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Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/1

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but the company hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations.

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)
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The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

Library workers can better align technology use and instruction in library settings with library values,
through championing the refusal of technologies that conflict with values like privacy and intellectual freedom.
Drawing on experiences with individual patron instruction, class design, and passive programming, the author shares practical steps for helping patrons to understand and fight back against exploitation by digital technologies.
Rejecting the myth that any te…

Is it just me, or does Tony Grasso (RNZ NineToNoon tech correspondent) sound a lot like a FUD merchant (Boo! China scare!)? https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019023694/technology-volt-typhoon-th…

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable.
Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/technology/turing-award-winners-quantum-cr…

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable.

RE: https://toot.community/@thezenlady/116257674184176512
If so, I applaud those brave saboteurs.
More of this, please.
The only way to crumble an empire is from the inside. (Although the Pedophile In Chief is already doing a pretty good job …

KI-Pakt mit Indien: Deutschland festigt globale Digital-Allianzen
Digitalminister Wildberger vertieft nach einem KI-Abkommen mit Kanada nun auch die technologische Zusammenarbeit mit der indischen IT-Großmacht in Neu-Delhi.

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle raises $30M for Austin AI startup
Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle’s Austin startup Circuit raised $30 million in one of Texas’ largest angel rounds to address manufacturing labor shortages.

Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/02/def

DEF CON bans hackers, technologists named in Epstein documents
Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/jeff-bezos-ai-fund-projec…

Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion Fund to Transform Companies With A.I.
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.