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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.

As a child I developed a love of technology, but as an adult I've come to see how technology helps empower evil.
I saw a quote the other day that said "Modern technology makes it even easier for bad people to do bad things" and that pretty much sums it up.
That doesn't mean we give up on technology, it means we take it back for ourselves and use it to take control of our own lives (and our own data) and tell the evil tech users to suck it.

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…

"Amazon enters agreements for nine Australian renewable projects to power datacentres"
#Australia #Amazon #Technology

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.

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.