The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute

Our privacy should be a collaborative effort between the government and companies–but we cannot rely solely on their goodwill. That’s why we need strict legislative and democratic controls to contain the surveillance state and private industry. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Excellent question. I don't know the answer because I am not an iOS dev, and I haven't worked with either toolkit. I'll have to dig a bit to figure it out. I was also hoping to prompt discussion to help step through this.

#Apple #Developer #Dev #WWDC #AI #CoreML #CoreAI

Let us not overlook the #Medicare ad #Medicaid data

#AI #ethics #privacy

www.oracle.com/news/announc...

Do you think they post this announcement in a "blog" to temper the impact of a "press release"?

Potential #privacy concerns as Oracle #AI will have access to data of US citizens collected by federal agencies?

blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infras...

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Sears Tower
Wrigley Field
Rosemont Horizon
and ok Comiskey Park for you South-Siders
Eleventy FTW!!!

Trying to imagine the looks on the faces of the people I worked with at Google in 2018 if you’d told them that in 7 years their flagship product would be sending users to commit terrorism at airports

and that no one will do anything about it

Lawsuit alleges Google's Gemini guided man to consider 'mass casualty' event before suicide A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the company's artificial intelligence chatbot guided a 36-year-old on a mission to stage a “catastrophic accident.”

Lawsuit alleges Google's Gemini guided man to consider 'mass casualty' event before suicide

www.sfgate.com/business/art...

Late night ramble ... I've been writing software since it was punch cards. In that time have had every title including CEO except for marketing. Still write Open Source code. All that said I fear for the millions of tech people the colleges have cranked-out and made us a commodity against AI.

Apple's Machine Learning Engine Could Surface Your iPhone's Secrets Apple's Core ML is a boon for developers, but security experts worry that it also could make it easier for bad actors to snoop on your private data.

Versus

www.wired.com/story/core-m...

Core ML Explained: Apple's Machine Learning Framework This articles will help you to assess and judge the main features of More ML and how you can leverage machine learning in your apps.

Some history

CoreML "emphasized user privacy by focussing on on-device machine learning over other cloud-based solutions"

www.createwithswift.com/core-ml-expl...

Apple replacing Core ML with modernized Core AI framework for iOS 27 at WWDC - 9to5Mac A new report says that Apple will replace Core ML with a modernized Core AI framework at WWDC, helping developers...

Considering AI is infamous as an almost universal antagonist to #privacy across all industries and datasets, what are the new privacy concerns inherent in this framework shift?

Any #AI #ethicist, privacy advocate, or #iOS #developer please weigh in!

9to5mac.com/2026/03/01/a...

There was sarcasm inherent in my post. In case it was not obvious.

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Succinct. 😐

Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digita… A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles…

The clock is ticking! Goodreads is doing a giveaway for Privacy's Defender, a novel from EFF's Cindy Cohn that gives insight into the most pivotal legal disputes that shaped the Internet. You have 8 days to enter and get the chance to win a free copy! www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

RAM shortages explained: Why the world's supply of computing memory is so expensive right now The RAMpocalypse, RAMageddon, and RAMflation are upon us, but why?

Another reason for us to be thankful for #AI and big data centers! They get first pick of the best resources from #water to memory.

#RAMpocalypse

www.gamesradar.com/hardware/des...

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt' by the end of 2026 thanks to the RAMpocalypse, Phison CEO reportedly says This could go on for another 10 years.

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt' by the end of 2026 thanks to the #RAMpocalypse, Phison CEO reportedly says

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#news #tech #technology #AI #openai #grok #aislop #nvidia

A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already.

The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏

Apple A18 Pro Specs - Low End Mac This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A18 Pro” chip.   Name: “Apple A18 Pro” MFG: TSMC Released: September 9th, 2024 Codename: APL1V07 Part Number: T8140 Fabrication Proces...

Back from a two-week break! Low End Mac has a new Tech Spec article.

lowendmac.com/2026/apple-a...

This mind-bending relativity illusion has never been seen—until now.

Using ultrafast lasers and a 300-picosecond camera, researchers at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology visualized the rotating Terrell-Penrose effect, an effect of special relativity.

Screenshot of npmx' popover while hovering over the entry for @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte in package.json in Cursor IDE It shows meta data from npmx and provides links to npmx.dev and to the library's github repo.

The @npmx.dev plugin for VSCode / Cursor is such a time saver!
1-click path to the git repo and to the enriched package details view on npmx.dev

🙏 github.com/npmx-dev/vsc...

I bought an SLR camera (not dSLR, FILM) that had been on a trip to the Galapagos many moons ago, in the hope that it would take ME there one day as it might want to go back.

Haven't made it yet.

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years The native species was driven to extinction by sailors in the 1800s. Now, 158 juvenile giant tortoises have been reintroduced to the island.

🐢 Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state."

I was so happy when I learned about state transitions in Physics. 🙃 Don't think I was wearing bunny slippers that day.

That is a perfectly reasonable observation. Another reasonable observation is that the majority of the public are not likely aware of how data is being collected, collated, and used in practice.

Philosophically, one could call it a defense against privacy violations. 🤔

And it is JUST THAT SIMPLE to accommodate #accessibility. It really doesn't have to be a great and mighty battle. One person decides to be a good human and make another person's day easier. Done.

#Communication #ASL

It can be built in to #code and #UX too. #Design for #a11y

Color photograph of Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (2020 Chemistry Nobel, shared with Emmanuelle Charpentier for co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology). She's a professor at UC Berkeley, a pioneer in molecular biology, and one of the most influential scientists alive today. The portrait captures her in a more recent, casual style: shoulder-length silver-gray hair, bright blue eyes, warm smile, wearing small pearl earrings and a textured maroon/reddish-brown zip-up jacket over a lighter top, set against a plain light gray background.

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier.

They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964.

#WomenInSTEM

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...