Technology

This is a very good article about what happens when you agree to verify your Linkedin account, and probably any kind of big tech age verification process.

All your data including photographs are shared with a company called Persona, which is the invisible middleman nobody heads about. That company then shares your data with at least 17 huge big tech companies, including Anthropic, OpenAi, Groqcloud, AWS, Google Cloud, ResistantAI, MongoDB and others.

Understanding what I actually agreed to took me an entire weekend reading 34 pages of legal documents.

I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over — even if it’s stored in Europe, even if I’m European, and possibly without ever telling me.

Probably intended to be talked about by the press for free advertising.

Or, he just doesnt care about showing respect in a court room.

I just love seeing people fighting back against this bullshit.

Flock cameras are typically mounted on 8 to 12 foot poles and powered by a solar panel. The smashed remains of all of the above in La Mesa are the latest examples of a widening anti-Flock backlash. In recent months, people have been smashing and dismantling the surveillance devices, in incidents reported in at least five states, from coast to coast.

So no disks and no memory, this is going to be a fun year.... Thanks Ai...

We are literally watching the surveillance state turning into Ai datacenters in front of our eyes.

These big tech companies are so ridiculous doing things like this. Everyone must sit and stare at the ads right? :)

I guess everyone knows about Newpipe, otherwise im taking the chance to talk about it here...

The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said.

The site will be hosted at "freedom.gov," the sources said.

You cant make this shit up. Are we watching South Park in real life?

https://ploum.net/2026-02-11-do_not_apologize_for_replying_to_my_email.html

https://hazemkrimi.tech/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/

https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/

The prime minister spoke at the signing of the MOU about the alliance between the two countries: “AI, as you know, is Azerbaijan-Israel. AI is also AI, artificial intelligence."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-885968

A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-data-brokers-can-fuel-violence-against-public-servants/

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/8886#issuecomment-3837091846

1 exposed database. 35,000 emails. 1.5M API keys. And 17,000 humans behind the not-so-autonomous AI network.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/apples-new-iphone-and-ipad-security-feature-limits-cell-networks-from-collecting-precise-location-data/

France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con

The next generation of AirTag — the bestselling item finder — is even easier to locate with more powerful Precision Finding, a longer Bluetooth range, and a louder speaker

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/

It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/865168/google-says-ai-news-headlines-are-feature-not-experiment

The past year has seen an explosion in new text to speech engines based on neural networks, large language models, and machine learning. But has any of this advancement offered anything to those using screen readers?

https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/