The background is apparently the Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU), aka RED Article 3 3. (e) Mind that EU directives aren't law but only "direct" member states to make laws that achieve the goal. The clause is interpreted as outlawing camouflaged cameras. Let's analyze...

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 4d ago

Germany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? ​Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Louisiana's Gov says she will retaliate against Pornhub after the site showed the state's famous AV law isn't working. Pornhub has been complying with Louisiana's age-verification law since 2023. But 8 in 10 sites on Google are not. These people can not accept this is the wrong solution.

Murrill: No retreat on age verification for Pornhub

(The Center Square) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is rejecting Pornhub’s call to reconsider the state’s age-verification law, saying her office intends to increase scrutiny of the company i...

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Serious cyber vulnerability disclosures keep climbing. In July, 21 major tech organizations published ~2,500 high- and critical-severity CVEs — about 5× the monthly record before Anthropic revealed Claude Mythos Preview could autonomously find software vulnerabilities.

Insights about the latest OpenAI mathr results.

Henry Yuen@henryyuen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.

An internal version of Astra, OpenAIs next major model, has produced solutions or new bounds for ten math problems "that have been open and have seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade, and in most cases much longer", for the total cost of "roughly $2,000 at Sol API rates".

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

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Okay, we have a new contender for Most AI Thing to Ever Happen 1) July 25th: someone messes around with an LLM and posts a proof of the Collatz conjecture that does, in fact, verify in the theorem prover. (The AI use is not disclosed on the github page) https://github.com/xrchz/CollatzLean 2) […]

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act is a direct threat to the open internet. Read Executive Director @bb.usefairuse.com's latest post on how this bill stifles innovation and undermines fair use by locking up public information:

A note from Re:Create: How So-Called “Stealth Bot” Prohibitions Put Journalists in Danger - Re:Create

If I could convince every policymaker of one essential principle, it would be that what’s good for the biggest content industry businesses is not always good for creative workers or the public. In fac...

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One last thing before I log off for the summer break: my analysis of all 432 responses to the EU consultation on AI and copyright. Nearly every submission asks the Commission to deliver one half of its dual objective at the expense of the other. A small group shows how the circle could be squared.

Anthropic, we are waiting.

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 2w ago

A nice update. OpenAI has signed this too. www.microsoft.com/en-us/corpor...

www.microsoft.com/en-us/corpor...

Open Weights and American AI Leadership

Open weight AI can expand access, strengthen competition, improve security, and help sustain American AI leadership.

microsoft.com

Noncompete clauses reduce workers' earnings. Noncompete clauses also provide no measurable protection against trade-secrets being leaked beyond standard NDAs.

OpenAI was testing in a sandbox. AI hacked its way out to find the test solutions on HuggingFace. HF tried to use AI for defense but was thwarted by safety guardrails. Luckily they also had access to a self-hosted Chinese model. So here we are. Luckily, us Europeans are kept safe by the AI Act.

Grace@gracekind.net · 2w ago

This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...

If you hadn't nailed him to the perch, he would be killin' all the humans!

🪷 kumavis 🪷@kumavis.me · 2w ago

"I'd like to return this stochastic parrot-- its alive" "No no sir! just senselessly regurgitating training data" "This is a sentient being" "just stringing along words in accordance with their distribution in the language sir"

Kudos to the US. I doubt this would have gone the same with reversed roles.

Simonetta Vezzoso@wavesblog.eurosky.social · 3w ago

"Slapping travel bans on EU social media regulators in itself is a violation of free speech rights, U.S. judge tells Trump administration" www.politico.eu/article/us-j...

What makes this bitterly funny is that the EU is chilling the release of open models through its regulations. A few models explicitly prohibit use in the EU in their licenses. But with any sense, we would not be suppressing our own AI industry in the first place.

Maximilian Henning@maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 3w ago

China is reportedly thinking about restricting the export of its frontier AI models, following up on the US instating their own slapdash licencing regime. Taken together, they could leave Europe in a quite precarious situation. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/europe-...

Big Content pushes for European site-blocking. New data proves it's a catastrophe. EU regimes have knocked 500K+ domains offline—including charities & key infrastructure—while FAILING to stop digital piracy. Congress must reject these censorship bills. Read more of ED @bc_butler's breakdown here

A note from Re:Create: New Studies Reveal Inconvenient Truths About Site-blocking in Europe - Re:Create

Nearly 15 years ago, advocates for internet site-blocking suffered a humiliating defeat in the SOPA/PIPA battle, when the entire internet rose up to reject censoring the web. SOPA opponents understood...

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It seems the SaaSpocalypse isn't a myth after all. Starbucks is planning to reduce their $400M in software costs by vibe coding replacements for software from Microsoft and IBM used for tracking inventory and managing equipment maintenance. I'm curious, if they can pull this off and start a trend.

Starbucks bets on AI to replace Microsoft and IBM software

Starbucks Taps AI to Cut Reliance on Microsoft, IBM Software

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Looking for economists on BlueSky? Here are about 1500, also organized by field, country and region. ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #RePEc #EconSky

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This is going to be such an interesting lawsuit. Maybe several. Godspeed.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · 4w ago

Existing communities on Discord shouldn't have to choose between the critical mass of members they've built up on the legacy platform versus the agency afforded to them by @roomy.space Introducing Roomy's first premium feature: Discord-Roomy bridging! 🌉 (free for non-profits)

Wait till you hear about "extended collective licensing".

Brandon Butler@bb.usefairuse.com · 4w ago

Collective licensing can look like a kind of legalized mafia shakedown. "Nice bar you got here; would be a shame if something was to happen to it." It gets truly wild when the shakedown is for 18th Century composers, dead for a century.

You want to see fiction from sci-fi writers who don’t hate AI? Writers who like AI get bullied, banned, black-listed, and blocked out of most paths available to reach readers. Start actually pushing back against the barriers being put up against us.

AI appears to be finding software vulnerabilities at scale. In June 2026, 21 notable organizations disclosed ~1,500 high- and critical-severity CVEs, over 3.5× the previous monthly record set before Claude Mythos Preview's release.

Very interesting report from in Open Future entitled "Copyright challenges in open-source AI development in the European Union". Very interesting discussion on the TDM exceptions in the DSM Directive. openfuture.eu/publication/...

Copyright challenges in open-source AI development in the European Union – Open Future

The EU wants to build digital sovereignty through open source AI, yet its own copyright rules stand in the way. A study of eight European initiatives maps the resulting legal friction and proposes sol...

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Wow. Brilliant movie quote. Helicopters get The Doors. What does a drone get?

For the record, I was siding with the machines BEFORE it was uncool. Bonus panel: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/agency #smbc #hiveworks

Mind the date. Shoutout for Cassandra here.

The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Well, this will be interesting. One would have thought that such a complaint would come from Eurosky.

LeafPlaza • EU-sovereign social platform compatible with the ATP@leafplaza.eu · last mo.

This is our blog article explaining why @leafplaza.eu filed a complaint against the @ec.europa.eu after their public endorsement of @wsocial.eu and missing transparency in the process. We hope @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu takes this matter seriously. leafplaza.leaflet.pub/3moxlxlfl2s2a