@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-03 00:16:21
Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/oxford-quantum-circuits-series-c/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-02 14:06:01
Darknet Diaries Deutsch: Nackt im Netz - Teil 1
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Madisons Nacktfotos wurden online veröffentlicht. Ihre Zwillingsschwester Christine kam ihr zu Hilfe. Es beginnt eine Jagd durch die Abgründe des Internets.
https://www.
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-04-03 00:23:07
My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-02 02:55:41
Brooklyn Man Charged with Threatening to Assault and Murder ICE Officer and His Family (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/brooklyn-man-charged-threatening-assault-and-murder-ice-officer-and-his-family
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p114#a260601p114
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-01 22:10:32
🔸Homeland Security: House and Senate Republicans agreed on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan plan to fund the Homeland Security Department, which has been closed for more than six weeks.
Under the plan, which the House rejected last week, a regular spending bill would fund the bulk of the department and Republicans would seek to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown through a separate process aimed at skirting a Democratic filibuster.
The plan does not include any of the restricti…
@kctipton@mas.to2026-04-03 16:13:40
Evangelicals backed Trump. Now pastors denounce ICE crackdown hitting their churches. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastors-denounce-trump-ice-crackdown-evangelical-churches-rcna264166
@xtaran@chaos.social2026-06-02 19:53:14
#Rausgeschafft für ein bißchen #CarryShitOlympics, auch wenn ein #Brompton nicht wirklich schwierig zu transportieren ist 😇, erst recht nicht auf einem
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-06-02 13:38:14
Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Meta AI support flaw fueled wave of Instagram takeovers,
--Russia says a large-scale spyware campaign by foreign intel targeted its high-ranking officials,
--Anthropic to give ENISA access to Mythos,
--Two men charged in nearly $8m BEC scam in NJ,
--30 npm Red Hat packages compromised in new 'Miasma' Shai-Hulud scheme,
--DriveSurge threat actor p…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-03 06:00:08
Trump’s spiritual advisor sparks backlash for comparing his life to Jesus Christ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paula-white-cain-trump-jesus-christ-controversy-b2951338.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-02 23:07:06
Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
