soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Admin email
social@octade.net

Search results for tag #trump

[?]Nonilex » 🌐
@Nonilex@masto.ai

The madness continues …

reaches deal to deploy models on US Department of network

said Friday OpenAi reached an agreement with the .

"In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety & a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome," Altman posted on X using the admin’s BS name for the DoD.


reuters.com/business/openai-re

Altman post: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Alt...Altman post: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
    @Nonilex@masto.ai

    …The ultimate winner could now prove to be Elon ’s [great /s], which ofcls say has already agreed to the ’s terms for working on systems. The entrepreneur jumped on Emil Michael’s social media Friday [the DoD’s technology chief] saying “ hates Western Civilization.” [ridiculous idiot.]

      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
      @Nonilex@masto.ai

      Earlier in the week, Jeff Dean, ’s chief scientist, said he was opposed to the being used for & repeated his long-standing opposition to .

      , ’s chief executive, said Friday that it was important for AI companies to find ways to work with the but that he had concerns similar to those of his rival .

        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        The did not explain the reasoning behind its claim [there is none] that it could compel contractors to immediately cease work with Anthropic.

        …Experts said the admin’s dramatic intervention Friday is likely to have ramifications for more than just the govt’s relationship with , potentially complicating the admin’s work with other developers, especially in relation to work.

          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
          @Nonilex@masto.ai

          …Many researchers & engineers working on have long harbored concerns about their being used to power or . The battle between & the has reawakened those concerns across the industry.

          By Friday afternoon, >550 employees at & maker signed an open letter in support of Anthropic’s position & calling on their bosses to stand up to the Pentagon.


          notdivided.org/

            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
            @Nonilex@masto.ai

            …The designation issued by late Friday was an extraordinary escalation, ranking a leading company alongside the likes of Chinese & Russian firms seen as a danger to the .
            
It was unclear how easy it would be for government departments to move away from ’s , or for the company’s partners that do business with the to cut ties.

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              The company wrote that, “Designating as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action—one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company.” The unsigned blog post added: “We are deeply saddened by these developments.”

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                said it would fight the blacklisting in court. In a blog post late Friday, the company said that it believed the wide-reaching ban described was not permitted by federal & that the designation of the company as a was “legally unsound.” [pretty good bet]

                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                  Late Friday, Secy Pete followed ’s unhinged post, saying in his own post that he was declaring a . “Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth wrote.

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    So much for holding back. GMAFB.

                    declares a threat to
                    
 Secretary Pete declared Anthropic a “,” blocking all federal agencies & contractors from doing business with the company.


                    washingtonpost.com/technology/

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      The setback comes as leader raced to sell novel to & , particularly for , ahead of its widely expected .

                      At the same time, the battle over had raised concerns that the would follow [certainly not this one] but little other constraint when deploying AI for national-security missions, regardless of or service terms embraced by the technology's developers.

                        Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                        [?]Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧 [he/him] » 🌐
                        @Peter_Link@expressional.social

                        Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in AI Clash With Trump
                        Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.
                        nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technol

                        from
                        [gift article]

                        Feb. 27, 2026

                        Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that AI should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.”

                        More than 100 employees at Google signed a petition calling on the giant to “refuse to comply” with the on some uses of in military operations.

                        And employees at Amazon, Google and Microsoft urged their leaders in a separate open letter on Thursday to “hold the line” against the Pentagon.

                        has rallied behind the start-up , which has been embroiled in a dispute with and the Pentagon...

                          Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                          [?]Juggling With Eggs » 🌐
                          @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social

                          ‘ orders all federal agencies to stop using technology over limits dispute.

                          Writing on his social media platform, Trump said that he is ordering all federal agencies stop using Anthropic’s technology, after the company refused to allow the defense department to use it AI product, for mass domestic surveillance or in autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input.’

                          Guardian Live

                          Yesterday’s report:

                          theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f

                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                            had sought guarantees that its would not be used for fully or for mass - applications in which the claimed it had no interest [wink wink nudge nudge].

                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                              Trump's decision stopped short of issued by & the , including that it could invoke the Defense Production Act to require Anthropic's compliance. The Pentagon had also said it considered designating a risk, a step previously only used against businesses tied to foreign adversaries.

                              But vowed further action if Anthropic did not cooperate with the phaseout.

                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                Just like all , really doesn’t like being told no.

                                Trump says he is directing federal agencies to cease use of in a petty whiny social media post.


