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Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings

Black women told you this in 2018.

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.

120m is no deterrent to X. Musk will moan in public - in private, he will be doing cartwheels.

Tech compliance theatre won't cut it anymore. Europeans want enforcement with teeth - up to revoking access to the Single Market for the worst actors. And Musk + X are the slop merchants par excellence.

Bei der «Stadtbild»-Debatte ging es stets um Bilder, um rassistische Phantasmen der Reinigung wie um die nostalgische Sehnsucht nach einer Vergangenheit, die nur in Bildern existiert. AI Slop nimmt nun im Imaginären vorweg, was man für die Wirklichkeit plant: die ethnische Säuberung der Innenstädte

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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🚨 A huge leak exposes the new targets and internal operations of Intellexa, the secretive and murky company behind the notorious Predator spyware.

Introducing #IntellexaLeaks, a joint investigation with partners @insidestory.gr, @haaretzcom.bsky.social & WAV Research Collective 🧵👇

Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic Google is facing backlash on X after a viral post for its NotebookLM appeared to use a food blogger's work without credit.

“This incident shows how Google is trying to leverage its Search monopoly into a monopoly on answers themselves”

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Fascinating:

Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3

“AI is already changing sex work and our future relationships in so many ways”, documentary filmmaker Naomi Pallas tells Dazed. Pallas is the director of the award-winning short film Clankers, which explores the rise of AI sex influencers and the blurring of consent. For the documentary, Pallas made her own pregnant AI sex worker after attending courses run predominantly by men about how to make them and develop a unique niche. What Pallas discovered through attending these courses was that these men were essentially stealing the content of real sex workers and deepfaking their likenesses to make their AI influencers. “When I saw this, I just thought, ‘Oh my God. They are trying to get the means of production back from women’”.

Theft on top of theft.

No Kings, No Monopolies: How App Store Gatekeepers Enable Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press Meher Sethi discusses how the app-store duopoly enables government pressure, including censorship of apps like ICEBlock, and poses growing risks to democracy.

When the Trump administration demanded ICEBlock’s removal, Apple complied—no rival app stores, just one gatekeeper’s decision, explains Meher Sethi. The takedown exposed how easily government pressure can travel through Apple and Google’s app-store duopoly and the risk it poses to democracy.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

Multiple surveys are telling the same story: AI adoption has stalled. Census data shows ~11% of workers use AI, with rates falling at 250+ employee firms. Surveys show usage spiked then plateaued.

Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today

So thrilled to finally have @ketanjoshi.co on the podcast!

We dig into what the numbers are telling us about the climate impact of data centers — and it’s not a good story. These tech companies need to be held accountable for the climate cost of their AI ambitions!

7️⃣ years ago, 7 of our members filed complaints against Google over its tracking of users’ locations.

A lot can happen in 7 years: the GDPR was reformed, Europeans born in 2018 are now in primary school, and the people below joined our digital & enforcement teams! Yet, this case is still pending⏱️

EVP: In der EU ist die Brandmauer bereits gefallen Im Europäischen Parlament stimmen die Konservativen mit rechts außen. Die Stabilität, auf der die Union basiert, wird so aufgegeben. Die politische Mitte zerlegt sich.

Im Europäischen Parlament stimmen die Konservativen mit rechts außen. Die Stabilität, auf der die Union basiert, wird so aufgegeben. Die politische Mitte zerlegt sich.

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system' Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.

The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.

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when its definitely not a hostage situation

Germany has the most data centres in Europe — but the boom is pushing its energy grid to breaking point. In hotspots like Frankfurt, power is already maxed out. Read our new investigation with @algorithmwatch.org.

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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.

This.

this isn't 1 problem caused by 1 platform/piece of technology. it's many overlapping problems caused by a bunch of systems that were optimized for scale and/or built & rolled out without any real care for how they'd be used and abused. one can only conclude this is the desired use for all this tech

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

I want the wholesome fish tank Internet back 😭

Zorgen in de Tweede Kamer over Amerikaanse overname van DigiD-partner Het van oorsprong Nederlandse cloud-bedrijf Solvinity komt mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen.

The Netherlands talks a big game about tech sovereignty, but is now about to allow the domestic cloud provider that underpins its national digital identity system and several other critical government services to be sold off to a new American owner.

Incomprehensible.

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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

I wish I could travel back in time and have a PhD! In all seriousness, this sounds like a great project and anyone is lucky to work with @abeba.bsky.social

Obviously this still needs to get past parliament etc. but the optics remain the same

Key Excerpts: Meta Wins Bout with FTC Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals | TechPolicy.Press A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist. Cristiano Lima-Strong looks at some of the key arguments in the ruling.

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Tech Policy Press associate editor @viacristiano.bsky.social looks at some of the key arguments in the ruling.