Malaclypse

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.

Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.

Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

📰 "Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark #privacy law, including making it easier for #BigTech to harvest Europeans' personal data for #AI training, would flout #EU case law and gut the legislation."

Read the full article 👉 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Mission possible: EU rules with hearts and sparkle vs EU rules that work for Trump.

Fixed it:

The GDPR amendments are the worst thing the Commission has come up with in the last 10 years, even worse than ChatControl. If this is how they plan to (t)roll this mandate, I'd rather the Commission not do anything at all on digital.

The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town Flock claims that its technology will literally eliminate crime. But what it’s unleashing may be just as insidious.

“But it turns out that once you’ve built a massive distributed surveillance network, it’s hard to rein in its use.”

EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.

⚖️📚 The #EUCommission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the #GDPR. If internal drafts become reality, this would have significant impact on people's fundamental right to #privacy and data protection.

👀 Read more here 👉 noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...

Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.

New American, Trump-ally, owners of notorious #spyware firm, #NSOGroup, say that they 'want to use NSO’s eavesdropping and surveillance technologies to “achieve a safer world.”' Sure, sure...

www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit Prof Jagolinzer testifies to EU Parliament about the dark uses of cryptocurrency

"What we do know...is that crypto and meme assets have already become what I consider to be a financial cesspool that is leveraged by many of the darkest actors on the planet.

My earlier testimony in European Parliament.

youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y

frame: smart glasses are just like an iPhone

negation: no, they're different in important ways

kirby: THIS IS A SURVEILLANCE TOOL. THEY WANT TO NORMALIZE CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE. they are making a bad faith comparison bc they want to move the boundaries of acceptable behavior

The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.

Wonderful piece.

So, we wind up with “metacognitive laziness”, which is a nerd term for all of us slowly turning into the fat spaceship farers in Wall-E. Or the Pakleds from Star Trek.

I’d add in the increasing research showing negative impacts of cognitive off-loading to GenAI. While Plato cited Thalmus bemoaning the advent of writing, and I struggle to remember any phone number since I got my first mobile - both off loading memory, GenAI allows the offloading of a lot more.

The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.

“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.”

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...

Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.

AI browsers: the security headache nobody asked for Despite their growing presence, AI-powered browsers aren’t ready for prime time when it comes to security

OpenAI released its ChatGPT Atlas browser last month, sparking a fresh wave of research outlining the security problems with AI browsers.

Check out our latest digital security newsletter to learn about these security concerns and how you can stay safe.

“Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]”
The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.

A direct attack on our digital rights!

The Commission is set to introduce the Digital Omnibus on November 19. www.linkedin.com/posts/luisal...

This text was shared by Max Schrems.

Text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus” Overview based on previously “leaked” documents.t

Ursprünglicher Beitrag: mastodon.social/@ennopark/11...

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

“For decades, video footage was the gold standard for evidence that something had occurred. Now when there’s footage of a crime or government tyranny or a famous person, people aren’t going to believe it happened unless it’s corroborated by eyewitness testimony.”
open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race He also had strong opinions about people's

>> Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.

LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

"Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that 'present higher legal risk,' the [Meta] document says, such as those falsely claiming to represent a consumer brand...That figure almost certainly exceeds 'the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.'”

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to use of AI. The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support

Microsoft journey 2022-2027

The enshittification of Mozilla with AI slop and greed is a warning for various opensource projects and Linux distros not to become comfy with AI garbage. People and users will abandon your product, because being opensource doesn't mean you can get away with it. Users are tired of this garbage.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

at this point, i’m convinced that half the AI things out there are just ways to fool you into giving more data to the slop machine