📰 The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans' communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.

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Meta will cut 10% of workforce as company pushes deeper into AI.

CNBC reports: "Job cuts are picking up across the tech sector as companies reckon with the AI boom."

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📰 A new Republican privacy bill could be ‘worse than no standard at all’

Congress is once again attempting to pass a national data privacy law. But while it would introduce new protections in some states, it would weaken privacy rights in others - and it's missing sever...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/policy/917828/data-privacy-bill-secure-act-house-state-laws

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#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI

Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence.

The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg.

The layoffs will go into effect on May 20.

#jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency

“Don’t stop hiring humans. Stop hiring the wrong humans” is the campaign slogan for Artisan, a startup building AI employees for outbound sales and customer engagement. “I’ve made a lot of hiring mistakes — like, a lot within every single role,” co-founder and CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack told @Techcrunch about the company's learning process. As long as the company doesn’t start making AI CEOs, everything should go fine:

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📰 AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren

"I know a bubble when I see one." That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who led the push to create a new consumer financial regulator in the wake of the 2008 recession, told a crowd at a Vander...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/policy/917026/ai-economy-bubble-elizabeth-warren

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🤖 Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy

📰 Source: OpenAI News
🔗 Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter

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📰 Apple’s Tim Cook leaves behind complicated legacy on privacy

Outgoing CEO took stood up for users in battle with FBI but concessions abroad undermine claims of protecting ‘fundamental right’In his 15 years as Apple’s top executive, Tim Cook has projected an ...

📰 Source: Technology | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/apple-tim-cook-privacy

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📰 AI company deletes the 3 million OKCupid photos it used for facial recognition training

When online platforms violate their own privacy policies to sell your photos, have no fear: They just might have to pay an undisclosed settlement fee 12 years later. (Who says justice is dead?) Acc...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
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Florida starts criminal probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT over advice it gave to mass shooting suspect.

NBC News reports the state's attorney general "is investigating whether ChatGPT provided any planning assistance to the alleged gunman in the Florida State University mass shooting that left two people dead in April last year."

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📰 MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy sued by unionised staff, who accuse management of breaking the law with "invasive" surveillance software

A group of unionised staff at MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy are taking legal action against the studio, claming that management's installation of surveillance software on their work device...

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🎮 MindsEye Developers Take Legal Action Against Studio, Alleging They Were Spied On

Several Build a Rocket Boy employees, represented by the IWGB Game Workers Union, allege that invasive surveillance software was installed on their devices

📰 Source: Kotaku
🔗 Link: https://kotaku.com/mindseye-build-a-rocket-boy-union-teramind-surveillance-software-iwgb-2000689327

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🎮 Union takes legal action against Build a Rocket Boy over alleged data privacy violations

The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has initiated legal action against Mindseye developer Build a Rocket Boy over alleged data privacy violations. Read more

📰 Source: GamesIndustry.biz News Feed
🔗 Link: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/union-takes-legal-action-against-build-a-rocket-boy-over-alleged-data-privacy-violations

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🎮 Union workers take legal action against Build A Rocket Boy over alleged privacy violations

One union member said the studio's 'culture of secrecy and micromanaging' is one of the worst they've ever encountered.

📰 Source: gamedeveloper
🔗 Link: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/union-workers-take-legal-action-against-build-a-rocket-boy-over-alleged-privacy-violations

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🎮 Sony rolls out age verification for PlayStation users in the UK and Ireland

Users who fail to verify their age will lose access to communication features and some third-party services.

📰 Source: gamedeveloper
🔗 Link: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/sony-rolls-out-age-verification-for-playstation-users-in-the-uk-and-ireland

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🎮 PlayStation has started telling UK and Ireland players to verify their age by June to keep certain features

Age verification will be required for online communication, Sony says

📰 Source: VGC
🔗 Link: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playstation-has-started-telling-uk-and-ireland-players-to-verify-their-age-by-june-to-keep-certain-features/

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📰 PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Messages and Voice Chat

A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and voice chat. Insider-Gaming reports: The i...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/04/20/2357225/playstation-to-require-age-verification-for-messages-and-voice-chat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Music streaming app Deezer announced that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform. Can you tell the difference between AI- and human-generated music? A Deezer survey found that 97% of participants couldn’t. That’s not stopping them from attempting to quell the flow of AI music. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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📊 Revealing who you are to chatbots

Using inference with what you ask, how you write, and your phrasing, a…Tags: chatbot, privacy, Straits Times

📰 Source: FlowingData
🔗 Link: https://flowingdata.com/2026/04/20/revealing-who-you-are-to-chatbots/

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"Design is dead."
"Coding is dead."
"Startups are dead."

AI fanatics seem to predict the death of everything. Since when did focusing on death become something to celebrate? (I realize the irony in this since my server is mementomori.social, but that's different)

I think AI will definitely speed things up and make things more efficient, but it also raises serious issues around security, privacy, the environment, and jobs.

