Daily Digest | 13 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

20 million people! The New jim Crow has a list of 20 million people, but y'all stay mad at people for just surviving!

ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/

#ICE #Palantir #AI #Security #Privacy #Surveillance #ACAB #Tech

🤖 Is Big Brother watching you shop? – podcast

From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and storesLive facial recognition ...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/may/13/is-big-brother-watching-you-shop-podcast

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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U.S. analytics company Gallup says it is beginning to research using AI-generated agents to simulate how individuals and populations might answer survey questions. Here's the company blog with more information.

https://flip.it/C8XPIG

#Polling #AI #Technology #Research #Analysis

If you see someone wandering around with a half-open (or half-closed) laptop, they might not just be a frazzled office worker en route to their next meeting. Business Insider says that because AI coding tools run locally or depend on WiFi, closing your laptop might mean you lose progress on whatever project you're working on — and rather than changing their devices' settings, some coders would prefer just to leave them cracked open. When 15-year-old Arav Jain's schoolmates ask him why he doesn't put his laptop in his backpack, he tells them "I got agents running. I've got to keep shipping software."

https://flip.it/w9wlOu

#SoftwareEngineering #Coding #AI #Claude

Digg is back! Again! After relaunching in January as a Reddit competitor and shutting down in March, it's now re-relaunching as a news aggregator, initially focused on ranking the latest on AI. @Techcrunch's @Sarahp has more.

https://flip.it/Dz8teA

#Technology #Tech #Digg #AI

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

Hackers used #AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-hackers-used-ai-to-develop-zero-day-exploit-for-web-admin-tool/

#cybersecurity

🧠 “Is #Intelligence a mathematical structure?”🔢 – #Zoomposium with #GittaKutyniok

The key to the next generation of intelligent systems – On computability, limitations, and the future of AI

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/04/24/intelligenz-mathe-struktur/

🎥https://youtu.be/SbLf8oBAv90

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Mathematics #NeuralNetworks #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #Intelligence #CognitiveScience #MathematicsAndAI #AIResearch #ExplainableAI #Computability #NeuromorphicComputing #Science

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Thumbnail Zoomposium mit Gitta Kutyniok

LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20075

#AI #LLM #cybersecurity #encryption #stenography #cryptography

In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Analysis from @AssociatedPress: https://flip.it/XUWC5a

#AI #SamAltman #ElonMusk #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech

Politicians here in Brazil talking about integrating AI into children's education 😱😡😱😡

#education #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Brazil

🎮 Microsoft Fires Head Of Israel Office Amid BDS Boycott Targetting Xbox

The tech giant was investigating claims its cloud servers were part of surveillance operations targeting Palestinians

📰 Source: Kotaku
🔗 Link: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-fires-head-of-israel-office-amid-bds-boycott-targetting-xbox-2000695254

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Hackers abuse #Google ads, #ClaudeAI chats to push #Mac #malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-google-ads-claudeai-chats-to-push-mac-malware/

#cybersecurity #AI #Claude #advertising #malvertising

#AI

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totally legitimate conversation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116558756243844890

Google should inform users about the change of terms of service and preserve transparency as it affects people's right to privacy.

Secretly changing ToS is something that will backfire on Google, especially as there are many good alternatives to Chrome.

#Google #Chrome #privacy #AI #LLM #transparency

Daily Digest | 12 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

This sarcastic take on an AI manifesto (for want of a better description) is so close to being the kind of stuff you regularly read online these days, it could almost be genuine. Hats off to @brucelawson@vivaldi.net.
Brilliant.
#SoftwareEngineering #AI #Sarcasm #Humour

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/brucelab-act-2-1-accelerating-human-centric-agentic-synergy-at-machine-velocity/

#Meta’s Embrace of #AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable
As it adapts #artificialintelligence,e company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing for #layoffs
What employees typed, how they moved their mouse, where they clicked and what they saw on their screen would be tracked
Many workers immediately revolted. In online comments, they blasted the tracking as a privacy violation, calling it antisocial and callous
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html
https://archive.ph/L9hbv

📰 iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-To-End Encrypted In iOS 26.5

Apple says end-to-end encryption for RCS messages between iPhone and Android is now available in iOS 26.5, though the feature is still considered beta and depends on carrier support on both sides. ...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/1834209/iphone-android-rcs-conversations-are-end-to-end-encrypted-in-ios-265?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

LOL now they're blaming sci-fi writers...

Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts

https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0437206/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts

#AI #AIpocalypse

A connexion asked me to explain how I use AI in my writing, so I captured my publication workflow in a blog post with a podcast summary: 👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/11/how-i-use-ai-in-my-publication-workflow/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I've shared several blog articles on the topic over the years: https://philosophics.blog/tag/ai-writing-2/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

How about you? 🧐

#writing #ai #llms #editing #workflow #philosophy #partnership #authorship #production #support #blog #podcast

CCIA UK welcomes Charlotte Holloway as the new Senior Policy Manager. Charlotte joins at a pivotal moment for the UK’s role in #AI innovation and the global digital economy. Her expertise will strengthen CCIA’s advocacy for policies that support investment, growth, and technological leadership. https://ccianet.org/news/2026/05/ccia-uk-adds-a-senior-policy-manager/

📰 GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies

General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters. In...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/927863/gm-settles-california-lawsuit-claiming-it-sold-driving-habit-data-to-insurance-companies

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe.

From @AssociatedPress: "Experts say ethical concerns abound, ranging from technology’s role in humankind’s future to conducting job interviews and judging employee performance."

https://flip.it/xgRKRw

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Coffee #Sweden

🤖 Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by itThe real danger that artificial intelligence poses to work is not just job loss – it is the growing divid...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/11/google-tweaks-chrome-ai-privacy-wording-insists-pr-xcxwbn/

Google has changed Chrome's on-device AI privacy wording, removing an explicit promise that user data would not be sent to its servers.

#AI #GoogleChrome #Google #GeminiNano #GoogleGemini #OnDeviceAI #AIPrivacy #WebBrowsers

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/11/fake-openai-repository-on-hugging-face-pushes-info-xcxwbn/

A fake Hugging Face repository copied OpenAI's Privacy Filter branding and delivered infostealer malware to Windows users.

#AI #AIModels #HuggingFace #OpenAI #Infostealer #Cybersecurity #Malware #Cybercrime #OpenSourceAI

🎮 Forza Horizon 6 Suffers Disastrous Leak as Steam Preload Files Are Made Available Without Encryption

Forza Horizon 6 suffered a significant leak after the entire game was reportedly made available via an unencrypted Steam preload.

📰 Source: IGN Articles
🔗 Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/forza-horizon-6-suffers-disastrous-leak-as-steam-preload-files-are-made-available-without-encryption

#SteamDeck #PCGaming #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Daily Digest | 11 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

A fake Hugging Face repo impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter model reportedly reached #1 trending while distributing infostealer malware.

Researchers say it hit ~244K downloads before removal.
AI supply chain attacks are accelerating fast.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1.html

Follow TechNadu for more updates.
#CyberSecurity #AI #Malware #InfoSec

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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads

Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:

1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.

Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.

Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security

I suppose one can't deny that "Generative #AI" exists to satisfy a genuine need. It's a rather specific sort of need, and it's a rather specific subset of the world population that really needs to go on believing that #LLMs aren't merely spyware and generators of noise. But the need is there. It's quite clear at least that a substantial crowd of #technology executives and investors (and all their creditors) have their backs to the wall: they NEED "generative AI" to become a universal thing. The general public must be made to choke it down, somehow, someway—preferably with the help of fascıst governments worldwide, such as those of Israel and the United States of America.

Oh they're REALLY big on "generative AI" in Israel. They love the spyware angle, especially—the pretext of training up LLM trash-generators has been taken as carte blanche to destroy all remaining expectations that software will respect the user's privacy and the integrity of their personal data. LLMs and "generative AI" are a diabolical gift to police-states everywhere, and police-states don't come much more brutal and oppressive than in the sacrosanct modern-day state of Israel...which, among other things, imposes a racist definition of "Jewish" on the population and any prospective newcomers.

Trump's Border Spending Spurs Boom in AI-Infused Surveillance

트럼프 행정부의 국경 보안 예산 증액으로 AI 기반 감시 기술 산업이 급성장하고 있습니다. 여러 기업들이 AI를 활용해 사람과 동물, 무기 소지 여부 등을 실시간으로 구분하는 감시 시스템을 선보이며, 드론과 센서 등 다양한 하드웨어와 결합해 국경 보안에 적용 중입니다. 이는 AI가 보안 분야에서 실질적이고 즉각적인 활용 가치를 입증하는 사례로 평가됩니다.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-border-spending-spurs-boom-in-ai-infused-surveillance-4714521b

#ai #surveillance #bordersecurity #drones #computervision

@prahou @bagder @kentpitman

Stenberg's toot of our one hour live discussion is over here:
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116550354613292539
whom we should #retoot too ! Along with this incredible crossstitch: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/112313816741180729

#curl #C #lisp #softwareEngineering #ai #networking

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Lispy gopher climate w/ screwlisp w/ Daniel Stenberg of curl banner. @bagder is drawn as a badger. The gopher and lisp alien are in the background. Listen to the interview. #unix_surrealism (analognowhere.com)

Daniel Stenberg of #curl and Kent Pitman of #commonLisp (and @screwlisp no affiliation) on #AI and #softwareEngineering

https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo

Google Chrome has reportedly pushed a 4GB Gemini Nano model to some devices without clear consent, storing weights in the OptGuideOnDeviceModel folder 💽
Users say Chrome redownloads the AI cache after deletion, raising transparency, storage, bandwidth, and EU privacy concerns over silent AI deployment 🔍

🔗 https://www.techspot.com/news/112309-google-chrome-has-silently-pushing-4gb-ai-model.html

#TechNews #Browser #GoogleChrome #Chrome #Google #Gemini #GeminiNano #AI #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Windows #Linux #macOS #MachineLearning

When someone wants to add an #LLM scraping tool into #Gentoo.

Yes, the kind of shit that's designed to work around all the scraping protections, mask itself and DDoS Gentoo. I mean, technically I don't think that violates any rules but seriously…

https://bugs.gentoo.org/974492

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Fake #OpenAI repository on #HuggingFace pushes #infostealer #malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-openai-repository-on-hugging-face-pushes-infostealer-malware/

#ChatGPT #AI #cybersecurity

Congress Narrowed the #GUARDAct, But Serious Problems Remain

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/congress-narrowed-guard-act-serious-problems-remain

#AI #privacy #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification