@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-02-26 06:38:49
“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-03-26 14:15:38
A very disturbing, and very credible report.
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-03-26 14:15:38
A very disturbing, and very credible report.
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-03-22 06:44:15
“‘For Orbšn in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’
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US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.
Worldwi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-24 17:35:41
The Creators Guild of America launches Mosaic, an "IMDb for creators", in beta; creator economy workers can list their work credits and are given a Creator ID (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-23 01:41:05
An undergraduate used AI assistants to rewrite leaked source code for Claude Code in a different language, highlighting the uncertainty over copyright and AI (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropic-code-leak-copy…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-03-17 11:16:04
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute a t Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-04-23 17:14:08
"Current reporting accurately notes that ZionSiphon requires only a minor fix to its targeting logic to execute. But, even with that fix, the follow-on code is riddled with logic errors and invalid assumptions and would fail to achieve its intended objective. In other words, the error in targeting logic is only one of many problems."
My favorite: "This post avoids specific technical details, as Dragos is not in the business of fixing malware for adversaries." 😎
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-23 15:20:33
Gary Lineker's Goalhanger launches The Accelerator, a three-month creative business incubator giving digital creators up to £10K in investment and mentorship (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-16 06:55:36
Q&A with The Atlantic's Liz Bruenig on her hypothetical creative nonfiction measles essay, writing in second person, persuading parents about vaccines, and more (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-atla
