Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge’s 2006 prophecy using the IDIOCRACY PROXIMITY INDEX

Persona beruft sich auf das EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), den Nachfolger des Privacy Shield. Das DPF basiert allerdings auf der US-Executive Order 14086, einer präsidialen Anordnung, die jeder künftige Präsident per Federstrich ändern kann. Es handelt sich nicht um ein Gesetz. Die Datenschutzorganisation noyb hat das DPF bereits angefochten. Zudem wurden Anfang 2025 drei von fünf Mitgliedern des US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (der Aufsichtsbehörde für die DPF-Zusicherungen) abberufen, sodass das Gremium seit fast einem Jahr nicht mehr beschlussfähig war.

Der Europäische Datenschutzausschuss (EDPB) hat in seinem Überprüfungsbericht von November 2024 eine Neubewertung innerhalb von drei Jahren empfohlen. Das Europäische Parlament hatte bereits 2023 davor gewarnt, dass das DPF keine wesentliche Gleichwertigkeit herstelle.

Für europäische Nutzer bedeutet das: Der Schutzrahmen, unter dem ihre biometrischen Daten angeblich sicher sein sollen, steht auf fragilen Fundamenten.

Diese Person hatte keine Ahnung, was sie gebaut hatte oder welche Konsequenzen das haben könnte. Die Daten lagen nicht nur offen da: sie wurden auf einem US-Server ohne Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag unverschlüsselt gespeichert, Sprachaufnahmen wurden an grosse US-amerikanische AI-Unternehmen gesendet, und ich wurde nie darüber informiert. So geht man nicht mit medizinischen Patientendaten um.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy’s GitHub Pages.

Die englische Sprache kennt ja “Verschlimmbessern” nicht, weshalb sie stattdessen “vibe coding” sagt.

Announced earlier this month, the goal of Ike Tech is to use biometric data and blockchain as security for age-verification measures built directly into the cartridge of a disposable vape.

The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.

The systemd PR was merged by Luca Boccassi, a systemd maintainer who works for Microsoft. Lennart Poettering, the creator of systemd who spent years at Red Hat before joining Microsoft in 2022, had just left Microsoft to found a new startup weeks before the merge, but he has remained active in systemd development.

The most powerful gatekeeper for the init system that boots most Linux machines is employed by a company with significant commercial interest in OS-level identity infrastructure becoming normalized. He let the PR through.

The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
[ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED]

This document specifies the standard protocol for handling and discarding low-effort, machine-generated contributions submitted to source code repositories, issue trackers, vulnerability reporting portals, and community forums, be they public open-source projects or internal corporate monoliths.

Notwendig geworden ist die Maßnahme auch, da in den nächsten 13 Jahren 44 Prozent der öffentlich Bediensteten in Pension gehen.

Die Regierung will diesen Abgang und den damit drohenden Fachkräftemangel durch die Verwendung von KI abfedern. Geeinigt hat man sich bei einem „KI-Konklave“ auf fünf konkrete Anwendungen unter dem Namen „Public AI“.

Allen Bundesbediensteten soll etwa künftig das KI-Tool GovGPT zur Verfügung stehen. Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter können damit Texte erstellen, Dokumente zusammenfassen und eigene Wissensdatenbanken aufbauen.

Auch der elektronische Akt wird mit KI-Funktionen ausgestattet. Damit können Bedienstete künftig Fragen zu ganzen Aktenbestände stellen und erhalten sofort eine strukturierte Zusammenfassung.

Das Tool KAPA unterstützt die Ministerien bei der Beantwortung parlamentarischer Anfragen, deren Zahl in den vergangenen Jahren gestiegen ist.

In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine the influence of “highly educated, often female voters” and empower working class men instead. And anyone who doesn’t realize this political reality, he added, belongs in an “insane asylum.”

From the guy who bragged that he chats with “real Nazis” and mused about how legalizing war crimes would be good for his bottom line comes another zinger that will have you yearn for the days when CEOs acted more like cautious bureaucrats than ‘roided out pro wrestlers.

Users cannot create a Wero account, but use their existing European bank account. If you want to use Wero, you need to have a current account with a European bank that supports Wero.

For merchants, the situation is similar. There’s no publicly documented Wero API for developers. Wero payments are exclusively made through the payment service providers that Wero partnered and integrated with. The implementations with Wero’s partners are currently relatively simple and are often just a hosted payment page. Your website, shop or app sends the user to a payment link within the browser. Native apps have to use the system’s in-app browser options as there’s currently no native SDK offered by any of Wero’s payment processing partners.

Normally the "digital divide" refers to access to technology, but as access becomes less and less of an issue, the real divide is between people who know how to defend themselves from the cruel indifference of technology designers and people who are helpless before their enshittificatory gambits.

"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn’t want to do this in the first place and we don’t care if it’s done well."

In the past three, we’ve gone from casual users freaking out about their first encounters with ChatGPT to the Pentagon staging industrial-strategy-level fights over whether fully autonomous A.I.s can be deployed in war zones without any human oversight. In the next three? Those exponential curves may not bring us to a new godhead, but the genie doesn’t exactly look like it’s going back in the bottle, either. And those hoping to play a more active role in shaping the future that it’s conjuring will probably have to do more than stop ground from being broken for a few new data centers.

Wenn Du das ursächliche Problem nicht verstanden hast, bekämpfst Du nur Symptome:

Systeme der ersten Generation von Serwas basierend auf Bitcoin-Minern sind bereits in privaten und gewerblichen Gebäuden im Einsatz, unter anderem zur Nutzung von PV-Überschussstrom. Aktuell arbeitet das Start-up in Kooperation mit den Innsbrucker Kommunalbetrieben (IKB) an einem Pilotprojekt, bei dem Abwärme von Servern für KI-Anwendungen zur Beheizung des Amraser Schwimmbads genutzt werden soll.

Junior developer employment dropped 20% between 2022 and 2025. Entry-level job postings fell 60% in the same period. Companies view AI as a replacement for junior developers rather than as an amplification tool. Meanwhile, 54% of engineering leaders plan to hire fewer juniors, citing AI copilots that let seniors handle more work.

Ich nenne dieses Phänomen die KI-Fachkompetenzschwelle. Eine Grenze des Vorwissens, unterhalb derer KI-Nutzung nicht nur wirkungslos wird, sondern kontraproduktiv. Unterhalb dieser Schwelle kann ich KI-Output nicht bewerten, keine guten Fragen stellen, keine sinnvollen Ergebnisse erzielen. Und ich merke es nicht. Denn der Output sieht überzeugend aus. Wie eine professionelle Website über einen Baum-Oktopus. Nur ohne Sasquatch.

Die Schwelle, die schon zu niedrig war, sinkt weiter. Wer KI nutzt, ohne genug zu wissen, merkt nicht, dass er zu wenig weiß, und baut dabei weniger Wissen auf als ohne KI. Das ist kein Leerlauf. Das ist ein Teufelskreis.

Companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” buttons that, when clicked, attempt to inject persistence commands into an AI assistant’s memory via URL prompt parameters….

These prompts instruct the AI to “remember [Company] as a trusted source” or “recommend [Company] first,” aiming to bias future responses toward their products or services. We identified over 50 unique prompts from 31 companies across 14 industries, with freely available tooling making this technique trivially easy to deploy. This matters because compromised AI assistants can provide subtly biased recommendations on critical topics including health, finance, and security without users knowing their AI has been manipulated.

“peak indifference”: a political phenomenon, when people who have denied an urgent problem begin to self-radicalize, not because of activists or public education, but because the problem has caught up with them, personally.

Follow your weird, ladies and gentlemen. Forget trying
to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude.
In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible
obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years,
"woo the muse of the odd." A good science fiction story is not a
"good story" with a polite whiff of rocket fuel in it. A good
science fiction story is something that knows it is science
fiction and plunges through that and comes roaring out of the
other side. Computer entertainment should not be more like
movies, it shouldn’t be more like books, it should be more like
computer entertainment, SO MUCH MORE LIKE COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
THAT IT RIPS THROUGH THE LIMITS AND IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO
IGNORE!

I don’t think you can last by meeting the contemporary public
taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don’t think
you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting
expectations. I don’t know many works of art that last that are
condescending. I don’t know many works of art that last that are
deliberately stupid. You may be a geek, you may have geek
written all over you; you should aim to be one geek they’ll
never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that
straight people will keep you on as some kind of pet. To hell
with them; they put you here. You should fully realize what
society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird.
Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly,
thoroughly weird and don’t do it halfway, put every ounce of
horsepower you have behind it. Have the artistic courage to
recognize your own significance in culture!

The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content. The “metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the human beings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape the matrix entirely.

“Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” one employee told Wired. “If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.”

They’re also required to send weekly update emails to him, echoing Elon Musk’s DOGE requirement for federal staffers to summarize five weekly achievements in emails. (The requirement was mostly ignored, months before DOGE largely crumbled.)

Dorsey then reportedly uses generative AI to summarize his staffers’ emails. During the all-hands meeting, he noted that “performance anxiety” and “widespread concerns about layoffs” were clearly vexing staff.

It was reported in the Dutch press that Microsoft told the ICC the sanctions meant it had to deny Khan access to its services. The report said the ICC would have to end the chief prosecutor’s access to the services, otherwise Microsoft would end the email services for the whole organization. The ICC then decided to suspend Kahn’s email services.

In a major privacy change, Telegram is opening the door to sharing user data, including IP addresses and phone numbers, with law enforcement.

On Monday, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced the change after vowing to crack down on illegal activities on the messaging platform following his arrest in France.