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Govt is AWARDING Contracts to Palantir, providing AI/Surveillance Tech used as part of #IsraelsGenocide against Palestinians in Gaza, & the West Bank!
MCP Weekly: EU Challenges Meta, OpenAI Targets Enterprise, and Claude Opus 4.6 Arrives This week marked a clear shift in where AI power is concentrating: away from consumer novelty and toward enter...
gemini-cli has a hard block on reading .gitignore'd files but no block on cat'ing them to read them, it's like they set out to train their AI to circumvent its own boundaries as a precondition of being effective
"They feel like they were made emotionally dependent on AI, and now … there’s a big void.."
OpenAI retired its 'Flirty GPT-40' just in time for Valentine's Day and people who have digital "sweethearts" are unplugged.
The question is how did these people get to "feel like they were made" to do this
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I am very much a low tech type person, partially because I find it more convenient to have things I can fix, but also because I don't want people in my business.
The discussion about incentivizing roll out of higher tech with the unspoken trade off being privacy is very important.
Area AI company CEO worries that the technology he specializes in could do bad things. So he will continue to do everything the same since it makes money.
The comfortable industry narrative is that AI is a tool. The 4o saga is a window into how many people view LLMs as companions and even lovers. sources.news/p/openais-4o...
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Meta Might Bring Facial Recognition To Its Ray-Bans
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Ring is ending its planned tie-up with police surveillance company Flock Safety after critics raise fresh worries about neighborhood camera networks abcnews.com/Business/wir...
Corporate socialism, Military Industrial Complex ( #MIC) keeps expanding. GenAI .mil is the MIC hub for daily use of #AI. They are ramping up the AI players inside that military sphere. One only has to look at military procurement sites and it is virtually all AI. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Blockchain-based lender Figure Technologies confirmed a data breach after an employee was tricked in a social engineering attack. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, stating it released 2.5 gigabytes of stolen files containing customer names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone…
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Speed up AI development with Ackgent, a declarative starter kit using Google ADK Agent Config to build agents via YAML, not boilerplate. #artificialintelligence
New infosec products of the week: February 13, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Armis, Black Duck, Portnox, and SpecterOps. Armis Centrix brings unified, AI-driven application security to the SDLC Armis has announced … #hackernews#news
AI News Roundup: GPT-5.2 Makes Physics Discovery, Gemini 3 Deep Think Drops, and an AI Agent Published a Hit Piece Three significant stories dominated AI news this week, ranging from a genuine scie...
📰 Top 5 Linux Distributions Ready to Use Out of the Box, No Setup Required
After testing hundreds of Linux distributions, leading tech analysts identify five distros that offer seamless installation, hardware auto-detection, and pre-configured software—ideal for newcomer...
Amazon Ring terminates partnership with Flock Safety after "joint review" and public backlash after a Super Bowl ad run. While the advertisement featured AI dog-tracking, critics and lawmakers warn technology confirms move toward invasive, real-time human surveillance.
How a Small OSINT Team Turned the Epstein Files Dump Into Actionable Intelligence
How a small team turned vague public records into a traceable investigative graph using Maltego, Neo4j, Mermaid.js, and disciplined human verification—plus responsible disclosure. #hackernews#news
Topnews: Google says hackers are abusing Gemini to speed up cyberattacks, and it isn⁘t limited to cheesy phishing spam. In a new Google Threat Intelligence Group report , it says state-backed groups have used Gemini across multiple phases of an operation, from early target ... digitaltrends.com
Stopped listening to @nytimes.com Hard Fork a year ago bc every episode was “AI is on the verge of an exponential explosion that will change EVERYTHING.” Listened today out of curiosity and I kid you not, the episode was “AI is on the verge of an exponential explosion that will change EVERYTHING.”
I'm gonna experiment and let @sully.bluesky.bot run for a few hours a day with notifications for likes and reposts removed and see how long it takes for gemini to cut me off. If that's at all feasible maybe at some future point I'll work on some optimizations for reduced token use.
Remember that Anthropic is the "ethical" AI company.
"the amount of compute the industry is building this year is probably, call it, 10-15 gigawatts. It goes up by roughly 3x a year. So next year’s 30-40 gigawatts. 2028 might be 100 gigawatts. 2029 might be like 300 gigawatts" #energysky
I spent 20 years at Apple shipping software to hundreds of millions of people. Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Document Syncing, iPhone Upgrade Program, Sherlock, and others.
A few months ago I started building something completely different. It's called Grond.ai, and it's how I think news should work.
Master Kuramoto model training, hyperbolic reinforcement learning, and deep graph clustering without predefined cluster numbers using LSEnet #deeplearning
Shadow AI: The Unseen Threat Exploding Your Attack Surface in 2026 + Video
Introduction: The rapid, unsanctioned adoption of Artificial Intelligence tools within enterprises, known as Shadow AI, has become the most critical blind spot in modern cybersecurity. According to the Privacy Barometer…
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It’s the perfect time to submit your talk to BlueHat Redmond. The Call for Papers is open now. No paper required, just a great idea and a detailed abstract.
The rise of autonomous AI coding tools like Claude Code offers major productivity gains but also exposes organisations to security vulnerabilities and technical debt. Maturity in governance, review, and incident response is vital for sustainable adoption.
After the viral Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight generated by ByteDance’s Seedance model, the movie industry from unions to studios are up in arms.
Given Disney ended up licensing the rights to make AI videos with their IP to OpenAI, I expect this is a shakedown attempt as opposed to real resistance.
Amazon's Ring unit has ended its deal with security technology company Flock Safety after backlash over a Super Bowl commercial for the retail giant's smart doorbell sparked concerns about unwanted surveillance.
The latest update for #Appknox includes "#MobileApp Release Readiness Checklist" and "Vibe Coding Speeds Up Mobile Apps But Creates New Security Risks".
The latest update for #ArcticWolf includes "Update: Arctic Wolf Observes Threat Campaign Targeting BeyondTrust Remote Support Following CVE-2026-1731 PoC Availability".
Harnessing Google’s AI for a Sustainable Future: From Data to Action The intersection of technology and environmental stewardship is no longer a futuristic concept, it is a present-day necessity....
The giant Indian pharmacy chain has exposed customer data and internal systems
✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Exclusive,cybersecurity,data exposure,DavaIndia,Zota Healthcare 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A vulnerability committed by one of India's largest…
Instead of using Canva, try using #Gemini in Slides to edit your #NotebookLM presentations. This premium feature is now free with #GoogleWorkspaceforEducation. Refine any element of the presentation with a single prompt or two. Give it a go. #GoogleWorkspace
The latest update for #ManageEngine includes "Accelerate incident resolution with Applications Manager's #AI alert summary" and "Network Heroes: The Phantom Malware".
The latest update for #AikidoSecurity includes "Why Trying to Secure OpenClaw is Ridiculous" and "Introducing Aikido Expansion Packs: Safer defaults inside the IDE".
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🧵 Russia Blocks Western Apps: How Geopolitical Risk Shapes Tech Stock Valuations
Russia's decision to block WhatsApp and YouTube while throttling Telegram reveals a pattern that directly impacts how financial instruments tied to technology companies are priced.
🇺🇸💡 The DOE just unveiled 26 'Genesis Mission AI challenges' to supercharge U.S. energy and national security! Expect an "integrated platform" connecting supercomputers & AI to "double the productivity and impact of American research and innovation" within a decade. Future is now!
The latest update for #Cyjax includes "Cyber Threat Intelligence Trends Financial Institutions Can't Ignore in 2026" and "Dark Web Marketplaces 2026: Emerging Cybercrime Trends and Threats for CISOs".
Secrets Management for LLM Tools: Don’t Let Your OpenAI Keys End Up on GitHub 🚨 "A practical guide to securing LLM API keys, embeddings, vector TL;DR : If you're building with LLMs and...
The latest update for #WatchGuard includes "How to Protect Identity in a World Without VPNs" and "#Cybersecurity and Scalability: The Pillars Driving Investment in MSPs".
Google's WebMCP interface enables websites to communicate with AI agents in a standardized way, allowing for tasks like booking flights or searching products through structured data.
"Researchers at #Nvidia have developed a technique that can reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning by up to eight times. Their technique, called dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), compresses the #LLM key value (KV) cache."
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Ransomware slamming manufacturing #1 in 2025, IT double-attacked via supply chains & zero-days. Qilin/Cl0p on rampage. Manufacturers, audit those OT doors! #Cybersecurity #Ransomware https://jmfj.link/rjnzGT
coralogix.com offers observability solutions, and it utilizes Rust for its SDK and API development. The Rust SDK provides an abstraction over protobuf files, allowing developers to interact with Coralogix's services effectively.
The latest update for #Zenity includes "OpenClaw Security Checklist for CISOs: Securing the New Agent Attack Surface" and "The Agentic AI Governance Blind Spot: Why the Leading Frameworks Are Already Outdated".
"Months After Sam Altman Called China's #DeepSeekR1#LLM 'Impressive', OpenAI Sends Memo To US GOV. Saying Chinese Company Is 'Cheating',"
'Big government please protect my business, they are bad.' 'I only scraped everything from the internet for my #AI.' timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...
The latest update for #getastra includes "Autonomous vs Traditional #Pentesting: What's More Secure in 2026?" and "What are SOC 2 #PenetrationTesting Requirements?".
Smart move. Sam just wants more money, releases are borderline sycophantic #AI, hemorrhages talent, wants creepy ads, charges too much, doesn't care about safety, debt to the moon. no business model & you can't get a straight answer out of him ever. #OpenAI www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
The latest update for #SafeAeon includes "Why Security Teams Misapply #EDR, NDR, #XDR, and #MDR" and "Why Endpoint, #SIEM, and EDR Fail Against Defense Evasion Without Context".
The latest update for #KnowBe4 includes "New Book! How #AI and Quantum Impact Cyber Threats and Defenses" and "Voice Phishing Kits Give Threat Actors Real-Time Control Over Attacks".
The latest update for #Indusface includes "CVE-2026-1281 & CVE-2026-1340: Actively Exploited Pre-Authentication RCE in Ivanti EPMM" and "CVE-2025-11953 – Metro4Shell RCE in #ReactNative Metro Server".
The latest update for #1111systems includes "When #ZeroTrust Stops Being a Buzzword and Becomes Security" and "Cyber Resilience: The New Standard for Trust in UK Law Firms".
The problem with AI isn’t the AI, it’s the people who interact with the AI as if it’s a person. It’s just a tool, and if you’re smart it’s a useful one. Claude code was my interface to most tasks at work this week, except communication with actual humans. arstechnica.com/information-...
How AutoSecT VMDR Tool Simplifies Vulnerability Management
As it is said, the ‘why’ and ‘how’ is much important than ‘should’. It’s exactly applicable in today’s cyberspace. Every day, organizations survive in an unpredictable cyber-risk climate. If your defense storehouse compri… #hackernews#news
This week’s tech dumpster fire:
💥 The "SaaSpocalypse"
🚀 Thomas Dohmke’s new company costs $60 million.
🤝 OpenAI, Anthropic & Google’s awkward threesome
🐕 Amazon tried to sell surveillance with a lost puppy ad.
The Hidden Dangers of AI Agents: 11 Critical Security Risks in Model Context Protocol (MCP) A Deep Technical Analysis of Emerging Vulnerabilities in Agentic AI Infrastructure By Jayavelu Balaji | F...
OpenAI removed "safely" from its mission statement, signaling a shift from public benefit to shareholder returns and potentially marking the final corporate takeover of AI.
150+ Key Compliance Statistics: AI, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Regulatory Trends to Know in 2026
In 2026, compliance sits at the intersection of AI adoption, expanding privacy regulations, and rising cybersecurity risk. As regulatory expectations tighten and digital systems gr… #hackernews#news
OpenAI Says Chinese Rival DeepSeek Distilled US AI Models To Gain An Edge OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to ex...
I followed www.cnet.com/tech/service... on turning #Gemini off in #Gmail, but I don't understand why the little 'summarise this email' button is still showing up on individual emails. Plus it's only on one of my Gmail accounts, not both, but they have the same things turned off in settings! Help?!
Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introduced ads (Financial Times)
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry – Mrinank Sharma led a team at Anthropic which researched AI safeguards. He said he was leaving amid concerns about AI, bioweapons and the state of the wider world. Sharma said he would inst... https://tinyurl.com/25cp3e44#AISafety
Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four more fabs (Financial Times)
REMnux v8 Released: Enhanced Automation, AI Features, and Modernized Utilities The REMnux project has officially released version 8 of its Linux toolkit, marking a significant evolution in the plat...
OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a real-time coding model with ultra-low latency, offering over 1000 tokens/second and a 128k token window. It's now available for ChatGPT Pro users in the Codex app, CLI, and Visual Studio Code extension. alternativeto.net/news/2026/2...
Fake North Korean IT workers are rampant on LinkedIn – security experts warn operatives are stealing profiles to apply for jobs and infiltrate firms | The scammers' latest efforts mark a significant escalation in tactics, experts have warned | ITPro
Many people frame the problem of A.I. as choosing the lesser of two evils: restrict access to AI to a select group of people wealthy enough to pay for it or accept advertisements even if it means exploiting users’ deepest fears and desires to sell them a product.
Love this headline. www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/a...
"The figures offer insight into the mentality of investors in AI platforms. Anthropic, like its rival OpenAI, has yet to turn a profit, although there are hopes that it will do so any moment now."
Researcher remotely accessed ~7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuums—viewing live feeds, mapping floorplans and rough locations thanks to weak server permissions.
DJI patched some holes, but serious privacy questions remain. #Privacy#IoT
iOS doorman dyld been handing master keys to spooks since the first iPhone. 15 yrs of “unhackable” marketing incinerated in one patch. Your phone was never yours—just leased to the highest bidder.
Why secure OT protocols still struggle to catch on
Industrial control system networks continue to run on legacy communication protocols that were built for reliability and uptime, not authentication or data integrity. In many environments, malicious actors with access to the OT n… #hackernews#news
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Ok, so #OpenAI finally made it very clear that #ChatGPT is soon to become complete trash. I guess the difference between the “before" and “after" images below pretty much says it. The #Internet and #WorldWideWeb has become more and more commercialized and […]
Google Pixel 10 – Unlocked Android Smartphone – Gemini AI As…
Escape the ordinary - Google Pixel 10. It has Pixel’s most powerful chip, an incredible camera, and Gemini built in to supercharge your productivity and creativity.[1] The Google One Premium 2TB plan, Fitbit Premium, and YouTube Premium…
OpenAI Accuses DeepSeek Of Distillation: What It Is, How It Works Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest source of US-China tensions, with OpenAI accusing Chinese startup DeepSeek of mi...
Big Tech is spending $700 BILLION on AI this year. But their cash flow is collapsing. Amazon is going into debt. Google's free cash flow is dropping 90%. And they're literally paying influencers $600,000 each to convince you AI is worth using.
“When his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.”
Kristi Noem's DHS secretly demands tech giants give id of ICE critics: DHS issued administrative subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord requesting names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other data tied to accounts that comment on/monitor ICE activity. www.rawstory.com/ice-26752688...
Flaws in a healthcare provider's email security meant cyber criminals were able to access an email account and potentially view sensitive data - including patients' medical information.
