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Für KI-Training: US-App zahlt Geld für abgehörte Telefonate
15 bis 30 Cent pro Minute zahlt die Neon App dafür, dass sie Telefongespräche mitschneidet. Die Aufnahmen sollen für KI-Training weiterverkauft werden.

On my way to Sevilla to attend a TL500 training (not teaching but plain old learning this time 😅)
https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/tl500-devops-culture-and-practice-enablement

Red Hat Training: DevOps Culture and Practice Enablement | TL500
DevOps Culture and Practice Enablement (TL500) immerses you in modern software development practices and application development architecture.

A good thing this is not available in the EU....
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/this-free-app-pays-you-to-record-your-calls-for-ai-training-and-its-a-hit/

This Free App Pays You to Record Your Calls for AI Training, and It's a Hit
Neon is one of the top-downloaded free apps on the iOS App Store.

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models
Nikolay Blagoev, Bart Cox, J\'er\'emie Decouchant, Lydia Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21221

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models
Motivated by the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and the importance of democratizing their training, we propose GWTF, the first crash tolerant practical decentralized training framework for LLMs. Differently from existing distributed and federated training frameworks, GWTF enables the efficient collaborative training of a LLM on heterogeneous clients that volunteer their resources. In addition, GWTF addresses node churn, i.e., clients joining or leaving the system at any time, and net…

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled
Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI.

Android-Terminal: Hinweise auf GPU-Beschleunigung
Versteckte GPU-Option entdeckt: Android testet offenbar Beschleunigung für Linux-Apps. Das experimentelle Feature bietet Potenzial für Developer.
https://www.

An interview with Dzaky Putra, editor-in-chief of Indonesian political news outlet WIUI, which shares news with its Gen Z audience using a casual tone and memes (Matthew Leake/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

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So...Truman found an alternate universe portal many years ago...

Microsofts Gaming Copilot macht Screenshots – aber nicht für KI-Training
Auf Vorwürfe, dass PC-Spieler mit der neuen Funktion überwacht würden, hat Microsoft nun reagiert. Die Antworten sind jedoch nicht ganz eindeutig.