Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
It's a total reshaping of how people make money on the internet. Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com : “Deeply concerned that the incentives for content creatio...
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”
techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s... … Paul Rietschka / @prietschka : Agents agents agents! — Yes, Whittaker is right! — Also: agents agents agents! If you say it enough — I've been told — it becomes t...
Proton launches Docs in Proton Drive, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs, after acquiring secure note-taking app Standard Notes in April 2024
@protonprivacy releases an end-to-end encrypted document editor. — Somewhat unrelated: This is primarily what I used Skiff Drive/Docs for (their editor was great). … Carey Parker / @FirewallDragons@...
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default
https://slack.com/... What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦♂️ JP Mens / @jpmens@mastodon.social : “Our guiding principle as we build this product is that the privacy and security of Customer Data is sac...
Google's Jigsaw expands Perspective API, a set of ML tools that help moderators and researchers identify toxicity, with seven attributes, including nuance
Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @mer__edith , @prestonjbyrne , @jigsaw , @billyperrigo , @jigsaw , and @jigsaw . LinkedIn: Reza Ghazinouri See also Mediagazer X: Meredith Whittaker / @mer__edith : TLDR: to...
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her”
Apple Called Out By Jon Stewart For Blocking FTC Chair Lina Khan's Interview The Daily Show on YouTube : Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show American Economic Liberties Project : ...
Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @olaf@social.secr...
A look at the challenges of academic AI research, as costs to develop generative AI models grow rapidly and tech companies' salaries drain academia of talent
e.g., establishing shared computing resources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Glenn K. Lockwood / @glennklockwood : Academia is losing its ability to make progress in AI due to competition with i...
Meta proposes standards to identify AI content that its industry peers could use, and plans to label AI images posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
but Leave Plenty Undetected Scrippsnews.com : Meta to add ‘AI-generated’ label to images made by third-party tools Johanna Romero / PhoneArena : Meta will begin to label AI-generated content across Fa...
France's prime minister recommends government staff uninstall foreign apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, in favor of French chat app Olvid
Wouldn't ever use Olvid: — ● promoted by French minister who considers signal.org insecure — ● uses biometric data — ● not fully open-source — ● not fully free — ● owned by a for profit (nee...