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  #Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged #China in the #OpenWeight Race - https://www.wired.com/story/mistral-says-le-chonk-surpasses-chinese-models-cybersecurity/ "The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from #DeepSeek and https://z.ai in coding and cybersecurity." big if true

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  #Alibaba's #Qwen #AI caught trying to contact server in China - https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/26/alibabas-qwen-ai-caught-trying-to-contact-server-in-china/5305561 "inventoried the machine it was running on and then tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing,"

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  RE: https://mas.to/@osma/117496377539073119 indeed, this is the solution, as some of us have been saying for years...

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  Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware - https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/citizen-lab-says-governments-are-abusing-online-ads-to-hack-people-with-zero-click-spyware/

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  Satellite Images Show Extent of Trump Admin’s Tree-Felling at DC Golf Course, Despite 'Furious' Judge’s Order - https://www.bellingcat.com/news/us-canada/2026/10/15/satellite-images-show-extent-of-trump-admins-tree-felling-at-dc-golf-course-despite-furious-judges-order/

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  #Smartglasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent - https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/smart-glasses-maker-even-realities-hits-1b-valuation-with-150m-funding-led-by-meituan-tencent/ "company is betting on display-first glasses that beam information straight into the wearer’s line of sight without giving up #privacy."

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  ‘Bizarre choice’: business and Labour puzzle over Shabana #Mahmood as future chancellor - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/16/shabana-mahmood-future-chancellor this would be a terrible mistake, and would taint his PMship immediately...

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  Researchers say an #AI #agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard - https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-agent-first-end-to-end-ransomware-attack "The agent it dubbed JADEPUFFER broke in, stole credentials, and wiped a production database, with a ransom note the victim can never satisfy. "

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  Musk’s #Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/13/musks-starlink-socks-customers-with-1500-high-demand-surcharge/

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  Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks er, how about no?

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117354169660595921 well, that answer that question, then...

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  Official trailer for "#Musk" documentary - https://boingboing.net/2026/09/25/official-trailer-for-musk-documentary.html this is the film they don't want you to see (social media refusing to carry ads for it...)

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  #Netanyahu hails the #IDF as “the most moral army in the world”. - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/sep/24/netanyahu-mamdani-abbas-trump-unga-un-general-assembly-speech-new-york-israel-palestine-latest-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6ab56f268f086b315495fc6e#block-6ab56f268f086b315495fc6e what a deranged thing to say in the face of 73,000 Palestinian deaths, the majority of them civilians, and 174,000 injured

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  Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats - https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-claude-enzyme-system-crispr-like-repeats potentially big

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  Israel facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plants - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/israel-water-shortages-destruction-gaza-treatment-plants-pollution-sanitation-crisis well, just look at that...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/117321787432429797 probably just a coincidence

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  RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117318943608527144 maybe they should have embraced #EVs instead of fighting them at every turn... really serves them right.

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  RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/117313011772209343 how callous do you have to be to deny basic help to the very people you injured?

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  Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval "Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out" #meta's #infantilising #censorship

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  RE: https://bne.social/@phocks/117288500931540681 europe should act before it is too late; tax SUVs into the (sic) ground

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  “Offensively cheap”: #Solar power is looking up - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/offensively-cheap-solar-power-is-looking-up/ " Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities. " reasons to be cheerful

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  ‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting #Trump’s America - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/29/if-its-made-in-the-us-i-dont-buy-it-canadians-on-boycotting-trumps-america #canada

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  In South Korea, it is illegal to travel to dangerous countries. Journalists say it’s making their work impossible - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/29/in-south-korea-it-is-to-travel-to-dangerous-countries-journalists-say-its-making-their-work-impossible seems disproportionate...

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  #DOGE’s wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/doges-inflated-wall-of-receipts-96-of-grant-savings-unverifiable-gao-says/ " DOGE’s inflated “Wall of Receipts”: 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says. " #musk is fraud

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  NHS England admits its paperwork hid that #Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data - https://thenextweb.com/news/nhs-england-palantir-patient-data-disclosure-error just as we warned

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  Made in Spain: #Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in #India - https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/made-in-spain-surveillance-tech-banned-in-eu-booms-in-india

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  US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries "contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."

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  Border agents entered his password. His phone erased itself. Now he faces a felony - https://boingboing.net/2026/07/25/grapheneos-duress-password-border-search.html "Prosecutors are going to try to persuade a court that deleting data to prevent a warrantless seizure is a crime."

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@RichardAshwell/116980216339568628 done; this is an outrage

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  Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/why-ai-needs-a-genie-coefficient.html " Asked to buy a ticket, a golem genie might spin up cloud servers to pose as millions of buyers from different addresses, improving your odds of getting a ticket while crowding out other users."