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1) Use AI to flood FOSS maintainers with reports of security issues.
2) Burn out the maintainers who refuse to use AI to process said reports.
3) Force remaining maintainers to rely on on AI to process security issue reports. I mean, how else are you going to deal with a new "security" release that includes 600 patches?
4) Profit? I mean not really, but at least now we've created an extremely unsustainable feedback loop.
This is a thing that I'm seeing …

Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called "Super Intelligence Force", to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

We have been trained and trained ourselves to lose touch with the magical, life-giving force of stories.
And our life-sustaining love for stories has been beaten out of us by AI slop, by a shitty, commercialized culture industry, by living under capitalism and end-times fascism, etc.
I get why we feel that way, and I feel it, too. But there’s something really, really wrong there.
Like our air and water and soil and atmosphere, I think we have been trained and trained oursel…

Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”

TL;DR Trump had another brain fart. Nevertheless it’s unlikely anything good will come out of it.
Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal - Slashdot https://politics.slashdot.org/story/26

A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

China’s New Graduates, Facing a Dire Job Market, Must Also Contend With A.I.
A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”

«The gas pipeline has been delayed because Oracle and Blue Owl went full steam ahead on the project before they got all the permits they needed. They hoped for the pipeline to be up and running last month. But now it looks like it won’t be up before late 2027. If then. New Mexico has refused the permit twice.
“Force majeure” usually means a natural disaster hit you — not “we didn’t get our permits”.»
Thanks @…

Sam Altman says he's "very uncomfortable" with attributing religious force to AI, calling it "a real safety issue", as Anthropic engages with religious leaders (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/03/openai-anthrop…

OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a "safety issue"
In recent days spirituality has become a key part of the AI safety debate.

The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

What does unintentionally mean here "Google's Gemini AI model unintentionally hacked three companies by guessing passwords during a security test with Israeli startup Irregular."
Can I as a human unintentionally guess passwords? I thought it was called brute force attacks and therefore intentional #ai

The most potent force in US politicsis anti-establishment fury at a system seen as rigged against average working people.
AI has become Exhibit A.
Until recently, both parties largely avoided criticizing the wealthy corporate elites that funded their campaigns.
In politics as in nature, one does not bite the hands that feed.
Trump Republicans have instead aimed populist fury at immigrants, LGBTQ people, Black and Latino people, “communists”, Muslims, so-called “woke”…

AI is generating a new wave of economic populism. It could be a tipping point
It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin

New AI Czar Unveils Goals, Members of White House Task Force (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-ai-task-force-to-report-on-risks-of-technology-after-public-and-industry-concerns-b6308bef
http://www.memeorandum.com/261003/p61#a261003p61

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/997573/virginia-governor-spanberger-da…

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed an executive order banning NDAs for data center development and creating an AI task force.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Detained ShinyHunters suspect is helping the FBI track the group,
--Hackers breached supertanker’s propulsion system near Texas,
--Denmark breach exposes 8.8m population records,
--Ransomware knocks Vicksburg city systems offline,
--US arrests alleged ATM malware mastermind behind $5.4m theft,
--UK account hijacking losses surge more than 400%,
--White House gives AI task force 120 days to assess risks,
--DHS built dossiers on ICE observers in Palantir database, filing alleges,
--Warlock ransomware exploits SharePoint to hit utilities and governments,
--Federal judge rules warrantless Flock search unconstitutional,
--Google pauses open-source bug reports amid AI junk flood,
--OpenAI safety veteran quits and warns company lacks care,
--South Korea calls emergency meeting after financial sector breaches,
--Yann LeCun calls Amodei deluded over AI escape fears,
--NSA requires quantum-ready capabilities in new commercial NSS from 2027,
--Altman says world should accept AI harms for its benefits
https://www.metacurity.com/detained-shinyhunters-suspect-is-helping-the-fbi-track-the-group/

According to this updated password hacking table from #HiveSystems, my password system is firmly in the green zone. 💚
https://www.hivesystems.com/password

The 2026 Password Table Is Here: How Fast Can a Hacker Crack Your Password?
The 2026 Hive Systems Password Table is here. This year's cracking rig is a rented 16x RTX 5090 fleet running against bcrypt, and was about 24% faster than last year. See the latest brute force times, why AI makes the rig easier to build but can't crack bcrypt itself, and what quantum really threate

Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/jay-clayton-ai-trump-01106137

Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new…

Microsoft’s New Security Chief Replaces Top Execs to Force an AI Overhaul
Microsoft, the largest cybersecurity software seller in the world, is overhauling that business to cash in on corporate anxieties about AI-powered hacks. Hayete Gallot, who took over Microsoft’s security business in February, has directed more teams to develop AI security products such as those ...

Oracle invoked a 'force majeure' notice
to protect itself from financial liability
and defer rent payments regarding Project Jupiter,
a massive 2.45-gigawatt AI data center campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, built to support OpenAI
The 1,400-acre site has faced local opposition and infrastructure hurdles,
including a denied permit for a planned natural-gas pipeline,
prompting a shift toward costly fuel cells from Bloom Energy.
The legal p…

China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)

China’s AI Rollout Is Messier Than It Looks
A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.

Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (Josh Xiao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31…

Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a new federal AI task force (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jay-clayton-artificial-intelligence-task-force-b8689ea07de9102a52bd1cd2049b5901
http://www.memeorandum.com/261004/p20#a261004p20

OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-to…

Donald Trump said he will soon appoint an artificial intelligence czar
amid heightened scrutiny of whether the technology is progressing at a dangerous pace, he announced Saturday on Truth Social.
In a long post defending the industry, Trump said he would create an
“AI Force” without specifying its exact functions.
He added that in his capacity as president, he would “not stand by” and allow its “decimation, or destruction.”
Lawmakers and tech leaders have soun…

Trump Pledges to Appoint an ‘AI Czar’ as He Defends the Technology
The president did not detail what the office’s responsibilities would look like or who he could appoint to the role.

Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax" (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump to form 'AI Force,' name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/19/trump-form-ai-force-name-ai-czar-rejects-calls-constraints/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260919/p54#a260919p54

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116919466945948663
The implementation of AI in the workforce is inherently anti-worker and anti-human,
both in how it might replace us and in how it might force workers to push themselves to inhumane levels of work to prove their wort…

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok take turns as AI czar. One quarter/season each, and within a year they will solve all the world's problems. 💡🙄
#AI_force #AI_czar #propsal #sarcasm #policy #society

Trump Pledges to Appoint an 'AI Czar' as He Defends the Technology (Angie Orellana Hernandez/The Washington Sun)
https://www.washingtonsun.com/technology/trump-appoint-ai-task-force-czar
http://www.memeorandum.com/260919/p57#a260919p57