                                reuters.com/world/us/trump-say

                                Trump post: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY. Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology. We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic's products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow. WE will decide the fate of our Country - NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left Al company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

                                Alt...Trump post: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY. Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology. We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic's products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow. WE will decide the fate of our Country - NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left Al company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

                                  Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                  [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                  @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                  Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s revised AI deal, saying terms still risk enabling mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. ⚖️

                                  The $200M contract would make Claude the first AI model in classified defense networks—now stalled over ethical limits and state control. 🧭

                                  🔗 edition.cnn.com/2026/02/26/tec

                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                    Amodei said understands that the , “not private companies, makes decisions.” But “in a narrow set of cases, we believe can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.” In the case of mass & are “outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely & reliably do.”

                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                      said in a statement that the ’s new language was framed as a compromise but “was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.” [shocker]

                                      In a lengthy blog post Thursday, Amodei wrote: “I believe deeply in the existential importance of using to defend the & other democracies, & to defeat our autocratic adversaries.”

                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                        Secretary told CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday that if Anthropic does not allow its model to be used “for all lawful purposes” [as if that’s what they plan to use it for], the would cancel Anthropic’s $200 million contract. In addition to the cancellation, Anthropic would be deemed a “supply chain risk,” a classification normally reserved for companies connected to foreign adversaries, said.

                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                          is rejecting the Pentagon’s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the company’s concerns that could be used for mass or in fully .

                                          The & Anthropic are at odds over restrictions the company places on the use of , the first system to be used in the network.


                                          cnn.com/2026/02/26/tech/anthro

                                            Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                            [?]Freezenet » 🌐
                                            @freezenet@noc.social

                                            Trump Regime Declares War on International Privacy Laws

                                            A longstanding weakness in Canada and strength in Europe could soon come under heavy fire from the Trump regime.

                                            freezenet.ca/trump-regime-decl

                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                              Olson emphasized that there was no precedent to her knowledge of a judge finding tens of thousands of simultaneous violations of federal law regarding taxpayer confidentiality.​
                                              
“I don’t know of any opinion about the like this,” she added. “The kinds of mass requests that are coming in are unprecedented.”

                                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                “This confirms what we’ve been saying all along: that the has an unlawful policy that violates the Internal Revenue Code’s protections by releasing these addresses in a way that violates the law’s requirements,” said Nina Olson, founder of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, which has sued the government over the disclosures.


                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                  In Thursday’s opinion, the judge used pointed language to describe the ’s verification standard. Under the government’s process, she wrote, could have submitted a request with an address like “Don’t Care 12345” or simply “00000” & still received a taxpayer’s home address from the agency.

                                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                    WaPo reported that the had improperly shared information of thousands of individuals with enforcement officials. That report was confirmed by a subsequent court filing by Dottie A. Romo, the IRS’s chief risk & control officer.

                                                    officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal . [but you can’t break a law because you think another law was broken.]

                                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                      “The violated the [] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ... without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],’” the judge’s opinion stated.
                                                      
The case is now before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where the government is appealing Kollar-Kotelly’s November order that blocked the data-sharing arrangement.

                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                        The ruling finds that did not follow this . The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the shared with in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking.

                                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                          Federal requires that before the hands over a taxpayer’s address, a requesting agency must first provide the IRS with the name & address of the person it’s looking for. The requirement exists to ensure that the government can access confidential tax records only for individuals it has already specifically identified.

                                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                            A federal judge has found that the violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with enforcement officials last summer.
                                                            
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling Thursday as part of ongoing litigation over a data-sharing arrangement between the IRS & the .

                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                              Judge rules broke ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving data
                                                              
A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal authorities.


                                                              washingtonpost.com/business/20

                                                                [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                US cybersecurity agency reportedly in dire shape amid cuts and layoffs

                                                                techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/us-c

                                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                  “He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the is unprecedented,” said, before ticking through details. “There’s the of the , the scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes & billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name & face on buildings all over our nation’s capital. This is not what our founders envisioned.”

                                                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                    Spanberger’s speech — & the selection of her to deliver it — signaled how leaders want the party to be viewed in Trump’s second term: sober & serious officials who understand voters’ economic plight.

                                                                    A who is coming off a landslide election victory in , gave a safe speech that struck the political notes are aiming to press — that has hurt the economy & sowed with his policies.

                                                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                      , 46, is the second veteran in 2 years chosen to deliver the Party’s formal response to Trump. Last year, it was Senator of , a fellow who also first entered in 2018 & had also just won a statewide election. While warned last year that would increase the , Spanberger made a broader case that his admin was working against the of the American .

                                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                        called Trump’s a “massive tax hike on you & your family,” & argued that congressional were making life more & “making it more difficult to see a ” while driving up the costs of & .

