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Quand je vois mon ministre de la #Culture dire que Radio-Canada sur Prime ne fait « Aucun sens. Est-ce le modèle d’accès à notre culture que nous désirons? Passer par une plateforme américaine plutôt que par une plateforme de chez nous? », et qu’il choisit de publier ce message sur X, ça me scie en deux. 😑

The stupidity and corruption of Pete Hegseth knows no bounds. In the latest instance, the AI company Anthropic says it doesn't want its products to have full autonomy to guide weapons since it doesn't think the software is reliable enough.

Hegseth is threatening to terminate Anthropic's contract because of this stance. He wants a product known to be unreliable to control weapons.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

C'est la Masse Critique Montréal de février ce soir. Le temps est clément, on vous attend en grand nombre!

The Montreal's February Critical Mass happens tonight. The weather is nice, we're expecting a big turnout!

Check this out: https://clip.place/w/ajgJ5Hi69bbbxHCK3nXNdj

I just published a video of the new "end to end encryption" protocol for ActivityPub in #Emissary. The UX is rougher than I'd like, but you can see the client app is coming along nicely.

Today, it sends and receives messages using MLS, a widely used industry standard and successor to the Signal protocol.

By June 2026, it should be ready for you.

For more details on the project and my progress, see: https://emissary.dev/e2ee

#JustBetweenUs #e2ee

Si vous n'avez pas encore signé cette pétition demandant le retrait du projet de loi 1 "Constitution du Québec", projet dénoncé par tout le monde ou presque, la ligue des droits et liberté du Québec vous invite à le faire :

https://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-11833/index.html

#polqc #PL1

Among the many things Doctorow gets wrong in That Post is this:

"It's not 'unethical' to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That's just 'a search engine.'"

Apart from the fact that AI companies are particularly malicious in the way they scrape the web, I'd say we accept search engine scraping mostly on the premise that it's done for the benefit of the scraped sites. There's no such principle of mutual benefit in AI scraping — the AI company gets the value of the data scraped and you get bupkis at best, and possibly DDoS'd

Per a new security bulletin issued by the FBI, hackers have rapidly ramped up their attacks in recent years, with more than 700 attacks on cash dispensers during 2025 alone, netting hackers at least $20 million in stolen cash.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/fbi-says-atm-jackpotting-attacks-are-on-the-rise-and-netting-hackers-millions-in-stolen-cash/