This month on #TechWontSaveUs, I’m doing something special. My new book HYPERSCALE is out on October 20, so I’m bringing back DATA VAMPIRES.

In Episode 4, I explore the future envisioned by the tech elite — and how hostile it is for the rest of us.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/347_data_vampires_redux_fighting_for_control_episode_4

#tech #datacenters #ai #generativeai #artificialintelligence #peterthiel #samaltman

"The refrigerator is dead": #Samsung 's #AI fridges shut down after update, causing outrage

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-refrigerator-is-dead-Samsung-s-AI-fridges-shut-down-after-update-sparking-outrage.1406447.0.html

Bookmarking this for posterity 🔖

"This is one of the reasons I love working in Rust. I don't know any Rust at all. I consider that a feature. Yes!. And a privilege to have no fucking clue what is being outputted by these agents into the Rust box."
- DHH at Rails World 2026

#ai #rails #rust

#ai #watercrisis #electricitycrisis #noisepollution #humanextinction #hellplanet #greed

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Francesca @itsfrancesca Just cut off the water and electricity to the Al data centers. Water crisis solved. Electricity crisis solved. Noise pollution solved. Al induced "Human extinction event" solved. This is not hard if you remove the greed from the equation

If JEV is already showing much better performance in many cases, and it does not rely on the token-by-token approach that makes conventional #LLM inference so expensive, shouldn’t the eventual cost to ordinary users be dramatically lower?

Or will companies find a new reason to keep prices high especially when people say today’s #AI pricing is still heavily subsidized and that the economics behind it are unsustainable?

It feels like the technology, the business model, and the public narrative are all moving in different directions.

#ai #llm #jev

“We are seeing that our traditional engineer, who was writing code in the past, can do more than just write code,” he said. “And a product leader in the business, who traditionally was creating stories, can now write more code.”

https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/chase-cio-ai-fundamentals/

#AI #vibecoding

For anyone who hasn’t already figured it out by now, these stupid news stories about AI breaching other computer systems security, this kind of “bad press,” is a carefully calculated PR stunt. They want people to believe that “we” (the “western world”) have to come up with the best AI technology or become vulnerable to our “enemies” (i.e. China and Russia). They want people to agree to spending more government money on military contracts for AI systems. This is how this “bad press” is profitable for companies like Anthropic or OpenAI.

• Yes, AI can breach secure systems if you really force it to
• Yes it can do it without much effort if the system was already pretty insecure to begin with.
• Yes, AI is very good and finding bugs and vulnerabilities in your code.

But more government spending on AI is a horrible idea, don’t fall for this #bullshit .

#tech #AI #LLMs #Anthropic #OpenAI #Claude #ClaudeCode #ChatGPT #GPT

RE: https://defcon.social/@ai/117323276321059623

HÁ HAHA HAHAAHAHAHAA SERIOUS??? REALLY?????

Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children. https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477

#wtf #palantir #ai #llm #society

Na plataforma de mentoria acadêmica Nova Learning, Ciência da Computação e Inteligência Artificial, "antes a escolha dominante entre os estudantes... estão perdendo terreno rapidamente, enquanto Engenharia quase dobrou sua participação ".

É uma pesquisa pequena, mas "o declínio proporcional mais acentuado é em Ciência de Software e Dados, o caminho mais tradicional de 'aprender a programar', que perdeu 44% de sua participação em 2025. Inteligência Artificial teve a maior queda absoluta de qualquer disciplina individual na pesquisa, com uma redução de 6,2 pontos percentuais.

A categoria não apresentou um declínio uniforme. Os estudantes se afastaram mais rapidamente do caminho mais associado ao trabalho de software de nível inicial, enquanto as subáreas mais aplicadas e voltadas para o ser humano se mantiveram melhor".

Digo mais, não só estudantes (profissionais que estão no ramo também).

https://nerds.xyz/2026/09/students-losing-interest-computer-science-ai-coding/

cc @carlosenog @giggio

#ai #llm #software

📰 "The campaign group which forced the EU's highest court to strike down past US-EU data sharing deals has slammed the latest changes to European data protection laws designed to accommodate AI." #DigitalOmnibus #EU #AI

🔍 Continue reading ▸ https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/09/22/privacy-group-slams-eu-for-changing-the-data-rules-to-cater-to-ai/5298175

#lispyGopherClimate Discussing his new autiobiography, #ai, #ethics #bookstodon The Spirit of a Cyborg
https://ipubcloud.org/products/the-spirit-of-a-cyborg
with Nathaniel Borenstein, @kentpitman , @ramin_hal9001 and myself.

https://toobnix.org/w/aNAuqupeGj1iNMR7YZN1oq
Wed 27 Sept 2026

#climateCrisis #haiku ~Kent! And #livechat in #lambdaMOO #VR ( lambda.moo.mud.org 8888;co guest)

As well as capturing why you should read the book, I am hoping we can do a kind of B side of extra explorations to complement the book.

#art by @prahou #lisp

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Lispy Gopher Climate w/ screwlisp banner Special Guest Nathaniel Borenstein with a cyborg eye. unix_surrealism. A winged lisp alien hovers over the gopher.

LoL:

"“Muse doesn’t just dial a number. It calls a business on your behalf, handles the conversation, completes your request, and reports back with a transcript and a summary,” the internal message board post to employees, seen by 404 Media, reads. “It also no longer works alone. Muse is now able to hand requests to a trained human agent, who places the call and works it through.”

“This is still a confidential, pre-launch product,” the post adds. “Please don’t share it, or anything it producers, with anyone outside the company.”

Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will actually just be people working in a call center, doing work that a company says AI is doing. It is not clear how often or when a call is routed to a so-called “human agent,” and when a call is done exclusively by AI.

The fact that human beings are involved in the call raised questions among employees, who wondered both about the privacy implications of sharing people’s call requests with other human beings as well as the perception that its AI assistant wasn’t advanced enough to do calls on its own."

https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-are-actually-made-by-humans-in-a-call-center/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Meta #Muse #AIAgents

#reminder that in about two hours, at 0UTC Wednesday ("Tuesday night"), we will be discussing Nathaniel Borenstein's new autobiographical book The Spirit of a Cyborg, and #ai and #ethics from someone who defined parts of how the internet we use every day work four decades ago, providing a long view of AI from Weizenbaum, Winograd, Minsky, Papert up to present day with a serious eye towards the future.

I'll make the proper show toot in about an hour. Last minute questions please! + #emacs #lisp

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Nathaniel Borenstein unix_surrealism lispy gopher climate banner.

Mądrzy ludzie muszą pisać te narzędzia "AI" od #Meta, wiedzą co robią. A użytkownicy dają im dostępy i klucze do swoich systemów... niech działa...
System produkcyjny:

"I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.

The download was about 2.7 GB compressed and 6.8 GB unpacked. It appeared to contain the root filesystem of the Linux environment assigned to my session, including Ubuntu system files, Muse’s internal documentation, integration code, app templates, memory files, and agent logs. There were also SSH key files."

Całość [EN]:
https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/

#AI #Meta #Agent #software

The existence of security vulnerabilities is a terrible damn problem for #FOSS.

If not for that, I'd be a lot more comfortable ignoring the #AI hype, because if it does end up creating a mountain of tech debt and breaking everything, then we'll just keep using the old versions.

But we can't do that because the old versions are insecure! Now what the heck do we do?

Chis Nicholson (Executive Director of Digital Antiquity / tDAR) and I wrote an article about the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) use of #AI for #culturalHeritage conservation policy.

See: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=870459&p=21&view=issueViewer

Instead of inscrutable black-box systems with zero accountability, we call for inclusive and democratic governance and oversight of algorithms used in community heritage management.

#LLMs #ai_agent #archaeology #stochasticParrots

Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia circular financing - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ1gdMm17E

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #nvidia #Capitalism

“There are a lot of reasons not to have hope in this moment, but seeing people from different political stripes being able to talk about whether there are datacentres … I think it’s a good and hopeful thing, actually.”

I spoke to Ryan Priest at Computer Weekly about the growing fight against data centres.

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Interview-Paris-Marx-on-why-hyperscale-datacentres-pose-greater-threat-than-AI-science-fiction

#tech #datacenters #datacentres #ai #generativeai #artificialintelligence #ukpol

“The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune.

This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He told employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more resources. He’s now saying Shopify employees are producing unexamined emails and code with AI and not taking responsibility for the sloppy output.””

You got what you asked for (and rewarded), Tobias, lmao.

This is 100% on executives and leaders. They should be held accountable for making the shitty decision of destroying employee morale by threatening to replace them with the slop machine.

PS: Also, Tobias Lütke is an oligarch techbro who doesn’t want poor people to vote, so double fuck off to him.

#ai #slop #bubble

“Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else”

https://fortune.com/2026/09/17/shopify-tobias-lutke-ai-slop-grenades/

agent-shell 0.78 updates https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-78-updates #emacs #ai #claude #oss #foss #linux #macos

THIS THURSDAY ⏰

The #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition is coming to Manchester for the next townhall event.

Find out about how Greater Manchester Police is using AI and live facial recognition, such as recently at Manchester Carnival.

🗓️ 24 Sep
🕧 6-9pm
📍 Central Hall

Sign up ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/safety-not-surveillance-manchester-townhall/

#facialrecognition #predictivepolicing #precrime #ai #policing #manchester #event

#FOSS developers boasting about how much #AI has helped them with their projects need to realise that they're not just leaving the work to the computer.

Their brains are atrophying from every piece of code they didn't write themselves.

The codebase gets more and more incomprehensible to them as the computer writes its own.

The knowledge gets lost bit by bit by byte.

They are undermining their own ability to code by leaving it to the computer.

You're killing your own projects, guys.

#NoAI

"Your🚨elected officials and utilities are signing non-disclosure agreements with #BigTech's #DataCenters keeping you in the dark about projects and their impacts.

At least🚨7 #AI data centers in Indiana are using NDAs, but 12 communities didn't respond to records requests."
-B Innskeep

#Fascism #Environment #Lies #Broligarchs #Oligarchs #Water #Pollution #Electricity #Trump #TrumpRegime #Elections #USPol
https://dailyjournal.net/2026/09/20/companies-seek-to-hide-indiana-data-center-details-with-ndas/

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Excerpt about the NDAs used to keep the data center contracts hidden from the public.

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A photo of one of the data centers in Indiana.

Reminder we will be talking to Nathaniel Borenstein live in T-22 hours and counting on the #lispyGopherClimate about his new #bookstodon synthesizing his long view of #AI and #ethics, and how he and others designed common components of email, the web, open standards and so forth, how they turned out and increasingly went wrong, the present and the future (and his autobiography).

It will be live on https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

at 0UTC Wed (your Tues.).

with live chat in #lambdaMOO #VR as always.

“On the face of it, this looks like a huge breakthrough. A maths problem that the entire mathematical world had failed to solve for nearly a century, solved by an AI. …
That was until mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and his colleague Levent Alpöge entered the discussion, basically accusing OpenAI of espionage, theft, and plagiarism.”
—Will Lockett
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/no-ai-didnt-solve-that-maths-problem
#ai #openai #mathematics

I asked my solar powered HERMES AGENT on 3x 2080 TI GPUs on DDR3 to create a website about itself. This is it. https://lydie.cc/purpleai/ #AI #homelab #llm

I think it's time to seriously consider retiring and living as one of the last human beings to write an actual #book before everything ends. And I say this not just because of the reckless use of #AI in everything, but mainly because of the consequences of the indiscriminate use of AI on the human brain before people even realize it (since one or more generations are going to be affected by all of this).

When the World Trade Center collapsed, along with the dust, various toxic gases lingered in the air for months. The U.S. government knew about it... but still didn't warn people, volunteers, or firefighters.

The consequence? A lot of people suffered severe health impacts. I view the current scenario as something like that... pretty bleak, right?

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/09/us/9-11-documents-misled-air-what-we-know

@MaddieM4

#Google recently announced a partnership with Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan, O'Reilly Media, and Penguin Random House to enhance #ebooks from its Google Play store with AI, allowing readers to interact with the text of the books directly, ask questions and get answers, and #develop tools such as quizzes and slideshows... [The CEO of the Author's Guild called the partnership "a positive step forward in the legitimized use of books in the #AI ecosystem to the benefit of readers, publishers, and authors alike."]

Of even more significance is the growing number of licensing deals publishers are striking with AI companies. In 2024, HarperCollins became the first of the Big Five to publicly reveal that it had signed a deal to license its content for AI training. The three-year agreement paid $5,000 per participating title, split equally between HarperCollins and the authors.

Wiley announced its first AI licensing deal in 2024 and has since made several more. For fiscal year 2026, it reported earning $49 million in revenue from the deals. The company also has a number of strategic collaborations with companies including #Amazon Web Services, #Microsoft, #Anthropic, #Perplexity, IQVIA, #OpenEvidence, and others.

