How much, if any, responsibility do security researchers have when their findings reveal vulnerabilities affecting a tech giant like, say, Microsoft. Quite a bit, the Redmond, Wash., company would likely say. Microsoft recently published a blog post that criticized the researcher who goes by the handle “Nightmare Eclipse” for publicly disclosing a series of bugs affecting Windows Defender and BitLocker. @Techcrunch has more on a spat that’s gone public and why others are defending “Nightmare Eclipse.”

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Infighting, court battles could put long-hyped air taxi breakthrough in jeopardy.

CNBC reports: "Heated battles are unfolding in the courtroom between Joby, Archer and Vertical, threatening to sidetrack certification aspirations and investor appetite."

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#Tech #Technology #Transport

AI vs Humanity – Transhumanist Augmentation

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© May 29, 2026

My science fiction immersed childhood and youth (1960s -1970s with a smattering of 1980s Sci-Fi movies), has moved me into the realm of distrust for all things Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Transhumanist augmentation.

When I post or share my concerns critics of my distrust come out of the woodwork claiming AI is nothing more than programming or algorithms which cannot exceed its design. Frankly, I am not a science guy. Which means I’ll never be able to engage with science language to dispute my critics. BUT I can read and what I read gives me a bad feeling in my gut.

I just has another gut check after Sam Faddis and Dr. Robert Malone. Faddis on a future AI vs Humanity. And Dr. Malone on Transhumanist augmentation with a smattering of AI.

When I was growing in a small town there was no internet and no mobile devices. At the time my small town was considered a rural town even though a State College had a presence. If it wasn’t for the college my small town would be best described as a cow town. Indeed, the small town locals seemed to often clash with the small State College presence.

My childhood was immersed in a culture where no one locked their doors and you knew your neighbors from blocks around. If you ever watched TV’s Leave It To Beaver or the big screen The Sandlot, those were lighthearted snapshots of my childhood culture.

As I approach 70 in November 2026, the Internet, AI, Smart Phone and emerging Transhumanist culture seems such a sad trend compared to memories of yesteryears.

JRH 5/29/26

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The Coming AI Intelligence Explosion And Why You Are The Problem

By Sam Faddis

May 28, 2026

AND Magazine

“Jack Clark, a cofounder of top AI company Anthropic, recently predicted that there’s a 60% chance of an AI fully training its successor by the end of 2028, warning that techniques to try to ensure AIs are safe today may break under recursive self-improvement. Initiating such a process, known as an intelligence explosion, could quickly result in uncontrollable superintelligence — AIs vastly smarter than humans. In recent months and years, top AI scientists, leaders, and CEOs have been warning that the development of superintelligent AI could lead to human extinction.”

AI vs Humanity (AND Magazine Photo)

In the intelligence business, this is what we call “bad”.

But, never mind, nothing to see here. You definitely should not express concern about this possibility, or someone from the government might come speak with you.

Let me explain.

First of all, let’s talk about this whole “intelligence explosion” thing. Here’s the gist. Up until now, we have dealt with computers and programs that we program. Periodically, somebody announces they have created a new, more advanced “thing”, and we debate its pros and cons, but we assume that we are the ones doing the creating. We are the ones making the decisions. We are in control.

We are fast approaching the day when, for AI, that will no longer be true in any relevant sense. AI will have the capacity to evolve, “advance” and morph into something completely new. It will do so, of course, at the speed of light. This will not be gradual. This may well be effectively instantaneous. By the time you even know it has happened, it is too late. You are living, or perhaps not living, with the consequences.

Yes, if you ever watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day, you will now be hearing in your head echoes of this line. “Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.”

“This brings us to the central feature of AI risk: Unless an AI is specifically programmed to preserve what humans value, it may destroy those valued structures. As Yudkowsky puts it, ‘the AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else.’”

Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import

The economic impacts of the rush to expand AI are already upon us. Estimates are that AI is taking 16,000 jobs net away from humans every month. Nobody has any clear idea of what those people are now supposed to do for work. Now, on top of what may prove to be economic devastation, we are talking about rolling the dice and hoping AI doesn’t just decide to erase humanity and start with a clean slate.

And the government’s reaction to all this is to trot out the usual Deep State playbook and begin to label and categorize anyone protesting and asking questions. To that end, we now have a new acronym, AGAAVE, anti-government, anti-authority, violent extremist. Yes, that is now a thing.

A recent Wired magazine expose did an admirable job of shining a light on a whole series of governmental entities, at the federal, state, and local levels, that are now highly concerned about dangerous nutjobs who are trying to hold up this whole AI goldrush and raising concerns about its implications.

“Among the documents in the tranche obtained by Wired Magazine is a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat.”

‘The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as New York City,’ the report reads. The term ‘anti-tech violent extremism’ does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI domestic extremism reports or guides and represents a novel grouping of a wide range of ideologies under a single extremist category.”

No word on whether these anti-tech people also include some of those “crazy” people who raised concerns about electoral integrity or resisted taking experimental vaccines to combat a disease that was essentially a bad flu, or thought we should not be throwing Joe Biden’s political opponents in prison and spying on sitting members of Congress.

Lest you think that the government has confined itself to simply writing reports and creating new categories of “extremist,” the Wired report makes clear that agencies at multiple levels are already targeting anti-AI and anti-data center groups operationally and monitoring their activities.

“The documents obtained by WIRED also show that fusion centers are currently keeping tabs on in-person assemblies. The Northern Virginia center generated a report about demonstrations at local civic events, including the Arlington County budget meeting and the Fairfax County School Board meeting. Across the country, town halls and budget committee meetings have been among the chief forums for local residents to express their dissent with data centers being built in their neighborhoods.”

“But perhaps the clearest-cut example of how nonviolent critiques of technology can be swept up along with threats is found in an open-source report circulated by SITE Intelligence in April 2025. The report flags a video from the progressive nonprofit More Perfect Union on the destructive effects of a data center to nearby residents in Georgia. Nothing in the video advocated for violence against property or people. But thanks to fusion center targeting, the advocacy group is now circulating among US intelligence and law enforcement across the country as a potential threat vector.”

We are driving toward a cliff at full throttle. We have uncorked a bottle and released a genie that we do not fully understand and which we may well not be able to control. Experts in the field of AI are talking openly about the distinct possibility that this thing we have created may simply decide one day in the blink of an eye to utilize our atoms differently. It may simply erase us and start over.

But if you are raising concerns about that, you are the problem.

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Human Augmentation Is No Longer Science Fiction

By Dr. Robert W. Malone

May 28, 2026

Malone News

Human Augmentation – The Next Battlefield (Malone News Photo)

Three years ago, we wrote about a joint UK and German Ministry of Defense report titled Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm (1,2). At the time, many critics dismissed the document as speculative futurism, military fantasy, or the fever dream of transhumanists intoxicated by Silicon Valley ideology.

It is no longer possible to deny the reality of the situation – human augmentation is being developed more rapidly than we all could have imagined.

What was once presented as theoretical is now becoming operational doctrine.

The discussion has shifted. Human augmentation is no longer framed primarily as a distant ethical dilemma. It is increasingly being treated by military planners, AI developers, and national security bureaucracies as an unavoidable strategic necessity. The language has changed from “should we?” to “how fast can we deploy it before our adversaries do?”

That should alarm everyone.

The original report argued that future wars would not be won by whoever possessed the best machines, but by whoever most effectively merged human beings with machines (2). At the time, that sounded like science fiction to many.

But look around today. AI copilots are everywhere. Autonomous drones -which rumor has it are capable of deciding who lives and who dies without a human pulling the trigger- dominate modern battlefields. Machine-learning systems increasingly assist intelligence analysis, targeting, surveillance, logistics, and command decisions.

The battlefield envisioned by the report is arriving faster than even its authors predicted.

And the missing piece is no longer the machine.

It is the human.

Military planners are now openly discussing ways to optimize cognition, decision speed, stress tolerance, fatigue resistance, emotional regulation, and direct brain-machine communication. Not someday. Now.

DARPA has aggressively advanced programs designed to create high-performance brain-computer interfaces for military personnel (3). The stated goal is to allow soldiers to directly interact with autonomous systems, including drone swarms and AI-assisted battlefield platforms. Recent military papers openly discuss reducing “cognitive overload” through neural interfaces linked to machine-learning systems (5).

Think carefully about what that means.

The problem modern warfare faces is not merely firepower. It is information saturation. The side that can process information faster, fuse data more efficiently, and shorten decision loops gains overwhelming advantage. Human augmentation is increasingly viewed as the solution.

This is not about stronger muscles or robotic exoskeletons, although those continue to be developed for logistics and battlefield endurance (8). The real focus has shifted toward the brain itself.

• Cognitive warfare.

• Neurostimulation.

• Behavioral optimization.

• AI-linked command systems.

• Pharmacologic enhancement.

• Predictive biometric monitoring.

• Direct neural integration with machines.

This is where the money is going.

And once again, the same rhetorical pathway appears that we have seen so many times before. The technologies are introduced under the banner of therapy, rehabilitation, safety, and medical necessity. Advanced prosthetics become enhanced prosthetics. Neurological rehabilitation becomes cognitive optimization. Monitoring for wellness becomes monitoring for performance and compliance.

The line between treatment and enhancement rapidly disappears.

That is not speculation. That is exactly what military and bioethics literature is now openly discussing (7,9).

One of the most disturbing developments over the last three years is how quickly ethical resistance has softened inside defense circles. Increasingly, military ethicists argue that democratic nations may need to loosen ethical restrictions on enhancement technologies because authoritarian adversaries will not hesitate to deploy them (6).

In other words, the moral argument is becoming secondary to geopolitical competition.

The logic is brutally simple:

If China develops enhanced warfighters and the West refuses to compete, the West loses.

That argument is now appearing with increasing frequency in military policy discussions.

The original UK-German report bluntly stated that human augmentation should not ultimately be decided by ethicists or public opinion, but by national interest (2). At the time, that statement shocked many readers. Today it reads less like a warning and more like a roadmap.

Perhaps the most profound shift since 2022 is cultural.

The public has already been conditioned for much of this transition.

Millions of people now voluntarily wear devices that continuously track sleep, heart rate, movement, stress, location, temperature, and biological activity. AI systems increasingly monitor behavior, communications, productivity, and emotional state. Entire generations have normalized the idea that biological and behavioral data should be constantly harvested, analyzed, and fed into algorithmic systems.

Human beings are gradually being transformed into integrated biological data platforms.

And once that infrastructure exists, military and state applications inevitably follow.

The old industrial model treated humans as machine operators.

The emerging biotech model treats humans themselves as programmable platforms.

That is the real paradigm shift.

What makes this especially dangerous is the extraordinary hubris driving much of the field. Increasingly, scientists, technologists, military planners, and governments speak openly about directing human evolution itself through genetic engineering, neurotechnology, and AI-assisted biological modification (4).

Six million years of evolution are now viewed by some as merely an outdated starting point to be “optimized.”

History suggests caution here.

Every era that became convinced it could engineer a better human being eventually descended into ethical catastrophe. The tools change. The rhetoric modernizes. But the underlying temptation remains the same: centralizing power over biology itself.

And unlike the crude eugenics movements of the past, modern human augmentation is emerging wrapped in the language of medicine, national security, efficiency, resilience, and technological progress.

That makes it far more politically durable.

The greatest danger may not be some dramatic moment when governments announce the arrival of “enhanced humans.” The real danger is incremental normalization.

Small steps.

• Therapeutic uses.

• Military exemptions.

• Workplace optimization.

• AI-assisted monitoring.

• Cognitive enhancement “for safety.”

• Genetic modification “for resilience.”

Until eventually the infrastructure for total biological integration already exists before society fully understands what has happened.

Three years ago, many people laughed at the idea that governments and militaries were seriously planning for large-scale human augmentation.

They are not laughing anymore.

The frightening part is not that the technology is coming.

The frightening part is how quietly the debate is disappearing.

JGM/RWM

References

1. Malone RW. Human Augmentation: The Dawn of a New Paradigm. Malone News. January 2022.
https://www.malone.news/p/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a

2. UK Ministry of Defence and German Federal Ministry of Defence. Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm: A Strategic Implications Project. May 2021.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60c749f8d3bf7f4bd0e3b1a5/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf

3. DARPA. Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3).
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology

4. DARPA. Safe Genes Program.
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/safe-genes

5. Shendruk TN et al. Brain Computer Interface Technology for Future Battlefield. arXiv. 2023.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07818

6. Small Wars Journal. Neither Ironman nor the Hulk: Human Enhancements for Military Purposes. January 2025.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/01/24/neither-ironman-nor-the-hulk-human-enhancements-for-military-purposes/

7. BMJ Military Health. Emerging Military Applications of Neuroenhancement and Cognitive Optimization. 2025.
https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2025/08/18/military-2025-002964

8. Wired Magazine. The US Army’s Vision of an Exoskeleton Future Lives On.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-armys-vision-of-an-exoskeleton-future-lives-on

9. National Library of Medicine / PMC. Ethical and Policy Challenges in Human Enhancement Technologies.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12799693/

© 2026 Robert W Malone, MD

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Leaks reveal US authorities concerned about the rise of "anti-tech extremists" as AI data center issues become increasingly contentious — critics say this could lead to surveillance, criminalization of peaceful opposition

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/leaks-reveal-us-authorities-concerned-about-the-rise-of-anti-tech-extremists-as-ai-data-center-issues-become-increasingly-contentious-critics-say-this-could-lead-to-surveillance-criminalization-of-peaceful-opposition

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Arrested by facial recognition. 98% match, wrong person #proton #privacy #surveillance #technology

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"We are living through a moment of radical depletion of our social soil." Otto Scharmer writes for Noema Magazine about how AI is facilitating a collapse in moral norms, a breakdown of social bonds, and a loss of human capacity to collaborate.

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A reasonably fit 54-year-old man was struggling through his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu workouts, a common refrain among middle-agers trying to maintain fitness. Could ChatGPT help him come up with a workout plan that would turn back the clock? Read more from @TechRadar:

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FBI procurement records show the agency wants nationwide access to automated license plate reader networks from vendors like Flock and Motorola. 🚔
Expanded ALPR access could enable broad vehicle tracking without warrants, as public opposition to mass surveillance systems grows across the U.S. 📷

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Chicago, Baltimore, Toronto, and other cities see the same effect at different times of year.

The post Manhattanhenge isn’t just for New Yorkers. Find a ‘henge’ near you. appeared first on Popular Science.

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A detailed view of the ongoing construction at the Crazy Horse Memorial mountain carving, featuring the completed colossal stone face of the warrior on the left and a massive, smoothly shaped section of his outstretched arm on the right, surrounded by construction walkways, scaffolding, and safety fencing under a clear blue sky.

“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI,” Box founder Aaron Levie wrote on X. Here's @Techcrunch's Julie Bort on the consequences of execs not understanding the technology they're implementing.

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Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

68% of Americans say they worry about surveillance pricing increasing the cost of goods, while just 5% believe it will lead to lower prices

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AI Is Bigger Than Most People Realize

Jocelyn Burnham helps audiences move beyond the headlines and understand the broader impact of AI, from self-learning and critical thinking to safety, privacy, and emerging risks.

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Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze

Ads, rate limits, feature restrictions, price hikes. The AI free ride is over.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue

#AI #enshittification #technology

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

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The hardware of my children's time is

• a TV lived fourty four years
• a radio lived Fifty Six years

The TV flyback in fourty+ years only got changed twice

We're talking about the period when TVs we're almost as heavy as a child at the weight of 20 kg

Naturally all circuits were driven by tubes.

@rl_dane

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I wrote a follow-up text to my previous thinking about AI, digital civilization, and what may come after the current hype cycle.

It is a attempt to frame AI not as a new industrial revolution, but as the final acceleration of the digital one and maybe the beginning of something more homeostatic.

https://medium.com/@igisho/the-last-industrial-revolution-28189b0df5d7

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Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn’t provide end-to-end encryption

to “prevent WhatsApp and Meta from continuing to willfully deceive [Texans] by misrepresenting that their private communications were private and inaccessible even to WhatsApp and Meta

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A cell phone network that buys bandwidth from a major phone company is making a service targeted to Christians who want to block anything related to trans people.

Wild.

They all must be really into trans people.

You also know they will all have burner phones on another network.

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‚Die Pläne der Bundesregierung, die Befugnisse für Sicherheitsbehörden bei der digitalen Fahndung auszuweiten, gefährden Grundrechte. Zu diesem Schluss kommen mehrere zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen in ihrer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme zu den Gesetzentwürfen aus dem Bundesjustiz- und Bundesinnenministerium.

„Wir betonen, dass eine grundrechtskonforme Ausgestaltung dieser Befugnisse auch durch Nachbesserungen im Verfahrensrecht nicht erreichbar wäre“, heißt es in der Stellungnahme: „Die genannten Mängel sind keine bloßen Ausgestaltungsfehler, sondern symptomatisch für das strukturelle Defizit des gesamten Regelungsvorhabens.“.…‘

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/keine-verfassungskonforme-ausgestaltung-moeglich-zivilgesellschaft-warnt-vor-plaenen-fuer-ki-fahndung/

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If you build PH4NTXM, you will notice that the browser missing some "usability" controls, that's actually the trade-off we've done for maximum privacy.

Since we swapped Brave with Firefox-ESR the anti-fingerprinting gain was massive, since it let us literally "touch" its engine.

I'll see and weigh if we can remove something to gain some more usability, and user experience, but won't sacrifice security and privacy for it.

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Now, we are in a good place, we have a collection of firmware and software so your security literally starts by the time you hit the power button.

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Why is it so complicated to repair things in the United States these days? According to @TheConversationUS, the problem started in the 1980s, when Hollywood wanted to stop people video-taping movies.

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Has the world rejected human cloning technology?

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We’re being conditioned to surrender to automated authority. It’s time to break the cycle and demand structural accountability.

Read my latest on reclaiming human agency:

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Is there something wrong or threatening with the word “disregard?” Entering it into Google’s search box shows an example of how AI overreach can hurt the SERP. @Techcrunch has more:

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Why President Trump's executive order on AI was abruptly killed, from @axios.

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Texas sues Meta over ‘misleading’ WhatsApp privacy claims

“WhatsApp’s assurances are false,” the lawsuit read. “WhatsApp and its parent company, Meta, have access to virtually all of WhatsApp users’ purportedly ‘private’ communications.”

https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2026-05-21/texas-meta-whatsapp-lawsuit-ken-paxton

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Texas accuses WhatsApp of lying about message privacy

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-accuses-whatsapp-of-lying-about-message-privacy/

> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says that, contrary to WhatsApp's claims about its encrypted messages, the messaging giant can in fact view nearly all communications sent through its platform.

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Amazon, Facebook, ICE have access to Seattle police intelligence-sharing network

https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/

> Seattle Shield requests suspicious activity reports from companies, which are then circulated with members as part of surveillance apparatus

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Last year, 13 people died in bear attacks, and there were tens of thousands of reported sightings in Japan. Since then, Ohta Seiki, a Hokkaido-based robotics firm that manufactures a terrifying animatronic wolf called Monster Wolf, has seen a surge in demand for its robot protector. Read more from @TechRadar:

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Driving in heavy rains can be difficult for all of us — including the robots. Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after its robotaxis struggled to handle flooded roads until the company finds a solution. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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Google is testing reduced free cloud storage for new accounts created without phone number verification, cutting capacity from 15GB to 5GB. ☁️
The change links Gmail, Drive, and Photos storage access to identity verification, increasing pressure to provide personal data. 📱

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A Cybertruck owner drove his car into a lake to test "wade mode" and you'll never guess what happened next.

https://flip.it/vrg_n0

#Tesla #Technology #Cybertruck

Contrast the nonsense coming from politicians -- aimed at people with little time to assess tech issues -- on how tech should figure out or 'nerd' its way to age verification ('to keep us all safe'), with the ease with which children and youth can get their hands on assault weapons in the USA.

Priorities.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers

@pluralistic

#technology #privacy

Android 17 adds scam-call detection for banking apps, expanded anti-stalkerware protections, and stronger theft recovery controls across devices. 📲
Google is also rolling out OTP shielding, post-quantum cryptography, and tighter app access limits to reduce tracking and credential theft risks. 🔐

🔗 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-17-to-expand-banking-scam-call-and-privacy-protections/

#TechNews #Android17 #Android #Google #Privacy #Cybersecurity #MobileSecurity #Scam #Encryption #PostQuantum #PlayProtect #Security #Infosec #DataProtection #Technology

Apple backed Google in opposing EU proposals that would require Android to give rival AI services deeper access to apps and system features. 📱
Apple warned the DMA measures could weaken privacy, security, and device integrity as regulators push for more user choice in AI assistants. ⚖️

🔗 https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/13/apple-warns-eu-against-forcing-google-to-open-android-to-ai-rivals/

#TechNews #Apple #iPhone #iOS #Google #Android #AI #DMA #Europe #EU #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Antitrust #OpenSource #Regulation #Mobile #Security #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Hello guys, hope this day will find you positive and curious!

I pushed some more documentation about the system components and how they are working, it's a bit more detailed so you can understand, audit, debug, contribute.

Will refine the docs even more as the time passes by, next days will be focused there!

This week I was fixing the privacy problems with Brave and Chromium engine which caused us obstacles in terms of anti-fingerprinting.

Had to do a lot of work to ensure Firefox-ESR which I chose as a replacement will do the job and cover our expectations, thankfully it worked out!

Everything works like a charm, if you thought of downloading PH4NTXM now's the time, please go, give it a check and let's find what's good, what's missing and we will refine it together!

Thank you for being here!

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

Data labelling and data harvesting are closely linked and has a detrimental impact on our mental and physical privacy.

#privacy #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #dataprivacy #dataharvesting #technology #surveillancetech #authoritarian

Alt...

Explains how data collection labelling is not always up front about the true nature of data collection.

A Texas drainage district walked its ditch on a routine inspection. They found a pipe they didn’t recognize discharging black liquid from Tesla’s $1 billion lithium refinery

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/

#Tesla #pollution #environment #technology #automotive #lithium #ElonMusk

"Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

#news #TechNews #technology #google #GoogleSearch #GoogleIO #AI #LLMs #enshittification

Google Search as we know it is over. @Sarahp writes for @Techcrunch about the company's AI-powered overhaul of its core product.

https://flip.it/OByO5U

#Google #Technology #AI

Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes

Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025

"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'

"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.

"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.

"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.

"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York.

"But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.

"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine.

"They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.

"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine