They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:

about.flipboard.com/fediverse/…

#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky

Blacksky and the Future of Community with Rudy Fraser

Blacksky founder and CEO Rudy Fraser is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities—one made possible by the social web.

^{Mia Quagliarello (About Flipboard)}

All tools create a path of least resistance. When it comes to AI chatbots, that path is to trust the AI's outputs.

Unfortunately, all LLMs hallucinate. And as users get used to relying on the machine, their ability and willingness to spot these errors deteriorates.

Blaming the user for this is irresponsible. The problem is caused by the way these tools are designed - so it's up to us, as designers, to fix it.

#AI #GenAI #LLM #UX #UXDesign #UserExperience #tech

nngroup.com/articles/ai-chatbo…

AI Chatbots Discourage Error Checking

AI hallucinations threaten the usefulness of LLM-generated text in professional environments, but today’s LLMs encourage users to take outputs at face value.

^{Pavel Samsonov (Nielsen Norman Group)}

Imagine having a bicycle with a closed chain guard. One day the chain falls off & you realize it's assembled with tamper-proof screws.

Now imagine the manufacturer wanting to make unscrewing that screw a felony carrying a 5-year prison sentence & a $500K fine.

They'd be booed out of business, if not institutionalized.

None the less, that's EXACTLY how DMCA 1201 works.

Despite @pluralistic & others' efforts I feel this isn't clear to the general public.

#tech #business #enshittification

"Tech companies are the most self-mythologizing industry on the planet, beating out even the pharma sector in boasting about their prowess and good corporate citizenship. They swear that they've made a functional digital lock…but they sure act like the only thing those locks do is let them sue people who reveal their workings." - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2025/05/14/pre… #tech #business #resist

Social Media Companies Now Work for Governments—Not Users

Content from rap videos to protest photos is being removed in the name of “national security.”

foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/14/c…

Paywall Free: archive.today/Td6wV

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #twitter #politics #censorship

Content Moderation on Social Media Platforms:

^{Aliya Bhatia (Foreign Policy)}

AI is changing disaster response. By scanning social media in real time, it can pinpoint where help is needed most—faster than official reports.

theconversation.com/ai-can-sca…

#disasterresponse #tech #AI

AI can scan vast numbers of social media posts during disasters to guide first responders

Natural disasters prompt a flood of social media posts. AI can help sift the wheat of helpful information from the chaff of chitchat and misinformation.

^{The Conversation}

New Intel CPU flaws leak sensitive data from privileged memory

#security #bleeping computer #bleepingcomputer #computers #technology #news #education #updates #tech
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*

^GitLab

#DeFi isn't as secure as many think.

This new study reveals 5 common mistakes crypto investors make—like overtrusting 2FA, neglecting token approvals, and more ⬇️

theconversation.com/decentrali…
#crypto #tech

Decentralized finance is booming − and so are the security risks. My team surveyed nearly 500 crypto investors and uncovered the most common mistakes

Researchers identified 5 major security pitfalls – and how to steer clear of them.

^{The Conversation}

Fitting. Blurry lines for the blurry ethics.

#Google #Tech #Logo #News #Software

Google settles Black employees' racial bias lawsuit for $50 million

reuters.com/legal/google-settl…

> Google agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of systemic racial bias against Black employees.

#news #tech

The European Commission's "ProtectEU" strategy aims to address internal security threats but threatens digital rights by promoting #surveillance measures like #encryption backdoors and increased data retention.

It also seeks to strengthen agencies like Europol and Frontex, despite their abusive histories.

Thanks to #EDRi for their ongoing efforts to protect Europeans’ digital rights.

@edri

edri.org/our-work/protecteu-se…

#ProtectEU #EU #DigitalRights #Privacy #Surveillance #Tech

‘ProtectEU’ security strategy - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

The European Commission presented an internal security strategy that would undermine digital rights and even increase security threats.

^{European Digital Rights (EDRi)}

Bluetooth 6.1 enhances privacy with randomized RPA timing

#security #bleeping computer #bleepingcomputer #computers #technology #news #education #updates #tech
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Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*

^GitLab

House Committee Leader to Investigate Agency for Preferential Treatment of Politically Connected Startup
—

The probe comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation that revealed the General Services Administration was eyeing a tech firm with strong ties to the Trump administration to remake a massive, $700 billion federal credit card program.
propublica.org/article/investi…

#News #Trump #Business #Fintech #Tech #Technology #Government

Lawmaker to Probe GSA for Preferential Treatment of Thiel-Backed Firm Ramp

^ProPublica

People feel more lonely, in part because so many of our relationships are mediated by social media.

Instead of atoning for the harms of his platforms, Mark Zuckerberg has a new tech solution: he’s going to give us all a bunch of Meta-powered AI friends to fill the void left by the lack of real ones. It’s an even more dystopian future.

disconnect.blog/p/mark-zuckerb…

#tech #markzuckerberg #meta #ai #chatbots #facebook

Mark Zuckerberg wants to you be lonely and miserable

That’s the only way he’ll profit from selling you AI friends

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job" - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah…

#tech #AI #ML #labor

For the first time, researchers have imaged individual "itinerant" (free-floating) atoms and observed the way they interact.

How these sodium & lithium atoms behave depends on their spin state: We can directly witness the effects of quantum spin here. Amazing!

physics.aps.org/articles/v18/8… #science #physics #quantum #tech

They may simply be idiots, but remember what @pluralistic keeps pointing out: There are very good material reasons for keeping these claims going even if they know it's complete horseshit.

It's all about the story of infinite growth, because for these companies that story is literally a money printing machine.

Of course you'll never get them to admit they don't belive it; that would reveal that their entire businesses is fraudulent.

eicker.news/@technews/11446806… #business #tech

#GiftArticle

#ElonMusk’s Most Alarming #Power Grab

Can anyone stop his #space-based #internet?

by Ross Andersen

When #Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype #satellites into a rocket’s nose cone 6yrs ago, there were <2k functional satellites in Earth’s #orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic, & the years since, Musk’s company, #SpaceX, kept launching them. >7k of his satellites now surround #Earth like a cloud of gnats.

#tech
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Starlink Is Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab

Can anyone stop his space-based internet?

^{Ross Andersen (The Atlantic)}

Interesting read…

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally."

🔗1️⃣ rollingstone.com/politics/poli…

🔗2️⃣ archive.is/F1H7d

#tech #technology #USpol #politics #US #USA

Naomi Klein Interview: Trump, Musk, Pandemic Rage, and Climate Denial

The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

^{Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)}

Changing its plan could create uncertainty for #OpenAI’s financial future. The company had said it needed to transition into a for-profit company to unlock billions of dollars of new funding from Japanese conglomerate #SoftBank.

OpenAI announced it was scrapping its plan to restructure in an email sent to reporters Monday.

#law #tech #business #ChatGPT #nonprofit #Musk #ArtificialIntelligence #technology

#ChatGPT maker #OpenAI will remain under the control of its founding #nonprofit board, after abandoning its plan to split off its commercial ops as a #ForProfit company.

Fmr employees & #ElonMusk, a co-founder of OpenAI who later split w/ its leaders, had criticized the restructuring plan, saying it would remove important oversight of its #ArtificialIntelligence #technology. #Musk filed a lawsuit seeking to block the plan; the suit is still ongoing.

#law #tech #business
washingtonpost.com/technology/…

ChatGPT-induced psychosis…

slashdot.org/story/25/05/05/02…

#ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #psychology #MentalHealth #brain #neuroscience #tech #technology #BigTech

After Reddit Thread on 'ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis', OpenAI Rolls Back GPT4o Update - Slashdot

Rolling Stone reports on a strange new phenomenon spotted this week in a Reddit thread titled "Chatgpt induced psychosis.

^slashdot.org

I read this with interest…

"Billionaires think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealthiest people who've ever lived. If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful? […] They believe that everything can be quantified, like a person's IQ, and that money is a good measure of how much someone is worth."

arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0…

#tech #technology #BigTech #billionaires #TaxTheRich #capitalism #AI #LLM #LLMs #ML

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible

Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

^{Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)}

Who’d a thunk it?

Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
#AI #Google #Tech
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/goo…

Vox Media has sold @polygon, its gaming and entertainment site, to Valnet, owner of ScreenRant, GameRant and Android Police, @theverge reports. Some staffers will stay with the publication while others have been laid off. At the second link, find a story from @TheWrap about Valnet's questionable treatment of writers. “Everyone is underpaid, overworked and really pretty — extremely — exploited,” a former Collider contributor said.

flip.it/XJ6gP7
flip.it/U0fKh9

#Media #MediaIndustry #Journalism #GamesJournalism #Gaming #Tech #Technology #VoxMedia #Valnet

Polygon sold to GameRant owner Valnet

Polygon, Vox Media’s publication dedicated to gaming and entertainment, has been sold to Valnet, a company that owns brands like ScreenRant, GameRant, Android Police, and more.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

> Reality Hits for "Art" Collectors as Million-Dollar Nike NFTs Vanish From Internet futurism.com/the-byte/nfts-van…

#scams #stupid #tech #CacaDeToro 💩 🐮

All I got on this:

I have two open positions in my team to work on, among other things, software tools used to track nutrition programs and health campaigns, in Africa mainly.

We are using Django, Postgres, React and AWS, but we are open to good profiles knowing different, but similar, tools. The job is open to remote applicants, in particular from Africa.

bluesquarehub.com/blog/vacanci…

#django #tech

Join Bluesquare • Senior Full-Stack Developer (React, Django) - IASO

Organization Bluesquare is a fast growing technology company focusing on digital solutions and data analysis for Global Health and Development.

^Bluesquare

Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.

Spoiler: there are differences.

#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
techdirt.com/2025/04/28/govern…

Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia’s Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans

When Trump officials want to censor speech, they don’t quite say “we want to censor speech” (after all, they pretend to be the party that “brought free speech back.”) Instead, the…

^Techdirt

#TakeItDown Act has passed the #House 409-2 giving #Trump & the #FTC power to #censor the #internet.

The bill seems good at first glance. It requires online platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate imagery aka“revenge porn.”

However, it will also enable the FTC to demand #content be removed from websites.

🚨In fact, Trump said he will use the bill ON HIS OWN BEHALF, presumably to remove criticism of him from the web.

#law #tech #regulations #FreeSpeech #Constitution
techdirt.com/2025/04/28/congre…

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …

^Techdirt

#Proton confirmed on #Telegram :

Drive client for #Linux is coming!

Great news for privacy-conscious users.

Proton offers solid tools (#Email service, #Password Manager, #Cloud storage, #VPN …), but remember - diversify your #privacy stack.

Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket.

For suggestions or questions, feel free to reply or follow me for the latest #tech #news!

Check out the spring/summer 2025 roadmap:
proton.me/blog/product-roadmap…

#Technology #TechNews #Software #Cybersecurity

Proton 2025 spring roadmaps | Proton

We're sharing the roadmaps for all our services so you can see what's coming and give us your feedback.

^Proton

They're only principles if they make you say no to things that you would like to do. Otherwise, they are just sparkling theater.

What usually happens is that teams say "our principles are Empathy and Usability" while real decisions all happen upstream.

This is not an effective way of working, and will be detrimental in the long term. Real impact requires real #agility, which means delegating decisions downwards via good principles.

#UXDesign #softwaredevelopment #Tech

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/if…

If you're comfortable, your principles aren't working

Design principles are a tool for delegating and scaling the ability to say "no" to many good ideas, so that they can say "yes" to one great idea.

^{The Product Picnic}

This is a perilous moment. Rapid technological advances over the past two decades have made #DataShedding ubiquitous—whether it comes from the devices everyone carries or the platforms we use to communicate with the world. As a society, we produce unfathomable quantities of #information, & that information is easier to collect than ever before.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

The government has tons of it, some of which is obvious—names, addresses, & census data—& much of which may surprise you. Consider, say, a limited tattoo database, created in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards & Technology, & distributed to multiple institutions for the purpose of training software systems to recognize common tattoos associated with gangs & criminal organizations.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance

That means the govt has at least some ability to map or re-create the past everyday movements of some American citizens. This is hardly even a cursory list of what is publicly known.

Advancements in #AI promise to turn this unwieldy mass of #data & metadata into something easily searchable, politically weaponizable, & maybe even profitable.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance