Trump’s Protectionism Protects the 1 Percent
Donald Trump’s tariffs amount to a stealth tax on the middle and working classes, wrapped in the language of sovereignty. In practice, it’s upward redistribution and corporate price-gouging, fueling inequality that corrodes stability and erodes democracy.
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Uni students are using AI to ‘ask stupid questions’ and get feedback on their work
Uni students are using AI to ‘ask stupid questions’ and get feedback on their work
Research shows nearly half of surveyed Australian university students use generative artificial intelligence for feedback.The Conversation
When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data
When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data
Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.The Conversation
Revenue for the State Policy Network and Its Affiliates Increased 77% in Three Years
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44902005
The right-wing State Policy Network (SPN) and its affiliates have an overall combined revenue of $270 million, according to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) of the latest publicly available IRS filings. This marks a 77% increase since CMD last reported on SPN’s core finances in 2022.CMD analyzed the IRS filings of all 64 affiliates of SPN from 2023, with a few available from 2024. The network’s overall combined expenses for this period were $230 million, with net assets coming in at $255 million. These numbers do not include core financials from the Great Plains Public Policy Institute or the Roughrider Policy Center since they bring in less than $50,000 per year and therefore do not have to disclose them, according to IRS regulations.
SPN groups play an integral role in promoting passage of legislation in state houses across the country — by providing academic legitimacy when their members testify at hearings, producing “studies” or model legislation, and attracting media attention. That legislation is sometimes drafted as model bills by corporate lobbyists and lawmakers at SPN’s sister organization, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
SPN is holding its annual meeting this week in New Orleans, where school privatization, AI, deregulating nicotine, noncitizen voting, bitcoin, DOGE, and more are on the agenda.
Btw, here is their featured keynote speaker for this years annual meeting.
Revenue for the State Policy Network and Its Affiliates Increased 77% in Three Years - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The right-wing State Policy Network and its affiliates have an overall combined revenue of $270 million, according to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy of the latest publicly available IRS filings.Kate Eaton (EXPOSEDbyCMD)
Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC
Meta plans to launch a super PAC to support California candidates favoring a light-touch approach to AI regulation, Politico reports. The news comes as other Silicon Valley behemoths, like Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, pledge $100 million for a new pro-AI super PAC.
Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC | TechCrunch
Meta's new PAC signals an intent to influence statewide elections, including the next governor’s race in 2026.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
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FCC chairman helps AT&T cement dominance with $23 billion spectrum deal
FCC chairman helps AT&T cement dominance with $23 billion spectrum deal
EchoStar selling spectrum to AT&T after FCC threatened to revoke licenses.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
A class-action lawsuit against AI company Anthropic over copyright infringement is nearing settlement, with both parties reaching an agreement in principle[^1]. The lawsuit, filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber, alleged Anthropic illegally downloaded millions of books to train its AI models[^3].U.S. District Judge William Alsup certified what could be the largest copyright class action ever, potentially including up to 7 million claimants[^1]. The lawsuit claimed Anthropic pirated books from online sources including Books3, Library Genesis, and Pirate Library Mirror[^3].
"This historic settlement will benefit all class members," said Justin A. Nelson, attorney for the authors[^1]. The parties must file a motion for preliminary approval by September 5, 2025[^1].
While settlement terms remain undisclosed, the case had serious implications - industry advocates warned that if every eligible author filed a claim, it could "financially ruin" the AI industry[^1]. Anthropic had previously argued the lawsuit threatened its survival as a company[^1].
