Mastodawn

#Microsoft sent an email to everyone saying they're listening to people now and they will definitely not pushing AI to everything anymore.

Also Microsoft enabled #github to collect all your "inputs, outputs and associated context to train and improve AI models". This new tickbox is enabled by default, even if you explicitly disabled Copilot before.

Actions speak louder than words.

You can disable the option at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

#enshittification

Andrew Abernathy 1d ago

Gabriele Svelto 1d ago

Given what it's gonna do to the world economy when the bubble will burst I think it's better if we drop all references to intelligence and just start calling it subprime computing

Andrew Abernathy 1d ago

It's me, looking at something else while I'm typing, then looking back at the screen as I hit return, just in time to see some alert panel dismiss and only the first part of what I typed is in the text field. I wonder what the alert panel was about and what I did. I so hate all the things that grab focus (or rearrange just as I try to click on them). #macOS

Andrew Abernathy 1d ago

SocProf 2d ago

"The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening."
Full thread at the link: https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Faustinkocher.com%2Fpost%2F3mhr54qb6ns2m&viewtype=unroll

A BlueSky thread by Austin Kocher, PhD on Skyview

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Andrew Abernathy 2d ago

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

404 Media: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

"...WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out to them directly to say their call was turned into a podcast in an attempt to promote WebinarTV’s services.

WebinarTV claims to host more than 200,000 webinars. It’s not clear how it’s recording so many Zoom calls without permission, but in some cases the stolen videos posted to WebinarTV can put call participants at risk. ..."

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

#ai #privacy #bigbrother

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

404 Media

Andrew Abernathy 2d ago

PBS News 3d ago

Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel used it to track targets, AP sources say
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-built-a-vast-camera-network-to-control-dissent-israel-used-it-to-track-targets-ap-sources-say?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-PBSNewsHour

Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel used it to track targets, AP sources say

The role of Israel's hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in wartime.

PBS News

Andrew Abernathy 3d ago

Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊3d ago

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Andrew Abernathy 4d ago

Jeremy Osborn 5d ago

30 years ago, a friend paid me for a gig with late 19th-century glass negatives.

I specifically chose the "flawed" ones (blurry/underexposed) thinking that maybe they were never originally printed, and therefore I might be the first person to see these remarkable images.

I’m sharing one a day for the next 10 days. Clues suggest these were taken in Western Massachusetts approximately 120+ years ago. High res versions are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyosborn/albums/72177720298855306/

#Photography #History #GlassNegatives

Andrew Abernathy 4d ago

Nanoraptor 4d ago

Non-standard fittings. An allegory.

http://www.danamania.com/stories/Non-Standard%20Fittings.html

Non-Standard Fittings.

Andrew Abernathy 6d ago

kottke.org 6d ago

This is a diabolical phishing attack. “That generated a real case ID, and triggered real Apple emails to my inbox, properly signed, from Apple’s actual servers.” https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/

Gone (Almost) Phishin’

This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, an…

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