Fabrizio Bartoloni

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“AI” assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time www.osnews.com/story/143624...

Un'ipotesi ce l'ho: "Airbnb user uses rented property to mine Bitcoin and leaves electricity bill of R$ 8 thousand" www.binance.com/en/square/po...

‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users Is it time to quit the world’s most popular browser as privacy nightmare comes true?

Google has suddenly confirmed privacy initiatives “are being phased out.” The Privacy Sandbox, now in its sixth year, has essentially ended just months after Google confirmed tracking is here to stay and there are no viable alternatives. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant

Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish - Slashdot Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00...

Poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”? An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

YouTube video by Макс Эвсебия Circus Fighters

FWIW there is a short video on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJoh... (found via this Russian page: www.old-games.ru/game/4635.html ).

YouTube video by Bodo Hinueber PETpeeve a Commodore PET CBM 8296 Demo by Rabenauge + Plush +Crest at deadline 2025

PETpeeve a Commodore PET CBM 8296 Demo by Rabenauge + Plush +Crest at deadline 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-rS...

Talking to Meta AI will change your ads, whether you like it or not. And no, you can't opt out

Your chats with Meta AI will start affecting what ads you see on Facebook and Instagram. And no, you can't opt out. www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

Dating app Hily will now ask whether you want to see nudes Hily launches Consent Guard, a notification pop-up asking whether a user wants to see a match's explicit message.

"As of 2024, over a third of women under 40 have received unsolicited sexual photos from someone who was not a dating, romantic, or sexual partner, YouGov reported. " mashable.com/article/dati...

The Rise of Technofascists Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...

The Rise of Technofascists

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

The current war on science, and who’s behind it A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.

The current war on science, and who’s behind it arstechnica.com/science/2025...

What if they let Scrondo host the show?

Investigating a forged PDF mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

Capisco che per molti qui a Bolzano l'italiano sia lingua straniera ma il cartello "Petto Busto Diavola" al Despar, suppongo calco da TeufelsHähnchen Brust per intendere il petto di pollo alla diavola, non si può vedere.

AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country’s leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.

AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour | Aeon Videos From Newton’s circle to Schrödinger’s curved geometry, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour

After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour aeon.co/videos/after...

Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters' - Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly wor...

Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters' developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...

Frenemies..

The $1 Billion AI Training Scam: Why Retraining Won’t Save Your Job How companies profit from both eliminating jobs and selling false hope to displaced workers

The $1 Billion AI Training Scam: Why Retraining Won’t Save Your Job ai.gopubby.com/the-1-billio...

AI bubble fears get worse. Wall Street plays it cool Wall Street finds itself caught between optimism and anxiety, deploying different vocabularies depending on which side of the ledger it's addressing

The AI bubble fears are getting worse. Wall Street doesn't want to talk about it
Wall Street finds itself caught between optimism and anxiety, deploying different vocabularies depending on which side of the ledger it's addressing qz.com/ai-boom-bubb...

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Why Bitcoin Won’t Save You From Tyranny, Inflation, or Market Collapse | HackerNoon Bitcoin isn’t a safe haven, inflation hedge, or libertarian dream. Here’s why its foundations are fragile and its myths don’t hold up.

Why Bitcoin Won’t Save You From Tyranny, Inflation, or Market Collapse: hackernoon.com/why-bitcoin-...

Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms | TechCrunch The new pro-AI super-PAC network dubbed Leading the Future aims to use campaign donations and digital ads to advocate for favorable AI regulation and oppose candidates that the group thinks will stifl...

" #SiliconValley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms [...] The group hopes to mirror its approach on pro- #crypto super-PAC network Fairshake, which helped cement a victory for Donald Trump.": techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/s...

The next unicorn might not hire anyone As AI rapidly replaces workers, the zero-workforce startup is nearing reality. The prospect is dividing tech — and alarming employees.

"The next unicorn might not hire anyone. The zero-workforce startup is no longer science fiction" - stopping paying workers was the plan all along: thenextweb.com/news/rise-of...

Meta Faces Copyright Lawsuit from Adult Film Companies | theTAKE Two adult film companies have filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that the tech giant illegally downloaded more than 2,000 adult films to train its

Meta downloaded 2.000 porn movies illegally via BitTorrent to train “Movie Gen,” its large language model (LLaMA) & now faces a $359 million copyright lawsuit from 2 adult film companies. That's the company holding yours & your children's data. See why I have no WhatsApp: thetake.net/2025/08/22/m...

#LibreOffice 25.8 is out with faster performances (Writer and Calc open files up to 30% faster), support for exporting PDF 2.0, a new application-wide Viewer mode, support for embedded fonts in PPTX files, new Calc functions and much more: wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes...

Google settles YouTube children's privacy lawsuit Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of children using YouTube by collecting their personal information without parental consent, and using it to send targeted ads.

Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads www.reuters.com/sustainabili...