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emsign··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
Endangered? This is great news! It's one of the things that make social media a drug.
emsign··on EU will seek to limit children's access to social media
Because Meta lobbyied massively for this version of the law. So they keep their addictive apps as they are.
emsign··on Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance
I think they also use planes with state of the art optics and cameras in other major US cities, especially before certain events, to go back in time later. If a crime happens they can trace back cars and suspects in the video archive. And I guess they might also do number plate recognition by default, to get even quicker results.
emsign··on What's slowing down the AI buildout
Peak demand
emsign··on Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
Who would have thought that the hardware I own didn't go down in value for the first time in my life but almost doubled in value.
emsign··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
LLMs are all about corporate piracy it's just hidden in plain sight.
emsign··on Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
Not to sound too alarming. But

Security holes in networking equipment

Affects not just the compromised devices.

emsign··on Right to Local Intelligence
Now the investors try to hold the bubble together by regulatory capture. They must really fear the worst. A bailout is going to cost their puppet in the White House even the last supporters in his base.
emsign··on Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data
Why not make selling any personal data illegal in the entire country?
emsign··on Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'
Good on him. He saved his dignity.
emsign··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
Great news for Spain. I hope more European countries wake up to what's going on.
emsign··on Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share
I knew it! Nvidia wants access to our hardware to lease it out for arbitrage profit. You shall own nothing even if you've payed for it. I've read the signs.
emsign··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Your IP if you visit websites that identify you as anti-racist or non-white. Then give that IP to a racist government like in the US.

Trump denoted Antifa as terrorists for example.

emsign··on Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
Excess AI capacity? Huh? Wait a minute does that mean they've built more data centers than there's demand for? Oh! How did that happen? Well, I'm a complete idiot, a layman, not even a developer, what do I know about economics and technology...
emsign··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
YES! The EU rocks!
emsign··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
> why can't you trust a racist with your privacy?

Isn't it obvious? They might use that data against you. Even asking such a naive question raises an eyebrow.

emsign··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
I put my clothes into the clothes bin directly without using the floor as a temporary storage space.
emsign··on Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
What's the point of giving a single point of information about yourself to a single website, when all the websites you visit use the same trackers (from Google for example) only to merge these data points together and sell them as a package.
emsign··on The first early human eggs from stem cells
Imagine guys like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg or Thiel cloning themselves. That's 100% dystopian. We would never be able to get rid of madmen! Power corrupts and makes the powerful just weird and unable to make rational decisions. That's why people in power need to be replaced regularly to have a stable society.
emsign··on From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery
I hate this because we have crazy billionaires who want to abuse this technology. But apart from tht it's pretty cool, though I hate that it's being developed in this dark day and age. Miserable times.
emsign··on County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'
"Who needs public schools anyway? I pay my kid's teachers salary directly."
emsign··on The case for physical media ownership
Since all the sheep are thinking "why do I need this junk wasting space in my attic or worse in my living room shelves? I need to get rid off it all as quick as possible, so I have more room for my mega inch TV with Netflix and so on...", I get those collection for almost nothing if I'm lucky. I resell the stuff I don't need and even make a profit.

Expanding your archive of physical media wasn't easier because of the people falling for the streaming trap.

emsign··on Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together
A privacy nightmare, this WILL be misused systematically. I used to get excited about new technologies like that, but big tech ruined the future for me.
emsign··on The fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers
The people next door beg to differ. Also big LLMs aren't the AI we will actually be using, it's small local LLMs. These data centers are a dead and everyone knows that, even the people building them, but not the people paying for them.
emsign··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
And that's coming from the intellectual property thieves. Laughable. Let the Chinese steal the models, they will only make it cheaper for everyone.
emsign··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
The issue is though data centers are being built in areas with scarce water resources and they get prioritized. They still use a lot of water.
emsign··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
Greenwashing, that's all. This is not going to be the standard it's just a light house project to calm some nerves to keep on going.
emsign··on Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition
List of Honor. I'm grateful these brave people exist.
emsign··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Baffling how easy companies like Meta have it with politicians. Fuck them all, I'm leaving for the woods. It's been fun with tech but now it's just so painful,
emsign··on Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative
So many close races, so many near misses.
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