HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules
AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector
U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year— Recently revised directive adds flash drives, smart watches to searchable devices
Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets
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Dove acquistare la chiave di Windows 11 Pro?
10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/
OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub
Ethical alternative to Canva?
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Amazon’s AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck
Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Ho acquistato una chiave di Windows 11 Pro online: ho bisogno di consigli!
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YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science
Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”
California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
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‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center
Arf! I’m Tony Bark. Artist by day, programmer by night. Gamer all the way. Foxtrot Delta TACO.
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California’s top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances. But in reality, many of the messages that may have swayed the powerful regulatory agency to scrap the plan were generated by a platform that is powered by artificial intelligence.
Public records requests reviewed by The Times and corroborated by staff members at the South Coast Air Quality Management District confirm that more than 20,000 public comments submitted in opposition to last year’s proposal were generated by a Washington, D.C.-based company called CiviClick, which bills itself as “the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform.”
A Southern California-based public affairs consultant, Matt Klink, has taken credit for using CiviClick to wage the opposition campaign, including in a sponsored article on the website Campaigns and Elections. The campaign “left the staff of the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) reeling,” the article says.
Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/59925291
The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.
Death by a thousand slops
Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware
I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code
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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/59925975
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data
openpgp4fpr:53CFEF0F79AE88D687BC1D6B307FA2726BCF24CF My PGP Key
Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
Why you can't get a signal at festivals and sports matches
How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
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)
OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models
The Petrov Paradox
Sam Altman: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS
openpgp4fpr:53CFEF0F79AE88D687BC1D6B307FA2726BCF24CF My PGP Key
An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification
Californian pulls AI ballot measures, citing OpenAI intimidation
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/957365
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So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account. I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now. I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on. Pixelfed Mastodon PeerTube Secondary Lemmy Friendica Blacksky Nooki Odysee
Not good.
So, apparently someone got raided and arrested for buying literal trash, the GN video explains the rest of it.
retired healthcare IT programmer/analyst, supporter of Palestine, Cuban Revolution, women’s rights, FOSS, Linux, Black Lives Matter. Live in Michigan, USA
retired healthcare IT programmer/analyst, supporter of Palestine, Cuban Revolution, women’s rights, FOSS, Linux, Black Lives Matter. Live in Michigan, USA
Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/43810526
Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.
Feb. 27, 2026
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that A.I. should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.”
More than 100 employees at Google signed a petition calling on the tech giant to “refuse to comply” with the Pentagon on some uses of artificial intelligence in military operations.
And employees at Amazon, Google and Microsoft urged their leaders in a separate open letter on Thursday to “hold the line” against the Pentagon.
Silicon Valley has rallied behind the A.I. start-up Anthropic, which has been embroiled in a dispute with President Trump and the Pentagon over how its technology may be used for military purposes. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, has said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”
President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
Post content:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.
The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.
Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.
WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
