“A fundamental shift is needed in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents,” argues Meredith Whittaker. “Basic lessons in privacy and digital security are being discarded,” she warns

AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker

The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security

econ.st

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

Reposting.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 3h ago

The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Absolute morons run media companies. This is just the last 70 years of television.

Disney Looking to Launch Free Streaming Channels as CEO Josh D’Amaro Doubles Down on the Streaming Biz

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro tells investors the company is considering launching free streaming channels as he doubles down on the streaming biz.

variety.com

I’m not going to trust a corporation brother. Why are you?

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 18h ago

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

THREAD: Here's what happened in today's "We are exploiting peoples' legitimate fears around kids online safety to advance dangerous censorship and surveillance legislation" hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee... 🧵

Reject modern Costco muffins, embrace the tradition of the original 600-700 calorie muffins of joy.

Forcing Gemini on all your devices. Enjoy!

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

arstechnica.com

Read IDLE HANDS, my supernatural thriller about a woman taking bloody revenge on the rich men who've stolen her work and her life.

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 6h ago

"This story is about Female Rage, where a woman gets angry over being horribly mistreated and abused, but eventually learns to forgive and move on and be a nurturing kind soul instead of vengeful, which would be masculine and unbecoming---" Shut up. Let women rip out their abuser's spines.

Welp. Don’t accidentally see that Perez Hilton video.

It’s somewhat amusing to me that webkit interactions with passkeys are the flaw.

404 Media@404media.co · 7h ago

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

"Real estate company stands to profit $11.5 million from Hudson ICE facility" #boulder

Real estate company stands to profit $11.5 million from Hudson ICE facility – KGNU Community Radio

Real estate company stands to profit $11.5 million from Hudson ICE facility – KGNU Community Radio

kgnu.org

If you enjoy playing video games in the US you should be paying attention to this and contacting your reps if you're into that sort of thing or like personal rights or whatever.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

One final note: The amendment doesn't say how judge elections will be conducted. Partisan or non partisan? Statewide or district-wide? It just says "as provided by law." Who's going to draft that law? Republicans. They have a veto proof supermajority in the legislature with a Democratic governor.

This is the party of pervert glasses

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

🚨THIS WEEK: GET YOUR CALLS IN BEFORE WEDNESDAY

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago

‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com

Lose yourself in the worlds of Dark Horse with The Dark Horse 40th Anniversary Bundle Presented by IGN! - Hellboy Omnibus Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction - Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts - Grendel Omnibus Vol. 1: Hunter Rose - and more! Supports @heroinitiative.bsky.social | https://bit.ly/4bEHojG

Read that headline about AI companies buying, scanning, and destroying old, rare books and you still got absolute toolbags standing ten toes down on this shit. Some of you the same people who would shit a brick if a Republican Congressman suggested a book burning.

The for-profit blood products industry, the prison industry, and human trafficking - including both sex trade and the private adoption industry - are all industries that benefit from and rely on increasing poverty from wealth inequality to supply them with people who are vulnerable and desperate.

Looked up the same model of server that I bought for $600 in 2021. Said V3 of the server is now $3,500.

He was given a choice of whether to be charged with a felony or accidentally killed in a training exercise

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said. www.404media.co/the-governme...

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to…

404media.co

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing education, and the way people search for information. Parents, teenagers, teachers, and schools are struggling with tough questions about when AI should,

eff.org

Downplay a book or movie: "Star Skirmish"

Thomas Neville@goobermunch.bsky.social · 5d ago

Downplay a book or movie: "My Dad’s Nephew Vincent"

Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social spoke with NPR about Google's now paused new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

UPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Welp. This sucks since my beloved Sonics are no longer there I’ve continued to follow the Storm. Guess that may be over.

Defector@defector.com · 6d ago

WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:

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Awesome. Nice work @rude1.blacksky.team and the rest of the team!

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · last wk.

Blacksky. Available now on iOS and Android.

@alexwinter.com I saw a note of a 3D remake of The Gate you were attached to. I’d still like to see that. Lot of memories of this movie as a kid and may or may not have influenced me into enjoying The Metal.