Collaborate Disseminate
In March, Anthropic’s Claude “quietly deployed software to spy on China-based customers,” reports the Washington Post — apparently to unmask Chinese rivals “suspected of hijacking its technology to make their own AI tools smarter.”
Last week Ant… Continue reading China’s AI Companies May Be ‘Distilling’ America’s AI Models
“We need you in the fight,” says the American legal expert in privacy, surveillance, AI, and Internet freedom of speech who became the EFF’s new executive director in March.
As EFF celebrates the anniversary of its founding 1990, “Each headline is di… Continue reading EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says ‘We Need You in the Fight’
Meta “said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties,” reports Reuters, “over accusations the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users and misled the public about their safet… Continue reading Meta Says US States Seek $1.4 Trillion In Penalties In August’s Youth Safety Trial
“Are you armed?!” the police officer screamed. “Get out of the car!”
A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how “a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law enforcement… led to me and my wife being surrounded by polic… Continue reading How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent Police to Arrest Him
Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg:
The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish… Continue reading Google Ordered to Pay $2 Billion For Anti-Competitive Practices By Swedish Court
“A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs,” remembers the Wall Street Journal.But “For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone.”
In late May, OpenAI Chief Executive Sa… Continue reading Is Big Tech Now Backpedaling on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario?
USA Today reports on a Facebook post from a Washington state sheriff’s office:
Four residents of Clallam County, a coastal region west of Seattle along northern Washington’s peninsula, lost more than $673,000 in just three days, according to the Clal… Continue reading How Tech Scammers Conned Four People Out of $673,000 in Three Days
“Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer” who’s been accused of damaging over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year and even knocking down their poles.
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this article … Continue reading Hundreds Support Legal Defense for Engineer Charged with Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras
It was more than two years ago that TypeScript’s creator Anders Hejlsberg announced plans to rewrite its compiler in Go. This week Microsoft announced its first Go-based release candidate for TypeScript 7.0, reports InfoWorld:
TypeScript 7.0 is often … Continue reading Go-based TypeScript 7.0 Finally Reaches Release Candidate Stage
“Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch,” writes The Verge.
While it’s not available for downloads in most locations, Meta’s Poc… Continue reading Meta is Quietly Launching Pocket, an App for Vibe-coding and Scrolling Small ‘Gizmos’