Unlearning Quantification: The Cruel Optimism of #AI in #Education [..] A. Ștefănescu discusses possibilities of unlearning in AI-capitalism. @catileptic / @berlinergazette

👉🏻 https://berlinergazette.de/unlearning-quantification-the-cruel-optimism-of-ai-in-education/

New, from me:

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

.....Those purloined credentials show the developer in question at one point used the same seven-digit password to log in to Paradox.ai accounts for a number of Fortune 500 firms listed as customers on the company’s website, including Aramark, Lockheed Martin, Lowes, and Pepsi.

Paradox maintains that few of the exposed passwords were still valid, and that a majority of them were present on the employee’s personal device only because he had migrated the contents of a password manager from an old computer.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/poor-passwords-tattle-on-ai-hiring-bot-maker-paradox-ai/

We're happy to announce that the open call for our 2026 residencies is now online 👾

This year’s open call for residents invites proposals that explore the relational modes of digital art practices that critically engage with the social dimensions and (mis)uses of technology.

For 2026, we are launching three residency programmes in cooperation with Pro Helvetia, Arts Council Korea, and Universität der Künste Berlin.

► https://transmediale.de/en/news/open-calls-for-residents-2026

Decomputing is the development of a counter-power to the technopolitical apparatus of AI and its totalising transformations.

👉🏻 https://danmcquillan.org/decomputing_as_resistance.html

La permacomputation est une littératie écologique · Entretien avec Aymeric Mansoux, par Servanne Monjour (2025)

https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4747

Un peu plus tôt cette année j'ai eu le plaisir d'être invité par @Servanne_m pour un entretien publié par la revue Humanités numériques @RevueHN

Un grand merci pour cette opportunité, sa patience (!), ainsi que le travail éditorial et de traduction.

Cette publication numéro 11 intitulée « Sobriété numérique – Varia » contient également un entretien avec @antoinentl sur l'édition numérique: Prendre soin de nos dispositifs techniques est une approche militante de l’édition.

https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4701

#permacomputing #permapublishing #lowtech #humanités #edition #écologie #sobrieté #numérique

Gaza, Volume 01 (384 GB)

An archive of early war crimes evidence compiled by Israel Exposed from the Evidence Task telegram channel, the Eye on Palestine instragram account, data from TikTokGenocide.com, and an archive of the Tracking Genocide Twitter/X account. According to Israel Exposed, a copy of the data was provided to the International Criminal Court.

https://ddosecrets.com/article/gaza-volume-01

Help us keep publishing: https://donorbox.org/supporting-ddosecrets-in-2025

Tech bros are the new suicide bombers.

"Current data centers go through about 500,000 gallons of water a day, but the newer, bigger facilities currently in the works will require millions of gallons daily."

AI is an exponential surge in energy, water and materials. As we approach civilizational collapse, Big Tech has gone into hyperdrive.

https://www.newser.com/story/371879/ai-data-centers-are-thirsty-just-ask-the-neighbors.html