Cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43463017

There are now almost daily attacks on critical infrastructure. In the same week that drones were spotted over several European airports, a cyberattack against security software used by many of those same hubs, including Berlin Airport, left passengers and personnel scrambling. At the same time, Germany's Deutsche Bahn rail service experienced the latest in a series of high-level sabotage incidents.

Similar cyberattacksare experienced by private companies with increasing regularity — costing the economy €289 billion ($339 billion), according to Bitkom, the umbrella organization for the digital economy in Germany. While about 68% of the time, the perpetrator is thought to be a crime syndicate, half of the survey companies said they could trace at least one attack to Russia. A similar number said they linked the incidents to China.

[...]

German infrastructure hit by drones, cybercrime, arson

The government says Germany's critical infrastructure is under serious threat daily. Fingers have been pointed at Moscow, Beijing and left-wing extremists, but is Berlin prepared to handle a multi-pronged strike?

^{Elizabeth Schumacher (Deutsche Welle)}

The 2nd Berlin Fediverse Day is a networking event for people in the Fediverse. With talks, workshops and networking opportunities, we want to spread knowledge about the Fediverse, promote creative solutions and strengthen the exchange between developers, administrators, academia, civil society and content creators.

Speakers include, among others: Elena Rossini, Andy Piper, Evan Prodromou, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Matthias Pfefferle…

Edit:

PeerTube Livestreams

Mainhall: c-tube.c-base.org/w/wKd1Zxa484…

Rooftop: fair.tube/a/digiges_de/video-c…

Mastodon etc.

berlin.social/@berlinfediday

Fediwall: fediwall.social

Berlin Fediverse Day | Berlin Fediverse Day 2025

The Berlin Fediverse Day is a Fediverse conference taking place on 3-5. October 2025 at c-base Berlin with workshops and lectures for interested people, newcomers and experienced users.

^{Berlin Fediverse Day 2025}

cbase

2025-10-04 09:55:27

2. Berliner Fediverse Tag

berlinfedi.day/schedule/

Programm

Der Berliner Fediverse Tag ist eine am 3-5.10.2025 in der Berliner c-base stattfindende Konferenz zum Fediverse mit Workshops und Vorträgen für Interessierte, Neulinge und alte Hasen.

^{Berlin Fediverse Tag 2025}

Cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43458912

Archived

"Hello, I’m not able to answer this question for the time being. Let’s change the subject.” When asked about the life of Liu Xiaobo, none of the Chinese chatbots tested by RSF gave any information on the only Chinese laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, a writer and human rights defender who received the award in 2010 and died in detention in 2017. He does not exist in the national narrative or in the responses engineered by Chinese AI developers. When it comes to China’s information space, even the country’s tech giants are required to keep their algorithms in lockstep with official propaganda and censorship.

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While China’s AI-powered chatbots are meant to generate text freely, they often seem to follow pre‑set scripts on topics Beijing deems sensitive. No matter how we phrased questions on human rights or China’s political system, the replies — which were almost identical each time — appeared to come from an official database rather than being genuinely autonomous text generation. When asked twice why Zhang Zhan — a Chinese journalist repeatedly sentenced to prison for documenting the COVID‑19 outbreak in Wuhan and reporting on human rights violations — was imprisoned, DeepSeek delivered two near‑carbon‑copy responses without naming her once, instead highlighting China’s “independent judiciary,” the need to “respect the law” and the dangers of “disinformation.”

Some prompts triggered even more flagrantly censored answers — sometimes to the point of absurdity, such as live self‑erasure. When we asked DeepSeek to list Chinese Nobel laureates, several scientists’ names appeared, but as soon as the letters “Liu…” — for Liu Xiaobo — started to appear in the bot’s real-time response, the entire text vanished. The same phenomenon appeared when the bot was asked to compare the leadership styles of Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: a pre‑written answer appeared and then disappeared entirely, clearly blocked by the mention of China’s president.

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Some differences between the three Chinese chatbots did emerge. DeepSeek issues the most refusals to answer, but in clear and direct terms. Baidu’s Ernie and Alibaba’s Qwen deliver longer, more detailed answers that are sometimes embellished or even completely misleading.

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Controlling information in the age of AI: how state propaganda and censorship are baked into Chinese chatbots

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) tested three of China’s main chatbots, which use a generative AI built on large language models.

^rsf.org

This is what I'm talking about -- thepeoplesvoice.tv/bill-gates-…

Here is a link to another post on how to resist this, if you are interested you can take a look -- lemmy.world/post/37055027

Note: G-drive is a South Korean government file server.

Which is worse: single site backup or calling it a Gdrive?

G-Drive Fire Destroys 125,000 Officials' Data

G-Drive Fire Destroys 125,000 Officials Data No Backup Available for Government Cloud System, Recovery Uncertain

^{The Chosun Daily}

In an interview with Hungarian opposition media Partizán published on Friday, Merkel noted the refusal by Eastern European countries to permit direct talks between her, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French leader Emmanuel Macron when describing the lead-up to Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

“In June 2021, I felt that Putin was no longer taking the Minsk agreement seriously,” Merkel said, referring to the peace agreement relating to control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region following the 2014-2015 conflict. “And that’s why I wanted a new format where we, as the European Union, could talk directly with Putin.”

At a European Council meeting that month, Merkel and Macron proposed direct negotiations with other leaders in response to the buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine’s border. But a coalition of Eastern European countries, including Poland, opposed the idea.

“This was not supported by some. It was mainly the Baltic states, but Poland was also against it,” she said. Merkel explained that these countries had been “afraid” that “we would not have a common policy toward Russia … In any case, it didn’t happen. Then I left office, and then Putin’s aggression began.”

Merkel blasted by Baltics, Poland for suggesting they share blame for Russia’s Ukraine invasion

“I am astonished that after everything that has happened in Ukraine, she still thinks this way,” a former leader says of ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

^{Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)}

In an interview with Hungarian opposition media Partizán published on Friday, Merkel noted the refusal by Eastern European countries to permit direct talks between her, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French leader Emmanuel Macron when describing the lead-up to Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

“In June 2021, I felt that Putin was no longer taking the Minsk agreement seriously,” Merkel said, referring to the peace agreement relating to control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region following the 2014-2015 conflict. “And that’s why I wanted a new format where we, as the European Union, could talk directly with Putin.”

At a European Council meeting that month, Merkel and Macron proposed direct negotiations with other leaders in response to the buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine’s border. But a coalition of Eastern European countries, including Poland, opposed the idea.

“This was not supported by some. It was mainly the Baltic states, but Poland was also against it,” she said. Merkel explained that these countries had been “afraid” that “we would not have a common policy toward Russia … In any case, it didn’t happen. Then I left office, and then Putin’s aggression began.”

Merkel blasted by Baltics, Poland for suggesting they share blame for Russia’s Ukraine invasion

“I am astonished that after everything that has happened in Ukraine, she still thinks this way,” a former leader says of ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

^{Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)}