A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth - https://thenextweb.com/news/zuckoff-app-detects-meta-smart-glasses-bluetooth "Five thousand people installed it in a month. It is called Zuckoff, which turns out to be a real person’s name."
The most dangerous thing about #grandtheftautocomplete is not that it will somehow gain sentience, but that it is being used as an arm of the surveillance state and can now transcribe everything you say into something that can be used against you.
The fun part is that it may well hallucinate what it thinks you said, like it does your medical records.
Missing the wrong kidney? Sorry, blame CoPilot.
RE: https://mastox.eu/@novaramedia/117246465551223614
Quick, better pump those numbers. Our random word generator is dangerous, honest Guv…
Whenever we see someone post that they're stopping their donation to the RNLI, like some right-wing virtue-signalling flex, we can't help but think of this. You can donate to the RNLI here: https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate
Apple is trying to get consumers to accept,
and even welcome,
a new reality:
Your tech is always listening.
At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event,
where the company introduced its new hardware lineup,
the real surprise turned out not to be the foldable iPhone,
but how the privacy-sensitive tech giant has decided its watches will now be able to process live audio
and transcribe what was said.
Does this mean you’re always being recorded if the person you’re interacting with is wearing an Apple Watch?
Not exactly — though it may make some people uncomfortable regardless.
It also raises the question of whether consumers actually want this technology,
or if Apple forged ahead in this area because it was afraid that another company, such as OpenAI,
would soon introduce a competitive AI device of its own.
Hello, people!
Another very subjective #ThursdayFiveList today. Yes, let's dig into your favorites, this time.
This about bands you like, but you don't listen to so much for various reasons.
So, you have a personal artists' Top Ten? Then share five songs about artists that they aren't!
Let us know what's #OutFromYourTopTen , but you still like!
Mine in the next toot.
gonna make a meeting privacy box. every participant’s snitch devices go inside it, it plays them full spectrum noise internally so they can’t fucking record outside without consent
"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs."
These motherfuckers get all the resources in the world for their cult and all they can built is "Minority Report"
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There are now 315 data centres in line to connect to the UK’s electricity grid.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/26/two-uk-datacentres-will-produce-more-emissions-than-exxonmobil/
In around three months I will need to choose what 2026's entry is going to be.
It'll probably be something from Hanging Garden or Enshine though.
The fun part of this is that it's a 'live' list that gets longer the more 'staying alive' that I do. It is currently just shy of 4 hours of music. Who knows, maybe it'll be 7 hours by the time it is finished. 🤣
RE: https://cupoftea.social/@fak/117241443731923145
Jail them all. I’m sure there is room in Nathan Gill’s cell.
Zack Polanski is calling on the government to publish the full, unredacted version of a report outlining how ecosystem collapse will plunge Britain into a national security crisis.
The report from UK intelligence chiefs warns that global ecosystem degradation and collapse will have devastating security consequences for Britain, including price rises, geopolitical instability, food and water shortages, greater pandemic risk, increased migration and conflict.
The Joint Intelligence Committee’s report was published in a redacted version in January and despite pressure from MPs and journalists, the Labour government has so far refused to release it in full.
Green party leader Polanski called on prime minister Andy Burnham to “tell the truth”, arguing that the public has a right to know the full scale of the threat.
Speaking at the Wild Summit in Bristol, Polanski said: “We’ve already seen how fragile our food systems are this year, with farmers warning that we could see empty shelves as a result of drought and flooding, and the government whispering that we should start stocking up on tinned food and bottled water.
“And these buried reports lay bare how unprepared we are for what is coming.”
The report identifies six ecosystems critical for UK national security given the likelihood and impact of their collapse, including the Amazon rainforest, Congo Basin and the boreal forests of Russia and Canada.
It states that political polarisation, economic instability, terrorism and disinformation will increase in food and water insecure areas and as populations become more vulnerable to natural disasters.
Polanski, expected to be the Green party’s candidate in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras byelection, also challenged the PM to “act on the scale of the threat” by introducing a Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act “to put resilience at the heart of government”.
British farming hit a crisis point this year and is projected to see its worst harvest since 1984 with key crops failing and increased livestock death due to the climate emergency.
The UK experienced months of extreme summer temperatures alongside what the National Farmers Union called “the worst drought in 50 years”.
Looks like the EU is requesting feedback from EU residents regarding the use of LLMs within the arts, and guidance on policymaking toward it.
If you are an EU resident, please provide feedback here, as it's clearly already heavily slanted in favor of slop destroying the arts: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-the-cultural-and-creative-sectors_en
Last night, when I should have been asleep (thanks, insomnia), I had an idea for a playlist. This probably isn’t an original idea, but I liked it.
Basically, you pick an important song released in each year you’ve been alive, whether it was important to you at the time (this gets easier as you reach your teens 🤣) or one you discovered much later (particularly the childhood years when musical tastes are forming).
Mine currently looks like this. https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/69880050
When you buy an album from a local band on #bandcamp sometimes they hand deliver it and throw in their previous album for the hell of it. Nice! #haastband
Asahi Linux now supports M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max Macs in Expert mode, adding Wi-Fi, webcams, AV1 decoding and USB 3 support.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/asahi-linux-adds-expert-mode-support-for-m3-macs/