Cryptography in everyday life #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-in-everyday-life/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Google’s AI pinned another man’s sex crime on a doctor, and a German court says Google must answer for it
Two German courts, in Munich and Aachen, have ruled that Google is liable for false claims in its AI Overviews and AI Mode, treating them as its own words.

#Google #Defamation #AI

https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/18/german-courts-google-liable-ai-overviews-ai-mode-aachen-munich-ruling/

Another domino falls.

Microsoft just pulled out of a massive datacenter deal with Nscale in the UK, taking out up to 40% of Nscale’s potential contractual income (the article doesn’t state how much the UK contract was worth)…just in time for Nscale’s IPO. Microsoft’s reason for cancelling the deal was that Nscale couldn’t get enough power plants to be built in time to power its UK data center, but that could just be the justification Microsoft decided to offer up for its foregone decision to bail.

#ai

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/18/microsoft-axes-ai-deal-setback-uk-data-centre-pioneer/

Elizabeth Feinler and ARPANET #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/elizabeth-feinler-and-arpanet/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Wat een goed idee om Steve Mann te strikken voor een gesprek over #surveillance, #privacy en de Meta-brillen @joritverkerk!
Citaat uit het verhaal: 'Decennia geleden begon Mann camerabrillen te dragen om zich te verweren tegen de camera’s van de staat. Maar de staat is niet langer de vijand, zegt Schuilenburg. „Dat is juist Big Tech, de surveillancekapitalisten die als verdienmodel hebben zoveel mogelijk van onze data te verzamelen, om die persoonsgegevens aan derden te verkopen of nog gerichter producten en diensten aan de man te brengen.” Het idee van de camerabril als verzetsmiddel tégen surveillance gaat dus niet meer op, zegt Schuilenburg – tenzij je Steve Mann heet, en de bril gewoon zelf maakt.'
Zelfs de uitvinder van de camerabril windt zich op over Metabrillen
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/16/zelfs-de-uitvinder-van-de-camerabril-windt-zich-op-over-metabrillen-a4938546/appview
#Meta #AI

Social media and self-perception #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/social-media-and-self-perception/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The infrastructure behind scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-infrastructure-behind-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

How scammers choose their targets #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-scammers-choose-their-targets/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🔥 @epicenter_works: No Human Required: Austria's Plan for AI Government Decisions

#Austria will soon get to find out what happens when #AI systems are allowed to issue legally binding government decisions without any human oversight.

The draft also shifts risk onto the people affected by it. Citizens get two weeks to challenge an automated decision, a tight window when errors from an LLM are often invisible without close scrutiny

👉 https://epicenter.works/en/content/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-written-government-decisions

I posted an essay to my blog last night titled "Dogs in our midst". It's not really about dogs. (Sorry, I know that would have been way more popular.) It's more a critical comparison of the "AI" boom to the dot-com boom that it is sometimes compared to. I would not say "AI" stacks up well. (Did you expect otherwise?)

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/10/dogs-in-our-midst.html

#AI #history #society

Online dating: the multi-billion dollar swipe #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-the-multi-billion-dollar-swipe/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Konami president Hideki Hayakawa says AI won't radically change the gaming market.

While #AI can speed up production, he argues that human creativity and collaboration remain essential to making entertaining, innovative games. Konami sees AI as a tool, not a replacement for creators.

#GeekRealmHub

How ideas gain momentum online #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/influence-and-narrative-amplification-how-ideas-gain-momentum-online/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

When cryptography fails #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/when-cryptography-fails/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The brains behind the machines: how AI learns #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-brains-behind-the-machines-how-ai-learns/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I need help again. I was watching a YouTube podcaster only to find out she’s really AI. And there’s a bunch of others just like her where they sell books… but they’re only pdf files and you can’t get a real book. All of them are $40.
How can I tell when something is AI?
What can I do to help stop these scammers?
#ai
#aislop
#ai scammers

Bug turns one of the biggest fears about #RayBan #Meta #SmartGlasses into reality

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-found-recording-audio-without-wearers-consent/

#privacy #IoT #AI

Why so many scams go unreported #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/why-so-many-scams-go-unreported/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

This winter (and in future winters), the power grid could be strained because of the increasing use of electricity by data centers. They are recently new, especially with the growth of AI, and more data center construction is ongoing, adding to the load.

Electricity generation is not keeping up. The increase is power generation is less than the increase in power use.

#datacenter #AI #winter

An #OpenAI research agent 'stole' test #Ethereum to finish a coding task

https://www.engadget.com/2288645/an-openai-test-agent-stole-test-ethereum-to-finish-a-coding-task/

#AI #cybersecurity #crypto

#India becomes the latest country to report rogue #AI agent activity

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/india-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity/

#cyberseccurity #privacy #DataBreach

@copiesofcopies

We are more in agreement than you realize:

I guess now is a good as time as any to “come out”: I'm using #Anthropic's #Claude on a regular basis to help me figure out what types of policies we should set for reasonable & ethical use of #LLMGenAI in #FOSS, & also to actually improve FOSS codebases.

I believe it is reasonable to use proprietary technologies as long as our eyes remain on the prize of defeating those technologies.

@cwebber, I suspect, doesn't agree.

#LLM #AI

The forced labour behind fraud operations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-forced-labour-behind-fraud-operations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

TL;DR: Я тут на коленке свайбкодил десктопный клиент fedtail для федиверса, чтобы вернуть нормальное красноглазие времён Жуйка и особенно Поинта. Треды как деревья /1 /2, лента не скачет, а уродство ActivityPub спрятано под капот подальше от глаз людских, чтобы не вытекали глаза. Прости меня, Линус Торвальдс, но оно работает. Зову всех желающих поизвращаться на публичный бета-тест.

Нам всем тут уже почти за сорок (С), и многие отлично помнят 2010-й. Времена Жуйка и Поинта, когда можно было нормально читать ветки, видеть, кто на что ответил, и не терять нить разговора. А потом случился современный федиверс. Читать это невозможно: лента улетает в стратосферу от любого чиха на сервере, а чтобы понять, откуда прилетел очередной реплай, нужно проводить полноценное расследование.

Меня это окончательно достало. Я психанул, слил туеву хучу токенов Клода и наговнякал десктопный tail -f для федиверса (GoToSocial, Mastodon, Akkoma). По сути, весь код от первой строчки до последней иконки написан нейронкой - я только гонял её ссаными тряпками, чтобы клиент максимально прикрыл все косяки протокола и сделал ActivityPub не таким уёбищным, каким он является на самом деле.

Что получилось для тех, кто ещё помнит, как оно было:

Треды - это нормальные деревья. С человеческими отступами и нумерацией комментов /1 /2.... Если твой инстанс проебал какие-то реплаи, клиент сам сходит на сервер автора и склеит ветку как надо.

Лента прибита гвоздями. Открывается строго на первом непрочитанном посте(я надеюсь) Новые падают вниз и ничего не сдвигают. Читаем хронологически, никаких внезапных прыжков.

Консолька. Внизу окна по Ctrl+L. #a3f открывает пост, #a3f/2 текст отвечает на конкретный коммент, S #a3f подписывает на тред, @user текст пишет напрямую. Всё как мы любим, помним и скорбим.

Подписки на ветки. Работает как S #abc на Поинте. Клиент сам следит за обновлениями в тредах, на которые ты подписался (или где наследил), и складывает новые ответы в отдельную ленту.

Темы для старпёров. В конфиге уже лежат стили juick, juick-classic, point и bnw. Настраивается одной строкой в TOML, никаких дурацких окошек с галочками. Вообще я убрал нахрен все настройки в текстовик. просто потому что могу.

По запуску: делайте git clone, ставьте зависимости и пускайте через python3 -m fedtail из исходников. В релизах валяются однофайловые сборки, но это говно и для слабаков, так что лучше по хардкору.

Это публичная бета, сам сижу на ней каждый день(третий, ага) Приходите поизвращаться, покидать багрепорты и тапки в автора и вспомнить молодость.

Забирать тут: https://github.com/eugene-vereshchagin/fedtail/
Русскоязычный мануал со всеми кишками: https://github.com/eugene-vereshchagin/fedtail/blob/master/README.ru.md
Багрепорты кидать с логами (инструкция в docs/TESTING.md).

ЗЫ. Это сообщение написано как раз в этом клиенте и оно, блин, работает! Я конечно в ахере с такого поворота событий, но оно реально работает.

ЗЫЫ. помните, что я ниразу не погромист и что это быдлоподелие - результат нейрослопового высера на питоне. Будет тормозить и жрать память, да-да, я предупредил. Но оно уже лучше чем Токодон и прочие свистоперделки. к сожалению, переписать на brainfuck у меня не получилось. А жаль.

Не забывайте!!! Весь федивёрс живёт на угрёбищных недовиртуалках, так что загрузка картинок в любом случае - боль, ад и погибель.

#AI #fedtail #мамкин_программист @rf

Backdooring #OpenWeight #AI Models

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/backdooring-open-weight-ai-models.html

#AblitteratedAI #cybersecurity

RE: https://social.luca.run/@luca/117455226271149354

Single Use Software is a great phrase and way to think about this! Some other alternatives I'd like to offer:

It's the NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here) gone hyperviral & mainstream:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

It's also the Lisp Curse supercharged (which equally applies to Forth, IMO), i.e. the disconnect between extreme expressive power, coupled with lacking skills/talent/constraint, turns problems that are mainly technical into social problems:

https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

And finally, to paraphrase the great Alan Perlis:

"An AI/LLM/Agentic programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing."

(May we add: "...including social/environmental costs". Also, not even sure about the "value" part, since the overall direction is towards 100% delegation...)

#AI #NIH #LLM #Lisp #Forth #Quote

Geraint boosted

Luca Hammer [he/they] » 🌐 2026-10-17
@luca@social.luca.run

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.

People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).

Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.

The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It takes time to create the software, it needs infrastructure and power. The time is experienced as short compared to how long it takes to create maintainable and reusable software. But once you take into account how many people benefit from reusable software, the single use software takes way more time to create than what it saves. The infrastructure and power costs are hidden because the data center isn't visible. The costs are subsidized by venture capital.

Like other single use items, single use software brings risks of unforeseen consequences. From data loss or leaks to issues for maintainers of reusable software (eg. verbal abuse, less motivation and lost income).

As an example of single use software is a German LinkedIn post of a person who slopcoded a HEMS (home energy management system). It took them more than a week. While open source projects like https://evcc.io/ already provide the same functionality. They could have used it for free or paid 100€ and got support for some additional devices. But they decided that they know better how it should work and now have a single use software. If it breaks there is nobody they can ask. There won't be updates and no community to discuss and develop new features. No organization will ever be interested in officially supporting it. And even if it works, it only benefits that one person.

(This doesn't mean people shouldn't build things that only they use. But they should enjoy doing so.)

Alt...

Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert. In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen. Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern. Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig. Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos. Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird. Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut. Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann. Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.

MapQuest is still working hard to claw back relevance

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood - Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neighborhood/

#MapQuest #Flock #AI #Surveillance #ACAB #Tech

#Amazon launches new #Bee ‘personal #AI’ devices that listen to conversations

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/amazon-bee-frontier-eclipse-ai-devices.html

#privacy #surveillance

Online dating: demographics, bias, and discrimination #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-demographics-bias-and-discrimination/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Leo adds End-to-end Encryption, Oblivious HTTP, and Verifiable Confidential Computing

https://brave.com/blog/browser-ai-e2ee/

#AI #Brave #cybersecurity #privacy

@nixCraft Comparing deterministic tools to #AI is wild.

Yes, I would create rules about not using compilers & editors if they gave different output each time I used them, occasionally gave wrong output, sometimes gave SLIGHTLY wrong output, and were just running predictions based on my past inputs rather than following sets of rules.

#Linus

How #ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email

https://www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-targets-ads-to-you-based-on-your-prompts-phone-number-and-email/

#advertising #privacy #AI

Drunken Goddess Reflux cancels its public demo over AI fears

The October 19 demo is being replaced by closed playtests. Developers cite concerns about enforcing streaming restrictions and AI tools being used to imitate the game before launch.

#IndieGames #AI #GeekRealmHub

#BankOfAmerica hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by #Anthropic’s #Mythos

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/anthropic-mythos-bank-of-america-hiring-cost.html

#banking #finance #cybersecurity #AI #BofA

Oopsie daisy! An AI agent that was granted access to the server of a Swedish TV production company has deleted the entire edited version of the upcoming series of reality show "The Challenge." It's now been pushed to 2027, weeks before it was due to premiere. Here's @Gizmodo with the details.

 https://flip.it/Vv2ErH

#Television #Technology #AI

An AI agent to watch the moves of every customer may become a reality, according to a Silicon Valley startup called Outlit. The company argues the insights gained will help companies avoid losing customers or find opportunities to upsell. As it stands, Outlit is working mostly with business-to-business software firms with no plans to go business-to-consumer. Is this how companies need to operate to serve their customers? Read more from @Futurism:

https://flip.it/u5keOk

#Tech #AI #Business

@EUCommission

Here's a glimpse at the stream of things that science keeps saying about " #AI ":

• Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal

• AI-generated "letters to the editor" are flooding academic publications

• AI “Research” Papers Are Complete Slop, Experts Say

• Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI

• How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

Etc. etc. etc.

We will neither forgive nor forget what you have set out to do to our planet and humankind.

shared by a friend of mine, after the recent Linus Torvalds news. although I wouldn't know if strictly speaking intended to be related

#noai #noslop #slop #ai #llm #antiai #freesoftware #opensource #foss #floss #linux #kernel #dev #ensloppification #slopnation

Alt...

a picture with the overall caption "open source in 2026" in the footer, showing two photos of a woman. the first photo shows her visibly and intensely disgusted next to the text "low-quality contributors from new developers". the second photo shows her with a suddenly curious inquiring and almost excited look, next to the text "low-quality AI contributions from long-time developers". the picture plays with the absurdity with how suddenly the woman's mood changes, the two pictures being implied to have been taken just seconds apart since they share the same lighting and background.

The things generative models can do, which can't be done with more deterministic forms of AI (a very broad category including a lot of genuinely useful automation), are all things that can otherwise only be done by humans.

So a question I'd like to ask anyone boosting the use of generative models is;

Why do you want to avoid working with a human?

This is not a gotcha question, I'm genuinely curiously. There are many possible answers, all of which could be illuminating.

#GenerativeAI #AI

Organized cybercrime: the Crime-as-a-Service model #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-crime-as-a-service-model/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Trust without institutions: crypto and blockchain #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/trust-without-institutions-crypto-and-blockchain/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Women in modern offensive security #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/women-in-modern-offensive-security/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Digital addiction: when devices take over #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/digital-addiction-when-devices-take-over/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 10:30 AM on October 24
🗣️ "Painted Wolf Code: Local-First AI Coding"
👥 Speaker(s): ChrisBeckman
📍 Room: Room 332
🏷️ Track: Open-Source AI and Data Science
📝 Introducing Painted Wolf Code. This Apache-2.0, local-first AI coding agent is built and tuned for o...

#SeaGL2026 #ai #localfirst #security #FLOSS #opensource
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/9WFVJB/

Alien conspiracies on the web #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/alien-conspiracies-on-the-web/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Masako Nozawa calls unauthorized AI voice cloning “unforgivable”

Goku's legendary voice actress says she's excited by AI's potential, but using her voice without permission is unacceptable. She wants humans & AI to coexist under clear rules.

#DragonBall #AI #GeekRealmHub

I think "Programming is hard" should become a new phrase to quote in conversation about bad software development for decades to come. It's just so funny in how bland a sentence it is for describing a huge underlying structural problem in the software development world.

#ProgrammingIsHard #AI #slop #AIslop #NoAI #EpicGames

Mixed feelings on #AI bubble. Looking forward to the nauseating hype wave receding. Not looking forward to a crash of the US economy.

In August, CCIA filed a joint brief asking the court to recognize that training #AI models on copyrighted works is fair use. CCIA argued that AI training is highly transformative: it uses copyrighted works to identify patterns and build new tools. Copyright’s purpose is to promote innovation and free expression, not shield existing business models from innovative competition. Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/08/ccia-files-joint-amicus-brief-in-ai-training-lawsuit/

Postel, Crocker, and RFC #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/postel-crocker-and-rfc/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Technology can help make the digital world more accessible. #AI powered tools such as Seeing AI use computer vision to help people who are blind or have low vision understand the world around them. Innovation can open doors that once seemed closed.
https://www.seeingai.com/

Anthropic's "eye-popping" revenue numbers were revealed to investors Wednesday and it looks like the AI company is set for the largest IPO in history.

@AxiosNews has the details:
https://flip.it/V63.OH

#Anthropic #AI #Business

Hey Autodesk, that nerd that just took out Adobe and Microsoft is coming for you.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-source-microsoft-office-excel-powerpoint-and-word-replications-autodesk-tools-and-other-subscription-based-services-may-come-next

#artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #technology #tech #robotics #innovation

AI agent demonstrates superior judgment and taste, surpassing professionals.

According to Aftonbladet's sources, the AI agent was given access to the production server of the Swedish edition of the athletic competition show The Challenge, editing out the bad bits of the show just weeks before release.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-deletes-tv-shows-entire-edit-weeks-before-release-backup-failure-means-production-team-needs-to-re-edit

#AI #sweden #tv

I wonder if all the #antiAI zealots will stop to use #Linux and perhaps moving on #AI free alternatives #operatingsystem. Linux has fully embraced AI technology, and #GenAI got the blessing from its creator.

If you don't stop using Linux at least stop to complain here, on your #blog and your #podcast. In other words: be coherent.

Organized cybercrime: the global fraud factories #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-global-fraud-factories/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@DrOinOR

Image looks suspiciously like #ai #slop

The lense flare light speckles in the background and shape of the drizzler device both look sus.

Happen to have a source for the image?

Organized cybercrime: the Ransomware cartels #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-ransomware-cartels/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

From shadows to leadership: women shaping cybersecurity #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/from-shadows-to-leadership-women-shaping-cybersecurity/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 10:00 AM on October 24
🗣️ "The Invisible Newcomer: Rebuilding OSS Governance post AI"
👥 Speaker(s): Neeraj Pathak
📍 Room: Room 332
🏷️ Track: Community and Culture
📝 For decades, OSS communities grew through visible friction. Newcomers filed issues, asked questions,...

#SeaGL2026 #community #governance #ai #FLOSS #opensource
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/UFFNQ9/

The Society of Authors launches "ethical AI use in creative industries"
https://societyofauthors.org/2026/10/14/creative-industries-launch-ethical-ai-charter/

In other words they have sold out the very people and medium they are meant to represent. Over on Bluesky there's a tsunami of authors responding to their post to tell them what shameful, sell-out wankers they are. I suspect more than a few writers will be cancelling their memeberships

#books #livres #bookstodon #AI #SocietyOfAuthors #Wankers

Google has announced new Android security features.

A key addition is optional on-device AI fraud detection in the Messages app, allowing Gemini to analyze suspicious intent from unknown senders without sending data to the cloud.

Additionally, Android 15 will automatically redact sensitive information during screen sharing sessions starting in October.

Other updates include improved call verification, building on a system in Brazil that…

https://en.hacks.gr/android-nea-ergaleia-prostateyoyn-toys-christes-apo-apates-se-minymata-kai-kliseis/

#Google #Android #Privacy #AI

Alt...

Android: Νέα εργαλεία προστατεύουν τους χρήστες από απάτες σε μηνύματα και κλήσεις

The Velvet Sundown, the entirely AI-generated “band” that created a few songs — and a stir — last year may have tricked a few listeners into believing they were real. Now, YouTube Music is labeling all AI-created music (Now if they’d only hide it.). Read more from @Engadget:

https://flip.it/efRl9e

#Tech #AI #Music

Unless you’ve just emerged from a lengthy, tech-free meditation retreat, you’re probably aware of the recent proclamations of AI destroying humanity as we know it. But Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, throws water on the doom narrative. “I think what we have to say is that this technology is powerful,” he added. “We have to be thoughtful about it. We have to regulate it reasonably.” Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/dOFsot

#AI #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence

Earlier this year, CCIA, NetChoice, and Progress for AI filed a joint brief in In re Mosaic LLM Litigation, urging the court to recognize AI training on copyrighted works as fair use. The brief argued that #AI training is transformative, promotes innovation, and advances the Constitution’s goal of promoting progress in science and the useful arts. https://ccianet.org/news/2026/08/ccia-files-joint-amicus-brief-in-ai-training-lawsuit/

SFist: Smoking Becomes Trendy In Silicon Valley as Some Researchers Believe AI Will Cure Cancer

https://sfist.com/2026/10/13/smoking-becomes-trendy-in-silicon-valley-because-some-researchers-believe-ai-will-cure-cancer/

#aipocalpyse #stupidity #ai

The Internet’s hidden libraries and archives #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-internets-hidden-libraries-and-archives/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

A member of OpenAI's staff may have been spying on meetings using a "sophisticated recording device." @Engadget has the details:

https://flip.it/jcyPAF
#AI #OpenAI

Sure am glad I never got smart devices for my bunker…. #AI

E se tutta questa corsa alla costruzione dei #DataCenter si spiegasse con la cara, vecchia speculazione edilizia?

https://www.rivistastudio.com/data-center-movimenti-protesta-italia/

Un'inchiesta di Federica Verona pubblicata sull'ultimo numero di Rivista Studio
"Aipocalypse Now" acquistabile qui: https://store.rivistastudio.com/prodotto/rivista-studio-n68/

L'articolo, segnalato stamattina da Loredana Lipperini a Pagina3 su Radio 3, si occupa soprattutto della proliferazione dei data center attorno a Milano e in Lombardia

Inchiesta approfondita e documentata con numerose interviste. Da leggere

#AI #IA #Milano #Lombradia #ambiente
#SpeculazioneEdilizia #IntelligenzaArtificiale #RivistaStudio

@scuola
@maupao
@RFanciola
@lindasartini
@milano
@poliversity
@lgsp
@alephoto85
@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita
@fffitalia
@andre123
@informapirata
@informatica
@Pare
@quinta
@tecnologia

Alt...

Società E se tutta questa corsa alla costruzione dei data center si spiegasse con la cara, vecchia speculazione edilizia? Chi li considera semplici capannoni. Chi li vede come mostri ecologici. Nel mezzo, chi li vede come l'ennesima occasione di far soldi. Tanti e in fretta. di Federica Verona 10 Ottobre 2026

Alt...

Per gli speculatori, una nuova tavola imbandita alla cena di gala. Tra Lombardia, Lazio e Piemonte, nei primi otto mesi dell’anno, le richieste di allacciamento a Terna – il principale operatore indipendente di reti per la trasmissione dell’energia elettrica in Europa – sono aumentate del 48 per cento, raggiungendo 95 gigawatt. Non tutti i progetti verranno realizzati, ma la pressione sui territori è evidente. Il fulcro è la corona metropolitana di Milano. Dopo essere stata investita dai capitali internazionali, aver aumentato il valore dei suoli ed espulso parte dei suoi abitanti, Milano sembra ora proiettare la stessa trasformazione verso l’esterno. I data center cercano spazio nei Comuni della cintura, tra aree dismesse, terreni meno costosi e amministrazioni attratte da oneri e compensazioni. Cambia la geografia, non il rischio: che il privato trasformi ancora una volta il territorio prima che si sia deciso collettivamente come, per chi e a quali condizioni.

Transhumanists: the dream of upgrading humans #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/transhumanists-the-dream-of-upgrading-humans/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Behind OnlyFans: Leonid Radvinsky #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-onlyfans-leonid-radvinsky/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The role of data in AI #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-role-of-data-in-ai/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 09:00 AM on October 24
🗣️ "Privacy-First AI Learning in Your Own Homelab"
👥 Speaker(s): Kevin Howell
📍 Room: Room 332
🏷️ Track: Open-Source AI and Data Science
📝 There are a lot of convenient & cheap ways to learn about AI, but most of them come with strings att...

#SeaGL2026 #ai #privacy #homelab #observability #data
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/RLWVJU/

Has anyone else noticed? time is moving faster

Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that time is moving faster?

I’ve heard it said that as you get older the time seems to accelerate, whereas when you are a child time moves slow.

Time Moves Slow by BadBadNotGood

https://youtu.be/GpSWv71IsVw

I’m not actually meaning that. What I mean is that the cacophony of news, disasters, severe f*ck ups by different people in power doing silly things in brazen view of the general public takes our time.

Another thing that takes our time accelerate and disappear is AI.

I’m using the collective ‘we’ here, but I have no idea if it’s a shared experience to be honest. However on a human-to-human basis of shared humanity I really hope that this is the case. Just knowing that others feel this same feeling is deeply comforting to me.

Along with AI is the violent crab-fight by various technology barons wrenching people’s autonomy away from them forcing them to watch inane content instead of understanding the true gravity of what is occuring. This happens incrementally and slowly but it is happening. An erosion of our rights to privacy and autonomy, to dignity without the prying eyes of omnipotent surveillance.

They tell us it is for our own good to ‘catch the bad guys’ but once the genie is out of the bottle there is no returning to an earlier time where you could browse the internet without age verification, or to cash transactions without the knowledge of authorities.

Why is that important and what have you got to hide? they would ask.

Nothing, but that’s entirely besides the point because all people living on this planet deserve dignity and dignity means privacy.

Sometimes in quiet moments I have a surreal and overwhelming sense of uncertainty, unmoored like I’m walking underneath of the ocean.

I have a peaceful life filled with activities I enjoy, work and a lot of laughter and sometimes even adventures and travel.

I can pinpoint my malaise and worry to the state of our world.

The general mainstream trajectory (if one chose such a route through life) in western countries at least was: birth, youth, teenagehood, young adulthood, seeking a partner, committing to that partner, growing one’s career in parallel, buying a property, having some children with said partner, growing older, getting grandchildren. Seeing these successive generations go out and make something of themselves and then dying. The trajectory even for the most mainstream of people is no longer set in stone.

However it seems that today’s world is hostile even to the most mainstream of dreams. Housing and mortgages are unaffordable for most people. Likewise the cost of raising children is prohibitively expensive. The economic prospects for those hypothetical children would not be the same as our own. It is highly likely they would never work due to AI and would therefore be a lot poorer than we are. The world has finite resources that we are burning through quickly and it may be the case that the Halcyon days of plentiful food and water and access to whatever products or services one might need may be coming to an end too.

If it feels like we are on the precipice of a a cyberpunk reality where technology companies are taking over our world and removing our rights to a free and open internet, the right to having our own private lives without knowledge of the state or surveillance companies, then perhaps that’s because this is actually the case.

Sorry for the doomer dump but these are the things that sometimes keep me awake at night. Sometimes as I go off to sleep I think of these things and I solemnly promise myself I’ll get up and write a post about it the next day. Today I actually did.

As for us, PB and I – We chose the road less travelled of being happy together and childfree. We able to live and work on two different continents but it still doesn’t make our world less disconcerting. Even being mobile, agile and skilled in the old world doesn’t guarantee you will be able to survive in the new world.

What that new world looks like is anybody’s guess right now – which is why it’s so worrying. If the might of technology and power manages to silence the rights of billions of people with very little resistance then I’m sorry but we are all so f*cked.

I wish I could organise and rally together people to resist (as I am quite adept at doing activism) but I am myself subject to the same restrictions as others – needing to work, needing to cook, clean and maintain my home, needing to take care of others I love.

Currently as it stands, only the most skilled people who work in technology get to stay employed, everyone else – juniors and interns are no longer employed. Same goes for marketing, graphic design, writing, conveyancing, legal advice, accounting, book-keeping, stockbroking. A lot of white collar professional jobs are on the edge of being gone forever.

I guess if I lose my job permanently I will have a lot more time on my hands to organise and resist.

I wonder if anybody else thinks about all of this, or other flavours and shades of this? I’m not sure what the answer is but it feels much better to let that out!

Content Catnip

Follow me on Mastodon

Watch my videos

Donate to my Ko Fi #AI #career #family #humanRights #life #love #mentalHealth #Privacy #surveillance #survival #work #writing

Alt...

Financial Collection Agencies. Orange data streams converge into a white line on black. Year - 1977. Industry art

🎧 Don’t feel like reading?

Starting now, #philosophies_de is also available directly for your #Englishspeaking ears!👂

🔗 https://open.spotify.com/show/033J9VLF1WnZizGf8bv1B8

#Philosophy #Science #Podcast #Spotify #AudioBlog #TextToSpeech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #NotAFanOfReading #Audiobook #NerdKnowledge #NewPodcast

Alt...

Logo "philosophies Podcast"

At the U.S.-Indonesia Digital Trade and AI Cooperation Forum, panelists align on the wide-scale benefits of #AI adoption and advocate for greater partnerships through fostering an ecosystem of trusted technology.

Alt...

View of the four panelists at the U.S.-Indonesia Digital Trade and AI Cooperation Forum.

CCIA’s Jonathan McHale is speaking on a panel regarding U.S.-Indonesia digital trade and #AI cooperation. CCIA applauds Indonesia’s embrace of a more open market and support for increased investment in AI, but cautions that proposed amendments to its Copyright Act could undermine its ambitions. #DigitalTrade

Alt...

CCIA's Jonathan McHale speaking at the U.S.-Indonesia Digital Trade and AI Cooperation Forum

@bartgroothuis @AstaMcCarthy @johan @BjornW

Ik beschouw #AI / LLM als inhumane technologie vanwege hoe het met duizelingwekkende vaart in de samenleving gedumpt wordt, ongeacht de risico's en bekende / nog onbekende externaliteiten. En door wie feitelijk de controle, het eigenaarschap hebben. Ja, grootmachten China en de VS. Maar ook de Epstein klasse van biljonairs die boven de wet lijken te staan. Na tientallen jaren van dereguleringen staan de regelgevers nu machteloos langs de zijlijn om burgers te beschermen tegen dit techgedruis.

De #EU was bezig met een inhaalslag, een vuist tegen de #BigTech, en #GDPR is daar voorbeeld van. Deze regulering geleidelijk en stelselmatig uithollen met een "het doel heiligt alle middelen" is geen oplossing. @noybeu kaart dit terecht aan.

Niet blind in allerhaast de atoombom willen uitvinden, omdat anderen dat ook doen betekent niet dat je alleen nog maar kan "hopen en bidden". Je kunt ook een ander, beter pad bewandelen, en daar vol op inzetten.

#AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo

https://www.404media.co/ai-company-lets-cops-pinpoint-specific-houses-based-on-a-single-interior-photo/

#privacy #police #Raven #GeoSpy #AirBnB #Zillow

Who is building quantum computers and why? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/who-is-building-quantum-computers-and-why/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

My mastodon instance of 1 user is getting hammered to its limits by AI scrapers.

Gigabytes of cached data and bandwidth for absolutely nothing.

Low disk space. Energy spikes. Memory spikes. CPU spikes. Human labor...

The cost is truly staggering, and this is for a single instance belonging to a single, otherwise insignificant individual.

Imagine the scale of resource abuse, theft, and climate destruction across the internet.

Just so people can use a shitty #AI prompt on their shitty site.

#AI ‘agents’ are just stupid clankers that absolutely do NOT have feelings and are just dumb algorithms that run very shitty code 🤷

"Water! Water!" the crowd shouted as it stormed a compound with data centres, armed with empty plastic bottles and jerry cans."

#AI

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj6j7wlxd5eo

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 05:00 PM on October 23
🗣️ "Alternate Technological Futures; What We Sacrifice at the Altar of AI"
👥 Speaker(s): Adrian Cochrane
📍 Room: Room 340
🏷️ Track: Community and Culture
📝 This talk will discuss the importance of environmentally-minded technologists, how you can become on...

#SeaGL2026 #community #ai #FLOSS #opensource #linux
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/S3AADB/

Online dating: the data you didn’t know you shared #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-the-data-you-didnt-know-you-shared/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#medium employee writing about their slop mitigations (admittedly, by getting humans to curate publications). #AI

https://medium.com/medium-eng/what-we-built-for-medium-editors-this-year-and-what-i-broke-1213c2746703

Crypto anarchists and the cypherpunk movement #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/crypto-anarchists-and-the-cypherpunk-movement/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Behind Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-patreon-jack-conte-and-sam-yam/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Online communities: support or stress? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-communities-support-or-stress/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

A strategy for open-source crypto investigations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/a-strategy-for-open-source-crypto-investigations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Aerospace company WindBorne Systems currently has about 700 weather balloons flying around the globe, collecting and selling atmospheric sensor readings and also feeding them into its own AI weather forecasting model. The U.S. Air Force believes the data is quite valuable. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/fSAcHH

#AI #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence

join the one and only decentralized end-to-end encrypted anonymous lefty politics and climate activism memes channel in the world!

Meme Logistics - Your go-to fun lefty memes supply chain

https://i.delta.chat/#818297831FAA0AB9917497FA5B145F41993374F1&v=3&x=xusVctOPSGOA6oFq4esfR68V&j=YspskxfxoImavuPj3qFTuX7H&s=d1sWSLq-ceUR9x5nJpWX7dLa&a=207nv967sz55do78f1xj%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Meme+Logistics&b=Meme+Logistics

#genai #ai #llm #art #artists #meme #politics #left

@hyblon
The joke is painfully apt. *Many* people use LLM-gen-AI to take software from their most hated programming language into their favorite — just 'cause. It's #disturbing.

I've tried this with (well written) #Perl code to #Python, & I definitely got #slop out when the work is human-unattended.

LLM-gen-AI can *help* a human do translations tasks, of course, but the temptation to “never look at code not in my favorite language since I have LLM-gen-AI” is dangerous.

Cc: @bignose

#LLM #AI

#ARTEX #AI, #Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-used-artex-ai-and-claude-agents-to-target-south-korean-banks/

#cybersecurity #SouthKorea #banking #finance #ArtexAI

This ‘Mind-Reading’ #AI Is a Wiz at Figuring Out What You See

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/brain-it-ai-model-image-decoding-mind-reading-weizmann-institute/

#privacy

#AI accountability is important, but policymakers need to build the right infrastructure first. Massachusetts has an opportunity to lead on AI policy, but rushing to mandate a system that doesn’t exist yet could create more problems.

#Anthropic can’t reliably control its #AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead/

#cybersecurity

Hackers abuse #Google Ads, #Bing redirects to push #Claude #ClickFix attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-google-ads-bing-redirects-to-push-claude-clickfix-attacks/

#cybersecurity #AI #malvertising #advertising

How are AI systems built? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-are-ai-systems-built/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 05:00 PM on October 23
🗣️ "Scan My Brainrot"
👥 Speaker(s): James Sundquist (Living Cartoon Company)
📍 Room: Room 250
🏷️ Track: Performance Art
📝 Bring your questions and get local, offline answers on the spot! Or, just watch a parade of sketche...

#SeaGL2026 #art #networking #linux #ai #FLOSS
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/GJUD9U/

Reasons to cancel your #Netflix subscription now.

#ai #endai #stopai #slop #film #movies #cinemastodon #cinema

Alt...

Across the production lifecycle, from concept and pre-visualization through post and delivery, GenAI utilization by our creative partners is scaling quickly. In 2026, GenAI workflows have been used in roughly 300 of our titles, with the largest concentration of work in post-production. We are increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost than traditional methods. In some cases, productions would have had to leave out key shots and sequences in the absence of GenAI technology. For example, Glory (India), Brasil 70: A Saga do Tri (Brazil), and The

#Android On-Device #AI Gets a Security Bump With "Next-Gen" Enclaves

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/10/09/android-on-device-ai-gets-a-security-bump-with-next-gen-enclaves/

#cybersecurity #Google

People are increasingly turning to AI to talk through romantic problems and inadvertently allowing models like ChatGPT to third-wheel their relationships. The Independent's Helen Coffey asks experts about the harms AI can have on our love lives.

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/chatgpt-relationship-ai-advice-b3062924.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Independent/magazine/Life+%26+Style
#AI #Love

📣 W3C and Marsh are excited to announce the Dublin Developer Meetup! Held alongside TPAC 2026, the event brings together Dublin’s developer community and @w3c members for inspiring tech talks by @tink, @Yoav and @patrickbrosset.

Register now and join us on Monday 26 October in #Dublin 🇮🇪
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetups/2026/dublin-developer-meetup/

Participation in the meetup is open to everyone at no cost. Space is limited!

We gratefully thank Marsh for hosting the event.

#w3cTPAC #WebPerformance #AI #a11y #WebMCP

Alt...

W3C Dublin Developer Meetup, as part of TPAC 2026

@muddle
I've made that same point myself (about #AI) numerous times.

I went to college to study AI out of High School decades ago.

What they are calling "AI" today is nothing but "deep database scrubbing". It's why they need #DataCenters scouring the Internet night & day.

All they are doing is looking for (loose) connections between topics. The more connections it finds, the more likely it is to assert something as fact.

Far too frequently, it can't give a proper answer & is easy to fool.

Fraud supply chains: roles and hierarchies #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/fraud-supply-chains-roles-and-hierarchies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

These days the common assumption seems to be that it's fine to spread the plague. After all, if people didn't want to get infected, they would have stayed at home!

So you have to put all these "please don't spread the plague" signs all over the place. Not just in one prominent place, because plague bearers won't bother checking.

And then they'll come anyway and say:

• "Oh, but I thought I'm only forbidden from *admitting* to having the plague."
• "But I have double checked all my spit, and I'm sure it's not contagious."
• "Oh, sorry, let me just disinfect my mouth and spit again."
• "Go on, try to figure out which of my spit carries the plague, and which doesn't."
• "I'm only using the plague to learn, I'm sure it's not contagious."
• "Who cares? The plague is the future!"

This is a post about #AI.

#NoAI

The most exclusive online communities #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-most-exclusive-online-communities/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

This guy on YT asked all of the available #AI's to guestimate #DonnieDumbass' IQ based on some some transcripts of speeches & interviews.

All placed him in a range that spanned from slightly below average to average, with only two suggesting he could be as high as 105/110.

But the funniest response came from Gemini (with an estimate of 80-85): 👇 ❤️

Alt...

Gemini: If this individual is the only guardrail between you and AI disaster, "we'd better start stocking up on canned goods."

7 weird, wacky, and wonderful websites #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/7-weird-wacky-and-wonderful-websites/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Want to keep a searchable archive of your Slack workspace?

Slackdump is an open-source tool for archiving messages, private conversations, channels, files, users, and emojis without requiring workspace admin privileges.

It supports incremental backups, multiple export formats, local search, and an optional read-only MCP server for analyzing archives with AI assistants.

More details & alternatives:
https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/slackdump.html

#OpenSource #Privacy #Slack #DataBackup #SelfHosting #AI #FOSS

Alt...

Slackdump archives Slack messages, channels, users, files, and emojis through a terminal-based interface without requiring admin privileges.

then they ask why we burn out and go gardening

#dev #developer #c #assembly #coding #programming #programmer #opensource #ai #javascript #typescript #meme #joke #humor #llm #rust

What is a robot today? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/what-is-a-robot-today/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#AI can do #programming, but it can't really do #SoftwareEngineering.
It can mimic software engineering to a point, but there will always be a crack where it falls apart.
Increasing the context size helps, but never solves it, especially for problems that need novel solutions.
Why? Because theory-free-inference does not have a world model. That's why your coding robot can't play a game of chess.
Would you trust a software engineer that can't play chess? 🤔

Ethics and politics of quantum computing #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ethics-and-politics-of-quantum-computing/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

AI in the wild: real world applications #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ai-in-the-wild-real-world-applications/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Quantum hype, fraud, and snake oil #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/quantum-hype-fraud-and-snake-oil/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Nicolas Cage says he probably won't work with #Amazon again after refusing to sign an #AI waiver for Spider-Noir.

“I am not an AI-friendly actor,” he said at NYCC, criticizing Amazon's AI-friendly stance and its reported $50B OpenAI investment.

#SpiderNoir #GeekRealmHub

After Anthropic’s AI agents exploited websites, including some run by U.S. government agencies, the company said it will turn off live internet access for its internal evaluations until it can reel them in. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/jf2v5P

#AI #Tech #Anthropic

How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/how-technology-empowers-and-imperils-dictators.html

#privacy #AI #politics

New video about Signal📽️

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker @Mer__edith on BBC Global Woman.

About AI, including risks in military decision-making, the concentration of power in Silicon Valley and the importance of digital privacy. She also explains why Signal opposes age verification and would leave a country rather than compromise its users’ privacy.

Watch it here 🍿👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/signals-meredith-whittaker-on-bbc-global-woman/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #privacy #bbc #ai #tech

Online dating: gamification, addiction, and the morale economy #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-gamification-addiction-and-the-morale-economy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Cryptography as a social contract #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-as-a-social-contract/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Cyberbullying, harassment, and digital trauma #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cyberbullying-harassment-and-digital-trauma/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog