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Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
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"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses — The Times and The Sunday Times
The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...
apple.news
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
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Sejdou se trestně stíhaný čerpač dotací s trestně stíhaným fašistou, hajlujícím obdivovatelem nacismu, pornohercem, vyhozeným děkanem, obchodníkem s nadějí na smrt nemocných, právníkem lichvářů, estébákem...
ne, takhle nepravděpodobně nemůže začínat ani ten nejhloupější vtip...
ne, takhle nepravděpodobně nemůže začínat ani ten nejhloupější vtip...
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sejdou se trestně stíhaný čerpač dotací s trestně stíhaným fašistou, hajlujícím obdivovatelem nacismu, pornohercem, vyhozeným děkanem, obchodníkem s nadějí na smrt nemocných, právníkem lichvářů, estébákem...
ne, takhle nepravděpodobně nemůže začínat ani ten nejhloupější vtip...
ne, takhle nepravděpodobně nemůže začínat ani ten nejhloupější vtip...
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License plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars, but records have shown that they're being used in abortion investigations. States must ban law enforcement from using ALPRs to investigate healthcare decisions and prohibit sharing data across state lines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and
www.eff.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
License plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars, but records have shown that they're being used in abortion investigations. States must ban law enforcement from using ALPRs to investigate healthcare decisions and prohibit sharing data across state lines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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‼️ Norway may be the guarantor for a €100 billion loan to Ukraine!
With Belgium opposing a loan of €140 billion secured by frozen Russian assets in their Euroclear depository, Norway stepping in as guarantor provides a path for the loan to proceed.
Thank you Norway!!🇳🇴💙💛
With Belgium opposing a loan of €140 billion secured by frozen Russian assets in their Euroclear depository, Norway stepping in as guarantor provides a path for the loan to proceed.
Thank you Norway!!🇳🇴💙💛
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
‼️ Norway may be the guarantor for a €100 billion loan to Ukraine!
With Belgium opposing a loan of €140 billion secured by frozen Russian assets in their Euroclear depository, Norway stepping in as guarantor provides a path for the loan to proceed.
Thank you Norway!!🇳🇴💙💛
With Belgium opposing a loan of €140 billion secured by frozen Russian assets in their Euroclear depository, Norway stepping in as guarantor provides a path for the loan to proceed.
Thank you Norway!!🇳🇴💙💛
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Yet another example of Trump shooting the US in the foot. Our abdication of moral leadership in international institutions like the UN, WHO, G20, and ICC only serves to allow our adversaries the opportunity to expand their influence on the world stage while we suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Trump says US will skip G20 in South Africa
President Trump said on Friday that the United States will not be part of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa, calling it “a total disgrace.” “Afrikaners (People…
thehill.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Yet another example of Trump shooting the US in the foot. Our abdication of moral leadership in international institutions like the UN, WHO, G20, and ICC only serves to allow our adversaries the opportunity to expand their influence on the world stage while we suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
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Není mi jedno, jaké ruské báchorky zástupci SPD vykládají v televizi. Rusko je agresor, Ukrajina se hrdě brání i za nás. Na tom nic nezmění žádná vlajka sundaná Okamurou ani výroky Ivana Davida, který je zřejmě přebírá ze Sputniku nebo z dezinformačního webu, který sám provozuje.
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Není mi jedno, jaké ruské báchorky zástupci SPD vykládají v televizi. Rusko je agresor, Ukrajina se hrdě brání i za nás. Na tom nic nezmění žádná vlajka sundaná Okamurou ani výroky Ivana Davida, který je zřejmě přebírá ze Sputniku nebo z dezinformačního webu, který sám provozuje.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
and yet #vonderleyen wants to loosen #ai #safeguards in #eu = #corruption
and yet #vonderleyen wants to loosen #ai #safeguards in #eu = #corruption
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
and yet #vonderleyen wants to loosen #ai #safeguards in #eu = #corruption
and yet #vonderleyen wants to loosen #ai #safeguards in #eu = #corruption
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"We thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year." — Ursula von der Leyen
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"We thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year." — Ursula von der Leyen
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The React core team when they see devs using useEffect
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The React core team when they see devs using useEffect
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OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
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*endless screaming*
This will be *interesting*: Tinder to begin accessing your camera roll for “insight” & training its AI models #privacy #AI techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/t...
Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos | TechCrunch
Tinder is testing a feature called Chemistry that will get to know users through questions and, with permission, will access Camera Roll photos on their phones to learn more about their interests and ...
techcrunch.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
*endless screaming*
cyberinsider.com/precise-loca...
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
Precise Locations of EU Officials Retrieved Through Data Brokers
Phone location data, collected under the guise of ad tracking, can be used to precisely track the movements of millions in the EU.
cyberinsider.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
cyberinsider.com/precise-loca...
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
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10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
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.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
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China can now remotely switch off public buses in Norway 🤦♂️ economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna... 🚍 #CyberSecurity
Don't say I didn't warn them.. slideshare.net/slideshow/ho...
Don't say I didn't warn them.. slideshare.net/slideshow/ho...
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
China can now remotely switch off public buses in Norway 🤦♂️ economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna... 🚍 #CyberSecurity
Don't say I didn't warn them.. slideshare.net/slideshow/ho...
Don't say I didn't warn them.. slideshare.net/slideshow/ho...
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Oh, man. Russia is trying to outlaw Halloween, one of the greatest days of the year. Fascists really have no sense of humor
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
Halloween Becomes Another Target of the Kremlin’s Culture Wars
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Oh, man. Russia is trying to outlaw Halloween, one of the greatest days of the year. Fascists really have no sense of humor
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
#youtube is another fucking accomplice of genocide theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#youtube is another fucking accomplice of genocide theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
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Homan: "There's been a lot of death ... if the rhetoric doesn't slow down, we haven't seen the end of it. There will be more bloodshed."
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Homan: "There's been a lot of death ... if the rhetoric doesn't slow down, we haven't seen the end of it. There will be more bloodshed."
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Common Crawl is how all of Big AI laundered the lack of consent in scraping up content across the web.
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Common Crawl is how all of Big AI laundered the lack of consent in scraping up content across the web.
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Patriotic Trump promises to…destroy an American city (NYC) if a candidate he doesn’t like is elected mayor? Yikes…
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Patriotic Trump promises to…destroy an American city (NYC) if a candidate he doesn’t like is elected mayor? Yikes…
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Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...