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

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  • I can totally understand that. Personally, however, it’s particularly important to me at the moment to switch from the cloud to local hardware.

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

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  • There are lots of awesome OSAI! But today, they are completely outperformed by OWAI and closed AI. My guess: that won’t change in future.

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

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  • That distinction is totally correct in principle, but in practice almost no frontier model releases its training data because of licensing, privacy, and sheer scale. Today, Open Weight AI has become the common compromise: useful for research and local use, even if it falls well short of the traditional open source definition.

  • EU slaps €890 million fine on Google

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  • Google built its dominance by becoming the gateway to the web. The EU is increasingly saying that if you own the gate, you do not get to decide that your own businesses always go through first while everyone else waits outside. 🤷

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

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  • Agreed.

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

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  • At present, most probably only those that appear on the regulatory radar in their own right.

  • 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. 🤷

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    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. ✅

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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
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    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/