Every. Cloud. Device. Ever.

"After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. [...] Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will no longer work."
https://www.belkin.com/support-article/?articleNum=335419

it's sgdq, so it's time for my annual sgdq post. ahem:

who called it médecins sans frontières and not doctors noclip

"Trapping AI" – Operational Progress! 🕳️

Following the last update (https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/114742667183459482), we’re transitioning from planning to practice — amplifying both the scale and operational ferocity of our approach through the deployment of a new, more radically interventionist layer of complexity.

This intensified escalation — as outlined in the last update — is concretized in fakejpeg, which is now fully live and operational. From this point onward, every page generated by our standalone LLM crawler-tarpit embeds a garbage JPEG. Notably, within just a few hours of operation, this deployment has already yielded over 40,000 such images.

The integration of fakejpeg constitutes a critical deepening layer that amplifies both the strategic offensiveness and subversive ardor of our approach by enabling the ongoing targeted poisoning and coordinated dissemination of systematically crafted junk data within the operational workflows of AI systems.

fakejpeg repo: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

Context and rationale: https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

Welp. Between this and the earlier AI-"written" book, I am thisclose to recommending that we cease purchasing titles from Springer

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

"Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors."