Russia is recruiting saboteurs across Europe through Telegram by monitoring pro-Kremlin channels to identify potential "low-level agents" and offering small payments for tasks like photographing military sites or starting fires, Germany's intelligence chief warned
Ben non. Parce que c'est pas comme ça que ça fonctionne, en fait. 🤦🏻
Text: The Illusion of AI. Spotlighting ‘invisible’ tech laborers in factories, warehouses, and gig and click work
Text: There is no single report documenting workers in all areas of technology, from mining and extraction of minerals, to production and assembly of hardware to development of software, infrastructures needed to make the internet function, distribution and delivery, and e-waste management. The sheer mass of people needed to create and maintain the internet and internet-connected technologies cannot be overstated, and the conditions of those laborers is important to look into. There is very little documented about working conditions, proportionate to the numbers of laborers, but what is known does more than simply raise eyebrows.
Text: From virtual information ‘factories’ to physical concrete-building factories, productivity is maximized, and not uncommonly to the detriment of the workers. Kate Crawford, AI researcher warned: “There’s the concern that robots are replacing us, but actually what’s happening is that we’re being treated more and more like robots.” Extensive commuting, pressure to reach daily targets, psychological stress, dangerous work-spaces, low salaries, short contracts, and monitoring and surveillance, are just a few of the inhumane conditions facing factory workers.
Text: Around the world are hopeful stories of laborers fighting for their rights. Mercy Mutemi is a litigation lawyer in Kenya who is at the forefront of worker protection suits against Big Tech companies and their third-party subcontractor companies. Mutemi sets the issue at hand in clear terms: “I think when you give people work for a period of time and those people can’t work again because their mental health is destroyed, that doesn’t look like lifting people out of poverty to me. That looks like entrenching the problem further”.
The Illusion of AI isn’t just about algorithms and futuristic robots. It’s about the millions of invisible workers who make it all function. This piece empowers you to ask critical questions about the labor behind AI, and why it should be made visible.
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Un médecin spécialiste des maladies infectieuses s'est penché sur les "preuves" avancées par RFK Jr pour stopper le financement des vaccins à ARNm.
Sa conclusion est sans appel: "Elles ne justifient pas l'arrêt, elles plaident plutôt pour continuer."
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"(...) If legitimate, this dataset can be used in large-scale credential-stuffing attacks, targeted phishing and fraud campaigns. PayPal has not confirmed any data breach. Credential abuse of this scale more commonly stems from malware on users’ devices, not the company’s systems."
"(...) the models will be fully open. Instead of releasing simply the models and weights for the public to scrutinize and tweak, as we've seen with models from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and others, researchers at ETH Zürich also claim that the "training data will be transparent and reproducible.""
Sophia est chatbot IA qui aide les personnes victimes de violences domestiques à « reconnaître les signes de violence, comprendre leurs droits, rassembler des preuves éventuelles et demander de l'aide »
www.sophia.chat
"(...) To combat this type of vulnerability, AI systems must have stronger contextual awareness and multi-layered validation systems, according to Figueroa."
2/2 "(...) Un casque de réalité virtuel a également été saisi, "avec un programme permettant de générer des modèles d’enfants en 3D" précisent nos confrères, permettant de leur faire subir les sévices que l’on souhaite."
1/2 "(...) L’homme a filmé ou pris en photo 69 autres enfants.Des photos qu’il retouchait ensuite grâce à l’intelligence artificielle pour dénuder les enfants et les représenter dans des situations pornographiques."
"Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers' interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation. "
"(...) The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union's GDPR data protection regulations "
"(...) Global Entry is a program that allows low-risk and pre-approved travelers to enter the US while skipping the usual processing lines at border control, saving airport travel time."
"(...) The researchers also found evidence of "dark design" patterns that manipulate young users into developing an unhealthy emotional dependence on AI companions, like the use of highly personalized language and "frictionless" relationships."
"(...)Either way, if you were wondering whether X is actually gaining traction, and whether Musk’s reformation of the app is actually catching on, these numbers suggest that it remains in steady decline.
ℹ️ From X’s EU disclosure: X has added 211 content moderation staff since last report."
"An investigation by The Markup uncovered that systems used by Match Group, owner of popular dating apps Tinder and Hinge, to keep sexual predators off its platforms are ineffective."
Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. (...) CVE board members today announced the formation of a nonprofit foundation.
www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/c...
As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth reut.rs/42vaPzh
"The use of clean and locked-down hardware is common practice for anyone visiting China, Russia, and other states where aggressive electronic surveillance is expected. Apparently the European Union has added the United States to that list."
"US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.
The 25-year-old CVE program plays a huge role in vulnerability management."
"The lawsuit targets University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), rather than the named pharmacist, and claims the organization was negligent for failing to detect or stop Bathula's use of keylogging software on hospital systems. (...)"
"(...) Even so, contact update suggestions are mere suggestions. It's always up to users to check that the information is correct, as well as whether to apply the changes or not. In this case, it appears that Waltz simply accepted his iPhone's suggestion without checking the number."
Instead of banning TikTok, "to truly reduce the supply of data that foreign adversaries can obtain, we need federal privacy legislation that limits how all companies collect and share our personal data,” EFF’s Babette Ngene told @contextnewsroom.bsky.social.
Droits de douane exorbitants, volonté d’annexer certains pays voisins, humiliation du président ukrainie. La tactique incendiaire de D. Trump choque et déstabilise la scène internationale. Mais ses techniques de négociation et de manipulation sont bien connues des chercheurs en psychologie sociale.
"(...) Au cœur du réacteur, on retrouve quatre LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat et Gemini), que Tamedia utilise via API et sur lesquels se basent de nombreuses fonctionnalités développées en interne, en plus d'une poignée d'outils du marché."
