📰 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

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Meta is cutting another 8000 jobs, but not before they surveil their employees and use their behaviors for #AI training.

“The company told employees in a memo on Thursday that it planned to cut 10% of its workforce - roughly 8,000 staff. It said it would also not fill thousands more open jobs it had been hiring for.”

“The company just this week informed employees that it would begin tracking and logging their interactions with work computers in order to help train and improve its AI models, a move one employee called "dystopian" given the looming layoffs.”

#slop #layoffs #surveillance #FuckZuck

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crm1y89vek8o

#AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are-helping-mediocre-north-korean-hackers-steal-millions/

#cybersecurity #NorthKorea

Both Meta & Microsoft have said they're shedding staff explicitly to free up cash flow to invest in AI;

on one level this is unemployment linked to technology, but its a bit different from *actual* technological unemployment - the latter sees people losing jobs due to the deployment of technology to do their jobs. Microsoft & Meta on the other hand are sacking people to take a (bigger) punt on a business strategy that is yet to prove its transformation of productivity.

#AI #workers
h/t FT

Daily Digest | 24 April 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

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#DataProtection #AIAct #GDPR #AIgovernance #Cybersecurity #AI

#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

Is there a guide for disabling all of the AI bullshit on stock Google Pixel 10's Android install that I can give to a nontechnical user?

#android #privacy #ai #askfedi

“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:

https://flip.it/ezsu2a

#Tech #AI #Technology #HumanResources #ArtificialIntelligence

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116454270791245630

been thinking about #DavidGraeber a lot lately. i think the Venn Diagram of people trapped in #BullshitJobs and aisloppers is a circle.

i would bet you that if people could earn a living without a bullshit job ―and, yes, a lot of tech work is bullshit― they’d have whole careers and lives outside of this capitalist hellscape.

capitalists are using #AI to gaslight us into believing we need them as the middlemen between our lives and a life worth living.

it’s a lie.

cut the middlemen out.

Pseudo Nym boosted

tante [he/him] » 🌐 2026-04-23
@tante@tldr.nettime.org

I never understood why people do not want to know stuff or understand stuff or be able to do stuff.
Sure nobody wants to know/understand/be able to do _everything_ but the current "LLM does t all, I just prod it" is super alien to me.

How is AI changing your day-to-day dev work?
The Linux Foundation is collecting real-world insights from developers.
👉 Share your experience today: https://linuxfoundation.research.net/r/2FL69K2
#AI #OpenSource #Developers #SoftwareEngineering

Unauthorized group has gained access to #Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool #Mythos, report claims

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/unauthorized-group-has-gained-access-to-anthropics-exclusive-cyber-tool-mythos-report-claims/

#cybersecurity #AI #ClaudeMythos

With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference set for June and John Ternus preparing to take over as CEO, what do you expect from Apple next?

#Apple #JohnTernus #MacBook #AI #Technology

Who is John Ternus? What did he do at Apple for 25 years and what new devices could we potentially see next from the innovative tech giant? We've put together a collection of articles that answer these questions and more.

https://flip.it/ll4Vuz

#Apple #JohnTernus #TimCook #AI #Technology

#SamAltman throws shade at #Anthropic’s cyber model, #Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/sam-altman-throws-shade-at-anthropics-cyber-model-mythos-fear-based-marketing/

#Claude #ClaudeMythos #OpenAI #ChatGPT #cybersecurity #AI

#Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for #AI training data

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/

#privacy #keylogger #Facebook #Instagram

#Mozilla Used #Anthropic’s #Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in #Firefox

https://www.wired.com/story/mozilla-used-anthropics-mythos-to-find-271-bugs-in-firefox/

#cybersecurity #AI #ClaudeMythos #FOSS

#Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that #OkCupid provided to train #FacialRecognition #AI, report says

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/clarifai-okcupid-facial-recognition-ai-ftc-settlement/

#privacy #dating #DatingApp #FRT

Daily Digest | 23 April 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

Meta is tracking employee activity to train AI agents - keystrokes, clicks, workflows.
Big leap for AI. Big questions for privacy.

Source:
https://www.technadu.com/meta-tracks-employee-actions-to-power-ai-workforce-transformation-reuters-says/626665/

Where do you stand - innovation or overreach?

#Infosec #AI #Privacy #Cybersecurity

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Meta Tracks Employee Actions to Power AI Workforce Transformation, Reuters Says

📰 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

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

"This is why labour law belongs at the centre of these debates. Labour law is not merely a technical field regulating wages, contracts and dismissal. It is one of the principal ways in which the rule of law enters the workplace. Employers are granted legal powers to direct, monitor and discipline workers. Those powers are not natural facts. They are constituted and structured by law. Labour law exists, in part, to ensure that these powers do not become arbitrary and all-encompassing, and that workers do not cease to be citizens the moment they enter the workplace. Workers’ rights, in that sense, are not just social entitlements. They are democratic safeguards.

The urgency of this becomes clearer still once we turn to artificial intelligence and algorithmic management at work. These technologies are usually discussed in the language of innovation, efficiency and competitiveness. But they also reorganise and reinforce authority. Employers increasingly use digital systems to hire, direct, evaluate and discipline workers, while collecting immense quantities of data about productivity, pace, location, communications and behaviour. The point is not simply that privacy is endangered, though it is. The point is that managerial command is being intensified through technology."

https://www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-valleys-anti-democratic-turn-begins-at-work

#SiliconValley #EconomicDemocracy #Authoritarianism #Surveillance #AI

"But to look at KJ’s case and conclude we’re ready to program pre-implantation embryos is like declaring you’re fluent in a new language because you’ve tried Duolingo."

Abby Vesoulis for Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/gene-editing-optimization-thiel-altman-armstrong-andreessen-ai-iq

#Longreads #AI #Genetics #Eugenics #Science #Research #Tech #GeneEditing

As artificial intelligence evolves, states are leading the legislative charge and pursuing a legislative approach that targets specific issues rather than attempting to craft comprehensive #AI governance. This can provide the technology room to grow while ensuring citizens are protected from its potential abuse or misuse. Learn more about your state’s and others’ AI proposals here: https://ccianet.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/state-legislation/

“Constituents are really alarmed.” – state Representative Erin Zwiener

New from Miranda Williamson: Energy, #water, and deep tax breaks ... legislators are just beginning to count the real costs of the data center boom. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-data-center-boom-water/

#Texas #tech #AI #news #environment #ClimateChange #energy #politics #USpol

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a--Rd7LZuGST2GATmXSjdNrA%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0

ummmmmm… not to be dramatic but…

two of the wettest states in this country, Georgia and Florida, are dealing with wildfires? in April? as in the supposed wettest month of the year (as in April showers)?

tell me again how investing in the inevitability of #AI and parasitic #dataCenters isn’t the petromafia’s way to shred the Paris Agreement and keep the #gas and #oil spigots flowing.

#climateCrisis #climateChange

I don't really have a handle on this "models distributed on huggingface that intentionally write insecure code if your politics don't align with those of the trainer" situation, but it really erodes the argument that using local LLMs is better for privacy.

#infosec #AI #cybersecurity #privacy #sleeperAgentic

🤖 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

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

If you work for Meta, your mouse and keyboard activity data will be used to train AI agents to replicate how people interact with computers.

PCMag has the details:

https://flip.it/LTckJb

#Meta #AI #TechNews #AIAgents

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

Detailed blog post by Alexander Hanff

What Anthropic chooses to do next matters. A company cannot credibly claim to support human rights, as Anthropic have done in arguing against the use of their technology for war, and in the next breath undermine the fundamental human rights to privacy and data protection.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

#privacy #AI #Anthropic #claude #DarkPatterns #SpyWare

Oh good, Claude Desktop on MacOS silently and continually whitelists browser extensions that aren't installed yet on browsers that aren't installed yet that Anthropic says it doesn't support yet.

#AI #Privacy #InfoSec
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

So #Netlify sent out an email that says that their privacy policy has been updated and they don’t train #AI with your thing and they don’t sell your data but I don’t beleive them at all. Privacy Policy | Netlify https://www.netlify.com/privacy/ https://www.netlify.com/privacy/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--6xiJwvwbU5liwPLYQKj-OMfMl6trXS3LNo3bUkPsltjmlhqmXvH1E5cAB0YRSZS11xhvAWnLfs0Q1fSDbT_o_WqkOcg&_hsmi=414977966&utm_content=414977966&utm_source=hs_email