AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried

Privacy advocates have long sought to require warrants for searches of Americans’ data swept into the databases powered by Section 702 and curated by data brokers.

#FISA #artificialintelligence #AI #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ai-making-easy-government-spy-lawmakers-are-worried-rcna341499

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

Are you slouching as you read this? Probably most of us are. Would a device that reminded you to sit upright help you with your ergonomical integrity? Tech writer Ivan Mehta came across a desk device from German startup Deep Care that gives a gentle nudge to mind your posture while pounding away at your keyboard. Here’s more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/VFyJQa

#Tech #Devices #Health #Technology

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

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitlocker-releases.html

> YellowKey exploit bypasses BitLocker full volume encryption via USB stick and WinRE

#privacy #security #infosec #technology #microslop #Microsoft #windows #Linux

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

A #security researcher says #Microslop secretly built a #backdoor into #BitLocker, releases an #exploit to prove it

#YellowKey exploit bypasses BitLocker full volume #encryption via USB stick and WinRE

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitlocker-releases.html

#Microsoft #Windows11 #technology #privacy #surveillance

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116588641156608272

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

Fuck off Silicon Valley perverts...

#AI #EricSchmidt #Technology #TechBros

Peter » 🌐 2026-05-17
@peter@thepit.social

lol jesus christ.

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reddit comment copying an instagram comment: Okay so I was there and I genuinely felt ill from second hand embarrassment. Not only did they NOT take this guy off when everyone started booing, but the university president interrupted to RE-introduce him as if we’d have a change of heart. So everyone went from cheering, thinking he was being pulled off stage for safety, to booing EVEN LOUDER

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

If you’ve stayed in a hotel in Japan recently, you’ll want to read this. A security lapse in a check-in system left more than one million customer passports, driver’s licenses and verification photos open to the public. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/Av7coy

#Tech #Security #Hacking #Technology #Japan

Some old news, but always relevant, so we don't forget our OpSec:

I hope y'all have seen the Urban VPN "scandal" by now.

If you haven't caught up, it wasn't just a VPN, it was effectively a wiretap.

Their browser extension was found intercepting AI chats (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) by overriding the fetch() function.

They weren't just logging IPs, they were stealing the actual content of your prompts to sell to data brokers. But the real lesson here isn't just "don't use Urban VPN."

It’s about OpSec 101: Never trust a centralized entity.
If you care about security, the rule is simple: Don't trust, verify.

The moment you hand your traffic to a centralized company, especially a "free" one, you’ve created a single point of failure.

A VPN is just someone else's computer. If you don't own the infrastructure, you don't own your privacy.

Stop looking for "trustworthy" companies and start building a "zero trust" mindset.

The only way to ensure you aren't the product is to use a system where no one has the power to sell you out. Don't trust. Verify. Decentralize.

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

6 Discontinued '90s Gadgets People Still Miss

From the Walkman to the Talkboy, these were '90s classics.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/6-discontinued-90s-gadgets-people-still-miss-01kqfmc6zb9f?utm_source=RSS

#technology

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Portuguese: A Motorola Teletrim pager used in Brazil in the 1990s. Captured by André Pinto de Souza on July 30, 2006. - picryl.com A matte black plastic cover pager. The top half is the screen. At the bottom left is a blue with "Teletrim" in white letters. Above this there is one green and one red button. To the right are up, down, left and right arrows.

FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade

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A white dishtowel with an embroidered panel. It features a row of coral flowers and some blue bunting. The message reads: "AI SHOULD DO DISHES."

In the U.S., Some parents don’t want their kids to use tech at school. But districts are pushing back.

From @AssociatedPress: "Across the country, parents are voicing concerns about excessive screen time in schools and lobbying educators to go back to pencil and paper."

https://flip.it/toN-Vo

#Tech #Technology #Education #School

NHS Analysts Together (a of NHS data workers) is organising against the continued involvement of Palantir in the technology supporting NHS patient records.

Their objection is two fold:

Firstly the software is over-sold & not nearly as useful or reliable as presented;

Secondly, many NHS professionals do not want to be associated with Palantir itself for moral/political reasons (as noted in a post a few weeks ago).

#Palantir #NHS #technology

https://www.opendemocracy.net/nhs-england-palantir-federated-data-platform-open-letter-analysts-together/

OpenAI Hit with Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit for Sharing ChatGPT Data with Google and Meta

https://cybersecuritynews.com/openai-chatgpt-privacy-lawsuit/

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #Meta #AI #privacy #surveillance #technology #enshittification

New post: How I Use AI for Cognitive Help and as a Second Brain

https://lanie.work/technology/ai-as-second-brain/

#Technology #Accessibility #Disability #Workflow #AI #CognitiveProsthetic

PH4NTXM is now in a stable phase.

Today, we reinitialized the repository from scratch, with updated and more compact documentation and structure.

It is signed with our GPG key to ensure project verification and trust.

Operating system updates will be released monthly, except for critical security hotfixes.

Documentation will be updated as needed to provide users with detailed usage guides.

Clone it and built your own image directly from the source!

https://github.com/PH4NTXMOFFICIAL/PH4NTXM

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

"Hanff said the push might be intended to help Google cut costs by moving AI work off its own servers and onto your computer.

"Running inference on users' own hardware allows them to push 'AI features' without the compute costs," Hanff told CNET."

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/chrome-installing-4gb-ai-model-gemini-nano/

#Chrome #Google #Malware #Technology

What happens when a spyware investigator finds himself the target of hackers. “Having the attack land in my inbox, and the chance to turn the tables on the attackers and understand more about the campaign was too good to pass up,” Donncha Ó Cearbhaill said. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/1CR1Q2

#Tech #CyberSecurity #Hackers #Technology

Xi tells Elon Musk, Tim Cook and other CEOs on Trump’s trip: China will "open wider."

