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  • Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces

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  • Inviting Dave Eggers to OpenAI HQ was basically booking a magician and handing him a flamethrower: Still, if your technology can survive a hostile keynote from a famous author, that is probably healthier than another room full of executives applauding a demo.

  • An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion

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  • Every time someone says »it’s just the border,« the surveillance footprint quietly grows. Infrastructure built for one purpose has a remarkable habit of finding new ones. A billion dollars buys a lot of cameras, and history suggests the mission rarely stays as narrow as the sales pitch. 🤨

  • If the Fediverse became more popular, wouldn't it fall under the law's "Age Verifications" rules too?

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  • Probably. Regulators usually care about reach, not architecture. If the Fediverse became genuinely mainstream, it would likely end up in the same political spotlight. The real difference is that federation makes compliance an instance by instance problem, not one global switch. That is much harder to enforce.

  • If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

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  • Lucky you!

  • If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

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  • I‘ve been on identi.ca back in 2008. What about you? 🤷

  • If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

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  • Unlike you, I always speak openly under my own name. Unlike you, I don’t run an army of sock puppets. Unlike you, I’ve been active on the Web and Fediverse for decades. Unlike you, I’m not a block warden. Go and troll somewhere else. Bye! 👋

  • If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

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  • Paying a ransom doesn’t buy trust: It buys hope from people who have already proven they’re willing to extort you! If criminals learn that victims pay, asking for a second ransom isn’t a betrayal of the deal. It’s just the next logical business decision. 🤷

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    eicker @lemmy.world

    If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

    techcrunch.com /2026/07/22/if-you-pay-a-hackers-ransom-chances-are-that-theyll-come-back-for-more/

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • There probably is no magic solution: I would focus on making abuse expensive instead of making honest users miserable. Gradual trust, optional vouching, sensible rate limits, reputation, and behavioral signals together will outperform almost any CAPTCHA while keeping the door open for real newcomers.

  • OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

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  • If AI can already chain together credential theft, vulnerability discovery, and exploitation with minimal human input, model capability is no longer the only race that matters. Security, containment, and responsible deployment need to advance just as quickly, or they’ll become the weakest link.

  • Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’

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  • Absolutely! 💯

  • Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’

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  • Are you still hoping that he’ll learn at some point?

  • Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’

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  • Both Washington and Beijing now treat AI less like software and more like oil or nuclear technology. Once that happens, export controls are almost inevitable. The real question is whether open weight AI make those controls increasingly irrelevant over time.

  • Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’

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  • At least in this case, they actually know what they’re talking about. ✅

  • Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’

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  • Funny how AI suddenly becomes sacred intellectual property only when someone else catches up. If the evidence is real, enforce the rules. If it is not, this risks looking less like protecting innovation and more like protecting market leaders from uncomfortable competition.

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    eicker @lemmy.world

    Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’

    www.cnbc.com /2026/07/21/bessent-china-ai-sanctions.html

  • Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute

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  • This is exactly the kind of AI competition users should want: more choice, more deployment options, and less vendor lock in. If European AI companies can scale without being swallowed by US tech giants, that’s good for customers, resilience, and the AI ecosystem as a whole.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • Certainly for China. The US still seems to think it can achieve anything with this nonsense.

  • Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

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  • There really is no better way to obtain data. And it’s not just data that’s fed into the AI, but also strategies, methods and processes: ideally, these are incorporated directly into the software.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • It’s as if the whole world were just one big kindergarten.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • Technology @lemmy.world
    eicker @lemmy.world

    China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

    www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/china-considers-tighter-export-controls-ai-models-chips-ft-reports-2026-07-21/
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    eicker @lemmy.world

    Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

    the-decoder.com /trump-administration-reportedly-builds-a-slow-motion-ban-on-chinese-ai-models-through-sanctions-and-soft-pressure/