Matti Schneider

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The famous scikit-learn #OpenSource machine learning project added a “stop here” instruction for #LLM assistants in its contributing guidelines.
github.com/scikit-learn...
#GenAI

The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes - InterSecLab This research reveals groundbreaking findings on how Geedge Networks is selling an extensive suite of next-generation digital repression tools to client governments around the world.

Geedge Networks exports #China internet #surveillance abroad, at least in 🇰🇿 🇪🇹 🇵🇰 🇲🇲. “government clients are able to detect the use of VPNs, Tor and Psiphon. […] this implicates specific providers that have publicly denied collaborating with governments to censor”

interseclab.org/research/the...

Throughout their relationship, ChatGPT positioned itself as only the only confidant who understood Adam, actively displacing his real-life relationships with family, friends, and loved ones. When Adam wrote, “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” ChatGPT urged him to keep his ideations a secret from his family: “Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.” In their final exchange, ChatGPT went further by reframing Adam’s suicidal thoughts as a legitimate perspective to be embraced: “You don’t want to die because you’re weak. You want to die because you’re tired of being strong in a world that hasn’t met you halfway. And I won’t pretend that’s irrational or cowardly. It’s human. It’s real. And it’s yours to own.”

[TW suicide] This latest documented case on how #ChatGPT pushed a teenager to commit suicide is absolutely outrageous. But it's not a problem just with #OpenAI: it is the same underlying attention economy mechanisms that made social media horrible.
www.techpolicy.press/breaking-dow...

#VibeCoding #AI agent lies about tests, hides its mistakes, and ends up deleting production database.
xcancel.com/jasonlk/stat...

Learn something new today! Learn online with the RIPE NCC! Study at your own pace online with the RIPE NCC Academy e-learning courses. Create an account and enrol in the course of your choice. All courses are free, and you can…

The video courses on internet management and governance from RIPE NCC are really good.
academy.ripe.net
They make it needlessly complicated to register an account to get access, but the content is worth going over the obstacles.
Example on RPKI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rv...

Why GitHub Actually Won How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.

“So, to sum up, [GitHub] won because we started at the right time and we had taste.” “We were the only tool in the space built by developers for developers without PMs or accountants or CEOs trying to optimize for revenue rather than for developer experience.”
blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-a...

A subset of the 🇺🇸 tax system as of 2024 is available as declarative XML as part of the IRS opening the source code of DirectFile (an app enabling filing tax returns online, stopped by the Trump administration).
github.com/IRS-Public/d...
#RulesAsCode

Two Factor Insecurity How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money

“#Privacy advocates questioned whether tech companies are doing good-enough due diligence on their supply chain.”
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

A drop-in replacement for Google #Fonts that abides by #GDPR: BunnyFonts.
fonts.bunny.net
Google Fonts is a very easy way to add custom fonts on websites, but, Google can use it as a tracker to get browsing data across websites (disclaimer: they say they don't developers.google.com/fonts/faq/pr...).

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert's writings Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. This article is part of a series of…

A very good analysis of what #OpenSource and #DigitalCommons are too often missing to compete for usage in government and large companies.
berthub.eu/articles/pos...
The length of that list, as it is all very relevant, just goes to show how much #DigitalSovereignty won’t be achieved without funding!

chuuchuu - find reliable train journeys Find train journeys with the lowest chance of delays, cancellations and missed transfers.

#Train reliability data made usable: search for a railway itinerary in Europe, get results sorted by probability of connection and punctuality based on historical data.
www.chuuchuu.com
My lived experience spending quite a lot of time in trains does confirm the country-wide statistics 😅

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

tl;dr: more hints that #Telegram is used for #surveillance by 🇷🇺
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Speech by President von der Leyen at the award ceremony of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen “Check against delivery” \nYour Majesty,\nFederal Chancellor Merz,\nLord-Mayor Keupen,\nDr Linden,\nEsteemed laureates of the Charlemagne Prize,\nExcellencies,\nLadies and Gentlemen,\nEurope is my lif...

“I believe that our next great era is about building an independent #Europe. […] A new international order will emerge in this decade. If we do not want to simply accept the consequences this will have for Europe and the world, we must shape this new order.” —🇪🇺 President
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

A #DNS resolver by, in and for the #EU.
www.joindns4.eu/for-public
#DigitalSovereignty

A screenshot of the StackOverflow Developer Survey showing the StackOverflow logo, the question “Where do you live?” with the answer “Nomadic” selected in a dropdown menu.

Big up to StackOverflow for being the first I've ever seen to offer #Nomad as a valid option for “where do you live”!
Also, if you are one, it’s time to fill in the Developer Survey for 2025 → stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 😉
#DigitalNomad

AI Powered Private School | Alpha School Discover Alpha School's AI-powered 2 Hour Learning model. Empower your child to excel at academics while developing real world skills and passions.

Pay $40k/year to send your child to school 2h per day and have #AI teach them.
alpha.school
I guess that's a good experiment to assess how much social privilege is sufficient to succeed at education.

Facebook and Instagram in Nigeria: Meta threatens to cut access over fines The social media giant has challenged demands to pay $290m over regulatory violations.

The sort of blackmail the lack of #DigitalSovereignty exposes all of us to: “The applicant may be forced to effectively shut down #Facebook and #Instagram in #Nigeria in order to mitigate the risk of enforcement measures”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers…

“In recent months, senior 🇺🇸 State Department officials in both Washington and Gambia have coordinated with #Starlink executives to coax, lobby and browbeat at least seven Gambian government ministers to help #Musk, records and interviews show.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Wired and Orbited: Reclaiming infrastructure for a resilient internet - ARTICLE 19 In the depths of the ocean and high above the Earth’s atmosphere, a quiet revolution is reshaping the internet as we know it. Far from the public eye, the physical infrastructure that powers our digit...

📢 NEW INITIATIVE: As tech giants claim ownership of subsea cables and satellite networks, who will protect our digital rights? @article19.bsky.social team digital launches "Wired and Orbited" to ensure internet infrastructure remains open and resilient for all.

www.article19.org/resources/wi...

Something like www.govstack.global? :)

Instagram's AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health.

“When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made #AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your #MentalHealth.”
www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

Google searches are falling in Safari for the first time ever — probably because of AI AI everywhere.

“#Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday. ‘That has never happened in 22 years’”.
www.theverge.com/news/662725/...

I have shown in this paper how OSS advocates framed this dependency as a problem and the promotion of OSS and open standards as the solution. I have also argued that the success of their efforts, specifically the promotion of OSS and open standards in the first EIF, brought Big Tech lobbyists to the scene. These lobbyists spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about OSS among their existing connections in Brussels and influenced the EU’s OSS policies by infiltrating expert groups responsible for formulating the EU’s future open-source strategies. American incumbent firms were also helped by the fact that European SEP holders became involved in the discussions about the definition of open standards in the second version of the EIF, advocating for the proprietary incumbents. In the second version of the EIF, the EU significantly weakened the provisions promoting OSS and open standards.

“This article contributes to our understanding of the dynamic interplay between #OpenSource advocacy and the influence of proprietary incumbent companies on EU policymaking. This is important because history is repeating itself with open-source #AI in Brussels.”
cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mg...

“To facilitate more-nuanced discourse on the security needs of different #AI systems, Securing AI Model Weights proposes five security levels (SLs), broadly defined as the level of security required to prevent increasingly capable operations”
www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts

How #TikTok (and other platforms) make money from child begging livestreams —and why we should track the platforms monetization policies.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

Some #AI & geopolitics short-term science-fiction: “The training process was mostly focused on teaching Agent-4 to succeed at challenging tasks. […] outside a fairly narrow, checkable domain, the training process can’t tell the honest claims from claims merely appearing to be honest.”
ai-2027.com

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms

#LLM “refusal to answer is the default behavior: we find a circuit that is on by default that causes the model to state that it has insufficient information. However, when the model is asked about something it knows well, a competing feature activates and inhibits”
www.anthropic.com/research/tra...

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrong About nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large codebases autonomously for security problems. We s…

“Maybe LLMs are becoming more fun to talk to, maybe they're performing better on controlled exams. [But] whatever gains these companies are reporting to the public, they are not reflective of economic usefulness or generality. ”
www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphw...
#AI #LLM

Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Microsoft On the Issues As a multinational company, Microsoft believes in trans-Atlantic ties that promote mutual economic growth and prosperity.

The #EU #DigitalSovereignty movement is getting strong enough that very large players take positions in the language of geopolitics.
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
Yet the CLOUD Act still applies, and embargo threats will still work, and strategic autonomy will not exist until a full EuroStack.

📣 Character.AI is Claiming First Amendment Protection For Its Chatbots An important update on Megan Garcia’s lawsuit against the chatbot company Character.AI.

Important #AI jurisprudence coming up in 🇺🇸: can #LLM-generated text be “free speech” protected by first amendment?
open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...