As a lifelong coder, I embrace the technology, but I still hate the hype. It leaves me feeling pretty conflicted.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #ClaudeCode #ClaudeDesign #Design #Coding

Cyberattacks are spiking across the globe, thanks to Artificial Intelligence. We recently learned the extent of internet security vulnerability when Anthropic deemed its Claude Mythos Preview too dangerous for release because of how well it could spot security flaws. How long with these powerful tool remain in the hands of the “good guys?” @sciencefocus has more:

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🤖 The AI Wearable Ecosystem: Closer than you think. Socially acceptable?

I've been researching how personal AI tech devices are likely to develop ... technical capabilities, form factors, privacy and governance issues etc. I think it looks likely that there won't be one...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1sors65/the_ai_wearable_ecosystem_closer_than_you_think/

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Explain this one to your grandpa: Zoom is partnering with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to make sure people, not robots, are attending meetings. (Hmm, wasn't the point to remove humans from the chat?) Read more from @Techcrunch:

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Sam Altman has a reputation for deception. @nilay_patel spoke with Ronan Farrow about his recent New Yorker piece on the OpenAI head.

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Here's the @NewYorker story in case you missed it: https://flip.it/aawqwV

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Basis embeds Protected by Mediaocean for live AI verification inside campaigns: Basis and Mediaocean integrate Protected on April 14, 2026, bringing AI-driven brand safety, attention, and quality verification into live campaign activation. https://ppc.land/basis-embeds-protected-by-mediaocean-for-live-ai-verification-inside-campaigns/ #DigitalMarketing #BrandSafety #ArtificialIntelligence #AdTech #CampaignManagement

⚖️ How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)

A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigation...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it

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I finally started messing with #OpenClaw last night, but it will get you rate-limited pretty quickly. I ended up moving it away from my #ClaudeCLI account and into an API account. With very minimal usage, am already up to $3 in spending.

I tried this because I was interested in the Memory feature, but it doesn't seem to remember most things.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Claude

📰 Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices, saying the tech giant fails to notify users ...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/911789/eff-google-giving-data-ice-california-new-york

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If you’re not an AI expert and find yourself scratching your head at some of the news coming out of Silicon Valley, you’re not alone. @Techcrunch tells us about a report on the public’s growing anxiety around the tech and how it differs from many inside the industry:

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📰 Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

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📰 Meta‘s AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech - podcast

Elle Hunt on her month wearing Meta’s smart glasses and the privacy concerns around the technology According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s AI-powered glasses are “personal super intelligence” that “le...

📰 Source: Technology | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/apr/13/metas-ai-glasses-and-the-dawn-of-wearable-tech-podcast

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We’re starting to like the phrase “known issue.” Like, if your boss asks why your TPS report is missing, you can just say “That’s a known issue.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently used it on the Mostly Human podcast after being shown a bug with ChatGPT. To be fair, the bug wasn’t that bad. It just spotlighted an imperfection that wouldn’t shock anyone if it improved in the coming year. See more from @Futurism:

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A colleague shared a post today that inspired this, let's say, 'response'. Do #LLMs ruin everything?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/12/the-environment-always-wins-the-myth-of-pure-voice/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

This is always in the back of my head anyway, so it wasn't particularly difficult to write a #blog post and ask #NotebookLM to summarise it for a #podcast.

#philosophy #language #artificialintelligence #virtuesignalling #culture #gatekeeping art #creativity #innovation #psychology #society ##games #books #reading #writing #absorbtion #influence #literature #homeschool

It’s been a demanding week for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. A Molotov cocktail was hurled at his San Francisco home early Friday. That followed The New Yorker’s profile that raised concerns about his trustworthiness. @Techcrunch has more, including Altman’s Friday night blogpost in which he acknowledged “a lot of things I’m proud of and a bunch of mistakes:

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#Tech #OpenAI #AI #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

🚀 We just sent a team of humans to the moon and safely home.

Not one bit of generative AI was used or needed.

You don't need it in your office or organization, either.

We can do great things without pillaging public resources and funds for a scam.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NASA #Artemis #moon #genAI #generativeAI #slop

📰 Google Rolls Out Gmail End-To-End Encryption On Mobile Devices

Gmail's end-to-end encryption is now available on all Android and iOS devices, letting enterprise users send and read encrypted emails directly in the app without any extra tools. "This launch comb...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/04/10/1620217/google-rolls-out-gmail-end-to-end-encryption-on-mobile-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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📰 Google adds E2E to Gmail for iOS and Android enterprise users

Google has announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Gmail on Android and iOS is now rolling out for its enterprise users. Emails that require E2EE in Workspace can be composed and read withi...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/google-adds-e2e-to-gmail-for-ios-and-android-enterprise-users-165345116.html?src=rss

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🐧 Debian Linux waiting on further info for how age verification will affect it

With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here's what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

📰 Source: GamingOnLinux Latest Articles
🔗 Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/debian-linux-waiting-on-further-info-for-how-age-verification-will-affect-it/

#Linux #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice

Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.

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📰 This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle

Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.

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🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/this-ai-button-wearable-from-ex-apple-engineers-looks-like-an-ipod-shuffle/

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