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Comment Framing (Score 3, Insightful) 66

It doesn't matter if it's bad - if China and Russia agree it's bad you have to be for it.

You can never agree with China because they have a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State there so you must support a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State here.

If you are against techo-feudalism you must be one of them Putin Lovers.

- The New York Times / Langley, apparently.

Submission + - Fastmail launches EU email hosting with one important privacy catch (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Fastmail is opening a new data center in Amsterdam and will begin moving European customers to EU hosted infrastructure in August. The primary copy of customer data will be stored inside the European Union, which could help with compliance and improve performance for users in the region.

There is one important catch. Fastmail says European customer data will still be replicated to the United States for resiliency. That means the service is not fully EU only, even though the primary copy will remain in Amsterdam.

Submission + - SpaceXAI and Starlink X Accounts Hacked, Abused to Promote scams (spamreports.report)

Submitted by D,Petkow
D,Petkow writes: Another day, another twitter/X scam, but this time involving the official gold-verified accounts of both SPACEX and STARLINK, and another gold-verified account, which is now suspended.

An account called "Sam Catman" somehow obtained an official SpaceXAI-affiliated *gold* badge and posted promotion for a new meme coin on Robinhood Chain.
Shortly afterward, the verified @SpaceXAI and Starlink accounts reposted it, giving the scam instant credibility to millions of followers.
The token pumped hard before the expected rug pull. The original posts have since been deleted.
As of now, there has been zero official acknowledgment or statement from SpaceXAI, Starlink, or Elon Musk about how a high-profile corporate account cluster was compromised so easily — or how the "official affiliate" badge system was abused.

Full story

As a result more than 120 000 USD have been stolen and laundered (so far), how convenient.
Classic reminder that even the biggest names in tech can get owned by a cartoon cat shilling a concurrency "memecoin". The gold badge was apparently worth its weight in rug residue.

The lack of transparency also says plenty, as if never of this ever happened.

Submission + - Californians sign up to have data brokers delete their personal information (eastbaytimes.com)

Submitted by ZipNada
ZipNada writes: More than 300,000 Californians have demanded that hundreds of data brokers erase information about their locations, finances, health and personal lives as the state’s first-in-the-nation Delete Act requires brokers to start the mandatory process of removing data on Aug. 1.

Brokers must start accessing deletion requests within 45 days after Aug. 1, then once they have collected those requests, they have another 45 days to report what data they have purged to the agency — known as CalPrivacy — and people who have signed up. ...
The information Californians are asking brokers to erase can be extraordinarily sensitive. Of the nearly 600 data brokers in CalPrivacy’s registry, 110 sell people’s precise locations, the registry shows. More than 40 sell identity data that can include Social Security numbers. Almost 70 sell information on people’s gender identity. Seven sell data related to reproductive health, and six sell information on union membership. Eighteen sell minors’ data — and Kemp said children can sign up for deletion using DROP, or parents can do it for them.

Many of the brokers build — and sell to advertisers and marketers — dossiers that are increasingly processed using artificial intelligence to draw conclusions about a person’s interests, family, politics, lifestyle, finances, sexual orientation and health.

Submission + - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies not to give AI firms their secrets (nerds.xyz) 1

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies not to give AI firms their secrets

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says businesses may be paying twice for artificial intelligence: once with money, and again with the proprietary knowledge they feed into AI systems to make them useful. He calls this the Reverse Information Paradox, arguing that prompts, corrections, evaluations, workflows, and other usage data can gradually expose how a company actually operates.

Nadella says enterprises should keep control of their own models, memory, feedback, and internal learning loops while avoiding dependence on a single AI provider. The warning is notable coming from Microsoft, which sells the cloud infrastructure and AI services needed to build exactly that kind of private environment.

Comment Re:Cosmic is not ready for prime time (Score 2) 40

by JustAnotherOldGuy (#66234592) Attached to: Is the COSMIC Desktop Getting Better Than KDE and GNOME?

This is a shame; the features sound compelling enough to make me consider switching desktops (especially the "stacking" feature) but those bugs sound like more than I'm willing to put up with. I can accept a few bugs here and there but unfortunately those are serious enough to be deal-breakers. For now.

Submission + - OpenAI has a rough 24 hours

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 1. Top Executive Departure
Fidji Simo, who served as OpenAI’s CEO of Applications (effectively the company's number two executive), announced her departure on July 10, 2026. She is transitioning to a part-time advisory role due to health reasons.
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's number two job

2. Shutdown of Browser Tool
OpenAI announced it is sunsetting its Atlas web browser, which it launched nine months ago. The company stated that the lessons learned from Atlas are being integrated into their new "ChatGPT Work" desktop application, rendering the standalone browser unnecessary. Access to Atlas is scheduled to cease on August 9, 2026.
OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas web browser

3. Sued by Apple for Trade Secret Theft
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on July 10, 2026. The 41-page complaint alleges that OpenAI orchestrated a scheme to steal hardware trade secrets, specifically naming OpenAI's head of hardware, Tang Tan (a former Apple executive), and former Apple engineer Chang Liu, who allegedly retained confidential files after joining OpenAI.
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging the AI company stole trade secrets
Apple sues OpenAI alleging theft of top-secret information

4. Selling Products to Chinese Firms
Investigations have revealed that OpenAI and Google provide advanced AI services to subsidiaries of Chinese companies (Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent) that are on the U.S. Pentagon's "1260H" blacklist. While the companies maintain they do not operate in mainland China, these Chinese firms have been accessing the technology via subsidiaries in Singapore, a move that critics argue exploits a loophole in current U.S. export controls.
OpenAI and Google are selling AI to blacklisted Chinese firms
OpenAI, Google Sell AI Models to Blacklisted Chinese Firms

Submission + - 'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds (zdnet.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: ZDNet reports at the Open Source Summit in Mumbai, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and his friend Dirk Hohndel discussed the current state of Linux and where it's headed. Torvalds described his work pattern during kernel merge windows: "Over two weeks, I do roughly 200 merges. That's a very rough ballpark number." Here's another thing that's changed: Torvalds no longer sees himself as a programmer. "Let's be entirely honest. I hardly read code at all anymore. I'm not a programmer, I'm a development lead."

What matters most to him is understanding intent: "When I do a pull request, I want to understand the bigger picture. It's one of the reasons I ask for pull requests with very good explanations: I will read them. I want to understand what's going on."

On mixed C/Rust code bases, he pointed out that guarantees are limited: "The guarantees that Rust give you only apply in the Rust-only parts of your code base, and wherever you interact with C code, all bets are off," with most Rust code in Linux talking to "core kernel C code" that is "much better quality because that code has been tested in every single environment."

He concluded, "There are many useful and less useful uses for AI," and "I think Godzilla is a great place to stop."

Submission + - I'm a freelance journalist. AI is stealing my work and calling it 'training'

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I’m a freelance journalist. AI is stealing my work and calling it ‘training’

“AI may become the largest uncompensated transfer of creative work in history”

“As a freelance journalist, I sometimes ask AI to edit my work. It has a habit of deleting my favourite lines.”

“That’s irritating, but what worries me far more is how the model learned to write that way in the first place: by reading people like me, without asking.”

Comment Re:Aren't guns legal? (Score 3, Informative) 56

Yeah, that's why they mentioned the ancient Sony camera he lifted.

"Crime with a gun" is a separate crime according to NY.

SCOTUS will strike those down eventually. It's like saying "crime while praying" if it's a right.

Obviously he wasn't using the gun to jack a Betacam. He was probably worried about crackheads in there for the copper.

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