                                                                        And she said that while Trump’s policies were hurting “regular Americans,” they were helping himself & his allies.

                                                                          Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                                                          [?]ProPublica » 🌐
                                                                          @ProPublica@newsie.social

                                                                          NEW: Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files

                                                                          “None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

                                                                          propublica.org/article/trump-c

                                                                            Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                                                            [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                                                                            @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                                                                            "How do you bring people of all ages, backgrounds, and technical abilities into a mass movement without exposing them to monitoring and targeting by a government—and in particular Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, agencies with paramilitary ambitions, a tendency to break the law, and more funding than some countries’ militaries.

                                                                            Organizing safely in an age of surveillance increasingly requires not only technical security know-how, but also a tricky balance between secrecy and openness, says Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital civil liberties. “You may want to limit access to some information to a smaller group of people, and you need to consider the platforms you are using, so that when law enforcement shows up to Google with a subpoena, there’s nothing sensitive it can hand over,” says Galperin. “But you have to weigh that against the fact that the majority of organizing is done in public, with other people, because the power of organizing is in numbers and solidarity.”

                                                                            There’s no simple set of tech tips that can help organizers safely build a movement while facing that dilemma, but there are approaches, guidelines and tools that can help. WIRED asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for their guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s what we found."

                                                                            wired.com/story/how-to-organiz

                                                                              Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                                                              [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                                                              @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                                                              ICE triples Azure data usage to 1.4PB (Jul'25-Jan'26), leans on AI Vision/Video Indexer for surveillance amid facial recognition, phone trackers, drones. ☁️

                                                                              Reports challenge Microsoft's "no mass surveillance" stance despite contracts; employee concerns rise as policies clash with ICE enforcement reality. ⚖️

                                                                              🔗 windowscentral.com/microsoft/m

                                                                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                                                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                                                                ICE nutzt Handydaten der Werbeindustrie für Jagd auf Migrant*innen

                                                                                US-Behörden kaufen Informationen von Hunderten Millionen Handys – eine auch in Europa geläufige Praxis……

                                                                                nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1196728.

                                                                                Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                                                                [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                                                                                @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                                                                                "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has relied extensively on Microsoft’s cloud storage and artificial intelligence products while escalating its campaign of mass arrests and deportations in recent months, files obtained by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian reveal.

                                                                                ICE more than tripled the amount of data it holds on Microsoft servers between July 2025 and January 2026, at the same time as the agency’s crackdown on migrants broke new records and sparked mass protests across the United States. Whereas last July the agency was storing around 400 terabytes of data in Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, by the end of January that had risen to almost 1,400 terabytes — equivalent to approximately 490 million images.

                                                                                The leaked documents do not specify the kinds of information stored by ICE on Microsoft servers, but they do indicate that the agency has used Azure to house large amounts of data, in addition to making use of AI tools that search and analyze images and videos.

                                                                                ICE employs a powerful arsenal of surveillance technology, reportedly using facial recognition software, drones, phone location tracking, mobile spyware, and even tapping school cameras. The leaked documents show ICE is using Microsoft’s AI video analysis tools including Azure AI Video Indexer and Azure Vision, which enable customers to analyze images, read text, and detect certain words, faces, emotions, and objects in audio and video files."

                                                                                972mag.com/ice-microsoft-azure

                                                                                  [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                                                                                  @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                                                                                  there's now a more mobile friendly version of my curated crypto site.

                                                                                  michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep

                                                                                  larger screen versions are here: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

                                                                                  EFTAQ0990184 (Jmail) OCR text of email from Brock Pierce to Jeffrey Epstein probably sent at 2014-06-02 17:22:54 From: Brock Pierce <1 To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail. com> Subject: Fwd: PRIORITY: PayPay Financial Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:22:54 +0000 Attachments: Here is an example of another company I've incubated in the Bitcoin space. This deal can benefit from a US issuing bank as well. Brock Mobile: +1-917-340-3400 Skype: brockpierce E: Follow me on twitter: @brockpierce

                                                                                  Alt...EFTAQ0990184 (Jmail) OCR text of email from Brock Pierce to Jeffrey Epstein probably sent at 2014-06-02 17:22:54 From: Brock Pierce <1 To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail. com> Subject: Fwd: PRIORITY: PayPay Financial Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:22:54 +0000 Attachments: Here is an example of another company I've incubated in the Bitcoin space. This deal can benefit from a US issuing bank as well. Brock Mobile: +1-917-340-3400 Skype: brockpierce E: Follow me on twitter: @brockpierce

                                                                                    Back to top - More...

                                                                                    about this site - powered by snac/2.92-dev