CNBC reports: "The comments come amid a report that Nvidia has received the green light from the U.S. to sell its H200 chip to China."

https://flip.it/4o46T5

#XiJinPing #ElonMusk #TimCook #China #Technology

"I was briefly stopped by a Tencent recruiter who — to his great disappointment — had misread the word 'media' on my badge as 'Meta.'" —Viola Zhou for Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ai-researchers-silicon-valley/?src=longreads #technology #innovation #ai #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley #longreads

🚜🇰🇪 Students at #Kenya's Keriko Secondary School used agricultural byproducts to create a filtration system that captures particulate matter from diesel engines.

The award-winning #design provides a low-cost alternative for improving air quality in urban environments.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/teen-innovators-in-kenya-turn-farm-waste-into-award-winning-vehicle-exhaust-filter/

#engineering #sustainability #innovation #climate #technology #tech #stem #environment #africa #chemistry

Don't share anything to a chatbot that you wouldn't want to read out in a room full of other people....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/13/beware-what-you-tell-your-ai-chatbot-its-not-a-shrink-its-a-snitch

#OpenAI #ElonMusk #Musk #GregBrockman #ChatGPT #OnlinePrivacy #Technology

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

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

Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data

https://www.techspot.com/news/112362-europe-may-restrict-microsoft-amazon-google-handling-sensitive.html

#EU #privacy #surveillance #Microsoft #Google #Amazon #technology #personaldata #health #government

Uber has its eyes set on being more than a ride share service. The company recently announced that U.S. users can book hotels in the Uber app through a partnership with Expedia. The agreement wasn’t a one-off. Could Uber become the one app that does just about everything? Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/ofq_3q

#Tech #Uber #Apps #Business #Technology

Superficially, age verification laws for social media may sound like a sensible way of protecting young people. The Electronic Freedom Foundation explains why it's more complex than that.

https://flip.it/JaTYIj

#Technology #Tech #AgeVerification #SocialMedia

Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache

Some age-verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites.

#ageverification #UK #children #technology #tech

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/

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.

Is Samsung developing a holographic phone that will blow past AI? @TomsGuide has more on an alleged leak sharing details on the company's apparent shift into spatial computing:

https://flip.it/pcdcRn

#Tech #Phones #Mobile #Samsung #Technology

Most people still think privacy works like this:

“I use a VPN, so I’m anonymous.”

But modern tracking no longer relies only on IP addresses.

Today, systems can fingerprint users through:

* browser behavior
* hardware characteristics
* TCP/IP stack patterns
* DNS behavior
* GPU/rendering fingerprints
* timing signatures
* viewport & display metrics
* runtime inconsistencies across layers

Changing your IP alone often isn’t enough.

That idea led us to build PH4NTXM.

Instead of randomizing things independently, PH4NTXM tries to create a coherent runtime identity where:

* hardware
* networking
* browser environment
* timing behavior
* GPU exposure

all align consistently within the same session.

The project is:

* live-only
* stateless
* non-persistent across boots
* fully open source

Current focus areas include:

* fingerprint surface reduction
* browser hardening
* network personality shaping
* Tor-isolated operation modes
* fail-secure session termination

We’re not claiming “perfect anonymity” — the goal is simply to reduce static identity behavior and avoid contradictory signals as much as possible.

Find us: https://github.com/PH4NTXMOFFICIAL/PH4NTXM

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

Researchers Just Used A.I. To Reconstruct The Face Of A Pompeii Victim For The First Time Ever

By Kaleena Fraga

The man died shortly after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., which destroyed the city of Pompeii and left its ruins frozen in time under a blanket of ash.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/pompeii-victim-ai-reconstruction

#history #technology #ai

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"Mount Vesuvius in Eruption" by J.M.W. Turner. "Bright as lightning shoots the fire from the top of the mountain and dips the smoky sky in a mystical light. Fire tones in ocher and orange set the scene. The painter is an experienced observer and connoisseur of the play of light. It makes the night-black sky shine and the sea a mirror of the heavenly happenings. Turner used a colored black to depict the dark elements of his watercolor. With admixtures of blue and green and an intense application of color, Turner achieves a contrast of light and dark. The mountain is at the center of the scene and is clearly depicted in detail. Atmosphere blurred in almost impressionistic colors, the landscape is captured. The elaboration of the contrasts creates tension and shows the drama of the eruption of Vesuvius. Completely opposite is the representation of the observers at the bottom of the picture. Respect, but also peace and serenity radiate the figures who look at the bright sky by far. It looks like contemplating fireworks, free from the danger of burning hot lava and rock bombs. The serenity is transferred to the image viewer and the first impression is the beauty of the outbreak." - https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/Joseph-Mallord-William-Turner/14922/Vesuvius-in-Eruption.html

End-to-end encryption is one of the most important foundations allowing children and youth to remain safe online.

#encryption #privacy #security #children #youth #technology

'LLMorphism': people thinking they think like llms.

An aspect of gestell ( enframement ), looks like, but the paper does not state every technology does this to an extent. The clock, as an example, gave us the mechanical mind.

The danger of enframement is building Gods we then think give us answers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419

#ai #technology #philosophy

You’ve probably read about these terrifying scenarios where an AI learns that it is about to be replaced and then resorts to threatening a company’s CEO to keep its job. Claude has made headlines for this more than once. So does Claude really try to blackmail people? PC World sets the record straight:

https://flip.it/CWoX.U

#Tech #AI #Claude #Anthropic #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/

#EU #AgeVerification #idverification #VPN #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #government