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Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.
But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:
> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-a…
As #AI threatens creative livelihoods, researchers who study cultural work and public policy studied what happened when 2,400 artists got $1,000 a month for 18 months.
Artists spent nearly 4 more hours weekly on artistic work and 2.4 fewer hours on non-arts jobs.
theconversation.com/we-studied…
We studied what happened when financially struggling artists received $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for 18 months
Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.The Conversation
Fuck this trend.
1. Unilaterally cut employee benefits without renegotiation
2. Blame “AI spending”
“AI spending” is now the go-to excuse to lay off and screw over your employees, no questions asked.
“A $2 billion tech firm is halting 401k contributions for staff”
#ai
LOL now they're blaming sci-fi writers...
Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts
slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/04…
Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.slashdot.org
Non-paper by the #Netherlands: an integrated approach for the EU tech #sovereignty package
✅ #Cloud & #AI Development Act
✅ #Chips Act II (CAII)
✅ Open Source Strategy (OSS)
1 of 3 pillars 🏛️:
“ #Opensource should be treated as one of the cross-cutting enablers of sovereignty and a supply-demand loop within the tech stack.”
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.🤨
This violates GDPR!😡
🇺🇸thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome…
🇳🇱androidworld.nl/nieuws/google-…
😲At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane! #Google #AI
🤓Here's how to remove it: archive.is/lsc0d
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)
New blog post: An open letter to Bandcamp
"Thank you so much for taking a stance against generative AI and banning AI-generated music from Bandcamp."
"Suno is, of course, the biggest platform for making generative AI music, the very thing you are banning from your site."
"Hope to see an alternative pop up that is more in line with your Bandcamp Fair Trade Music Policy."
kristofferlislegaard.com/blog/…
#bandcamp #beyourOwnPlatform #music #ai #suno #aimusic #songkick
The Morse Code Hack That Made an AI Agent Spend $200,000
Dave explains the Grok/Bankrbot exploit that caused an AI Agent to spend almost $200K in tokens!
youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4pSVS_mN…
- YouTube
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.www.youtube.com
In 2024 we learned about the IDF's AI system #Lavender that ranked the entire population of #Gaza by “probability of militant affiliation". With a targeting system called "Where's Daddy", so they could hit #AI determined targets at home, the #IDF allowing up to 100 civilians killed per "militant". The rubble of Gaza is the result.
I tell you that story to tell you this one.
Peter Thiel’s #Palantir sells
#ELITE which pulls data from the IRS, the SSA, DMV, Medicaid, utility bills, license-plate readers and data brokers to create a map with dossiers and a “confidence score” to each person’s current address.
#Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.
It’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command at MacDill AFB, Florida.
‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity?
With the war on Iran, Ukraine, AI and climate breakdown increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war, the clock stands closer to midnight than ever before. So who decides how many seconds we have left – and can we buy ourselves more time?Sophie McBain (The Guardian)
A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Jan 2023 and Feb 2026.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/…
#AI #Citations #Hallucinations
The new guideline allows us to more effectively apply our previous rules by tagging all of a confirmed AI spammer's output for presumptive deletion, instead of having to debate each individual page one by one and putting a massive burden on volunteers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…
More then on Defense in 2027.
#AI #finance #WSJ
wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-distorti…
New development in Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman. A federal court in Oakland, Calif., heard a former OpenAI employee and board member say the company’s efforts to push AI products into the marketplace compromised its commitment to AI safety. @Techcrunch has more:
#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technolgy #ArtificialIntelligence
Elon Musk's lawsuit is putting OpenAI's safety record under the microscope | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.Tim Fernholz (TechCrunch)
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👉This is one of the best articles on strategic #LLM use in business--#Anthropic--not so ethical and secure after all... 👈:
Via #PatrickMoorhead / #Forbes
"There's a pattern at #Anthropic of saying one thing in public and doing something different in practice. The #Opus 4.6 and 4.7 “nerfing” episode, which I’ll describe in detail below, is the cleanest example. CEO #DarioAmodei has been hammering on #AI-driven job...
Microslop sneaked in a change that makes all git commits made with VS Code get marked with Copilot as a commit co-author by default. They backed down after immense backlash.
It seems like they're doing anything they can to make it seem like people like and use their slop-generators.
github.com/microsoft/vscode/pu…
#Microsoft #Microslop #VSCode #Git #Programming #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #Slop #AI #LLM #Copilot
Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode
Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
"‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes #AI replicate itself"
I find this article to be sensationalistic, but I agree there is a reckoning coming
People conjure dramatic scenarios like the movies, but I feel if AI does fuck us up, it will be according to the most boring and mundane of ways
My particular terror is turning all of #socialMedia into a wasteland of exquisite mechanized #psyop for #politics
Until such time, unplugging the damn things can work
theguardian.com/technology/202…
‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes AI replicate itself
World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind studyAisha Down (The Guardian)
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533…
❝ She came up through the apprenticeship you abolished: Ben, 1998, the USB stick. She is the pipeline. When she dies, the thing that produces people like her is already gone. ❞
the purpose of STEM was to create a precariat. no job security, only job hopping. away went bonuses, shares, retirement, pensions.
so why would workers document & mentor their replacements?
with a precariat comes INSTRUCTIONAL DEBT. capitalists think #AI will fix +30 years of lost expertise & memory.
they can’t.
tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper.tante (tldr.nettime)
“No-one is asking for this..."
Just like millions of others, scammers on cybercrime forums are fed up with AI posts and the increased rollout of AI
wired.com/story/cybercriminals…
#cybersecurity #cybercrime #aislop #ai
Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do
It's not just you. Scammers, hackers, and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.Matt Burgess (WIRED)
Google Just Bought a Stake in the Maker of Eve Online to Train Its AI Models
engadget.com/2166270/google-ju…
#videogames #pcgaming #gaming #gamedev #google #genai #ai
Google Just Bought A Stake In The Maker Of Eve Online To Train Its AI Models
DeepMind will research player behavior in the space-based RPG.Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)
By now you've all probably heard about the latest shenanigans from Google and their love for in-browser AI features (if you don't, this is the story: theverge.com/tech/924933/googl…).
Our team has been inspecting the Chromium code and disabling stuff from the very first version of Vivaldi (we have some posts about this in our blog, such as vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no… or vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-viv…).
We've also been very outspoken about our dislike of the built-in AI trend in the browser industry, but in case there's still any doubts: yes, we disable all Gemini-related features, and we've been doing it for a while.
#Ai #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Google #Gemini
Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
Chrome users are discovering that Google is installing a 4GB weights.bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI browser features are enabled.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
It is pretty rare that the fields of cryptocurrency, web3 bulls***, AI bots and ... Morse code! overlap .... 😅
> A user on X just managed to trick Grok and Bankrbot into sending around $200K in free tokens. The message that bypassed the AI safety was written in Morse code, making it easily readable only to the bots.
cryptopolitan.com/user-tricked…
But of course as usual in that sphere after a short moment of panic and horror everything just continues as usual:
> Following the exploit, the DebtReliefBot (DRB) token crashed and recovered to its usual baseline.
#nft #llm #ai #morsecode #crypto #heist
User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code - Cryptopolitan
Grok was tricked by a prompt injection, translating a Morse code message to Bankrbot. Bankrbot then sent 3B DRB tokens to a predetermined address, revealing the risk of autonomous agents in Web3.Hristina Vasileva (Cryptopolitan)
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)
Chrome lataa nyt tietokoneelle 4 gigatavun paikallisen tekoälymallin - kysymättä lupaa tai ilmoittamatta asiasta
Tiedosto latautuu itsestään kaikille tietokoneille sen kummemmin mitään ilmoittamatta, kunhan tietokone vain täyttää tietyt suorituskykyvaatimukset.
Tekoälymalli-tiedoston poistaminen ei auta mitään, sillä selain lataa sen automaattisesti aina uudestaan.
dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/05/05/chr…
#chrome #tekoäly #ai #google #uutiset #teknologia #selain #tekniikka
Chrome lataa kaikille tietokoneille automaattisesti 4 gigatavun tekoälytiedoston, kysymättä lupaa
Googlen Chrome-selain on ryhtynyt lataamaan automaattisesti, ilman käyttäjän lupaa, jokaiselle ehdot täyttävälle tietokoneelle 4 gigatavun tekoälytiedoston.Petteri Pyyny (AfterDawn)
Having been part of a project attempting to measure the carbon footprint of serving web pages I can affirm that using the internet is not a trivial cost for the planet.
thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome…
#AI #privacy #ePrivacy #Compliance #GDPR #Google #Chrome #Gemini #ESG #Environment #Sustainability #Climate #law
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)
#lund #ai #lundpol
sydsvenskan.se/lund/lomsk-ai-t…
Lömsk AI-tjänst smög in på toppolitikernas möte
Spelade in samtalet och skickade till USA.Alexander Kuprijanko (Sydsvenskan)
Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.
Denmark generates more than 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. Its wind farms, both onshore and offshore, have made the country a global model for clean energy transition.The Next Web
"There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are buit for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists" 🎯 Molly Crabapple - 2023
#AI #generativeAI #genAI #artist #art #images #technology #MollyCrabapple
Por más que tengan buenas intenciones, lo que para ustedes podría ser un uso «ético y responsable» es avalar y legitimar la vulneración de derechos sistemática que sostiene toda la industria de la IA generativa comercial.
📌 Ningún modelo de IAG comercial funciona sin VIOLAR derechos de autor.
#IA #IAgenerativa #AI #genAI #generativeAI #datasets #theft #technology #ethics
La leyenda urbana de «entrenar tu propio modelo de IAG» sigue siendo un anzuelo para monetizar tutoriales, cursos, masterclass y demás productos que los gurúes y promotores de la IA generativa usan para seguir lucrando a costa de todos los autores vulnerados. ¡No se dejen engañar!
#AI #MachineLearning #data #training #finetuning #AImodel #genAI #generativeAI #pretraining #Copyright #opensource