[^1]: Ars Technica - Authors celebrate "historic" settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
[^3]: LA Times - AI company Anthropic settles with authors who alleged piracy
AI company Anthropic settles with authors who alleged piracy
Anthropic trained its AI assistant Claude using copyrighted texts, according to a lawsuit from several affected authors.Cerys Davies (Los Angeles Times)
Microsoft Forces Candy Crush Developers to Use AI Daily
Inside King: layoff lawsuits, toxic leaders, toothless ethics teams, low morale and mandatory AI use
“Candy Crush and King in general is a very very toxic environment,” says one source. “So, yes, Microsoft and AI is one cause [of the low morale] but the toxicity is endemic of the…Mobilegamer.biz
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
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Google’s Upcoming L1 Blockchain for Finance: How It Compares to L1s From Stripe and Circle
Rich Widmann, head of Web3 at Google, outlined on Tuesday how his firm's upcoming layer-1 blockchain for finance differs from Stripe's Temp and Circle's Arc.
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Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching. | ‘If people could see this with their bare eyes, none of this would be happening.’
Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.
‘If people could see this with their bare eyes, none of this would be happening.’Hannah Story Brown (The American Prospect)
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ChatGPT influences how we speak
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36407755
Research.
“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated patterns with AI buzzwords.”While rapid increases in the use of certain words — like Omicron — do occur, these increases are typically due to real-world events. Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords.
“The changes we are seeing in spoken language are pretty remarkable, especially when compared to historical trends,” Juzek said. “What stands out is the breadth of change: so many words are showing notable increases over a relatively short period. Given that these are all words typically overused by AI, it seems plausible to conjecture a link.”
Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT. While these words are often used in a formal or academic tone, which makes them less common in unscripted, spoken language, researchers found that nearly three-quarters of these target words showed increased usage with some more than doubling in frequency.
ChatGPT influences how we speak
“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated patterns with AI buzzwords.”While rapid increases in the use of certain words — like Omicron — do occur, these increases are typically due to real-world events. Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords.
“The changes we are seeing in spoken language are pretty remarkable, especially when compared to historical trends,” Juzek said. “What stands out is the breadth of change: so many words are showing notable increases over a relatively short period. Given that these are all words typically overused by AI, it seems plausible to conjecture a link.”
Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT. While these words are often used in a formal or academic tone, which makes them less common in unscripted, spoken language, researchers found that nearly three-quarters of these target words showed increased usage with some more than doubling in frequency.
Model Misalignment and Language Change: Traces of AI-Associated Language in Unscripted Spoken English
In recent years, written language, particularly in science and education, has undergone remarkable shifts in word usage.arXiv.org
ChatGPT influences how we speak
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36407755
Research.
“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated patterns with AI buzzwords.”While rapid increases in the use of certain words — like Omicron — do occur, these increases are typically due to real-world events. Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords.
“The changes we are seeing in spoken language are pretty remarkable, especially when compared to historical trends,” Juzek said. “What stands out is the breadth of change: so many words are showing notable increases over a relatively short period. Given that these are all words typically overused by AI, it seems plausible to conjecture a link.”
Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT. While these words are often used in a formal or academic tone, which makes them less common in unscripted, spoken language, researchers found that nearly three-quarters of these target words showed increased usage with some more than doubling in frequency.
ChatGPT influences how we speak
“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated patterns with AI buzzwords.”While rapid increases in the use of certain words — like Omicron — do occur, these increases are typically due to real-world events. Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords.
“The changes we are seeing in spoken language are pretty remarkable, especially when compared to historical trends,” Juzek said. “What stands out is the breadth of change: so many words are showing notable increases over a relatively short period. Given that these are all words typically overused by AI, it seems plausible to conjecture a link.”
Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT. While these words are often used in a formal or academic tone, which makes them less common in unscripted, spoken language, researchers found that nearly three-quarters of these target words showed increased usage with some more than doubling in frequency.
Model Misalignment and Language Change: Traces of AI-Associated Language in Unscripted Spoken English
In recent years, written language, particularly in science and education, has undergone remarkable shifts in word usage.arXiv.org
Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36407518
Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Save new files automatically to the cloud in Word for Windows
Hello, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Raul Munoz, a Product Manager on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team. I’m excited to share an update to Microsoft Word for Windows that automatically saves new documents to the cloud.Raul_Munoz (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)
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South Korea ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting March 2026
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36407130
South Korea ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting March 2026
Use of Smart Devices to be Restricted in Elementary, Middle, High Schools
Starting the spring semester of next year, use of smart devices, including smartphones, will be restricted in classrooms at elementary, middle and high schools.A related ...world.kbs.co.kr
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'The tides are turning': Shockwaves as Dem scores double-digit win in red district
'The tides are turning': Shockwaves as Dem scores double-digit win in red district
Democratic strategists are celebrating the outcome of an Iowa State Legislature race, hoping that it is a sign of things to come in the 2026 midterms and some key gubernatorial elections this year in Virginia and New Jersey.Alex Henderson, AlterNet (Raw Story)
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The real reason the West is warmongering against China
The real reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and undermined Western corporate profits.Jason Hickel
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who are dealing with the fallout from President Trump’s move to send National Guard troops and federal agents into Washington.
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ChatGPT influences how we speak
“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated patterns with AI buzzwords.”While rapid increases in the use of certain words — like Omicron — do occur, these increases are typically due to real-world events. Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords.
“The changes we are seeing in spoken language are pretty remarkable, especially when compared to historical trends,” Juzek said. “What stands out is the breadth of change: so many words are showing notable increases over a relatively short period. Given that these are all words typically overused by AI, it seems plausible to conjecture a link.”
Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT. While these words are often used in a formal or academic tone, which makes them less common in unscripted, spoken language, researchers found that nearly three-quarters of these target words showed increased usage with some more than doubling in frequency.
Model Misalignment and Language Change: Traces of AI-Associated Language in Unscripted Spoken English
In recent years, written language, particularly in science and education, has undergone remarkable shifts in word usage.arXiv.org
“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.
“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.
Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.Drilled
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Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Save new files automatically to the cloud in Word for Windows
Hello, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Raul Munoz, a Product Manager on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team. I’m excited to share an update to Microsoft Word for Windows that automatically saves new documents to the cloud.Raul_Munoz (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)
Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’ | The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.
Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’
The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.Kate Yoder (Grist)
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Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds | Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers findJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
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Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36407280
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
## Summary Malicious versions of the [`nx` package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nx), as well as some supporting plugin packages, were published to npm, containing code that scans the file syst...GitHub
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36407280
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
## Summary Malicious versions of the [`nx` package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nx), as well as some supporting plugin packages, were published to npm, containing code that scans the file syst...GitHub
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
## Summary Malicious versions of the [`nx` package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nx), as well as some supporting plugin packages, were published to npm, containing code that scans the file syst...GitHub
Advanced nuclear reactors spark frenzy as Google moves to secure clean energy for cloud storage and booming digital infrastructure
Google is building a small nuclear reactor in Tennessee to power its data centers
Google leans on nuclear energy to support cloud storage expansionEfosa Udinmwen (TechRadar)
South Korea ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting March 2026
Use of Smart Devices to be Restricted in Elementary, Middle, High Schools
Starting the spring semester of next year, use of smart devices, including smartphones, will be restricted in classrooms at elementary, middle and high schools.A related ...world.kbs.co.kr
On the Front Lines of Climate Change, Firefighters Are Getting Very Sick
Across the country, unmasked wildfire fighters are falling ill and dying. Hannah Dreier talks about her investigation into the risks these workers face.
But when I looked outside of the United States, I found that basically every other country with a major wildfire season is now giving crews masks to protect against smoke. And they have not seen an increase in heat stroke. Firefighters are not collapsing because they’re getting too hot. They basically just take off the mask if they’re starting to overheat.My sources at the Forest Service told me what’s really going on here is a fear of admitting how dangerous smoke is. They said if the Forest Service were to acknowledge how risky it is to work in smoke, the agency might have to start taking on a lot of extra costs. It might have to start paying for more health care. Or hiring more firefighters so that workers could take breaks. And it could also just become harder to recruit for these jobs that are already pretty grueling and low-paying.
