Potentious

@portentious
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In 2025 alone, climate disasters hit more than 87 MILLION people worldwide and claimed over 8,000 LIVES, from drought-driven hunger to deadly storms and floods.

This is fossil-fuelled chaos.

Time to #MakePollutersPay.

"The problem with LLMs is that you eventually run out of other people's work to steal"

Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.

That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.

Mozilla is cooked.

https://jwz.org/b/yk2n

@cstross @jwz

We all need to remember where Google's money comes from... #PrinceBonesaw and Chris Hohn.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/15/major-investor-calls-on-google-owner-to-aggressively-cut-staff-and-pay

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/chris-hohns-tci-made-18-9-billion-last-year-shattering-hedge-fund-records-e155153b

We need more reporting on why the fossil fuel industry is suddenly so desperate to get AI into every aspect of tech & everyone's personal life

Browsers, robots, vehicles, farm tractors, home appliances, laptops, cloud services, IOT medical devices, news, content creation...

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Bloomberg.com
I was laid off in October after 13 years at Amazon and am still seeking a new opportunity. Please ping me if you know of a full-time remote role working on network and/or infrastructure security (on-prem and cloud-based). I also have experience with embedded/OT/IoT network security and wireless security. After hours I run a small network (AS46577) and fiddle with microcontrollers, embedded Linux, ham radio, and drones. Boosts appreciated. #infosecjobs #getfedihired #jobhunt #jobsearch

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns AI agents embedded in OSes are eroding end-to-end encryption's real-world security, despite its mathematical soundness. With root-like access to messages & data, they bypass E2EE isolation—urgent rethink needed! 🔒🤖❌
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/

#AI #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Newz #Signal

Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant

Signal president Meredith Whittaker said AI agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of E2EE.

CyberInsider
The authoritarian government of Belarus is purging the country’s ham operators, charging them with treason and seizing their radio equipment. https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4

As Dale Vince (Ecotricity) points out, all that is required to reduce energy prices (specifically electricity) in the UK is to remove the requirement from the auction system that the price is dictated by the highest bid (nearly always that made by gas).

Breaking the link with gas prices (and allowing each energy source to be supplied at its actual bid price) would immediately reduce energy prices across the country.

Moreover the Govt. has the power to do this, they just don't!

#energy
h/t FT

Our next major release is coming up – help us to test it! #LibreOffice 26.2 is due in February, and now the first beta is available: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/12/11/libreoffice-26-2-beta1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
Apple will refuse to preload state-run “snooping” app on iPhones, report says
Apple reportedly will defy India order amid uproar over potential surveillance.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/apple-will-refuse-to-preload-state-run-snooping-app-on-iphones-report-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social