AI Chatbots leaking your information

In this paper, we present a systematic privacy analysis of the web and mobile deployments of nine prominent conversational AI services. Using a combination of static and dynamic analysis, we study the presence of third-party Advertising and Tracking Services (ATSes), characterize their data flows, and evaluate how consent choices, subscription tiers, and access-control mechani

https://vowe.net/2026/10/18/ai-chatbots-leaking-your-information/

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The first privacy runway in #paris 🔥🔥🔥

A few weeks after our #photoshoot we returned to Paris for a runway show hosted by Youth by Privacy. An incredible show demonstrating how we can fight #surveillance with #fashion and making a #statement for #privacy #rights .

Big thanks to Youth by Privacy for organizing the event, and to the amazing models who did a fantastic job!🙌

#datenschutz #facerecognition #AI #dazzle #trickai #antisurveillance #antiai #privacyfirst #privacymatters

A lot of the AI criticism on here resonates with me. Nobody really knows what these models were trained on or how they were aligned. The IP questions are unresolved, artists are getting hurt, and people ship output they never validated: technical debt on steroids. All legitimate, and I’m critical of AI on a political level, too.

But accepting reality isn’t the same as endorsing it. AI won’t disappear because I look away, and refusing it entirely mostly puts me at a disadvantage. Closing your eyes in a lion’s cage has never been a great strategy.

So I use it deliberately, as an editor and amplifier rather than an author, and I validate what it gives me.

Where do you draw the line?

#AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #AIEthics

They said AI would make developers 10x more productive.

They forgot to mention the 20x cleanup crew. 🔥🧯

Welcome to the new software development lifecycle: Generate. Debug. Regret. Repeat.

#AI #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment #TechHumor

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An illustration in a chaotic, vibrant comic-book style titled "AI CODE CLEANUP SPECIALIST!" at the top, featuring an action-packed office in utter meltdown. At the center is a Specialist in a bulky yellow hazmat suit with an overly complex backpack, full face mask, and rubber gloves, dramatically aiming a hose labeled "DE-BUGGER" at a computer desk. Around them, terrified office workers flee with exaggerated panic, flailing arms, and flying papers, while one desperately throws a bucket of water onto a flaming PC. A desk is on fire, with orange cartoon flames and smoke billowing toward the ceiling, next to a monitor flashing errors like "ERROR: SYSTEM IN REVOLT" and "INFINITE LOOP." On the right, a dumpster overflowing with burning computer parts is labeled "COMPLETED CODE" with sound effects like "fwoosh" and "crackle" written in the air. The messy floor is littered with tangled cords, paper, and a yellow hazard sign reading "CAUTION: LIVE AI." (A hilarious, chaotic meta-commentary on our times, though ironicaly brought to life by an actual AI—which we can only hope was carefully cleaned up afterward so it didn't burn down the server room!)

Was fehlt: eine Website #hasItBeenVibecoded wo zu allen kommerziellen Softwaretools #OpenSource Projekte wie #ArtCraft gemappt werden…

https://getartcraft.com/apps

#ai #ki

Bereit für ein Gewitter aus Bits? ⛈️ Heute Abend live: Binärgewitter Folge #387. Hört unsere Audio-Folge im Stream und diskutiert mit uns im Chat — wir lesen Kommentare und Fragen live. Einsteigen unter: https://blog.binaergewitter.de/pages/live/ Schickt uns gern vorab Themen oder droppt sie direkt im Chat. Was sollen wir anblitzen lassen? Kurze, nerdige Einwürfe sind sehr willkommen. #Podcast #Binärgewitter #OpenSource #Web #Technology #AI

The recording of the October 1st, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/FtPwUs5bJIM

We discussed Reviews that need your attention and testing, keelOS, the Triton hypervisor-agnostic control plane, repeatable #FreeBSD development VMs , Apiary news and yet another deep dive into responsible #AI, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

This content is not AI generated

How to annoy two purist camps at once:

1. Run FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE on a ThinkPad T480.
2. Let an agentic AI (Crush + GLM 5.3 Flash) write the Ansible roles for rc.conf, pf.conf, and loader.conf.

I know AI isn't the most popular topic around here, but watching a TUI agent haggle with a missing Jinja2 module in real time is great entertainment for a single cent. And the result was actually good after reviewing and tweaking it just a little.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #ThinkPad #T480 #Ansible #DevOps #bsdcafe #ai #genai

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A desktop screenshot of a FreeBSD system featuring the red Beastie daemon wallpaper. An open terminal window runs the Charm Crush CLI agent (v0.96.1) inside the directory ~/work/ansible/t480autom. The right pane displays the Crush logo, context info showing the model "Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash via OpenRouter", and a list of modified Ansible and template files including site.yml, rc.conf.j2, sysctl.conf.j2, pf.conf.j2, and loader.conf.j2. The left pane shows an automated bash execution running an inline Python test using Jinja2 to render configuration templates with network parameters for host 'christop-bsd'.

