French lawmakers add $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage to budget, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — law still has to pass Senate approval.
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@tomgauld.bsky.social on the impact of AI & associated technologies & writing...
(all a bit meta, of course)
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Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time: Talk about a new kind of filter.
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows: Search advertising growth continued to decelerate, and Alphabet shares fell 8% following the results.
AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy: It is hoped game testing can provide insight into recent AI.
Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."
Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case
Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%.
Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it: Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort!
Nvidia Board Probes Reports CEO Was Targeted by Spy
https://www.cnet.com/news/nvidia-board-probes-reports-ceo-was-targeted-by-spy/
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CXMT completes engineering sample validation for sixth-generation DRAM technology platform based on 4F² architecture
Internationally, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have been pursuing the 4F² technology.
SK hynix unveiled its 4F² road map in 2025, while Samsung planned to mass-produce sub-10-nanometre DRAM based on the new design by 2028, according to a report published by Seoul Economic Daily on October 13.
CXMT said it was the first company to complete engineering sample validation of the architecture, and if development continues smoothly, it could become the first company globally to bring 4F²-based products to market.
Nature-Inspired Tech Prevents Microplastics Entering Atlantic Ocean Through Wastewater
Princeton alumni have designed what’s called a first-in-the-world device to filter microplastics out of wastewater at scale, and it’s already been deployed in Atlantic City.
Statement: Denmark Continues its Work on Digital Sovereignty with Collabora Office
Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither. Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them.
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“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC
https://respawnfirst.com/linux-script-emails-sam-altman-unused-ram-ram-altman/
#news #tech #technology #AI #openai #samaltman #ramaltman #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis
Defund Elon Musk: No private individual should have the power to determine US foreign policy, as Musk has attempted to do in Ukraine.
After Uber Destroyed Taxi Cabs, Drivers Now Face the Existential Threat of Self-Driving Cars: "It feels like every time I adjust to a new reality, another tech comes along & threatens my livelihood."
Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’
Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be “disarmed,” adding that humans “have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications.” In Friday’s Papal Address, Pope Leo encourages United Nations member states to “take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons” during their meeting in Geneva next month.
The address reflects many of the ideas Pope Leo laid out in his first major papal document in May, which highlighted “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” In line with his encyclical, Pope Leo tells participants that “Machines are tools, not persons,” and warns about the dangers of granting AI systems rights or legal personhood. “Decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must always remain subject to effective, informed, and responsible human oversight,” Pope Leo says.
In 2024, Pope Francis similarly called for a ban on autonomous weapons, saying, “No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being.” AI has become a popular topic for Pope Leo, who suggests he chose his name because he must confront advances in the technology — similar to how Pope Leo XIII presided over the church at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution.
Pope Leo closes out his address by calling for international institutions to safeguard the common good from AI-related risks, along with “shared standards, independent oversight and clear mechanisms of accountability so that decisions concerning the development and use of AI can be examined, challenged when necessary, and accompanied by appropriate remedies for any harm caused.”
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering — sweeping new restrictions also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
The article about the “Re-Interviews” at Proton made me remember this blogpost from 18 july 2026. I don’t think is had been posted here before.