Technology

Decimen Lets You Send Files Through Light, Not a Network

I’m not sure when I’d use this, but its a neat concept

Decimen is an open-source web app that moves files between devices through an animated QR stream, requiring no direct network connection, pairing, account, or native app.

Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1308883/safety-testers-find-more-examples-of-openai-anthropic-models-hacking-during-testing

OpenAI blog.

OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle a US DOJ claim it favoured visa workers over Americans

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1308868/openai-pays-3-2m-to-settle-a-us-claim-it-favoured-visa-workers-over-americans

Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1308805/nvidia-opens-up-alpamayo-2-a-driving-model-that-reasons-out-loud

Technical.

Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1308919/mobile-ad-software-encourages-location-data-sharing-eff-report-finds

Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report found.

The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1308800/the-student-ai-revolt-is-mostly-a-myth-business-students-just-want-to-be-taught-how-to-u

The boos aimed at AI at last spring’s graduations suggested a student backlash. A 3-year survey of business students tells a different story: AI use has become routine, employers are pulling for it, and students want to be taught to use it well, not shielded from it.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images

Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.

Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp Money

Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

‘Apple is getting this wrong,’ says OpenAI — startup blasts iPhone maker over lawsuit alleging it stole confidential information through ex-Apple employees

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers

Microsoft warns hackers are targeting hotel Wi-Fi networks: What to know

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

You Bought The Car. Why Are You Still Paying For Subscriptions?

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.

No student reported her. No parent. No coworker. The flag was entirely automated. Snapchat’s policy permits voluntary emergency disclosures to law enforcement — no warrant required — when the platform determines imminent harm exists. The algorithm makes that initial call. Think of it like your Ring doorbell deciding to call 911 on its own, except the doorbell is reading your text messages.