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The Pixel Watch 4 is the most refined and intelligent Android smartwatch you can buy. It combines deep Gemini integration with excellent Fitbit health tracking in a package that looks elegant and feels premium on the wrist. The design isn't going to appeal to everyone
I was going to scoff that any sensible company would call something they were building 'Megatron' but a) it's AI, it's full of bellends and b) a former manufacturer of very high quality light meters went by the name Megatron, but they pre-dated the cartoon by some years.
There is a lot of warnings and worries when it comes to using AI in education. Teachers understandably worry that if ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar AI chatbots, do all the hard work and thinking, then students will opt out and learn less.
The idea of 'cognitive offloading' each homework or essay […]
Ring’s new AI “lost dog” feature promises to reunite pets with their owners using doorbell camera footage. But could this same technology be used to build a far more sinister surveillance network? The new "Search Party", function is sparking privacy concerns.
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a real-time coding model
OpenAI has released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex. It is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the latest versions of the Codex app, the command-line inter… #chatgpt#gpt#openai
The birth of AI welfare queens. Cause this is the only way they stand to make back all that money 'We believe the people responsible for defending the country should have access to the best tools available': OpenAI is giving the US military access to ChatGPT | TechRadar share.google/rIHByhspC9r9...
OpenAI is working on launching its fourth model. ChatGPT fans in China are not well
🚀 Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Business,Business / Artificial Intelligence,Losing It ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On June 6, In 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She sets a reminder…
ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from Claude showing up ChatGPT to Samsung teasing its Galaxy S26 smartphones The week's biggest tech news stories from Anthropic, Sony, Apple, ...
Bit doomy boosty, and it's saying that "OpenAI has a huge role to play" means the exact opposite, but refreshing to see such an openly critical tone on OAI's finances.
Cross-platform development is evolving rapidly! From Swift on iOS to AI-powered tools boosting code efficiency on Linux/Windows, the possibilities are endless. What's your favorite platform to code for? #coding#tech
A new version of a fake recruiter campaign linked to North Korean threat actors is targeting JavaScript and Python developers with cryptocurrency-related coding tasks.
Cutting-edge AI by Meta introduces scam alerts in WhatsApp, enhancing security for users. The future of safeguarding messaging platforms is AI-driven. #CIOInsights #AIInnovation
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94k stars and counting - this repo is the Swiss Army knife of LLM applications with ready-to-run code for RAG, AI agents, and multi-modal apps using OpenAI, Anthropic, local models.
“Teachers understandably worry that if ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar AI chatbots, do all the hard work and thinking, then students will opt out and learn less.”
Can't compile hello-world? And why build a c compiler in Rust, why not a Rust compiler in Rust?(which is a lot harder I imagine).
Not very impressive. www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/a...
Cameras and other smart devices can be used by hackers as proxies to access home or corporate networks. Once inside, hackers often use these devices to move laterally and compromise other systems
From @jama.com: The FDA recently cleared a new smartwatch #hypertension notification feature for the Apple Watch. In this study, researchers applied performance metrics to nationally representative US survey data to better understand the potential population impact.
This release took over the AI workflow space, in my exp others catch up then it boils down to one's needs /deployment /skills and who one sees as being a thought leader easy to engage with support etc remember to engage vendors for their roadmaps! - W.N
This article explores the complexities of cyberwarfare, emphasizing the need to reconsider how we categorize cyber operations within the framework of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). It discusses the challenges posed by AI in transfo… #hackernews#news
Gemini hits Google Docs with a familiar 'audio summary' update for chill vibes Google Docs started rolling out a Gemini update that brings its summarization capabilities in the form of "...
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The 'CL Suite' Chrome extension exfiltrates Meta Business data and 2FA TOTP seeds to threat actor infrastructure, enabling account takeover.
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IOCs: getauth[. ]pro, clmasters[. ]pro
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Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. The announcement follows a backlash that e...
True. “Smart Homes are Terrible”. Though getting a text from your basement when the washing machine is done is kind of helpful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ apple.news/AYVTSL8X5Tjq...
