An #AI slop farm stole my #identity -

AlgorithmWatch

An AI slop farm stole my identity - AlgorithmWatch

AI slop is everywhere. By one estimate, roughly one in five articles referenced on Google Discover is automatically generated. It's less known...

fascinating and troubling tale... #journalism

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European #opensource alternative -

Euractiv

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

every time this happens, it makes it easier for others to do the same

How #NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy -

EUobserver

EUobserver

Influential. Investigative. Independent. EUobserver is a online non-profit news outlet reporting on the European Union.

this is terrible: the #EU has lost its mind

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is #Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? -

the Guardian

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone f...

#OpenAI’s new browser is a broadside shot at #Google -

TechCrunch

OpenAI’s new browser is a broadside shot at Google  | TechCrunch

OpenAI's new browser announcement made it clear exactly how much Google has to lose in the AI era.

#chrome certainly needs competition given the growing uselessness of #firefox, but I fear this will be even worse

noyb win: #Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children -

noyb.eu

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children

Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids&#...

"it is now for Microsoft to finally answer how it uses user data for their own business purposes." #privacy #gdpr

#Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens -

the Guardian

Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens

Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water

"Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water #whoa #climatecrisis

"To my shock and delight, I learned that the burgeoning PC industry was a nerdy successor to the political and cultural activism of the late 1960s." -

WIRED

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

& still is in the world of free software, even if everyone else has sold out...

#Anthropic’s #AI lawsuit settlement may not go through, but it exposes a truth about #copyright -

Anthropic’s AI lawsuit settlement may not go through, but it exposes a truth about copyright – Walled Culture

one law for them, one for us...

In new level of stupid, #RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe #MMRV recommendation -

Ars Technica

In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

The vote to strip the recommendation came after a day of inept discussion.

this is going to cause so much unnecessary suffering to children