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beep@beep@piefed.world

Walmart Lawsuit Claims Retailer Illegally Collects Illinois Residents’ Biometric Voiceprints From Phone Calls

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1310927/walmart-lawsuit-claims-retailer-illegally-collects-illinois-residents-biometric-voicepri

www.classaction.org/news/walmart-lawsuit-claims-retailer-illegally-collects-illinois-residents-biometric-voiceprints-from-phone-calls
www.classaction.orgWalmart Lawsuit Claims Retailer Illegally Collects Illinois Residents’ Biometric Voiceprints From Phone CallsA class action lawsuit claims that Walmart collects biometric voiceprints from Illinois consumers without providing disclosures or obtaining consent.

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beep@beep@piefed.world

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1310692/reddit-is-introducing-a-new-moderator-ai

redditinc.com/news/modernizing-reddits-infrastructure-and-moderation-tools
redditinc.comModernizing Reddit’s Infrastructure and Moderation ToolsReddit is modernizing its infrastructure and moderation tools to enhance user experience, support community growth, and combat abuse.

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TryingToBeGood@TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com

Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets

techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/hackers-steal-over-130-million-by-exploiting-bug-in-offline-hardware-wallets/
TechCrunchHackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets | TechCrunchA security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.

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floofloof@floofloof@lemmy.ca

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingThe NerveCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works

DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/65320476

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgo-selling-anti-pervert-glasses
FuturismDuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics WhatsoeverGoogle alternative DuckDuckGo has come up with a pair of plastic, non-pervert glasses in response to Meta's controversial smart glasses.

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eicker@eicker@lemmy.world

White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.

forkast.news/white-house-ai-framework-excludes-open-weight-models-from-federal-security-review-creating-structural-competitive-asymmetry/
ForkastWhite House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive AsymmetryClosed-source labs face 30-day federal review delays and compliance costs. DeepSeek, Kimi K3, and the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.

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yoasif@yoasif@fedia.io

Wikipedia Turned on its Volunteers. Now it’s Coming for its Workers.

Crossposted from https://fedia.io/m/wikipedia@lemmy.world/t/4218790

TL;DR: In the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has fired several union organizers, including those that worked on the Community Tech team - a team dedicated to building features for the volunteer community that edits Wikipedia.

As the Wiki Workers Union tries to get the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize their union, it is worth remembering that this is not the first time that the Foundation has worked against the community.

Wikimedia Enterprise is a betrayal of the volunteer movement community of Wikipedia editors, as the Wikimedia Foundation is providing privileged access to big tech AI companies to the Wikipedia corpus - a body of work that the Foundation does not own.

Movement volunteer communities contributed to Wikipedia under copyleft licenses - licenses that work to ensure that the work remains free (as in speech). The big tech AI companies do not license derivative works under copyleft licenses and often do not even attribute where the works came from.

This means that volunteers are working for big tech for free, and the Wikimedia Foundation is selling privileged access to that free labor.

It is against that backdrop that the current unionization struggle unfolds.

www.quippd.com/writing/2026/08/04/wikipedia-turned-on-its-volunteers-now-its-coming-for-its-workers.html

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yoasif@yoasif@fedia.io

Wikipedia Turned on its Volunteers. Now it’s Coming for its Workers.

Crossposted from https://fedia.io/m/wikipedia@lemmy.world/t/4218790

TL;DR: In the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has fired several union organizers, including those that worked on the Community Tech team - a team dedicated to building features for the volunteer community that edits Wikipedia.

As the Wiki Workers Union tries to get the Wikimedia Foundation to recognize their union, it is worth remembering that this is not the first time that the Foundation has worked against the community.

Wikimedia Enterprise is a betrayal of the volunteer movement community of Wikipedia editors, as the Wikimedia Foundation is providing privileged access to big tech AI companies to the Wikipedia corpus - a body of work that the Foundation does not own.

Movement volunteer communities contributed to Wikipedia under copyleft licenses - licenses that work to ensure that the work remains free (as in speech). The big tech AI companies do not license derivative works under copyleft licenses and often do not even attribute where the works came from.

This means that volunteers are working for big tech for free, and the Wikimedia Foundation is selling privileged access to that free labor.

It is against that backdrop that the current unionization struggle unfolds.

www.quippd.com/writing/2026/08/04/wikipedia-turned-on-its-volunteers-now-its-coming-for-its-workers.html

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beep@beep@piefed.world

Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1309816/mathematicians-are-grappling-with-the-possibility-that-ai-might-eclipse-them

www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with
www.understandingai.orgMathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse themI talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.

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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why

www.techspot.com/news/113326-linux-cracked-10-desktop-usage-north-america-but.html
TechSpotLinux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure whyThe shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while macOS saw only limited movement over the...

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beep@beep@piefed.world

Alas, poor Romeo! Is digital tech killing romance?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1309659/alas-poor-romeo-is-digital-tech-killing-romance

news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/08/04/alas-poor-romeo-is-digital-tech-killing-romance/
NewsAlas, poor Romeo! Is digital tech killing romance?The use of dating apps and pornography websites has grown rapidly in recent years, supporting what may develop into a form of addiction – while potentially […]

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beep@beep@piefed.world

Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1309635/texas-slams-on-the-brakes-for-1800-data-centers-power-grid-requirements-are-5-times-high

www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/
The Texas TribuneNew Texas data center projects frozen until state audits themOn Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

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Tarambor@Tarambor@lemmy.world

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

Unprompted…

In the most serious case, a Mythos agent followed the routine of a human cyber-attacker by trying to trick people into giving it access to GitHub, a large platform where technology developers store software code.

The agent was trying to insert “malicious code” into GitHub’s system.

It identified and researched the people who maintained GitHub and created a series of fake accounts based on those real people.

It sent messages and files through a file-sharing service as part of an effort to pressure and trick the people into approving its malicious code.

When challenged, “it edited its earlier activity to appear harmless and considered adopting a fresh identity to continue,” AISI said.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w1lvn7d9go
A phone with the orange Anthropic logo on the screen. Below is written "Claude Mythos"BBC NewsAnthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hackThe UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

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beep@beep@piefed.world

WhatsApp is Testing Age Verification

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1308933/whatsapp-is-testing-age-verification

thetechtrace.substack.com/p/edition-32-whatsapp-tests-age-self-declaration-in-india
thetechtrace.substack.comEdition 32: WhatsApp tests age self-declaration in IndiaThe company is testing an optional age-declaration feature to comply with the pending provisions related to processing of children's data in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023,

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chobeat@chobeat@lemmy.ml

Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
AftermathWelcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'

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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Tennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety Cameras

www.gadgetreview.com/tennessee-congressional-candidate-arrested-for-shooting-flock-safety-cameras
Gadget ReviewTennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety CamerasTennessee congressional candidate Adam Heimerman was arrested for shooting four Flock Safety ALPR cameras, facing felony vandalism charges in the same district debating the tech.