• Users are sharing personally identifiable information (PII), sensitive emotional disclosures, and confidential material with ChatGPT.
• Only around 100 out of 1,000 total chats make up 53.3% of the over 43 million words we analyzed.
• Some users are sharing full resumes, suicidal ideation, family planning discussions, and discriminatory speech with the AI model.
• “Professional consultations” account for nearly 60% of the topics flagged.

ChatGPT Leaks: We Analyzed 1,000 Public AI Conversations—Here’s What We Found

We studied 43M+ words of ChatGPT conversations and saw that users are sharing highly sensitive info with the AI. Here's a breakdown of our findings.

^{Shipra Sanganeria (SafetyDetectives)}

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/even-the-most-resilient-glaciers-are-falling-victim-to-climate-change?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NjgyMTY0MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3NDI2NDQyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMVlFQ0pHUTdMMDgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQjVFMDM3MDAzMzc0Q0NCQUUxNzE4QkU3ODk5NDQ0MSJ9.qGszzwPakNrS0jSznyYdZhQuJ5oj17XNGBD_oyryOJs

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Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape

To date, the treaty has been signed by a few small island countries which will become completely uninhabitable as sea levels rise.

‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the plan to create a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

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Benn Jordan Post on Bluesky.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/climate/climate-science-report-energy-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.VWEr.FwKqvYY5-KM0

https://www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/young-workers-havent-been-replaced-by-ai-economists-are-just-looking-for-them-in-the-wrong-places/

https://www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/young-workers-havent-been-replaced-by-ai-economists-are-just-looking-for-them-in-the-wrong-places/

https://www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/young-workers-havent-been-replaced-by-ai-economists-are-just-looking-for-them-in-the-wrong-places/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/climate/climate-change-report-trump-administration

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36745507

A group of movie companies known for targeting ISPs in the U.S. went on to file a similar lawsuit against Bell Canada. They argued that since Bell failed to forward ~40,000 infringement notices to its subscribers, the ISP can be held liable. After a series of setbacks, the Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in lawsuit worth up to CAD$400m (US$291m) in damages.

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2025-09-02 11:52:34

Court of Appeal Throws Bell Canada a Lifeline in $291m Movie Piracy Lawsuit

A group of movie companies known for targeting ISPs in the U.S. went on to file a similar lawsuit against Bell Canada. They argued that since Bell failed to forward ~40,000 infringement notices to its subscribers, the ISP can be held liable. After a series of setbacks, the Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in lawsuit worth up to CAD$400m (US$291m) in damages.

Court of Appeal Throws Bell Canada a Lifeline in $291m Movie Piracy Lawsuit * TorrentFreak

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in a movie piracy lawsuit that began with a CAD$400m (US$291m) claim for damages.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

In 2000, Bill Joy, the co-founder and chief scientist of the computer company Sun Microsystems, sounded an alarm about technology. In an article in Wired titled ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Joy wrote that we should ‘limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge.’ He feared a future in which our inventions casually wipe us from the face of the planet.

The concerns expressed in Joy’s article, which prompted accusations of Luddism from tech advocates, sound remarkably similar to those now being voiced by some leaders in Silicon Valley that artificial intelligence might soon surpass us in intelligence and decide we humans are expendable. However, while ‘sentient robots’ were a part of what had spooked Joy, his main worry was about another technology that he figured might make that prospect imminently possible. He was troubled by nanotechnology: the engineering of matter at the scale of nanometres, comparable to the size of molecules.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say Joy was troubled by the version of nanotechnology that he had read about in the book Engines of Creation (1986) by the engineer K Eric Drexler, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the close of the 20th century, it was nanotechnology, not AI (which didn’t seem to be getting very far), that loomed large as the enabler of utopias and dystopias. Drexler’s book described a vision of nanotech that could work wonders, promising, in Joy’s words, ‘incredibly low-cost solar power, cures for cancer and the common cold’ as well as ‘[low-cost] spaceflight … and restoration of extinct species.’

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays

Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

^{Philip Ball (Aeon Magazine)}

A group of movie companies known for targeting ISPs in the U.S. went on to file a similar lawsuit against Bell Canada. They argued that since Bell failed to forward ~40,000 infringement notices to its subscribers, the ISP can be held liable. After a series of setbacks, the Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in lawsuit worth up to CAD$400m (US$291m) in damages.

Court of Appeal Throws Bell Canada a Lifeline in $291m Movie Piracy Lawsuit * TorrentFreak

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in a movie piracy lawsuit that began with a CAD$400m (US$291m) claim for damages.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

Infantrymen of the operational battalion of the 13th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, “Khartiia,” practice airborne skills using an American M113 tracked armored personnel carrier in Kharkiv Oblast on Aug. 29, 2025. (Viacheslav Madiievskyi / Ukrinform / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ukraine liberates village of Novoekonomichne in Donetsk Oblast, General Staff says. Ukrainian assault groups spent two weeks fighting to liberate the settlement, raising the national flag in the village center on Aug. 31, according to the General Staff.

Russian front-line advances have slowed down in August, monitoring group says. The pace of Russia’s advance in Ukraine dropped by 18% in August, with Russian forces occupying 464 square kilometers of territory.

Russian strikes hit Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa oblasts, causing fires and casualties. In Kyiv Oblast, a Russian drone strike hit the Bila Tserkva community, killing one person and wounding others, Secretary of the Bila Tserkva City Council Volodymyr Vovkotrub said.

Russian forces allegedly preparing major assault toward Siversk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s military says. Siversk, Russia’s new potential target, lies about 10 kilometers (6 miles) west of Russian-occupied territory and just south of the contested Serebrianskyi Forest.

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Zelensky to reportedly meet European leaders in Paris on Sept. 4. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pledged to broker a swift peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow, is not expected to attend the Paris meeting at the moment, a source told AFP.

Ukraine’s SBU files in absentia notice of suspicion against Kadyrov for war crimes. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Sept. 1 that it had charged Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in absentia with war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers.

Russian map behind top general hints at ambitions to seize Ukraine’s Odesa, Kharkiv. While Moscow has publicly insisted on full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the map indicated possible plans extending to Odesa and Kharkiv, neither of which had been included in earlier demands.

Zelensky announces faster air defense deliveries after deadly Russian strikes. “We are accelerating the supply of additional air defense systems to enhance protection against missiles,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine liberates another village in Donetsk Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive

Ukraine’s 425th Regiment has liberated the village of Novoekonomichne in Donetsk Oblast and raised the national flag, the General Staff announced on Sept. 1.

Photo: Anadolu via Getty Images

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Russia-Ukraine naval drone arms race could ‘usher in a new era of warfare’

After a string of devastating Ukrainian strikes that crippled much of its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is now turning to naval drones in a bid to rebuild its presence and adapt to a new phase of maritime warfare.

Photo: Stringer / AFP via Getty Images

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As Putin shakes hands with Modi, Xi, here’s the state of Russia’s allies

After three years of international isolation, Russian President Vladimir Putin is back at the forefront of the global stage.

Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / Pool / AFP via Getty Images

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Human cost of Russia’s war

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,083,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022.

The number includes 800 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

International response

US Treasury’s Bessent says ‘despicable‘ Russian bombing campaign against Ukraine puts all sanctions options on the table. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sept. 1 that the Trump administration is considering new sanctions on Russia after Moscow intensified strikes on Ukraine despite recent peace talks.

Slovak PM Fico plans meetings with Putin, Zelensky this week. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on Sept. 1 that he will visit China to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Slovakia.

Key Chinese bank reportedly halts Russia payments after EU sanctions.

Heihe, a small rural lender, was one of the last Chinese banks willing to process transactions for Russian non-sanctioned credit organizations after larger Chinese banks cut off such services.

EU considers tighter rules to block Russian gas after 2027 ban, Bloomberg reports. The plan specifically raises concerns over gas shipped through TurkStream, the pipeline linking Russia with Southeast Europe.

Russia’s oil infrastructure under fire | Ukraine This Week

In other news

Kyiv names managers for US-Ukraine investment fund ahead of first meeting. The announcement sets the stage for the fund to become functional after four months of preparation by America’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Ukraine’s Support Public-Private Partnership Agency (PPP Agency).

Suspected Russian jamming hits von der Leyen’s plane during Bulgaria visit. “We can confirm there was GPS jamming, but the plane landed safe,” European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta confirmed for the Kyiv Independent.

Kim Jong Un travels to China to join Xi, Putin at WWII anniversary events. Photographs published by North Korean media showed Kim with senior officials, including Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, inside his dark green armored train.

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Major social media platforms in China have started rolling out labels for AI-generated content to comply with a law that took effect on Monday

Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

WeChat, Douyin and Weibo are among those deploying label requirements to comply with a new law.

^{Kris Holt (Engadget)}

The House Oversight Committee has withdrawn a request for testimony from Robert Mueller about the case involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein due to new information on the former special counsel's health, a committee aide told CBS News.

"We've learned that Mr. Mueller has health issues that preclude him from being able to testify. The Committee has withdrawn its subpoena," the aide said in a statement.

Mueller, who led the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and delivered the long-anticipated report in March 2019, served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 years. The New York Times reported Sunday that the 81-year-old has Parkinson's disease, according to his family, who told the paper that he was diagnosed in 2021.

House committee withdraws Robert Mueller subpoena over health issues

The House Oversight Committee has withdrawn a request for testimony from Robert Mueller about the case of late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein due to new information on the former special counsel's health.

^{Kaia Hubbard (CBS News)}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36742658

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2025-09-02 10:05:16

The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

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Paolo Scaramuzza | The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

Pol's website. The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

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cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36742658

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2025-09-02 10:05:16

The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

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Paolo Scaramuzza | The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

Pol's website. The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

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2025-09-02 17:23:37

This is your regular reminder that if you are developing an app that is supposed to help a vulnerable population, you need to do it WITH CONSIDERABLE INPUT FROM THE PEOPLE YOU ARE TRYING TO PROTECT.

micahflee.com/unfortunately-th…

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them.

^{Micah Lee (micahflee)}

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-enters-grant-game-picking-winners

From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System - Aleksa Gordić

From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.

^{www.aleksagordic.com}