Waarom zijn er zoveel grote datalekken? 🎣

Het antwoord is zowel complex als kort.

Hackers kunnen met behulp van AI-agent grootschalige geavanceerde datahacks uitvoeren en verwerkingsverantwoordelijken hebben ons kwetsbaar gemaakt, door veel te veel data over ons op te slaan.

Marin schreef erover: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2026/06/04/waarom-zijn-er-zoveel-grote-datalekken/

Google doet zich in Wallonië voor als een milieubewust bedrijf dat manmoedig probeert om duurzaam te zijn. Maar terwijl de technologiereus zijn datacenters uitbreidt, legt ze vooral steeds meer druk op onze energie, netcapaciteit en open, groene ruimte.

https://apache.be/2026/06/09/hoe-google-groen-imago-koopt-waalse-gemeenten?mtm_campaign=Mastodon

De prestigieuze Antwerpse stadswijk Nieuw-Zuid blijkt al jaren op gas te draaien. Dat ondanks dure klimaatbeloftes en miljoenensubsidies die van de wijk een van de ‘meest duurzame projecten in Europa’ moesten maken.

https://apache.be/2026/06/04/ondanks-groene-beloftes-draait-antwerps-warmtenet-nieuw-zuid-al-jaren-op-vervuilend-gas?mtm_campaign=Mastodon

The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.

We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.

Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty

Press safety at risk: US journalists’ personal data leaked on the dark web

Journalists have always operated in the crosshairs. They investigate the powerful, protect confidential sources, and publish uncomfortable truths.

Our research turned up more than 116,000 dark web exposures tied to email addresses associated with The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

https://proton.me/blog/journalist-data-leaks

The only thing growing faster than AI right now is how much regular people absolutely hate it.

I've never seen public opinion turn this quickly.

48 data center projects worth $156 billion got blocked last year and 20 were canceled in the first quarter of this year.

Tech executives are getting booed during college graduation speeches. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home.

Smartphone security tip of the week: You have freed your phone from bloatware

Smartphone manufacturers receive millions or even billions from Google or Apple for placing their software on your phone. You should definitely remove these apps.

Read more about this topic: https://smartphone-dont-spy.de/en/list/you-have-freed-your-phone-from-bloatware

#smartphone #privacy #security

There's a character in Galápagos, the 1985 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, who has created a computer called the Mandarax that can understand natural language, translate languages, and answer questions on many topics -- it's basically an LLM. His wife does ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and she discovers that his machine can do it as well as her because he's tape recorded her classes and fed the data into the computer. She says to him,

"You, Doctor Hiroguchi, think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable natural resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the the likes of you were taken over by machinery. That wonderful Mandarax you're scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?"

I read that on the bus this afternoon.

#Books #Tech #AI