Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Vincent Toubiana
@vtoubiana.bsky.social
Head of LINC (CNIL's Digital Innovation Lab), see our work there : https://linc.cnil.fr Former CNNum/Arcep/FTC(intern)/Bell-Labs/NYU. DM Open
AI-enabled smart glasses are becoming more common, but for Meta’s Ray-Bans, accessibility may be coming at the cost of privacy. In Tech Policy Press, CDT’s @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social examines how Meta has invoked disability access to justify potentially intrusive features.
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.
techpolicy.press
Spain arrests man who used AI face-swapping to obtain digital-signing certificates for other people and businesses www.interior.gob.es/opencms/en/d...
Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext (Will Knight/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Good assessment of OpenAI/HuggingFace. In short, OpenAI really, really, really messed up here thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
thezvi.substack.com
“Because builders of such tools often treat these systems as proprietary, employers who deploy them may not fully know how they were developed, what data they were trained on, or how rigorously they were evaluated for bias, if at all” www.fastcompany.com/91578528/its...
It's time to open the black box of AI-driven employment decisions
Is the technology making workplace discrimination worse?
fastcompany.com
"The most advanced technologies can now infer missing syllables in the way that a reader fills in a redacted word from context, allowing them to reconstruct speech that wasn’t cleanly captured in the first place." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
Is there any way of fighting back?
theatlantic.com
By me, at this.weekinsecurity.com: Microsoft wins "lamest vendor response" award at this year's Pwnie Awards, for publishing a blog post earlier this year threatening security researchers with legal action if they published zero-days. Also: Meta wins "epic fail" award after its Meta AI hijack bug.
Microsoft wins 'lamest vendor' at Pwnie Awards 2026 for threatening security researchers with legal action
"This is a shame award. Don't forget to feel that shame."
this.weekinsecurity.com
"[V]enues from elite restaurants to popular pub chains have banned the £359 glasses in order to preserve the privacy of customers and staff. [..] various theatres across London, said [..] that those wearing the glasses during shows will be asked to remove them." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all
theguardian.com
Web privacy checks made easy by #EDPS. 🍪Cookies or 📍trackers constantly interact with your #personaldata. To bring transparency, we built the Website Evidence Collector or #WEC – a free, open-source tool to automatically audit site compliance. #ICYMI learn more how to use it: link.europa.eu/cmngKG
Gonna reference @lukestark.bsky.social like I always do. Facial recognition is the “plutonium of ai.” There’s no “benign” use, particularly where Facebook is involved.
Meta Thinks It Can Convince You That Smart Glasses Need Facial Recognition
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth pinky promises there will be no 'central database' of faces.
gizmodo.com
Surprisingly, the US embassy in the UK supports End-to-end Encryption (and also VPNs) uk.usembassy.gov/u-s-governme...
Ofcom’s study of VPN use by teenagers has been published a few weeks ago (www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...). I encourage you to read the full results of this survey that looks at the use 2167 children between 11 and 17 and to draw your own conclusions.
Le législateur Californien propose d'introduire une exemption pour Linux pour la vérification d'âge : www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...
California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the ori...
SteamOS could still be affected
tomshardware.com
Cox, la société qui proclamait écouter les conversations des personnes pour cibler les publicités, sanctionnée par la FTC pour ... tromperie vis a vis des annonceurs : www.theverge.com/policy/93702...
Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones
It compared the tech to Black Mirror — but it apparently didn’t exist.
theverge.com
There are a few problems in this note: some links are mixed-up, making it hard to follow the argument. Most importantly, it means that the note may not have been correctly reviewed before publication. www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud... e.g. the two links in this sentence have been permuted 1/4
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo agoEU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use "a loophole in the legislation that needs closing" (Alex Lekander/CyberInsider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
🔞📱 Hearing on age verification to protect minors online Agenda: link.europa.eu/gYHYFX Panel 1 ⏲️15.00 🗣Yvo Volman @ec.europa.eu, @vtoubiana.bsky.social (🇫🇷 Data Protection Authority), Francisco Pérez Bes (🇪🇸 Data Protection Authority) 6/11
Age verification, assurance & estimation techniques for protection of minors online | Hearings | Events | LIBE | Committees | European Parliament
All the available information relating to LIBE hearings. Links to programmes and contributions from speakers.
link.europa.eu
New @citizenlab.ca report with an incredibly sophisticated analysis of covert surveillance operations with a focus on location tracking, which target phones by exploiting global 3G/4G telecom networks and sending invisible SMS while acting as trusted telecom operators: citizenlab.ca/research/unc...
The Citizen Lab Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...
citizenlab.ca
We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.
The Citizen Lab@citizenlab.ca · 4mo agoNEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
Intuitively, I'd have: -list all the kid-activities before comparing the cities for a family trip - decided which city i'd visit before drafting the itinerary I'm probably getting old about.fb.com/news/2026/04...
Meta's smart glasses make it easy to secretly film people. It's mostly women bearing the fallout. "...a stranger had secretly recorded her using smart glasses and uploaded the video to Instagram and TikTok, where it amassed more than 30,000 views in the span of a week." www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
Women are being secretly filmed with smart glasses. Outdated privacy laws make it tough to get videos removed | CBC Radio
Smart glasses make it remarkably easy to film someone without their consent. And those who study covert filming say it can create a physical and psychological threat, from stalkers to increased anxiet...
cbc.ca
At 2pm Paris time today I'll be testifying in the French Parliament about digital sovereignty. Watch it live at videos.assemblee-nationale.fr/direct.php!
En direct - Vidéos de l'Assemblée nationale
videos.assemblee-nationale.fr
Quelle angoisse : le site britannique Videogamer a licencié tous ses rédacteurs la semaine dernière, et depuis le site ne publie plus que du contenu IA (avec de faux profils de faux rédacteurs), dont des tests de jeu ??? kotaku.com/resident-evi...
Metacritic Removes Resident Evil 9 Review From Fake AI Writer
Videogamer's human staff was wiped out and replaced with AI slop
kotaku.com
📢 The 5th Privacy Research Day will take place on June 24 📅 The call is open until March 22 Topics: 🧒 Vulnerable Users 🗺️ Internationalisation of privacy 🤖 AI 🕶️ Wearables/IoT 🧑🔬 Science & regulation 💳 Digital economy 🛡️ PETs 🔓 Usable Security & Privacy More information: www.cnil.fr/en/call-pape...
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
Google "provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024 while attending Cornell University in New York"
Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 6mo agoMore reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...