A community rebellion inside the Manjaro project has raised questions about its future, as members demand more control and transparency, citing issues with leadership centralization. 🚨
If the business side doesn't change, a fork of the popular Arch-based distro is increasingly likely. 🔧

🔗 https://fossforce.com/2026/03/is-manjaro-done-stick-a-fork-in-it/

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Technology, Power, and the Risk of Techno-Authoritarianism

How might digital technology reshape politics and society in the coming years?

Dr. Randolph R. Lewis joins the podcast to discuss his book Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America and why the intersection of technology, culture, and politics may be leading us toward a pivotal moment.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/s2_XY3-mBrg

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Спустя несколько часов после того, как администрация #Trump ввела ограничения против #Anthropic, их главный конкурент — #OpenAI — объявил о масштабном соглашении с #Pentagon.

Глава компании #SamAltman сообщил, что модели #AI будут интегрированы в информационные военные системы #USA, но при соблюдении жёстких «красных линий».

Ирония ситуации в том, что эти ограничения почти совпадают с теми, из-за которых под давление попала #Anthropic: запрет на массовую слежку за американцами, запрет на управление полностью автономным оружием и отказ от систем наподобие китайского #SocialCredit.

Разница — в архитектуре. #OpenAI предложила более гибкую модель использования технологий: системы будут работать через облачную инфраструктуру под контролем инженеров. Такой подход, по словам компании, физически исключает установку моделей на боевые #Drones или автономные роботизированные платформы.

Глава Пентагона #PeteHegseth уже приветствовал соглашение, назвав #OpenAI «надёжным партнёром». В то же время #Anthropic готовится оспаривать в суде статус угрозы для цепочек поставок и возможный запрет на участие в государственных контрактах США.

Сам #SamAltman публично призвал #Pentagon предложить аналогичные условия всем разработчикам #ArtificialIntelligence и снизить напряжение вокруг конфликта с #Anthropic. По его словам, для защиты демократии военным действительно нужны передовые технологии, но с чёткими ограничителями и механизмами безопасности.

Ситуация вызывает дополнительный интерес ещё и потому, что выбор #OpenAI может объясняться не только технологическими возможностями, но и большей гибкостью в вопросах регулирования #AI. В отличие от жёсткой позиции #Anthropic, компания Альтмана показала готовность к компромиссам, позволяющим #USGov формально соблюдать ограничения и одновременно сохранять доступ к передовым разработкам.

Немаловажную роль играет и фактор #SiliconValley. Ранее Альтман возглавлял #YCombinator, который традиционно связан с кругом предпринимателей, известным как #PayPalMafia.

Одной из ключевых фигур там остаётся #PeterThiel — сооснователь #PayPal и #Palantir, компании, которая уже давно считается одним из ключевых технологических подрядчиков американской разведки и оборонного сектора.

@yigal_levin

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#USDefense
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In this matter, there are no more limits. First, one must read what Anthropic has to say about it:https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Next, read this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/

This states that federal laws supersede local laws. Therefore, if this post serves as an official announcement ( https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175 as I can’t find anything for the moment at https://openai.com/news/ ), it means that Sam Altman is working directly for the government and is no longer subject to any constraints other than federal ones for the models he will provide to the Department of War. The company is no longer accountable to the restrictive laws that used to bind AI companies:

Disclosing how their models are trained.

Implementing highly restrictive ethical filters.

Giving regulators a right of oversight regarding security risks.

Therefore: this means that federal laws apply. But there are none! Congress cannot pass binding laws because Republicans are blocking all initiatives aimed at framing ethical guidelines with safeguards—such as prohibiting the use of AI to create pathogens... Since there are no laws, it is the President who, by decree, creates federal laws. This is what Biden had done by forcing companies to transmit training data and the way they placed barriers against requests that did not respect the law. With his decree, Trump has canceled Biden’s for federal departments and created a deliberate legal vacuum by political choice. Since there is no longer a legal framework, he is liberating the ethical and legal boundaries. Furthermore, as there are no laws, Trump’s Department of War can hide everything under his concept of "classified." NO ONE can monitor what is happening on the servers managed by the Department of War. Everything is permitted and hidden.

Where Sam Altman differs from Dario Amodei is in ideological and strategic notions. Anthropic refuses the "Any Lawful Use" clause. They advocate for an independent "ethics" governed by humanity. Sam Altman, on the other hand, is more into "entrisme" (infiltration). He believes he can redirect and influence from the inside. He "works" as a "defense contractor for the American military." But make no mistake, it is mercantile.

There is a major shift in the nature of the company, which is no longer at the service of citizens or "humanity" (just to pretend it’s important) but at the service of a state (totalitarian?). It is pragmatism for the company's interests. Moreover, despite the fact that he says the contract stipulates safeguard clauses, since it is secret, no one can monitor, supervise, or audit. Sam Altman knows this full well; he goes where the most money is—this is a contract worth billions of dollars—and he covers himself by simply saying: "I provide the raw models without ethical barriers because the federal state requires it, but I have nothing to be ashamed of, I respect the law, OpenAI is not the villain, the state is!"

He has just made a Faustian bargain... #openAI #SamAltman #AIEthics #ArtificialIntelligence #DepartmentOfWar #NationalSecurity #TechPolitics #Anthropic

Corporate AI ethics vs. defense money: guess who wins?

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Freedom.gov: Washington wird zum VPN-Provider für Europa

https://techupdate.io/dienste/freedom-gov-washington-wird-zum-vpn-provider-fuer-europa/51008/

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 "What if your car worked like so many apps? A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
“How are you enjoying your drive so far?”

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/

This post by @anyware is quite an interesting take on the evolution of software, as viewed from a big tech worker perspective.

#ux #techpolitics

Capgemini claims it first learned about its 20-year ICE contract the same way a teenager learns about history—by reluctantly reading it in the news, unaware they'd been living through it the whole time.

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