Posts by vekkq

Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop

Re: This'll go down well here in Europe...

Twitch assumes a streamer owns the chat messages on their channel and they could therefore decide whether chat messages are given to AI training. Twitch doesn't even ask the people who actually wrote those.

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

The text reported as slop will be filtered from our training data, so that new text will look less like slop. Thank you for your contribution to the AI spiny wheel.

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Maybe its a healthy push to go offline again and connect with real humans.

Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement

Can't wait for Schrems III .

The requirement for a EU data sharing deal, was the independence of the FTC. The US courts decided, that the FTC can't be independent.

The EU also required an independent court, which the US never really had.

It is questionable how Microsoft will legally keep the current deal. It might just go down to delaying the collapse.

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

I got a new Android phone a month ago. The browser selection dialog didn't give me an option to install Vivaldi. Funny.

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

actually a great way to get always-on ideas out of business heads. where can i sign up?

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

He grew up and is now leaving his home~

AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions

so much for 99.9 uptime promises.

Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

Who even came up with the stupid idea to cert and trust software.

Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise

Re: The question is

It is sadly so easy and comfortably to use that is has little competition.

Discord Inc.: your data safety is only your problem for using the platform, while allowing its third parties to ignore all GDPR requirements.

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

Good start to a cyberpunk story.

Eventually this data is consolidated in private hands and used to exclude people for inconveniences from buying food everywhere.

Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO

Spintronics will come first.

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

Nothing to worry about

OVH has to follow the EU rules and the EU rules also come with 'protection against the effects of the extra-territorial application of legislation adopted by a third country. Whatever fine the Canadian branch may have to pay, the EU fine will be even larger.

AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks

"highly effective age assurance"

beats me where you could possibly find something like that.

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing

Re: International regulation

good luck with those international regulations. there is no one in this business.

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

In the EU, under EU's Digital Services Act, you can also inform your national consumer protection agency, which will check whether Youtube's moderation action was reasonable. If not reasonable, it will give Youtube the option to revert its action or be fined.

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Users are used to crashes. Wake me up on a hack~

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

"AI arms race", "land of the free", that's just my humor!

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Re: Keeping it up is hard

wait until the sd card corrupts.

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

Re: So you can't code for your own device then ?

Microsoft would lose customers to Mac and Linux, if they locked up what can run on their system.

Android effectively only has iOS to content to and they love locking stuff up too. It needs more competition in the mobile market.

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

tl;dr when you fire the testing team

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

Re: How would they enforce this?

Anything moving on the screen without being asked to do so is such a massive bother to me. Gotta nuke it all.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

discussing minor details of history doesn't make someone a nazi.

hardly even worth researching what the details are about and whether wiegelt's claim is true or not.

the comments on the other hand state, that the author mawhrin seems to have a grudge for downplaying his country, poland, which may explain a part of his rage for the accusations.

https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/114699399505483796

The source you mean was probably this post: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/114682302951770021

It contains various accusations, but none are backed by the given links.

> Weigelt is understood to align himself with extremely right-wing politics.

What is the source of that?

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

The main Dark Reader extension exists under another ID. These extensions may be partially or fully stolen.

Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10

Microsoft in 2015: "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows"

Me in 2025: clinging to their stupid promise.

Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find

Re: Big surprise

one way of saying managers are dumb.

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

web tech is too big to be maintained. raze it down, make something simpler.

Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent

Taking the miserability of western academic work combined with the working culture of Japan .. what could possibly go wrong

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

imagine being given a massive risky burden and not paid accordingly.

China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support

i've been getting my emotional support from strangers on the internet and fictional anime girls. cant be that hard for a hunk of metal metal.

Re: "provide emotional support"

what if you forget about your grand plan~

Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO

Last time I saw AWS and Azure price lists I assumed them to be a scam.

More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user

Re: Sound like it could be law enforcement to me

Somewhat of a bias to the programs we haven't heard of tbf

Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'

Its insane to assume someone would be anywhere near the launch site during launch. Clearly, they lock this place up, as you legally have to, as a precaution measure.

they didn't show the crash, so they considered it a failure worth hiding.

GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex

Can't wait for the next table flip to mess up current plans.

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0

Could hypothetically work. If the US company comes nocking with a Cloud Act notice, the EU business can deny access to data on EU law grounds. Despite US ownership, the EU business cannot be threatened and harmed so easily by US gov orgs.

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

The GDPR is in effect since a decade too. Given the constant legal reminders that data can't be put anywhere near American companies, lastly Cloud act and Trump, European companies didn't move a centimeter.

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

listing country names like its trivial to contribute hacks to governments. quite theatrical this guy.

Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users

Re: What is it

This seems a lot like eugenics to me, using arbitrary reasons to have minorities cleansed out of the population. Alternatively, having a common state enemy helps an authoritarian regime to build unity - just like the Americans say: A president who starts a war will be reelected.

Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock

just raise the prices and expect to sell less. nothing else can be done about it.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

what's the deal with retaliatory tariffs?

tariffs itself basically manifest like taxes for the own population. unless there is some reason to protect the own industry from superior foreign competition, it seems rather silly to use tariffs or counter tariffs. what am i missing?

China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

Re: Duh, wut?

You may have missed the whole eu chat control and other police state level surveillance plans going on. some groups in the parliament keep pushing for this stuff.

data privacy works nicely, but germany isnt really pushing open-source. governmental bureaucracy heavily depends on microsoft still.

Re: Duh, wut?

Ironic. The EU thinks and plans to do exactly the same.

Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

how big is the haskell malware, i wonder? cant compile a hello world under half a mb.

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

Re: Not uploading

They still give homework? That never made sense.