Seems the orphan crushing machine is working as designed.
theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…
I remember this article from a couple years ago talking about the ethos of taking care of the limited firefighting resources we had. Firefighters in Alberta have 12 hour shifts followed by mandated breaks, which is not a thing in the US.
‘It burns wild and free up there’: Canada fires force US crews to shift strategy
Different strategies in fighting wildfires have prompted new questions about best practices in the face of a global challengeGabrielle Canon (The Guardian)
Lynx-R1 Headset Makers Release 6DoF SLAM Solution As Open Source
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/37907
Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open where others were closed, allowing developers and users access to inner workings in defiance of walled gardens. It looked very promising, with features rivaling (or surpassing) those of its contemporaries.
Founder [Stan Larroque] recently announced that Lynx’s 6DoF SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) solution has been released as open source. ORB-SLAM3 (GitHub repository) takes in camera images and outputs a 6DoF pose, and does so effectively in real-time. The repository contains some added details as well as a demo application that can run on the Lynx-R1 headset.
The unusual optics are memorable. (Hands-on Lynx-R1 by Antony Vitillo)
As a headset the Lynx-R1 had a number of intriguing elements. The unusual optics, the flip-up design, and built-in hand tracking were impressive for its time, as was the high-quality mixed reality pass-through. That last feature refers to the headset using its external cameras as inputs to let the user see the real world, but with the ability to have virtual elements displayed and apparently anchored to real-world locations. Doing this depends heavily on the headset being able to track its position in the real world with both high accuracy and low latency, and this is what ORB-SLAM3 provides.
A successful crowdfunding campaign for the Lynx-R1 in 2021 showed that a significant number of people were on board with what Lynx was offering, but developing brand new consumer hardware is a challenging road for many reasons unrelated to developing the actual thing. There was a hands-on at a trade show in 2021 and units were originally intended to ship out in 2022, but sadly that didn’t happen. Units still occasionally trickle out to backers and pre-orders according to the unofficial Discord, but it’s safe to say things didn’t really go as planned for the R1.
It remains a genuinely noteworthy piece of hardware, especially considering it was not a product of one of the tech giants. If we manage to get our hands on one of them, we’ll certainly give you a good look at it.
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AWE 2021: Hands-on Lynx-R1 mixed reality headset - The Ghost Howls
My hands-on Lynx-R1 headset at AWE 2021. I had a limited time to test it, but enough to evaluate if the beta of its devkit is good or notSkarredghost (The Ghost Howls)
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Immigration advocates alarmed over detention of DACA recipient: ‘No legal basis’
Border patrol agents arrested Catalina Santiago, granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 August
Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago had already made it past the security line at the El Paso airport when two border patrol agents called her in for questioning and whisked her away to an immigration detention center.
Nearly a month after her arrest, she and her family still aren’t clear why she is detained. Santiago is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program – which has allowed her to legally live and work in the US.
“They have no legal basis for why they detained her or why they’re holding her or why they’re trying to deport her,” said her spouse, Desiree Miller. And immigration officials have yet to provide her or her family any clear answers, she added.
Last time I replied to a comment here my comment got deleted for violating "be civil' rule. I'm going to violate again and tell you.. Are you really this dumb? Cant you comprehend what people mean when they say free healthcare you muppet?
P.s. Mods: are you going to implement a "don't say dumb things" rule ? Why do we have to be civil against obvious empty buckets for brains?
Anthropic: Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36406626
Threat Intelligence Report
- Agentic AI has been weaponized. AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out.
- AI has lowered the barriers to sophisticated cybercrime. Criminals with few technical skills are using AI to conduct complex operations, such as developing ransomware, that would previously have required years of training.
- Cybercriminals and fraudsters have embedded AI throughout all stages of their operations. This includes profiling victims, analyzing stolen data, stealing credit card information, and creating false identities allowing fraud operations to expand their reach to more potential targets.
