2026-10-15 08:49:18
Instead of asking how to police age restrictions, governments must focus on accountability and incentives for safer online services. #ageverification
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-worlds-growing-patchwork-of-age-bans-and-what-it-reveals/
2026-10-14 09:21:37
Someone has to pay those massive data center investments:
- Global #smartphone sales fell by 20% in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period a year ago. This is the lowest level for a third quarter since 2012.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4234747/cell-phone-sales-plunge-lowest-level-in-14-years.html
2026-10-13 17:39:26
The #EU is not only one that has reservations on #smartglasses, but it is acting surprisingly rapidly:
---The regulators said smart glasses manufacturers should implement a combination of transparency measures to make other people aware that they are being recorded. The measures may include lights or sounds when users are recording, ...
https://www.politico.eu/article/lights-bells-and-liability-europes-privacy-regulators-crack-down-on-smart-glasses/
2026-10-12 09:02:29
A lab tested eight scenarios to examine advanced #AI models’ capabilities within an autonomous, AI-enabled OT attack chain. The models achieved the objectives across all eight scenarios, turning digital access into physical actions – in one case finding and moving a robotic arm in just minutes. #security
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/11/ai-systems-are-fully-capable-of-carrying-out-nightmare-attacks-against-infrastructure-and-nobodys-ready/5302450
2026-10-11 09:05:29
A #bank builds its own #AI:
---Revolut already builds its own foundation models, trained on transaction data, and its own large language models, Storonsky said. It is also building its own data centres to train them. The goal is not to compete with American tech companies, he said, but to reach a similar scale. #Europe
https://thenextweb.com/news/nik-storonsky-revolut-global-tech-company-europe-wave-by-vento
2026-10-10 08:32:22
In the book Don Quijote, the main character decides to fight the mills, but has to continue his journey without defeating them. I made a road trip to the region in #Spain where the windmills attract tourists and some of the mills still run – after 500 years since construction – when the wind blows. #roadtrip #travel #Europe
https://klaava.com/a-tour-in-the-land-of-historic-white-windmills/
2026-10-09 08:49:40
Somehow resembles how #Meta products work:
--- According to a new unsealed filing in New York’s lawsuit, TikTok gave thousands of users, including teenagers and children, a safety tool that did not work. #socialmedia #security
https://thenextweb.com/news/tiktok-placebo-safety-tool
2026-10-07 12:53:00
I made a road trip to the region in #Spain where the windmills attract tourists and some of the mills still run – after 500 years since construction – when the wind blows. #travel #roadtrip .https://klaava.com/a-tour-in-the-land-of-historic-white-windmills/
2026-10-07 08:44:10
Frances Haugen was not a natural #whistleblower. She was a true believer, a data scientist who believed the company’s mission that “connecting” the world would lead to sunlit uplands of peace, love and outbreaks of democracy around the world. Slowly, she began to realise this was not the case. #Facebook #privacy
https://www.thenerve.news/p/frances-haugen-facebook-whistleblower-interview-social-reckoning-mark-zuckerberg
2026-10-06 08:53:30
Battery-electric car sales in the #EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of the year, up 45%. #EV
https://thenextweb.com/news/cheap-evs-europe-salini-targets
2026-10-04 09:02:58
One more: old phone without SIM as an #ebook #ereader - download books, turn off wifi and enjoy incredible battery ilfe.
--- One way to repurpose your old #phone is to give it a single specific job. It could become a kitchen display, hiking GPS, retro gaming handheld or one of several other useful devices around the house.
https://www.engadget.com/2270823/handy-ways-reuse-old-android-phone/
2026-10-02 16:55:43
Only one book at the moment - maybe this is a market test:
--- #Audiobook company Audible introduced three new features that will allow listeners to explore a book’s characters, engage in interactive stories, and view additional imagery and bonus information about landmarks or places mentioned in the book. #books
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/audibles-new-features-let-you-explore-book-worlds-and-even-talk-to-characters/
2026-10-01 15:50:00
“Our mission is to celebrate the artistry of top dog photographers, uncover emerging talents, and showcase the extraordinary diversity and charm of dogs,” the competition organizers say. #photography .https://petapixel.com/2026/09/30/18-adorable-winners-from-the-dog-photography-awards/
2026-10-01 08:36:43
OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid #copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI of being involved in a "distillation attack" where user accounts extract its models’ reasoning at scale.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/irony-alert-openai-whines-that-chinese-model-stole-its-special-ip-that-it-stole-from-everybody-else/5300285
2026-09-27 15:29:48
#Microsoft AI #copyright court case witness (a Microsoft employee) statement:
---the case was about “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." Indeed, it was possibly the “largest theft of labor in human history,” he was quoted as saying in the summary judgment brief.
https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007
2026-09-25 08:20:18
Gadgets with built-in AI and audio/video recording::
-- "If you're being recorded and you don't know it, that's a severe #privacy invasion. And we are continuing to see newer technologies get introduced whose primary purpose is to do this,"
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/welcome-to-the-age-of-listening-devices-144845987.html
2026-09-24 08:53:45
My interpretation is that an #EV is more affordable to drive:
- As that mileage increases, BEVs consistently outperform petrol vehicles, demonstrating much greater reliability.
https://thedriven.io/2026/09/24/electric-cars-are-more-durable-than-petrol-equivalents-and-last-longer-major-report-finds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=electric-cars-are-more-durable-than-petrol-equivalents-and-last-longer-major-report-finds
2026-09-21 15:34:56
Meanwhile, #EU is discussing how to erase #cyber #privacy::
---Personal data “in the context of AI”, companies developing #AI are generally permitted to do basically anything. The commercial interests of AI companies should generally trump the fundamental rights of users. This general allowance would also apply to individuals who have never been customers of an AI company, for example in chats or on social media. All personal data that an AI company can somehow get its hands on would fall under the provision. There is no need to ask users for consent – companies are automatically assumed to have an overriding “legitimate interest” if they train or use any AI product.
https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-plan-digital-expropriation-europeans-interest-ai-companies
2026-09-19 17:10:17
#Microsoft in court:::
“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our #LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.'” #copyright
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-executive-doom-loop
2026-09-18 19:39:00
Long #train trip in #Europe from north to south:- 6,203 km with an Interrail pass, taking 23 trains run by 10 railway companies. The journey was only possible thanks to the reopening of a railway line between Haparanda in Sweden and Tornio in Finland.https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/from-finland-to-portugal-by-train-in-just-125-hours