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• FBI Seeks AI for Political Pre-Crime Watch List

• Post #4503160

  I don’t care what you are. I care that Proton has deceptive business practices, and it’s funny watching you flail around trying to distract from that.

• Post #4503090

  “I would love to dispute this thing that makes Proton look terrible, but sadly all I can do is ad hominem fallacies” This is embarrassing

• Post #4502853

  You have admitted that you use a service that necessarily follows the same legal framework as Proton I didn’t, but even if I did, it wouldn’t change the fact Proton lies in their marketing and you know it. Seriously can you dispute that or are you just going to keep going “no u! no u!” every time your precious corporation gets caught

• Post #4502755

  Considering you’ve admitted Proton is engaged in corporate deceptive practices, I don’t much care what you think about me.

• Flock Reportedly Tried to Turn Uber and Other Delivery Service Drivers Into Mobile Snitches

  More eyes on you.

• Post #4348513

  Meta enlisted cricketer Virat Kohli and a roster of content creators to promote its Gen 2 version of the glasses aimed at affluent Indians. And it turns out affluent Indians behave the exact same as affluent Americans that go around like creeps to record people. In this case, it was to effectively mock and dox them. And it clearly worked, because the influencer gets to hide behind a pseudonym in the article, while the trans person does not.

• Post #4233690

  There are very few (sub-$1500) point-and-shoot digital cameras of decent quality to even compare any more*. The ones that are left are targeted at vloggers, and despite how neat phone camera technology is (and it is incredible), it’s often astonishing how good a compact camera with a modern sensor and decent zoom has gotten. It’s a shame the market got hollowed out by phones, because over the past few years, phones have just gotten more hallucinatory with their output images in an attempt to...

• An Audi Loaner Car Came With a Camera System That Records Audio — the Woman Who Got It Works in Medicine and Cannot Discuss Patient Information in the Car

  A woman said an Audi loaner car’s Lytx camera recorded her conversations, sparking privacy concerns over dealership fleet monitoring.

• You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network

  Standardized NEMA sockets let municipalities add cameras and air sensors to existing poles with no public vote or new hardware

• Trump administration’s $46 billion 'smart wall' races ahead on the US-Mexico border

  The wall is under heavy scrutiny for the billions of dollars being dedicated to it when border crossings are at their lowest in decades. Critics say the U.S. is militarizing the border as it increasingly deploys sophisticated surveillance technology to the area, impacting local communities.

• Why is an ordained huckster advocating for mass surveillance in Cleveland?

  Acting on behalf of the Cleveland Mayor’s wishes, too. Flock No… encountered opposition from a pro-Flock organization, seemingly led by the Cleveland Clergy Coalition, whose Executive Director is Pastor Aaron Phillips… In fact, since May 2025, Mayor Bibb has paid [Phillips’] Engagement Consulting Inc., listed at the same address discussed above, $2,500 per month, for a total of $17,500 in 2025.

• Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'

  Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash. And rightfully so.

• Post #3337267

  There is already essentially an AI-Satan cult. They’re called the Rationalists. Unlike your average Satanist, however, they are very irrational, nearly theistic, and exert a lot of control over Silicon Valley.

• Post #2688622

  What is a reasonable number of fish though?

• Post #2009218

  Not a single better idea in the tech industry.

• Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

  cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1913698/disney-exits-openai-deal-after-ai-giant-shutters-sora Original WSJ exclusive: OpenAI Scraps Sora App in Continued Push to Focus on Coding and ‘Agent’ Tools Paywall removal: https://archive.is/cKWkf

• ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

  cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/20604499 On an evening in late January, Emily was driving through her Minneapolis neighborhood doing something that had become part of her routine in recent weeks: patrolling for ICE. Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. “And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture o...

• The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

  cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/41985603

• OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

  Sam Altman says “the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety.” Not 24 hours ago, he seemed to back Anthropic “supporting our warfighters” as long as two “red lines” weren’t crossed, though his tepid support was laden with five instances of “I think” and one “mostly.” The two “red lines” in question: Domestic mass surveillance (presumably, foreign mass surveillance is ok) Autonomous weapons (likely because they would be held legally liable for misfires)

• Post #397515

  Selections so you don’t have to click through: I’m proud to announce that we’ve raised $61 million from top investors like A* and Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate our work in building America’s privacy-focused mobile service. At Palantir, where I started in technical roles more than 10 years ago, I learned about a wide array of vulnerabilities in the cellular network that present a threat not only to mission-focused organizations in government, but also to everyday people. I came to see...

• Post #251903

  Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician.” “In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”