Anthropic: Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
- Agentic AI has been weaponized. AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out.
- AI has lowered the barriers to sophisticated cybercrime. Criminals with few technical skills are using AI to conduct complex operations, such as developing ransomware, that would previously have required years of training.
- Cybercriminals and fraudsters have embedded AI throughout all stages of their operations. This includes profiling victims, analyzing stolen data, stealing credit card information, and creating false identities allowing fraud operations to expand their reach to more potential targets.
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025
Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuseswww.anthropic.com
Anthropic: Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36406626
Threat Intelligence Report
- Agentic AI has been weaponized. AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out.
- AI has lowered the barriers to sophisticated cybercrime. Criminals with few technical skills are using AI to conduct complex operations, such as developing ransomware, that would previously have required years of training.
- Cybercriminals and fraudsters have embedded AI throughout all stages of their operations. This includes profiling victims, analyzing stolen data, stealing credit card information, and creating false identities allowing fraud operations to expand their reach to more potential targets.
Anthropic: Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
- Agentic AI has been weaponized. AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out.
- AI has lowered the barriers to sophisticated cybercrime. Criminals with few technical skills are using AI to conduct complex operations, such as developing ransomware, that would previously have required years of training.
- Cybercriminals and fraudsters have embedded AI throughout all stages of their operations. This includes profiling victims, analyzing stolen data, stealing credit card information, and creating false identities allowing fraud operations to expand their reach to more potential targets.
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025
Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuseswww.anthropic.com
Anthropic: Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
- Agentic AI has been weaponized. AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out.
- AI has lowered the barriers to sophisticated cybercrime. Criminals with few technical skills are using AI to conduct complex operations, such as developing ransomware, that would previously have required years of training.
- Cybercriminals and fraudsters have embedded AI throughout all stages of their operations. This includes profiling victims, analyzing stolen data, stealing credit card information, and creating false identities allowing fraud operations to expand their reach to more potential targets.
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025
Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuseswww.anthropic.com
youtuber impazziti cancellan la roba e l’octopiangiaggio inizia di nuovo!
Ma cos’è ‘sta storia assurda e ricorrente che gli youtuber dal niente (anche se oddio, forse non proprio dal niente a questo punto) prendono e diventano schizoidi, facendo sparire (a volte cancellando, forse altre mettendo il privato, boh) i loro video? E, precisamente, non tutti i video, e nemmeno i video più vecchi, ma in […]
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youtuber impazziti cancellan la roba e l’octopiangiaggio inizia di nuovo!
Ma cos’è ‘sta storia assurda e ricorrente che gli youtuber dal niente (anche se oddio, forse non proprio dal niente a questo punto) prendono e diventano schizoidi, facendo sparire (a volte cancellando, forse altre mettendo il privato, boh) i loro video? E, precisamente, non tutti i video, e nemmeno i video più vecchi, ma in special modo quelli relativamente più nuovi. Si, solo negli youtuber (o forse, negli influencer audiovisivi tutti, ma io consumo solo youtube, perché solo lì c’è roba elaborata) vedo questo comportamento… non nei blogger, non negli sviluppatori open source (quelli fanno di molto peggio); non capisco. 🥴Ma succede davvero da un giorno all’altro, eh… cos’è, alla sera vanno bene, come sono andati bene per mesi, e alla mattina dopo invece non più? E questa non è solo un’ipotesi, bensì ho la certezza che sia così: con il fatto che uso un aggregatore di feed RSS per tenere le mie iscrizioni di YouTube, se lo youtuber cancella o nasconde i video più recenti, quelli più vecchi (che altrimenti sarebbero oltre il limite di elementi) ecco che risalgono in cima, e io li vedo come se fossero nuovi (anche se in effetti non so perché in FreshRSS appaiano con una data e ora recente, anziché con quella di pubblicazione originale… meglio per me, così mi accorgo delle magagne semplicemente scrollando normalmente). 👹
Sarò io che ho tra le iscrizioni troppi youtuber schizofrenici, o è fisiologico che su circa un migliaio ce ne debba essere almeno qualcuno particolare? La cosa strana è che in genere questo avviene comunque di rado… e invece, temo purtroppo che anche in questo ora ci sia qualcosa sotto, perché ho appena visto questa cosa succedere con ben 2 youtuber a distanza di proprio pochi giorni: 3 giorni fa ho notato che il fu YouTube Fa Cagare ha attuato la rimozione coatta di tutti i video degli ultimi 5-6 anni, e stamattina invece noto che Hiding In My Room pure ha fatto la sua solita pulizia varia (si, in effetti di lui non mi stupisco, ma rimane la goccia che oggi ha fatto traboccare il fritto misto). 😾
Non parliamo nemmeno di come il secondo tizio (…che in foto è a sinistra, e non a destra come dovrebbe essere logico, perché sono purtroppo una frana), tra i tanti video cancellati, abbia lasciato al proprio posto una quantità sospetta di recensioni tutte rigorosamente negative di vari prodotti — e sono abbastanza sicura che di Switch 2 ne avesse parlato bene o almeno neutralmente, ma invece c’è solo un video “VERY disappointing…“, figuriamoci…
Però bah, questa cosa non la gradisco, ‘un mi garba, serve una soluzione definitiva!!! Ovviamente non posso scaricarmi tutti i video di cui normalmente salverei un semplice link (…ci ho provato in passato, e scaricando in 720p VP9/AV1 ho riempito un disco da 320 GB in appena qualche mese)… Però, come dire… si da il caso che io mesi fa avessi trovato per caso un metodo efficace per salvare video di YouTube sull’Internet Archive, a differenza del “salva pagina ora” che non ha mai funzionato, quindi… La soluzione è smettere di usare dei normali segnalibri (nel mio caso, Shiori, non i merdosi del browser) per salvare i video, e invece usare un blog su WordPress.org semplicemente embeddando i video; la magia automatica del web farà il resto, dietro le quinte!!! 😈#lost #media #youtuber #youtubers
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“These were not negotiations”
Arnaud Bertrand
This is extraordinary. For the many of you who wonder how the EU could agree to such a humiliating "deal" with Trump, wonder no more.
We have an unusually straightforward answer directly from the horse's mouth: Sabine Weyand, who's the Directorate-General for Trade at the EU commission.
As she puts its:
- "If you didn't hear me say the word 'negotiation' – that's because there wasn't one." => the U.S. dictated the terms
- "From the Commission's perspective, this was a strategic compromise, not an ideal economic solution" => they're aware this completely f*cks the EU economically
- "The European side was under massive pressure to find a quick solution to stabilize transatlantic relations – especially with regard to security guarantees" => the EU agreed to the "deal" under a protection racket
- "We have a land war on the European continent. And we are completely dependent on the United States. The member states were not prepared to take the risk of further escalation – that would have been the consequence of European countermeasures." => Europe acted out of fear, choosing economic submission because of its total dependence on the U.S. (which ironically will only worsen the dependence)
There you have it, she said the quiet part out loud: the EU is in such a terrible strategic situation and EU leaders have so little courage that they're unable and unwilling to say 'no' to even the most humiliating demands.
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„Das waren keine Verhandlungen“ (Tiefgang) | SZ Dossier
„Wenn Sie mich das Wort ‚Verhandlung‘ nicht haben sagen hören – das liegt daran, dass es keine war.“ Mit diesem Satz beschreibt Sabine Weyand den geopolitischen …SZ Dossier
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Il dual boot, è una cosa saggia?
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in reply to palordrolap • • •Tables in the spreadsheets program, fuckers.
At this stage, I am highly confident that they accepted that they will never add it.
palordrolap
in reply to Pro • • •Are there ways of doing table things in LibreOffice, even if that specific feature isn't there? That's been why they haven't added things in the past... but then eventually caved in and added them.
I'm thinking mainly of the fact that for long enough either LibreOffice (or its predecessor OpenOffice? It might have been that long ago) would try to add all one million vertical cells as a data range to a chart if the user selected an entire column, and the devs refused to "fix" that to only use everything down to the last non-blank cell.
But eventually someone got on the dev team who was willing to do that.
No harm in asking again.
BombOmOm
in reply to Pro • • •What do you mean? I'm assuming you aren't referring to LibreOffice Calc, as that entire program is tables. LibreOffice Writer also lets you put tables in documents.
If you mean you want to use spreadsheets like a database? Here is an article on it: Calc as a Database
Chapter 13 Calc as a Database
Olivier Hallotelucubra
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in reply to Pro • • •With my user/increasingly crazy man in the woods hat? Fuck that noise.
With my corporate stooge hat (that is the one that pays for the previous hats)? This actually is a really good idea. Way too often we have people saving documents to their laptops or losing them when they break a desktop enough that IT has to reimage it. Everything corporate should live in the corporate data store by default.
And... at this point, any individual user using MS Office is an idiot who probably also needs that extra layer of protection. Why spend money when Google Drive (which is already cloud native) works just as well? And for those who care about offline use? Get Libre Office where stuff is perpetually 80% as good.
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in reply to NuXCOM_90Percent • • •Yes, for the reasons you mention. And very, very much no. My corporate hat immediately thinks about a crapload of stuff our network drives have which is under various NDAs, restrictions to store outside EU/ETA, restrictions to store even outside our country and so on. At least our accounts have mandatory MFA and other standard safety features, but cloud storage has a different threat model than our local hardware which also makes it's own little headaches.
I don't play on the contract/legal field on corporate at all, but I do know that some of those NDAs have numbers big enough to bring the whole circus down and other clauses which can even throw someone in jail if things really go wrong. I just hope I'm not the scapegoat at that point.
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in reply to IsoKiero • • •If data has handling requirements it 500% should not be something people are storing on their "personal" devices.
I personally hate the idea of storing corporate data in "cloud" storage, but MS et al have gotten approval from many governments to do exactly that. So if that is your corporate data store? Then that is where it goes. And if someone is making a new document with additional restrictions then they better damned well have training on how to pick which folder in onedrive it goes into.
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in reply to NuXCOM_90Percent • • •but for many companies and spaces, MS cloud or whatever third-party could be just fine, and this will of course push some of those folks that direction nicely
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in reply to Jesus • • •MS Office is increasingly only sold as part of "Microsoft 365" which already involves paying for cloud storage and copilot and the like.
20 seconds of googling gets me the pricing page for their family (which I think is the same as single seat personal?) plan which is 130 USD a year for
There may still be some corner case "just MS office" releases that are targeted towards legacy machines in certain regions. But if you try to buy MS Office for whatever reason, that is what you are gonna get.
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in reply to Jesus • • •Not sure on the policy for this (and too lazy to read through the TOS) but the usual standard is:
You have read only access to your data in some form for N months. Sometimes individual, sometimes grabbing the whole dump. If you haven't renewed your license within N months, that data is deleted (but not really).
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in reply to Pro • • •Important to note that the article says it can save to Onedrive or cloud drive of your choice. Its not clear exactly how that works if you want to save to Box, or Dropbox or something else but it looks like the option is there and it seems like you may even be able to turn that off if you want.
If it's still not your preference, I've seen licenses for office 2019 for sale on the web, which predates a lot of the cloud integration and AI tool nonsense. Between that and libre office there are ways to avoid using this service if you're so inclined.
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in reply to floo • • •Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.
Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don't wanna risk it.
It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it's going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.
With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.
For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn't get any attention besides the average "my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer". Tech companies know this so they exploit the user's ignorance.
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