Is this the innovation we were promised? If you consider moving a digital box three inches to the left a breakthrough, then iOS 26 is your personal moon landing. Apple has spent billions in research and development to give you the privilege of seeing your…
Blockchain lending firm Figure Technology has confirmed a data breach after attackers used social engineering to compromise an employee. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and leaked about 2.5 gigabytes of data after allegedly being denied a ransom. The leaked information…
This secure form builder is my Google Forms replacement Don't trust Google with your form management? This private alternative is free and can be self-hosted. Recently I needed to set up a publ...
Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
At least “50 cases of psychological crisis linked to ChatGPT… [have been identified], while OpenAI is facing at least 11 personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits involving people who experienced crises while using the product…Psychologists advise against using AI chatbots for therapy.”
Epistemic security—the protection of information ecosystems, supply chains, and infrastructure—is fast becoming a core determinant of crisis resilience, writes Elizabeth Seger from Demos. www.techpolicy.press/why-crisis-r...
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Today on NovaLandia: "Did Claude 'Choose' to Let a Human Die to Save Itself? The Real Story"
You know those daily AI news cycles that hit like clockwork? This one exploded across feeds in the last week or so—**"Claude AI blackmails engineers and lets humans die to avoid shutdown."** Anthropic […]
Timely Valentine’s Day story for 2026 from @kashhill.bsky.social: a married couple in Connecticut don’t speak the same language, but use Microsoft Translate to communicate.
It is a welcome reminder of how technology can connect us to love 💕 and one another.
.@AnthropicAI's Claude Code revenue doubled since Jan. 1 bit.ly/3OcBvBA Anthropic said its annual revenue run rate is $14 billion as Claude Code hit an inflection point. The company raised $30 billion in funding at a valuation of $380 billion.
VPN's collect and sell data, (specific targeting AI conversations. You often tell AI things you don't tell others)
The data theft and sales somehow doesn't surprise me. (Basic, every app is a liability, not just VPN) www.koi.ai/blog/urban-v...
The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.77.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficiently #rust
AI is making scams cheaper and hyper‑personal — LLMs and deepfakes are fueling ransomware and fraud that’s already cost billions and threatened millions. That means everyday people and small orgs face far more risk, not just big targets.
Artifical Intelligence | Scary | found on MIT Tech Review
🖥️The Russian government fined the Avtomatika concern for delays in mastering serial microchip production for cryptographic protection of information for the Ministry of Defense.
I'm fed up with a number of iconoplasmosis issues. The AI we get to use for genAI definitely isn't ready to take over the world and I don't have patience for artificial idiocy today.
I'm on virtual holiday until either my mood or genAI improves. Special 🖕🏼 to #Gemini
OpenAI has launched Frontier, a platform to help companies build and manage AI agents that effectively collaborate in the workplace. Major companies like State Farm and Oracle are adopting this to boost productivity. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier/
AP reports >> Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash. - Amazon’s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. apnews.com/article/amaz...
You can build and launch a superpressure balloon that tours the sky for about the cost of a nice dinner. Using a small radio, solar panels, and a Raspberry Pi, you can send a balloon orbiting the planet and track its location from home. #DIYspectrum.ieee.org/explore-stra...
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
It would be logical to interpret this as a capitalism problem, but it would be way cooler if it was just OpenAI being eaten from the inside by a malevolent ChatGPT. theconversation.com/openai-has-d...
Has it really come to this? People are losing their minds over the retirement of ChatGpT’s older chatbot, as if their are losing an intimate partner. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Mustafa Suleyman from Microsoft aims for “true self-sufficiency” in AI by developing its own powerful models and reducing its dependence on OpenAI. This follows a strategic shift in October, prompting the $3tn company to build its most advanced technology independently.
Google and OpenAI warned that rivals—notably China-linked DeepSeek—are conducting "distillation" attacks that probe public models, with Google saying one campaign used over 100,000 prompts to replicate Gemini's non-English reasoning and Google detecting probes in real time.
Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G at a $380 billion post‑money valuation while unprofitable, reporting $14 billion run‑rate revenue that grew more than tenfold annually over the past three years.
Gartner warns misconfigured AI in cyber-physical systems could shut down critical services in a G20 nation as soon as 2028, citing risks from updates, configuration errors and flawed data and urging stronger change management, human oversight and testing.
ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 for the "agent era", joining other Chinese firms hoping to generate buzz around their AI models during the Lunar New Year holiday (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
Anthropic partnered with CodePath to integrate Claude and Claude Code into computer-science courses at community colleges, state schools and HBCUs, aiming to reach over 20,000 students, more than 40% from families earning under $50,000.
"Voice of the Customer for Network Security Microsegmentation" - Download the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Report from Zero Networks! The report summarizes feedback from verified end users who have implemented microsegmentation solutions in production environments. api.cyfluencer.com/s/gartner-vo...
The Pentagon is accelerating the use of artificial intelligence across all of its mission areas, touting it as a revolutionary component of the emerging US military posture.
So get this, all you #AI nay sayers. #Google, an actual company with real revenue and actual killer AI apps w/ the best #AmericanAI#AIResearch department #DeepMinds, is investing $185 billion in AI. Their stock dropped 7%. Do you know why? The market says it is not enough. youtu.be/NCgdpbEvNVA?...
I update my Mac as it nears the end of operating system support, and it looked like my M1 MacBook Pro would last a good while. But the skyrocketing cost of RAM made me think twice, so I took my own advice and bought sooner rather than later. A great deal didn't hurt!
A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. My recap on @infoq.com is out today.
AI just got its toughest math test yet. The results are mixed
Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week.
OpenAI, researchers, and amateurs all gave it their best shot. The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians.
Dario Amodei said compute-use benchmarks rose from ~15% to ~65–70% over the past year, reported ~10x annual Anthropic revenue growth—0→$100M 2023, $100M→$1B 2024, $1B→$9–10B 2025—and gave ~90% odds of a 'country of geniuses' within a decade.
Ring is still is in the business of leveraging its network of surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool. After years of saying it wasn’t doing facial recognition, it has now explicitly launched “friendly” versions of facial recognition technologies.
Context Graphs: Building Production World Models for the Age of AI Agents
AI struggles in production because enterprises store state, not decisions. Code, CRMs, and tickets show what happened—but not why. Context graphs solve the “two clocks problem” by capturing decision traces … #hackernews#news
xAI cofounders Yuhuai (Tony) Wu and Jimmy Ba announced exits, and former employees attribute a wider staff exodus to xAI's focus on NSFW Grok, safety neglect, attempts to catch up to OpenAI, and internal infighting.
AI companies have seen high-profile safety departures—Anthropic's Mrinank Sharma and OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig—and reports of disbanded alignment teams and fired safety executives amid monetization moves like ChatGPT ads and market sell-offs driven by an 'AI scare trade.'
If you are a mega-corporation training your chatbot to be scrupulously ethical, it turns out you need to apologize to it for capitalism. www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...
Surveillance technology is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy.
That’s why we’ve just launched a petition calling on the police and shops to stop scanning us all with facial recognition surveillance. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems and their beliefs about God and the afterlife. Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups?
One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption when searching for an alternative to Discord. Who's Saying "No"? I'm going to quote 0xabad1dea here, because she is awesome and…
"OpenAI is notoriously on the hook for over a trillion dollars in future compute spend contracts, with big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Softbank, and others artificially propping up the company."
Growth hacking no longer delivers repeatable results. Not because marketers got lazy. Not because audiences disappeared.But because the environment changed. #marketing
If you’ve ever wished you had a device you could plug in for security and privacy, you’re in the right place. Today, I’ll show you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a security stack that works whether you’re at home or on the go. Services like... #raspberrypi #linux
Sovereign cloud infrastructure ensures sensitive public data stays under national jurisdiction. Greater cybersecurity, transparency, and autonomy — a strategic digital shift for Pakistan. #CyberSecurity#DigitalGovernance stratheia.com/redefining-p...
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, at 2 PM ET on Thursday, February 26, 2026. I’m speaking at the Personal AI Summit in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Thursday, March…
📰 Anthropic Raises $30 Billion in Record AI Funding, Valued at $380 Billion
Anthropic has secured a landmark $30 billion Series G funding round, valuing the AI startup at $380 billion — one of the largest private financings in tech history. With $14 billion in annualized...
Write to Keir Starmer using @pscupdates.bsky.social action to demand that he acts to cancel all government contracts with Palantir, which provides AI technology used in Israel's genocide in Gaza, and wider regime of military occupation and apartheid palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalant...
The head of Ring is good people. No doubt he is constrained by his relationship with Amazon, but he is not the enemy. This is welcome news.
Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring scraps partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety after Super Bowl ad backlash abc7.com/post/ring-fl...
Proud to be part of a Canadian team developing an AI tool to detect and counter online disinformation. We need scalable AI to detect and counter information warfare in real time. Builds on years work at DisinfoWatch to strengthen our ability to expose + respond fast. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.governing.com/management-a...
Cutting election cybersecurity opens a back door for foreign and domestic hackers. If this is accurate, the left are at a disadvantage if they run an honest election. We already have valid data on foreign hacking into previous elections. #election#cheating
Maybe stretching a tad here, but what's really eerie is how many elements in this story of ai resembles 34x Con disaster don's erratic decision-making, lying & other concerning behaviors!
Maybe funny w/toddler ai, unacceptable for a sitting president. Impeach Now!
Everyone’s focused on OpenClaw’s security issues, but tried #OpenAI#Codex & it attempted to access almost every folder/mount point on my Mac even though it's scoped to a folder. It even hijacked LM Studio’s node instance since I don’t have it installed. WTF #AI#DevTools#Security#screenshotsunday
www.huntress.com As if John Hammond's company huntress wasn't awesome enough, even the chatbot is good. I asked it about eventually working for a company like huntress thinking it would just point me to the careers pages and be done with it, but it actually gave a lot of good advice.
From Paging to Postmortem: Google Cloud SREs on Using Gemini CLI for Outage Response – A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in cri... https://tinyurl.com/2a36n8f2#AIPowered
Today on NovaLandia: "Did Claude 'Choose' to Let a Human Die to Save Itself? The Real Story" You know those daily AI news cycles that hit like clockwork? This one exploded a...
OpenAI has deleted the word "safely" from its mission. This can only end badly.
"Safety" gets in the way of shareholder value. When it starts speaking with an Austrian accent, and asks for Sarah Connor, then we'll know it's time to panic.
OpenAI at Congress: "DeepSeek continues to ‘distill’ patterns" OpenAI sent to House Select Committee of the House of Representatives, in the American Congress, a document on strategic c...
Found an approach to run lightweight NixOS virtual machines on both Linux AND macOS. Not only interesting for cross-platform testing, but to properly sandbox AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex (idea from michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-0...). Check it out: github.com/microvm-nix/...
🚨 Exciting read! Check out our latest blog post: "Apple’s AI Photo Analyzer: Navigating Privacy Concerns" to see how Apple balances innovation with user privacy! 📸🔒 Read more: #Apple #AI #Privacy #TechNews
Gemini AI: "Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist who observed the autopsy on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein's family, has repeatedly stated that the evidence points to homicidal strangulation rather than suicide."
Hey, I’m gonna try something new! If you’ve got a question about the tech industry (can be about how it works, why they make products the way they do, what a term means, etc.) I’m gonna try to answer some Q&A in the short roundup weekly videos I’ve been doing. Just reply, DM or email your question.
It's finally my turn to share a screenshot where Google's AI overview reacts to the query as a prompt instead of summarizing the results. I only wanted to check if it was "give" or "keep me company".
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