#Kurzgesagt hat wieder abgeliefert und zeigt erschreckend viele menschliche Parallelen. Von wen hat die #ki denn das wohl gelernt?

#ai #cybersecurity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLrQFRkrgE

When you only hear about extreme positions, you will never accept even the most sensible compromise that can serve as a basis to collect more and better information to iterate towards an acceptable solution. Thinking in absolutes and extremes can be helpful, but it shouldn't lead to refuse everything just because.

(Yes, there are exceptions. Like fundamental human rights and other axioms)

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#AI #LLM #Fundamentalism

Freitag, 16.10.2026 um 20:00 CEST live: Binärgewitter — unsere nächste Audio-Folge geht on air. Hört zu und interagiert im Chat mit Fragen, Kritik oder spontanen Debugging-Anekdoten. Habt ihr Themenvorschläge? Schickt sie vorab, wir werfen sie in den Blitzableiter. Bis dahin: kommentiert die letzte Sendung unter https://blog.binaergewitter.de/ Wir bringen Bits zum Blitzen. 🎙️ #Podcast #Binärgewitter #OpenSource #Web #Technology #AI

Every time I prompt an #AI system I add ‘please’. Like: ‘I want to understand this error message, can you explain it please?’

I have no idea why I do that, the LLM doesn’t bloody care and it seems yet another token or two to burn.

New on the blog: ArtCraft is rebuilding Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Word, Excel and more in Rust, with AI coding agents.

I tried it. PhotoCraft actually handled my video thumbnails, apps start in 1-2 seconds, and there are native #FreeBSD builds.

The more interesting part: GUI, CLI and agents drive the same engine. And when code gets cheap, verification becomes the bottleneck.

https://blog.hofstede.it/artcraft-rust-agent-desktop-apps/

#RustLang #OpenSource #AI #AIAgents #Linux #FOSS

Spider-Noir abgesetzt: Nicolas Cage verweigerte Amazons KI-Klausel - Golem.de

https://www.golem.de/news/spider-noir-abgesetzt-nicolas-cage-verweigerte-amazons-ki-klausel-2610-214006.html

> Die von Amazon produzierte Superhelden-Serie Spider-Noir wird keine zweite Staffel erhalten, obwohl die Serie beim Publikum und bei Kritikern gut angekommen ist. Einen möglichen Grund dafür deutete Titelheld Nicolas Cage in einem Interview an: Ihm zufolge wollte Amazon, dass er für Spider-Noir eine KI-Klausel unterzeichnet.

#Amazon #AI #SpiderNoir

"Open Weight" Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri

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Articles on my blog that were written with AI assistance now include a disclosure below the references section, with a link to my AI policy.

The ideas, technical content, and drafts are mine. AI helps me polish the English, and I review every edit.

https://blog.hofstede.it/ai-policy/

#Blogging #AI #Transparency #Writing

Oh nooo... someone recreated Adobe's entire suite.. and it's all free and open source. So sad, won't someone think of the shareholders... 🥲

https://getartcraft.com/apps

#foss #opensource #adobe #fuckadobe #AI

Totally serious AI policy poll (it’s not). Boost for science 😉

#ai

Small win for the day: I haven't written a line of #code since the #SQL class for my undergrad ~6 years ago, and that was the only language I took a class for. Edited an #ebook that was in #HTML to remove the intro and closing added by the distributer and even added a #CSS style file to make a page break and fix the formatting left by removing the intro. It felt good to figure something new out. #NoAi, just good old StackOverflow and Guinness.

#coding #AI #tech

🔥 @epicenter_works: No Human Required: Austria's Plan for AI Government Decisions

#Austria will soon get to find out what happens when #AI systems are allowed to issue legally binding government decisions without any human oversight.

The draft also shifts risk onto the people affected by it. Citizens get two weeks to challenge an automated decision, a tight window when errors from an LLM are often invisible without close scrutiny

👉 https://epicenter.works/en/content/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-written-government-decisions

#TrumpIsAPedo #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Trump

Some of you have been asking whether or not Vivaldi is affected by Chrome’s #AI API, which some websites are using for tracking purposes. The answer is straight-forward: no. ✌️

As part of our philosophy to reject built-in AI features, we've been disabling all the Gemini-related code bundled in Chromium for a long while — which effectively prevents websites from using this API in Vivaldi.

🚀 KI nicht nur erleben, sondern selbst mitgestalten?

An alle aus Fulda, Kassel, Göttingen, Frankfurt und Umgebung: Wenn ihr Lust auf ein echtes Barcamp rund um Künstliche Intelligenz habt, dann merkt euch den Montag, 23. November 2026 vor!

👉 Kommt vorbei, bringt euch ein und macht das AI Camp zu eurem Camp!

🎟️ Tickets & Infos:
https://ai-barcamp.de/fulda/

#AICampFulda #Barcamp #KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #AI #Fulda #Kassel #Göttingen #Frankfurt

Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You

https://time.com/article/2026/10/06/meta-muse-ai-agent-privacy/

#news #tech #technology #AI #meta #muse #aislop #AIPsychosis