We’re at that point in the timeline where Jim Cramer is conflicted about sounding like Karl Marx.

Yup 🙄 AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/117441120036526489

been screaming this for months now

Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company's gunshot-detecting microphones (also deployed in U.S. cities) detect "just gunshots." Its website paints a much broader picture of the kind of ambient audio that its microphones pick up.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/flock-ceo-says-its-microphones-detect-just-gunshots-its-website-says-different/

Bypass for ad-blockers: https://archive.is/S06tI

#KDE is prepared for their 30th anniversary in Berlin 😀

I took this picture of Summer early this morning.
She was sitting on her perch.
The highest point on our property.
My husband cleared a flat to build the house fifty years ago. He pushed the dirt towards the road and left the pile there because he liked the privacy it provided.
Later we added a fence to keep out our wandering, famous artist neighbor, who shamelessly helped himself to most of my flowers every day as he let his dogs poop on our grass. When asking him nicely to stop didn't work we built a fence.
Now Summer thinks she is the queen of all that she sees. I keep telling her that she doesn't rule the neighborhood to no avail. She still barks at the artist as he walks by.
When I looked at this photo and she looked like she was glowing I started to wonder if she's right and I'm wrong.
Happy Wednesday Mastodon friends.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

"Democrats have reason to be optimistic, but headaches could be waiting if they win the midterms"

Thanks, CNN. You might want to mention that the total destruction of American democracy could be waiting if they lose.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/democrats-senate-candidates-midterms?cid=ios_app

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance.
Because it's not "just a tool", it's a bigger project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

Happy 100th birthday, Winnie the Pooh

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #WinnieThePooh #Bookstodon

We’re not surprised to learn the DHS’s own Inspector General has found serious flaws in how the TSA protects its facial recognition data.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/dhs-inspector-general-finds-tsa-not-properly-safeguarding-passenger-facial

Zelenskyy just know told Pierce Morgan that Ukraine is losing an ally because Trump has chosen the wrong side of history.

EU leaders should express their agreement publicly because they all know that Zelenskyy is right.

We now note that that we do not waive our attribution requirements for Spritely Goblins, which are present in Apache v2 (and for that matter, CC BY, CC BY-SA, and most FOSS licenses) https://codeberg.org/spritely/goblins/pulls/998/files

So if you train on our codebase, you have to retain attribution, which we consider the most important requirement to motivate development of technology in the commons.

If, somehow, you are using a statistical soup which has no way to preserve attribution, well, we don't permit or approve of dropping such a requirement, and actually, the licenses we use never have.

📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷

Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. Courtesy of the #publicdomain.👇
https://archive.org/details/winniepooh00milna/mode/2up

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/828732198172721152
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/

Anyone surprised by this? Every AI and tech company wakes up each day asking the same question. How can we build an even bigger surveillance network, squeeze more profit out of it and turn George Orwell’s 1984 into reality? At this point, they are not predicting the dystopian future. They’re building it and charging its users for it. Truly evil stuff.

It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity.” https://prospect.org/2026/10/13/time-to-de-privatize-federal-government

OTD in 1977, Anita Bryant was hit in the face with a pie on live TV by gay rights legend Thomas Lawrence Higgins.

Happy Pie A Homophobe In The Face Day to all who celebrate! 🥳💁🏻‍♀️🥧

Thinking back to early in my career, sitting in a meeting room with print outs of code and a highlighter, with the goal of deleting us much of it as possible, because everyone understood that each line was a liability, and a drag on every outstanding requirement.

*sigh*