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Anthropic has ruled out releasing its latest AI model, #Mythos, to the public because of the threat it poses to global cybersecurity.
However, the US tech startup behind the Claude chatbot confirmed on Wednesday it was investigating a report that a group of people had gained unauthorised access to Mythos.
The alleged incident has raised concerns over the pace of development and the ability of tec…

US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; staff and contractors say an Iran-linked hacking group's logo appeared on login pages (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stryker-hi…

The 72nd meeting of the Bilderberg group,
the elite and secretive policy conference that is the longtime subject of endless conspiracy theories,
was held at the weekend in Washington DC.
A security cordon went up around the opulent Salamander hotel for the notoriously media-shy summit,
which was packed as ever with prime ministers, military leaders, tech billionaires and the heads of giant investment companies.
Bilderberg, which since the 1950s has been the int…

You think it’s a coincidence these laws are being proposed all over the world all at once?
Nope.
Giant companies run by surveillance capitalists are spending billions of dollars on lobbying governments all over the world.
See https://tboteproject.com/
The reasons for this lobbying are nefarious.
The bans will entrench existing companies ensuring no small company is able to compete. These massive entrenched companies will be able to afford the identity checking and compliance costs, tiny start ups not so much.
You can see why Facebook lobby so hard in favour of these laws. If their app WhatsApp is defined as the only group messenger allowed for kids by law, that is very nice for them.
Perhaps compliance is actually cheap and easy and small companies can afford it?
Certainly not if they are trying to compete in terms of privacy. They have to turn over their user ID data to a monopolist vetting company by law.
At best: we give the government the power to impose massive costs on any company they decided to add to a list of companies that count as social media. Impose costs and force them to hand over their user data to Palantir and the like.
Even if you trust the current lot of idiots in power to not abuse this whole-internet global tracking data, that is quite a totalitarian system to hand over to the really bad guys when they get elected next time.