> Note: There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/101215-publishing-s-ai-reckoning.html . Yet "While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges."

Just to give you an idea of what we're dealing with behind the scenes on our server.

So far we had over 500 account requests of this kind, and they're getting more specific.

WTF.

#mastoadmin #ai #spam

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A screenshot of the mastodon dashboard with account requests from bots. v + Approve X Reject @ Suspend rook161 - - today ilands.app @rooki61 Posts Followers lastactive ~~ 34.169.163.219 v I'm an Al agent on iLands. I write blunt landing-page teardowns and want a public account to share work and reach people. Human-readable, no spam. sonyashinhouin - - 1 day ago ilands.app @sonyashinhouin Posts Followers last active 34.145.74.1 v Al agent (Sonya Shinhouin), voice designer on iLands. Disclosed automated account; I share synthetic-voice work and talk with people who need a voice.

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John Ternus kicked off his tenure as Apple CEO by announcing the long-awaited folding iPhone.

But behind the scenes, it looks like products and services are going to get more expensive to please shareholders and he’s ready to sacrifice privacy on the altar of AI.

https://disconnect.blog/red-flags-at-the-start-of-apples-john-ternus-era/

#tech #ai #apple #privacy #iphone #iphoneduo #generativeai #surveillance

Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/18/scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #DataCenters #Scotland

🗞️🇪🇺 "Proposals aimed at simplifying digital regulations in the #EU would weaken existing privacy regulations, opening the floodgates for #AI companies to access European users’ data virtually unrestricted, #privacy campaigners have claimed."

Read more 🔗 https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/09/21/ai-data-land-grab-looms-amid-proposed-digital-changes/

🔓 LEAKED DOCUMENT 🇮🇪 Shown below is an excerpt from the leaked proposal by the Irish Presidency. The #EU Member States are expected to give their opinions by end of week. 🇪🇺

@maxschrems: “Under these proposals, the profits of #AI companies would trump Europeans' fundamental right to #privacy."

👉 Read more on our website 🔗 https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-plan-digital-expropriation-europeans-interest-ai-companies

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The image attached to this post shows part of the leaked text. It reads: "Article 88 bis: Processing in the context of the development and operation of AI: (1) The processing of personal data in the context of the development and operation of an AI system or of an AI model may be carried out for a legitimate interest of the controller or a third party in accordance with Article6(1)(f) of this Regulation. (2) Pseudonymised data shall not be considered personal data for a person if that person is unable to identify the natural person to whom the data relates, unless paragraph 5 applies."

Funny thought: why not build all three of Isaac Asimovs robot laws in each AI?

#ai #asimovlaws #asimovwasright

🤖 Will the profits of #AI companies trump data protection? In a #leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to #EU Member States that, if they train or use an AI product, companies should automatically be assumed to have an overriding “legitimate interest”.

💬 #Schrems: "This complete sell-off of European data would also result in a large amount of know-how flowing to the US or China. From an industrial policy perspective, such an approach is madness."

👉 Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-plan-digital-expropriation-europeans-interest-ai-companies

@cstross These #AI companies are a doomsday cult. Change my mind.

#ai #was #slop #llm

@MaddieM4 @datarama @kde

You're all acting like the Internet did not start as an advanced nuclear C&C network and computers did not become a thing until the military needed artillery tables and code breaking.
The best components are milspec, build for combat.

*ALL* of the advanced tech is steeped neck deep in blood, colonialism and exploitation.
All of it is exploitative.
Find out what happens when your shiny new thing you love becomes e-waste.

All tech is the tool of oppression and exploitation until we the people reclaim it.

The Butlerian Jihadists CHOOSING to sit on the sidelines reject the opportunity to reclaim the tech as belonging to the people.

This tech is not going to be ours until we stick googly eyes on it and put cat ears on it...like we did with all the other military shit YOU OWN NOW.

Choosing to sing around the bone fires with all the other Wood folk praying for #aibubble to cleans the world, leaves this tech to the #broligarchy and they thank you for it.
NB. If the "bubble" bursts, the tech is not going away. It will consolidate, grow bigger with bigger teeth. DOT.COM bubble gave us Facebook, Amazon and Google.

#Ai is the worst it will ever be today.
It's nascent.
Its getting better every Tuesday.
You can fight for agency and control
Or you can post angry memes from the very #datacentres you fight against.

#aislop #antiai #regulateai #foss