Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages

A Brazilian gamer who lost his Microsoft account and all his digital games has won a court order requiring the company to return them.

tomshardware.com/video-games/x…

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]

🔌 Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

theregister.com/on-prem/2026/0…

#datacenters #ireland #ai #energy

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin

^{Dan Robinson (theregister)}

Huawei’s camera mistook a plane for a bird and…

…I really dislike “AI-enhanced” photography. It makes it harder and harder for me to trust any photo, even those taken by people I know on their personal devices.

Source: nitter.catsarch.com/youy1qwq/s…

#ai #photography #computationalPhotography

The state of "#AI" #security:
How do we keep Captain Crunch from phreaking by inventing elaborate melodies?

#InBandSignalling

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dra…

American computer programmer and former phone phreak

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

🆕 blog! “I'm just so bored of AI”

I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is.

Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-ju…
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#AI #rant

#Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your #Instagram Photos in #AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-…

#privacy

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

^{Reece Rogers (WIRED)}

The takeaway: the big AI companies are making ludicrous claims that are totally falsifiable about what their products will do to the job market. The incentive structure is such that creating fear around their products will make them loads of money.

I've heard that general take before, and it has felt intuitively true, but it's awesome to see someone provide evidence that the claims about job replacement are impossible without a quantum leap in energy generation etc.

#ai

Germany’s AfD has developed "Alternita," an AI-driven platform designed to quickly generate provocative social media posts. An investigation by Correctiv revealed the software uses large language models to create "rage bait" for digital campaigns.

irishtimes.com/world/europe/20…

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany #AfD #AI

"The moment you ask where the power comes from and when it arrives, the entire narrative falls apart in your hands."

I'm past tired of hearing about AI, but this person's engineering experience provides a different take than I've seen, and one that seems important and worth sharing to me.

h/t @composergreg, who shared this with me this morning.

youtube.com/watch?v=sQGZXrzykp…

#ai

#AI: GitHub AI allows unauthenticated attackers to pull data from private repositories by posting a crafted GitHub Issue in a public repository. Noma Security research dubbed this prompt injection attack #GitLost:

#AISecurity
👇
noma.security/blog/gitlost-how…

GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos - Noma Security

TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by posting a crafted GitHub Issue in a public repository…

^{Sasi Levi (Noma Security)}

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre...

🧵(1/4)

#datacentre #ai

The secret weapon of stylometry -- the statistical analysis of writing style -- is something called “function words.” Most people assume AI looks for unique topical vocabulary. It actually looks for words like the, and, of, and in. Authors use these filler words unconsciously. Because you do not think about them, they are incredibly difficult to fake or manipulate. You naturally drop them into sentences at a highly specific, mathematical rate, making your "word print" almost wholly unique.

Edit : Since this seems to be an AI summarization (the whole site seems to be, upon closer investigation), here's the original journal article from PLOS .

How AI Stylometry Identifies Anonymous Authors: The Code Behind Your Writing DNA

AI stylometry algorithms can identify anonymous authors with up to 99.8% accuracy just by counting the subconscious "function words" you type.

^{Blaze Trends Tech & Science Desk (Blaze Trends)}

winbuzzer.com/2026/07/06/tence…

Tencent has unveiled Hy3, a smaller yet powerful open-source AI model designed to rival larger competitors with strong performance in coding, reasoning, and agent tasks.

#AI #Tencent #AIModels #ChinaAI #Hy3

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to.

You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/tr…

#LLM #AI #tech #UXDesign #UX #SoftwareDevelopment #USerresearch

Trust is not built on craft alone

No amount of tooling will let product teams move faster than being trusted to own their process. That trust is earned through rigor rather than mere velocity.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Passar på att använda #Fable5 - #Claude 's allra mest kraftfulla språkmodell, den där som stoppades för att den var FÖR bra men nu är släppt igen - under den kostnadsfria testperioden för att bygga über-nördiga appar.

Den här appen sitter som en smäck inför resan till #Lund imorgon.

#AI #app #kyrkor #kloster #medeltiden #vikingatiden

"It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”.

But the plans were paused in April, with an OpenAI spokesperson citing concerns over regulation and high energy costs.

Now the Guardian can reveal that OpenAI does not appear to have visited one of Stargate UK’s key sites – and that £20bn of the “potential” £30bn in investment touted by the UK government appears to have been totally hypothetical.

The findings raise questions about one of the most-hyped UK AI developments, and suggest a centrepiece of US-UK AI cooperation was in fact little more than a press release."

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#AI #OpenAI #UK #Stargate #StargateUK

OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment

Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical

^{Aisha Down (The Guardian)}

Two new blog posts about AI, one critical, one supportive

• From AI Enthusiast to Skeptic
• What I like about AI

I have been writing these for over 4 months now. Not only are they long reads, but it took me a while to really get a good idea of how I wanted to express myself. I think I have had enough time to think about these ideas and these opinions that I can now express myself fairly clearly, but I’ll let you (my readers) be the judge. Of course, feel free to tag me in a Fediverse post if you want to send me feedback on what you liked or disliked about my articles. Yes, I know they are too long, I’d suggest reading them in a few sittings if you find it enjoyable.

#tech #blog #AI #LLM #LLMs

#AI 🧠 fremmer vores overlevelse.
Jeg er træt af frygten for AI.

Senest i dag i P1 Morgen, hvor kulturministeren satte det i kontekst af en degenererende hjerne — forfaldet, siden vores sanser og hjerne skulle være skarpe for at overleve.

Vi er videre.

jyllands-posten.dk/article1936…

En gruppe lærere var trætte af at lege politibetjente. Så de tog sagen i egen hånd og opdagede et håb i elevernes brug af AI

En gruppe engagerede lærer på Skive Gymnasium var trætte af at lege politibetjente. Så tog de sagen i egen hånd og fandt ud af noget overraskende om elevernes brug af AI.

^{Jyllands-Posten}

RE: mastodon.social/@Thayer/116736…

Oh dear. Further to my #AI problem with the #NHS using AI that stopped my meds (story quoted below), now we're all going to be subjected to it as first line.

"NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients"

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0my2k…

NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients

The update will be available to all users in England by April 2028, the health service says.

^{Emily Atkinson (BBC News)}

Thayer 🔜EMFCAMP ☎️6090

2026-06-12 07:49:19

RE: mastodon.social/@Thayer/116002…

To follow up on the situation where non consensual NHS AI got my medical notes wrong: it is possible to have AI removed from your NHS note taking that's on by default. You have to request it in writing from your GP. I have now managed after a request in Feb, and have it confirmed in writing. Recommend you do to!!!

Thayer (@Thayer@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Just discovered part of my HRT has been discontinued due to an AI note taking error. Gynae did not say discontinue, and I have letters to prove it.

^{Thayer (Mastodon)}

NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."

propublica.org/article/google-…

#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence

How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral — ProPublica

^{Justin Elliott (ProPublica)}

“ #Neuroscience journal editor resigns over #AI automation concerns.

The editor resigned after the publisher’s artificial-intelligence system overrode his selection of referees for a manuscript.

His move prompted an internal review of the system.”

thetransmitter.org/publishing/…

Codex CLI, the free local AI-agent developed by OpenAI, quietly ruined your SSD!
Rui Fan (Apache Software Foundation) discovered that the software has been writing up to 640 terabytes of logs per year, which is way more than a typical SSD lifetime endurance. This may cause user account issues, data loss and hardware damage.

github.com/openai/codex/issues…

Tip: make periodic backups of your files! 💾

#ai #llm #openai #foss #freesoftware #opensource #software #linux #windows #data #sysadmin #coding

@Linux ✅
Is term "#Microslop" not the current method of talkin shit about that company for their overly abundant use of #AI? Why then push out a video which is both written and performed using AI?

The message is sound, yes. But the delivery, and progression of the script is absolutely terrible. The squirrel-chasey nature of how the robot jumps between unrelated subjects and (sometimes) back again, makes it very difficult to follow.

RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11…

This is a really important read for understanding both what's under the hood with LLMs, but also why it is impossible to secure any #LLM.

In the thread, I posted a couple of extra links to experts explaining that last sentence better than I can. But read the article Taggart linked first.

#AI #TulipMania #infosec

Taggart

2026-06-28 22:09:18

This is a masterful demonstration of the unsecurable nature of LLMs, and how prompt injection by dedicated humans who know how to write will always win.

role-confusion.github.io/

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

^{role-confusion.github.io}

Excited for this talk from friend and collaborator Cassandra Gould van Praag!

"Research Community Managers are a Human Essential in an AI-Driven Landscape"

Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2100810…

#StepUp2026
#AI #RCM #ResearchCommunityManagers #OpenResearch

Execs are confused: we forced you to use all these powerful AI tools and yet our profits aren't 10x! What gives?

Individual productivity is always downstream of strategy. And the same "more, faster!" attitude that creates incremental improvements in delivery speed means that leaders rush through strategy formation.

If the tasks don't add up to anything meaningful, no amount of model improvements will help you.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ev…

#LLM #AI #tech #softwaredevelopment #UX #Agile

Even with a silver bullet, you still have to aim

Productivity gains among frontline employees can't counteract the abdication of responsibility at the executive level.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Since it appears that @Jessnatarte has been found out for generating all their "photos" and has now deleted their account or blocked me - I have one more question.

Hey @Ducgris do you have an explanation as to why a lot of your photographs would have an embedded AI watermark?
Given the fact you have put your name to them, have even said where some of them were taken - like the obviously AI generated ladybug one that you claim was taken in Serra Calderona in May of 2021.
Clarification would be great, thank you.

#photography #amateurphotography #ai #noai #supportartists #astrophotography #questions

Apparently Hasbro has begun demanding that CHILD ACTORS in their cartoon series like Peppa Pig sign over the rights for the company to use #AI to clone their voices for future commercial use.

CHILD ACTORS are being asked to sign away control of their voices.

I think this should be illegal. Parents should not have the legal right to sign away their child’s voice or likeness to be turned into corporate assets forever.

deadline.com/2026/06/peppa-pig…

'Peppa Pig' Backlash As Hasbro Asks Child Actors To Sign AI Clause

'Peppa Pig' owner Hasbro has stoked anger by requiring child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices to artificial intelligence.

^{Jake Kanter (Deadline)}