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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Twitch-Streams trainieren KI: "Wenn das Opt-in wäre, würde es niemand machen"

Twitch-Streams trainieren KI: "Wenn das Opt-in wäre, würde es niemand machen"
Twitch nutzt Streams, Clips und Chats für das Training der Amazon-KI. Wer das nicht will, muss in den Einstellungen selbst den Schalter umlegen.

OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/openai-chatgpt-computer-history/

ChatGPT can now remember what you did on your Mac — without screenshots
OpenAI’s opt-in Computer History captures a local timeline of Mac activity so ChatGPT Work can recover context across selected apps and sites.

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-o…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

Tough times ahead for gas stations and fossil fuel suppliers in Denmark.
https://thedriven.io/2026/08/11/denmark-joins-norway-at-ev-pinnacle-as-97-per-cent-of-private-buyers-opt-for-electric-cars-in-la…

Denmark joins Norway at EV pinnacle as 97 per cent of private buyers opt for electric cars in latest month
Denmark joins Norway at the pinnacle of EV adoption, with 97 per cent of private buyers opting for an electric car in the latest month.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Twitch-Streams trainieren KI: "Wenn das Opt-in wäre, würde es niemand machen"

Twitch-Streams trainieren KI: "Wenn das Opt-in wäre, würde es niemand machen"
Twitch nutzt Streams, Clips und Chats für das Training der Amazon-KI. Wer das nicht will, muss in den Einstellungen selbst den Schalter umlegen.

'ShieldFont is an open-source project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page’s source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen. Readers see the work as intended; mass scrapers collect an altered version.'
(Unfortunately, it's an accessibility nightmare, but I just like to …

ShieldFont
Publish for humans, not for crawlers. A web font that swaps the words in your HTML, so readers see your writing and AI training gets a stale copy.

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-o…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/launching-opt-in-vuln-finding-service-for-open…

An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
We’re launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing. Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.

Interesting proposal from Australia: 'The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labour…

Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
Labor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds. 

Cowboys Pass on Arch Manning, Opt For George Pickens Replacement in NFL Mock Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-arch-manning-george-pickens-replacement-nfl-mock-draft

Gesundheit darf digital werden – aber nur sicher, freiwillig und im Dienst der Menschen!
Ich spende für ein sicheres und selbstbestimmtes Gesundheitsdossier mit echter Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung und Opt-in statt Opt-out.
Mitmachen beim Crowdfunding: https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/egd…

New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-doesnt-want-you…

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tweakers/117087330724056423
'Mogelijk dat Twitch nu de Europese Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG) schendt. Die staat een automatische opt-in niet zomaar toe. Bedrijven moeten gebruikers om toestemming vragen voordat ze wijzigingen in de gebruiks- en privacyvoorwaarden doorvoeren. De AVG kan volgens de Nederlandse toezichthouder Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens ook gelden voor gebruik van AI en algoritmes, als daar privacygevoelige gegevens bij betrokken zijn. Bedrijven kunnen zich wel beroepen op een 'gerechtvaardigd belang' voor datagebruik, maar moeten dat wel onderbouwen.'
(Via @… )

Cowboys Pass on Arch Manning, Opt For George Pickens Replacement in NFL Mock Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-arch-manning-george-pickens-replacement-nfl-mock-draft

Australia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labou…

Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
Labor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds. 

If you're a resident of California, make a DROP request.
(That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform).
This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. 
Head to the California Privacy Protection Agency's DROP website to start your request.
Before you start, there are a few piece…

Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)
The free and fast tool that helps Californians delete the information data brokers have about them.

Our 1563 partners have illegitimate interest and would like to process your data. Allow?
Yes (Opt-in by default)
Only necessary (Opt-in)
No (Opt-in anyway)

Interview: Doctolib, Gesundheitsdaten und Forschung per Opt-out
Doctolib wird in Frankreich KI-Modelle mit Gesundheitsdaten trainieren. Betroffene können widersprechen. Warum das auch für Deutschland denkbar wäre.

Interview: Doctolib, Gesundheitsdaten und Forschung per Opt-out
Doctolib wird in Frankreich KI-Modelle mit Gesundheitsdaten trainieren. Betroffene können widersprechen. Warum das auch für Deutschland denkbar wäre.

🔧 Fixes are split into safe fixes (--fix) and dangerous fixes that need an explicit opt-in (--dry-run --dangerous previews both). The migration preset rewrites older Blade syntax in a single pass.
📈 Existing projects adopt it gradually with inline suppressions and baselines. Output works for terminals, CI and machine-readable JSON, with custom reporters and custom rules for project-specific conventions.

Based on the linked research by Charlie Marsh, here's setup-cached-uv 2.6.0 that doesn't run `uv cache prune --ci` by default anymore: https://github.com/hynek/setup-cached-uv/releases/tag/v2.6.0

Release v2.6.0 · hynek/setup-cached-uv
Added New prune-cache input that controls whether uv cache prune --ci is run before the cache is saved. Changed Cache pruning is now opt-in. Set prune-cache to true to get the previous behavior....

"Een richtlijn uit 2019 staat toe dat auteursrechtelijk beschermd materiaal gekopieerd wordt voor tekst- en datamining — een uitzondering die, zo vermoedt hij, ook AI-training dekt. Rechthebbenden kunnen hun werk via een opt-out uitsluiten, maar bij oude boeken is dat vrijwel nooit gebeurd: niemand voorzag decennia geleden dat AI zijn boek zou opslokken. „Mijn conclusie is eigenlijk heel simpel: dat oude spul is gewoon te gebruiken”, zegt Hugenholtz."

Nederlandstalige tweedehands boeken zijn een goudmijn voor AI-bedrijven: ‘Dit is een vorm van barbarij’
Kunstmatige intelligentie: Een aantal Nederlandse handelaren in tweedehandsboeken kreeg de afgelopen maanden ongewone bestellingen vanuit het buitenland. Het vermoeden is dat deze boeken uiteindelijk terechtkomen bij grote AI-bedrijven, die ogenschijnlijk willekeurige boeken zien als onontgonnen bronnen van hoogwaardige data om hun modellen mee te trainen.

To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/eu-text-provenance

EU antitrust regulators sent publishers a questionnaire in July on Google's proposal to let them opt out of AI search without affecting search rankings (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/e…

Australia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labou…

Australians could get the power to switch off social media algorithms
Labor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds. 

IP-Protokollierung genügt nicht: Gericht fordert E-Mail-Nachweis bei Werbemails
Das Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf hat entschieden: Reine IP-Adressen und Zeitstempel reichen nicht aus, um ein gültiges Double-Opt-In-Verfahren nachzuweisen.

IP-Protokollierung genügt nicht: Gericht fordert E-Mail-Nachweis bei Werbemails
Das Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf hat entschieden: Reine IP-Adressen und Zeitstempel reichen nicht aus, um ein gültiges Double-Opt-In-Verfahren nachzuweisen.

Built a little full text search optional vector embeddings RAG server - single binary no dependencies or external things (just the embedding model if you opt in). Works with markdown files.
It’s so nice to finally have trivial sub 1 minute setup RAG, been really happy with the result

Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/bluesk…

Bluesky adds an 'algorithmic opt-out' feature for those who don't want to go viral | TechCrunch
Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

Tab-Navigation kommt zurück: Sonos baut seine umstrittene App weiter um
Nach massiver Kritik an der Sonos-App führt der Hersteller nun eine klassische Tab-Navigation per Opt-in ein, um die Bedienung wieder zu vereinfachen.
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Tab-Navigation kommt zurück: Sonos baut seine umstrittene App weiter um
Nach massiver Kritik an der Sonos-App führt der Hersteller nun eine klassische Tab-Navigation per Opt-in ein, um die Bedienung wieder zu vereinfachen.

In 2027, the Swiss local utility Energie Thun will introduce a new off-peak period from 12:30 to 17:00, in addition to the existing off-peak period from 22:00 to 06:00. Consumers will also be able to opt for dynamic grid tariffs.
https://energiethun.ch/ueber-uns/medien-und-publikationen/blog/strompreise-2027

Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity gateways, a free opt-in feature that allows its routers to detect movement at home (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/981381/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-sensing

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors
The new Xfinity Shield service combines cybersecurity, parental controls, and Wi-Fi motion sensing in a new app for Comcast internet customers.

An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in "Take a Break" tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Uh, I do NOT want this. I do not want this AT ALL. No option to opt out on Tahoe 26.6.2.
"Local files support for Excel Agent.
Added support for Local files for Excel Agent in modern Excel workbooks stored on your device, giving you the flexibility to query Copilot Chat no matter where your files are located."

reason 343521562 to never use Comcast
Comcast enabling WIFI motion tracking ability on all Xfinity routers.
Free, but *supposedly* Opt-In.
#Privacy #Security #WifiMotionTracking

From tomorrow, customers of Ausgrid 🇦🇺, the DSO for Sydney and parts of NSW, can opt for a dynamic grid tariff. This will enable customers with flexible energy resources (such as batteries or EVs) in particular to help support the local grid and save on costs.
#Flexibility