Police arrested the wrong woman after searching the Flock surveillance system after a deadly crash.
She spent 13 days in jail, including 86 hours in solidarity confinement, before she was released.
Her attorney provided pictures of her undamaged car police had confiscated that was a different color than the suspected crashed vehicle.
Many are worried about AI replacing us.
No one seems to acknowledge the damage that we have done to the planet and that perhaps someone else could do better.
This week's comic: Mangled Messaging Mayhem
#technology #phones #texting #communication #tech #cartoon #comic #humor
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#books #bookstodon #linux #tech #technology @eff
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I'm done using AI – Brett Codes
brettcodes.com/im-done-using-a…
> Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
Coming soon to a world near you:
DNA script kiddies
GrokPox
Infectious slop
Memetically Modified Organisms
LulzCrew variant HerpesRabies
Genomic Shitcoins
Etc., etc
All sorts of dystopian bioterror shit you saw in a bad movie once
'Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by #AI'
(Jokes aside, it's really about using bacteriophages to treat antibiotic resistant E Coli infections
But...
yeah)
theguardian.com/science/2026/a…
#Virus #Science #Technology #Biology #Disease
Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questionsIan Sample (the Guardian)
This sounds bad. 😬
"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...
More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.
They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.
Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."
#AI #Stocks #tech #technology #SouthKorea #economy #bubble
"Zero Trust" needs a re-brand, at the very least.
The term used to sell "strong safety controls", but now reads more like "zero community values".
New comic on space mirrors
Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are:
#Technology #MadisonSquareGarden #JimDolan
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”Noah Shachtman (WIRED)
Followup:
"Nearly 200 Foreign #Defense Firms Register for #Ukraine’s Captured Russian Weapons Database"
united24media.com/war-in-ukrai…
mastodon.social/@benroyce/1168…
#TrophyLab #UkraineWar #military #technology #Russia
Nearly 200 foreign defense firms registered for Ukraine's TrophyLab to study captured Russian weapons systems.Dariia Mykhailenko (UNITED24 Media)
#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samplesSo #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆
Well not strictly, it's only for allies
And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed
It's called #TrophyLab
The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.
When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.
I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏
thatshubham.com/blog/news-audi…
#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.thatshubham.com
"Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Meta, alleging that the company was exploiting its young users on Instagram and Facebook for profit, including by collecting data from children without parental consent."
The damages could be as high as $1.4 trillion, nearly the same as Meta's market capitalization at just above $1.5 trillion.
gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-…
Via flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/tec…
#news #technology #TechNews #meta #facebook #instagram #SocialMedia
Meta faces damages almost equivalent to its roughly $1.5 trillion market value.Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)
Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge
#environment #climatechange #technology #corporations #DataCenters #pollution
Put aside any notions you have about humans finding a place to live or looking for aliens and exoplanet astronomy is still the most excitingAndy Corbley (Good News Network)
#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples
So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆
Well not strictly, it's only for allies
And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed
It's called #TrophyLab
My first company, Opera, was built on word of mouth. The same applies to my 2nd company, @Vivaldi. We have never had the means that Big Tech has. In the case of Vivaldi, we have even avoided investors, to not end up like Opera.
We have also made it harder for our selves. We likely could have generated more funds through adding stuff like Crypto, AI or just plain old data collection in the browser, but we choose not to. We are also not an Ad company like most of our larger competitors. Instead we have added a wealth of features and customization.
Now people are starting to understand that just going with Big Tech may be easy to start with, but ends up not being worth it. In fact we now have governments and companies thinking that they need to move away from Big Tech and quickly.
We welcome you all.
#Vivaldi #Browser #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #Apple #Google #Microsoft
vivaldi.com/blog/how-can-a-dug…
At Vivaldi we believe that the web is one of humanity’s greatest inventions: open to everyone, built for exploration and expression. But the feeling you get being online these days doesn’t necessarily…André Skjeggestad (Vivaldi Browser)
Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video
politiken.dk/danmark/forbrug/b…
#HackerNews #Tesla #Full #Self #Driving #bicycle #lane #Denmark #approval #selfdriving #technology
Teslas PR-video for selvkørende biler i Danmark viser flere fejl i den københavnske trafik. Cyklistforbundet og FDM er bekymrede.Politiken - Den levende avis
Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026…
#HackerNews #Flock #technology #SanDiego #crime #wrongfulaccusation #privacyconcerns #lawenforcement
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.Jesse Marx • Special to Times of San Diego (Downtown News)
AND SO IT BEGINS
(not really, i don't know anything special. it's just that we all have been expecting the #AI bubble to burst and it will happen eventually. and i don't look forward to it because it will hurt a lot people, jobs and the #economy. and that's on the #techbros and their #FOMO)
" #Nasdaq falls 4% and suffers worst day since April 2025 as traders flee chip #stocks: Live updates"
cnbc.com/2026/06/04/stock-mark…
All three major averages closed out a losing week.Sarah Min (CNBC)
Plan backed by Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary had footprint reduced but concerns remain over its health impactsEdward Helmore (the Guardian)
Kristen Gonzalez, a state senator who authored the bill, said moratorium would target ‘hyperscale’ datacenters over 20MWSanya Mansoor (the Guardian)
British vehicles will emit extra 17m tonnes of CO2 by 2030 due to loophole allowing sale of more PHEVs, data suggestsJasper Jolly (the Guardian)
AI can have our piss, nothing more.
#ButlerianJihad #AI #AIBubble #TechBros #Technology #Environment #UN
Technology secretary promises to support people whose jobs are swept away by automationHeather Stewart (the Guardian)
Announcement that ‘policymakers’ need to be convened by US firm viewed as marketing ploy by some expertsAisha Down (the Guardian)
"The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years as use of artificial intelligence grows."
apnews.com/article/ai-data-cen…
#PublicHealth #environment #water #AI #technology #energy #electricity
Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI toolAmelia Gentleman (the Guardian)
Tech giants claim Australia’s free trade agreement with the United States will be violated, as they try to kill a proposal to force them to pay news companiesJosh Taylor (the Guardian)
Without disclosing that work has been generated using the technology, faith in existing industries will continue to be underminedJosh Taylor (the Guardian)
Announcement seeks to close a difficult chapter for the company after the Guardian revealed its platform was used in mass surveillance of PalestiniansHarry Davies (the Guardian)
What is the Forkiverse, how did it get started, and where's it going? For #DotSocial, @pj, host of the Search Engine podcast, talked to @mike about how conversations with @evan and @cwebber led to collaboration with Hard Fork's @Casey and @kevin and eventually, a fediverse instance, a community, and a feeling of hope. ""It's immensely, immensely rewarding to try to build the internet that you want to find."
IPO could raise up to $75bn, giving SpaceX market value of $1.75tn as it sets up Musk for extraordinary wealthUwa Ede-Osifo (the Guardian)
Almost Everybody Hates AI
"Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped."
Silicon Valley is fighting against regulation, taxes and growth of AI and will benefit from having political leverageDara Kerr (the Guardian)
Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom growsGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a banSanya Mansoor (the Guardian)
Consumer advocates decry Democrat Jared Polis for ‘choosing to side with dominant corporations’ over workersSanya Mansoor (the Guardian)
