL

#AI #Radio #Technology #TechNews

Expanding mental health access is crucial for students. A new study shows an #AI digital therapy app with text coaching significantly reduces depression and anxiety, offering a highly accessible alternative to traditional counseling. https://artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/study-finds-digital-therapy-app-improves-student-mental-health

Daily Digest | 18 May 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

Apple is reportedly adding auto-delete options for Siri chat history in iOS 27—30 days, one year, or indefinite retention. The move may limit personalization compared to rivals that retain conversation data, but offers a privacy tradeoff worth examining. Expected announcement at WWDC June 8.

#AI #Privacy #iOS

https://www.implicator.ai/apple-siri-update-may-bring-auto-delete-chat-controls-to-ios-27/

🚨 NEWS: Apple Rivoluziona Siri con Chat Auto-Eliminanti Privacy al Centro della Nuova Intelligenza Artificiale

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 La privacy sta diventando il pilastro centrale della prossima evoluzione di Siri. Secondo fonti attendibili, Apple si prepara a introdurre una funzionalità di auto-eliminazione del...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/apple-rivoluziona-siri-con-chat-auto-eliminanti-privacy-al-centro-della-nuova-intelligenza-artificiale

#ai #apple #ios #iPhone #privacy

📰 Small Town Fights Over Flock's AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras

160 miles north of New York City, a man was convicted of manslaughter "with the help of license plate reader technology," reports a local news station. In the small town of Troy (population: 51,000...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/17/2236232/small-town-fights-over-flocks-ai-enhanced-network-of-license-plate-reading-cameras?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

🤖 Siri Overhaul: Auto-Delete Chats Could Be Apple's Privacy Play

Apple's next Siri update, expected in June, could introduce auto-delete chat features, prioritizing user privacy in a direct challenge to competitors.

https://byte-pulse.net/article/siri-overhaul-auto-delete-chats-could-be-apple-s-privacy-play

#siri #apple #ai #privacy

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Siri Overhaul: Auto-Delete Chats Could Be Apple's Privacy Play

Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida and delivered this memorable line: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” We’ve all been there before, offering a piece of “profound” wisdom or advice that we’re sure will draw awe and applause — but just falls flat. Parents know what we’re talking about. And now, so does Gloria. @Techcrunch has more on the commencement speech's sideways turn, including the audience’s collective “this sucks” reaction:

https://flip.it/50FvI3

Oh, and hang in there, Gloria.

#Tech #AI #Technology #UCF #ArtificialIntelligence

Interesting situation:

The third-party doctrine is a precedent in US jurisdiction that says: when you voluntarily give information to third parties,you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in that information.

It enables the government to simply buy sensitive data that you "voluntarily" handed over to third parties, as in: every company whose services you are using.

Without any warrant that is usually needed, should they want to seize the very same information from you, directly.

The same doctrine also enables judges to tell your lawyer to hand over sensitive documents that you shared with an "#AI" provider to create or polish it using "AI" – the respective provider being considered such a third party.

So, should you support the proposed Surveillance Accountability Act (H. R. 8470), because it tries to ban this overreach?

Or should you oppose it, because that precedent is a brilliant and powerful way to contain, or even roll back, the spread of "AI"?

#ThirdPartyDoctrine #HR8470 #SurveillanceAccountabilityAct

📰 Revamped Siri will reportedly offer auto-deleting chats

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front, and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg's Ma...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/932207/siri-apple-intelligence-auto-deleting-chats

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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"YOU WILL LOVE AI AND YOU WILL LOVE THE TECH BROS!"

Fuck off Silicon Valley perverts...

#AI #EricSchmidt #Technology #TechBros

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#Calif team details how #Anthropic #Mythos helped build a working #macOS exploit in five days

https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/14/calif-team-details-how-anthropic-mythos-helped-build-a-working-macos-exploit-in-five-days/

#Claude #AI #ClaudeAI #cybersecurity #ClaudeMythos

Dear CEOs

Ai bots don’t buy cars or groceries or iPhones or whatever else you’re selling. People do.

Kill the workforce and nobody will buy your products.

Thx,
Hammy

#ai #generativeAI #bot #economy #economics #business #Consumer #news #worldnews #loser

#Linux #Kernel Outlines What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible #AI Use

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/05/16/0332211/linux-kernel-outlines-what-qualifies-as-a-security-bug-responsible-ai-use

#cybersecurity #FOSS

Skai claims first agent-native marketing OS amid AI agent rush: Kenshoo Skai unveiled Studio, an agent-native platform with autonomous AI agent squads, plus expanded Celeste, and a new advisory practice at ShopAble May 13. https://ppc.land/skai-claims-first-agent-native-marketing-os-amid-ai-agent-rush/ #Marketing #AI #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #Automation

ICYMI: YouTube's AI face shield now covers every creator 18 and over: YouTube expands AI likeness detection beyond the Partner Program to all eligible creators aged 18+, enabling face scan requests and privacy removals in Studio. https://ppc.land/youtubes-ai-face-shield-now-covers-every-creator-18-and-over/ #YouTube #AI #Privacy #ContentCreation #DigitalSafety

#AI fake videos on #YouTube -- Johnny Carson and Jack Lemmon

Here's an example of the sort of AI garbage flooding YouTube. I stumbled across a fairly recent video claiming to tell the story of actor Jack Lemmon announcing he had colon cancer while a guest on "The Tonight Show". Very dramatic video. Very emotional. TOTALLY FAKE. Most commenters didn't realize this, expressing their thanks for the video and praising it. A scattering of commenters pointed out that it was total garbage.

I am not sharing the URL since I do not want to give that video any juice.

But this is the sort of CRAP flooding YouTube, and #Google just doesn't give a damn, 'cause a click is a click for them. And this one is relatively minor compared to more recent ones as the VIDEO GARBAGE AI SYSTEMS flood our lives.

DISGUSTING.

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Why data minimisation matters in the age of #AI-powered cyber attacks: AI is changing the risk profile of #cybersecurity, turning data minimisation from a privacy nicety into a frontline defence. The less data you hold, the less there is for AI‑enabled attackers to exploit.

https://katecarruthers.com/data-minimisation-matters/

Is it possible for #AI models to be trained ethically, deployed for good and not harm, in a way that doesn’t destroy the environment? Yes.

Is it likely for that to happen? Not in my lifetime.

Similarly, it is *possible* to use intrusive mass surveillance for the good of humanity, but the overwhelmingly likely outcome is that the tech will be used to exploit and crush vulnerable people.

Same thing with guns. Is it *possible* for a population to be well-armed and entirely responsible for the use of their weapons? Yep. Is it likely to happen? Hell no.

AI tech is interesting, and it is morally neutral. But human nature being the way it is, it is exceedingly naïve to think that there’s any chance that its development will benefit society instead of exploiting it.

Show me some robust pro-consumer-rights regulation around this tech, and maybe I’ll begin to believe you. Until then, your optimism is unwarranted.

New post: The Context Window Tax: Why Autonomous Agents Break Low-Income Budgets

https://lanie.work/technology/context-window-tax/

#Technology #Accessibility #AI #Disability #Workflow #Automation

New post: The Context Window Tax: Why Autonomous Agents Break Low-Income Budgets

https://lanie.work/technology/the-context-window-tax-why-autonomous-agents-break-low-income-budgets/

#Technology #Accessibility #AI #Disability #Workflow #Automation

Daily podcast: Your Meta Glasses Are NOT Private At All. To Zuckerberg, privacy violations and mental harm are acceptable in the name of profit.

#News #TechNews #Meta #MetaGlasses #AI #WarCrimes #Privacy #podcast

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