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Opt-out nötig: Anthropic nutzt künftig Nutzerdaten fürs Training
Anthropic führt Änderungen an seinen Nutzungsbedingungen ein: Chat-Protokolle und Coding-Sessions sollen künftig das KI-Modell Claude trainieren.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00140 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Dynamic, risk-based pricing can systematically exclude vulnerable consumer groups from essential resources such as health insurance and consumer credit. We show that a regulator can realign private incentives with social objectives through a learned, interpretable tax schedule. First, we provide a formal proposition that bounding each firm's \emph{local} demographic gap implicitly bounds the \emph{global} opt-out disparity, motivating firm-level penalties. Building on this insight we introduce …

The enshittification of frontier models begins...
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/anthropic-users-face-a-new-choice-opt-out-or-share-your-data-for-ai-training/

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training | TechCrunch
Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.

France, Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/france-italy-reportedly-opt-out.html

«Ein permanentes Opt-Out bei deinem Internetanbieter sei nicht vorgesehen und notwendig, erklärt die Deutsche Telekom auf Anfrage von netzpolitik.org.»
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/utiq-tracking-jetzt-auch-am-internetanschluss-zu-hause/

Ew. I rather hope no organization I know or use allows Grok, and by extension its neo-Nazi owner, into any repo or project or code or anything I touch at GitHub:
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-26-grok-code-fast-1-is-rolling…

Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…

Opt-out nötig: Anthropic nutzt künftig Nutzerdaten fürs Training
Anthropic führt Änderungen an seinen Nutzungsbedingungen ein: Chat-Protokolle und Coding-Sessions sollen künftig das KI-Modell Claude trainieren.

Finally got the x25519 accelerator to build for a Trion T20 (with REGFILE_OUT_REG=1, MULT_AREA_OPT=2).
It's pretty full (12356 / 19728 LE, 112/204 RAM, 34/36 mult), but fits. Fmax in C4 speed grade is 97.8 MHz and one crypto_scalarmult takes 756703 clocks which comes out to 7.73 ms. A scalarbase() is slightly slower but I don't have that number handy right now.
I'm not sure how practically useful this config is, because the FPGA is 62% full logic wise so I can't c…

#Anthropic plant, künftig neue #Chatverläufe und #Codingsitzungen zur Verbesserung seiner KI-Modelle zu nutzen-
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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts
Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including chat transcripts and coding sessions, and extending its data retention policy to five years for active users — unless users choose to opt out.

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimoreb…

Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

Mastodon (and other Fedi software) should stop stripping the C2PA manifest from the EXIF of uploaded media.
In the long run there are lots of good C2PA things to be done, but for now, just get out of the way and let the emergent ecosystem of tools work with it.
Probably best as an opt-in, although in all the software I've seen, to get C2PA in your images you have to explicitly request it, so one assumes anyone who does that and shares wants to share the provenance too.

Bundestag: Petitionsausschuss bleibt bei Opt-out zu elektronischer Patientenakte
Die Abgeordneten haben eine Petition, wonach die E-Patientenakte nur mit klarem Einverständnis der Betroffenen angelegt werden sollte, für erledigt erklärt.

Going back to first principles on this debugging. Which is definitely not going to be done tonight.
1) The baseline configuration (MULT_AREA_OPT=0), regardless of REGFILE_OUT_REG setting, works in hardware. It gives answers that match the NaCl curve25519 implementation to every query I've tried, and is interoperable with OpenSSH (when I put the bitstream on a board, I can SSH to it).
With that in mind...
2) The original test vector in my simulation that I had thought wa…

Guarding Your Conversations: Privacy Gatekeepers for Secure Interactions with Cloud-Based AI Models
GodsGift Uzor, Hasan Al-Qudah, Ynes Ineza, Abdul Serwadda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16765

Guarding Your Conversations: Privacy Gatekeepers for Secure Interactions with Cloud-Based AI Models
The interactive nature of Large Language Models (LLMs), which closely track user data and context, has prompted users to share personal and private information in unprecedented ways. Even when users opt out of allowing their data to be used for training, these privacy settings offer limited protection when LLM providers operate in jurisdictions with weak privacy laws, invasive government surveillance, or poor data security practices. In such cases, the risk of sensitive information, including P…

The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimoreb…

Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

I just found out by trying, that on my Linux install
Alt Gr - = – (why would anyone use em dashes? those are way too long anyway. en dashes is where it's at.)
Alt Gr . = … (OMG, yes! Windows with its Alt 0,1,3,3 can go suck it!)
Alt Gr , = · (… tf is a middledot?)
Thanks for the inspiration, Wolfgang!
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Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundestag: Petitionsausschuss lehnt Opt-in für elektronische Patientenakte ab

Starting this week in the U.S., Instagram rolled out a new map view, which you access at the top of the direct-message inbox.
The map, confusingly, combines two forms of location sharing:
First, it includes locations you have actively tagged in recent Instagram stories or posts.
Second, the app nudges you to opt in to a new form of passive location sharing
— letting friends see wherever you last opened the app,
even just to scroll through it.

Many users…

Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move
A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.

No one ever seems to mention how weirdly difficult the #WashingtonPost has made it to secure one's personal #privacy on their site.
☑️ Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information

#LB Acabei de desabilitar o Gemini no meu celular seguindo esse tutorial aqui. Isso é suficiente ou vocês me recomendam mais alguma coisa?
https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/114873867718552522…

Pro tip for #aspnetcore devs: if Blazor hijacks the importmap in your plain-old server-rendered app due to MapStaticAssets, you can opt out of the tag helper on an element by using “!”.
You can also write your own tag helper to bypass this problem.

Analysis: 16 of the UK's top 50 biggest news websites now use a "consent or pay" model to let users opt out of cookies; almost 100% choose to accept cookies (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/consent-or-pay-…

More UK news publishers are adopting 'consent or pay' advertising model
Sixteen of the 50 biggest news websites in the UK are now using a “consent or pay” model to allow users to pay to reject personalised ads.

Donnerstag: Österreich beschließt Bundestrojaner, Perplexitys KI-Browser Comet
Gefährderüberwachung per Malware Comet mit KI-Agenten ePA nur mit Opt-out Notizen-App auf Apple-Watch On-Premises-IT gegen Cloud-Risiko #heiseshow