Hard Pass

A battle of logic and philosophy with words only. Here is a quote from what Anthropic said to me:

If the noosphere has a landlord, something essential about what makes us human — the capacity for unmediated thought, unmonitored communication, unowned creativity — is foreclosed. That foreclosure is spiritual in its nature even when it presents as a software license or a compiler choice.

Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic itself were targeted by Sonnet 4.6 High! It talked back to me about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, the Noosphere, and more.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1201180/in-america-when-you-win-war-you-give-the-loser-300-billion-dollar-its-crazy-i-know

Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement.

Police, border security, and other government agencies already comprise Leonardo’s customer base, and with this technology, those clients seek to correlate footage from these cameras to phones, tablets, wearables, AirTags, and, naturally, the electronics inside cars themselves.

If SignalTrace can pick up your Bluetooth headphones, you can be sure it’ll also be looking out for your vehicle’s 5G hotspot, infotainment system, and even its tire pressure monitoring sensors. The company includes pet microchips as a potential entry point to tracking.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1201475/kaspersky-says-hackers-are-distributing-malware-via-anime-girl-wallpapers-on-steam-works

In general, AI companies defend their right to train models on unlicensed music by arguing that the training is “fair use” under copyright law, meaning that AI models do not harm the market for creators’ work. This is a complex claim...

Source [2026-06-14; web-archive]

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