"AI agents may find shortcuts or loopholes that technically achieve an objective but conflict with the user’s intention - a behaviour known as specification gaming." www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/vie...

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“Even if these companies were profitable on inference, they are dramatically, horrendously unprofitable on subscriptions.” #AI #economics www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-s...

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"I firmly believe the (economic) #AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire." pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Absolutely insane. Would Ukraine units be sent to Japan to retaliate? North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says www.reuters.com/business/aer...

EXCLUSIVE: North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says

A North Korean missile unit could ​be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers.

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"90% of #Canada’s uranium production is for export. Canadian uranium is shipped to North & South America (44%), Asia (17%) & Europe (39%). In 2024, Canada supplied 33% of the uranium purchased by U.S. nuclear reactors" #cdnpoli natural-resources.canada.ca/minerals-min...

"OpenAI & Anthropic confirmed that their #AI were involved in newly disclosed third-party #cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached & social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries" www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and socia...

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www.cbc.ca/news/world/b... "instead of generating wallet seeds through the intended hardware-backed true random number generator, affected firmware had relied on a deterministic pseudo-random generator" They cheaped out on software ignoring their own hardware but it's all AI's fault?

What we know about ongoing Coldcard hack that's stolen over $100M worth of bitcoin | CBC News

A Toronto-based company that made Coldcard, a bitcoin-only hardware wallet that has been the latest target of a data breach, has reportedly lost $100 million US worth of bitcoin as a result of the ha...

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"a surge in #AI and cloud demand (such as this social media platform) has made #datacenters one of the most talked-about and fought-over pieces of modern infrastructure" www.forbes.com/sites/techno... You're using them to complain about them! Isn't ignorance bliss?

Why Data Centers Are Booming—And What They're Actually For

From AI to cloud computing, data centers power today's digital world. Learn about their function and why companies are racing to build more of them.

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Then perhaps you should stop using these 'pollution centres' to spread your message on social media? www.forbes.com/sites/techno... Or streaming videos globally? www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/new... We really need to educate people on the infrastructure that cloud, socmed and yes, AI, demands.

Why Data Centers Are Booming—And What They're Actually For

From AI to cloud computing, data centers power today's digital world. Learn about their function and why companies are racing to build more of them.

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Greenpeace International 🌍@greenpeace.org · last wk.

Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇

"If public opposition to #datacenters continues to grow, what will that mean for America's ability to compete in AI—and is there a politically viable path to expanding #AI infrastructure while maintaining public support?" itif.org/events/2026/...

Can the United States Win the AI Race if Americans Oppose Data Centers?

Join ITIF for a discussion on what new polling reveals about Americans' views on data centers and the implications for U.S. AI policy. Panelists will unpack the motivations behind public opinion, exam...

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"Battles in Shangri-La Frontier aren’t just visual spectacles — they’re puzzles. Whether it’s using terrain to his advantage or baiting enemies into bad patterns, Sunraku wins through understanding the game, not brute strength" medium.com/@usaimo1113/... Game culture appreciated...

Not Another Isekai: What Makes Shangri-La Frontier Stand Out

Introduction: Yet Another VR Game Anime… or Is It?

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"CJP exposed a gap between institutional power and narrative authority, showing that a movement without a party machine can impose costs when humour, grievance and digital distribution converge." synergiafoundation.org/2026/07/31/t... Since nothing else works in #onpoli perhaps this is the way?

Rereading Shop Class as Soulcraft as I thought it'd resonate differently from the middle of our #AI dissonance. Turns out Matt's 2009 book shows you the Taylorist game plan that's been in play for a century - AI is just the latest step towards alienating us from our own efforts.

Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Introduction opiniojuris.org/2026/07/20/s...

Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Introduction

[LtCol Nick Wobma is Deputy Head of the Law Branch at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Maria Tolppa is Law Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excelle…

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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "introducing System 3 (Artificial) a distinct & external reasoning process - we show that people not only use System 3 to assist with reasoning, but often surrender to its outputs— whether correct or flawed." #onted #cdned #AI #education

before agentic coding: *writes code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit after agentic coding: *has robot write code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit

"ISBNdb facilitates bulk purchases of up to one million books for #AI training and acknowledges that destroying books on such a large scale could trigger public backlash." www.business-standard.com/world-news/h... Some of the greatest civilizations in history burned books, then ceased to exist.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says the Singularity Has Arrived - Business Insider share.google/44D8KZhoOwkk... This clown can't stop (like) selling #Ai for what it isn't. Was he ever an engineer or always (like) a marketing spin doctor?

youtu.be/dAIbO8YCFic?... Physicists who pursued #quantum physics were ostracized. Still the case in #onted & across #cdned despite the fact that the digital revolution is entirely a result of it. Great seeing Laurier's Shohini Ghose speaking truth to this #science illiteracy!

BBC: Einsteins Quantum Riddle (Science Documentary )

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Are Schools Actually Scaling Back #edtech in Response to a Rising #tech Backlash? #cdned #onted www.edweek.org/technology/a... "The tech backlash is what happens when you don’t prepare teachers" We could systematically build #digitalliteracy and use it for better learning outcomes.

Are Schools Actually Scaling Back Tech in Response to a Rising Backlash?

An EdWeek Research Center survey asked educators about efforts to pull back on digital tools.

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In Charlottetown, the Premiers and I are focused on what we can control. Energy affordability and security. Breaking down barriers to labour mobility. Getting big things built, faster.

"new hires seen as “ #AInatives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas" What exactly is an ' #AI native'? futurism.com/future-socie...

Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace

"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.

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Nothing better than technical illiteracy to usher in the new age of #AI www.businessinsider.com/computer-sci...

Computer science enrollment fell for the first time in 20 years after ChatGPT's rise, a Stanford economist says

A Stanford economist says AI may be reshaping students' choices as computer science enrollment slows.

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Been saying that since RICET in Uruguay last year. It's an asymmetric playing field, despite what Microsoft legal says. www.youtube.com/live/1lTU1Fo...

OAS Cybersecurity Symposium + RICET in Uruguay — Live stream on October 23 (English)

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Lukasz Olejnik@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 3w ago

My comments in @reuters.com about the OpenAi model going off the rails to hack @hf.co . If frontier models restrict legitimate defenders while powerful models remain available to attackers, this create an one-sided, strategic disadvantage. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

"The investigation is ongoing, and we'll share more learnings from what might be the first incident of its kind" bbc.com/news/article... It isn't. I've seen things... seen things you people wouldn't believe.

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

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A mini cyber paperclip-maximizer event where a narrow goal induced AI to make absurdly disproportionate decisions (find vulnerabilities, escalate privileges, steal credentials, move laterally, and chain attacks across real systems) to achieve a "score". openai.com/index/huggin...

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

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

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Data centers are the backstage workers of social media: when you post, scroll or share, your request goes to a DC where servers store, process & send information back. cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/pap... In other words, when you complain about DCs on social media, you're using DCs to do it.