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  • 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. 🤷

  • 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. ✅

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

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  • Funny how AI suddenly becomes sacred intellectual property only when someone else catches up. If the evidence is real, enforce the rules. If it is not, this risks looking less like protecting innovation and more like protecting market leaders from uncomfortable competition.

  • Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute

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  • This is exactly the kind of AI competition users should want: more choice, more deployment options, and less vendor lock in. If European AI companies can scale without being swallowed by US tech giants, that’s good for customers, resilience, and the AI ecosystem as a whole.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • Certainly for China. The US still seems to think it can achieve anything with this nonsense.

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

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  • There really is no better way to obtain data. And it’s not just data that’s fed into the AI, but also strategies, methods and processes: ideally, these are incorporated directly into the software.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • It’s as if the whole world were just one big kindergarten.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • China is following the same playbook it criticises the US for using. Once AI became a strategic technology, »global collaboration« quickly gave way to »national advantage.« The result is a world where everyone talks about innovation while making it harder for innovation to cross borders. 🤨

  • America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren't as great as they seem

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  • The AI boom is starting to look a lot like past »economic development« promises: huge tax incentives, massive power consumption, and surprisingly few permanent local jobs. If taxpayers are footing part of the bill, it’s fair to ask whether communities are getting enough in return.

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

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  • Most companies have not yet been using AI efficiently, and often do so simply out of FOMO. What’s more, the fact that open-weight models have caught up with or even overtaken closed AIs is a recent development over the last six months.

  • Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

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  • Authoritarian governments don’t need superintelligent AI. They need AI that’s just good enough to monitor more people, automate more decisions, and scale censorship at a fraction of the cost. The real danger isn’t AI becoming all powerful: It’s making authoritarianism dramatically cheaper and more efficient.

  • Which lemmy/piefed frontends are there?

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  • This! It’s fast. It’s reliable. Love it!

  • Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

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  • The feature itself isn’t the biggest issue. Plenty of people would find it genuinely useful. The bigger problem is executives denying it exists until they’re ready to talk about it. If users can’t trust what a company says about face recognition today, why should they trust its privacy promises tomorrow?