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For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the internet, it can be used for AI model development and outputs. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to prevent this, with no success.

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The Justice Department can’t access New York’s unredacted voter roll, a judge said in handing the federal government yet another loss in court in its quest to obtain the lists from all 50 states.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1259761/we-must-act-now-nearly-200-including-eric-schmidt-reid-hoffman-economists-tech-leaders-a

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42559331

Apparently, quoting the article means it breaks the rules of the community, so I will not be quoting the article at all in the hopes more people see the terror the regime is inflicting on our communities.

Some interesting context for this one: in Hungary and many other countries in central Europe, it’s common for hiking trails to be well-marked using different colors/symbols on trees (according to what I’m reading). I believe red usually means a sharp turn. Also, I got two different translations for this one - either “hiking trail marker” or “tourist sign”. I chose the former.

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I’ve seen it pop up more in local feeds recently, and the entire community is just one guy posting links to news sites being vaguely critical of the current Liberal admin in ways that aren’t actually critical. To anyone who has had the misfortune of exposure to national and provincial subreddits, this is a hallmark of conservative disinformation campaigns that utilize factual, authority driven news media outlets to platform criticisms which carefully condemn the current admin without introducing systemic criticism that could threaten Con or fascist talking points. They would often post links to say, the CBC or National Post that discusses budgetary or policy scandals, and then when that eventually seems legit enough, they’d just spam headlines about immigrant crime rates or trans pedophiles (I’m lookin at you, r/Ontario). So, the criticism may be that, “the Liberals aren’t doing what they said they’d do,” but that is also a vehicle to suggest that their appropriation of anti-racism or gender equality rhetoric (which they would suggest is genuine anti-racism and gender equality) is also a sign of this failure.

A Russian cyberespionage operation spent a month inside a Belgrade think tank’s inboxes, reading 28,000 emails after posing as a Belarusian dissident to get in. Tied to the SVR and GRU, the hackers weren’t just after documents — they walked away with a blueprint of relationships and vulnerabilities that AI can weaponize. As Serbia heads toward elections, the attack reveals a darker pattern: Moscow and Belgrade often chase the same enemies.

#Forgejo keeps impressing. Migrating a larger repo with lots of issues etc, only took the creation of an access token. Once again, i’m super happy with my decision to selfhost my #git.

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Windows Latest recorded 791.7 MB of RAM usage from the Copilot app at idle, suggesting it can reach up to 1 GB of system RAM usage in total. I’ve left the Copilot app open in the background as I write this article, and it’s currently sitting at around 560 MB—making it the third most RAM-heavy application currently running on my PC.

SpaceXAI’s AI coding tool Grok Build has been exposed for defaulting to uploading entire Git repositories, including code that the tool itself hasn’t read or contextual calls, as well as the full Git commit history. A 12GB of repository data was sent to Google Cloud, where Grok Build uses Google GCP to store the collected data. If you run this on a sensitive stack, your entire repo is already compromised regardless if it’s public or not. It’s literal spyware.

It makes sense – fighting monsters is dangerous work.

Yeah, not sure I’d be comfortable with this “fix” personally.

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Via: https://www.gocomics.com/my-dad-is-dracula/2026/07/13

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about the Kentucky Republican’s health.

A recent watchdog report from the Netherlands has reignited a broader privacy debate: where should the line be drawn when intelligence agencies use AI? The concerns aren’t just about surveillance, but also about whether bulk datasets containing ordinary citizens’ information can be used to train AI models, how long that data is retained, and what meaningful oversight exists.

For at least a decade, Corpus Christi sold water to a handful of large industrial plants at a steeply discounted rate, according to documents and interviews with city officials. Residents and businesses paid more than $100 million to subsidize water for some of the world’s richest energy companies, the city’s rate models show.

Apparently, quoting the article means it breaks the rules of the community, so I will not be quoting the article at all in the hopes more people see the terror the regime is inflicting on our communities.

Ottawa’s reaction to a new Chinese law on ethnic unity is tepid and does not live up to Canada’s promise to stop foreign governments from threatening diaspora abroad, a Uyghur rights activist said.

The owner said they were freshly brushed before the picture.

I didn't know we got credit for Dune! 😂

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Video game streamer Zack Hoyt, better known online as Asmongold, has emerged in the right-leaning media landscape as an influential political commentator. Now he is urging a future Republican administration to go “Old Testament” on perceived political enemies and take a harsher approach to immigration, including by denaturalizing citizens and rounding up “parasite” immigrants and anti-ICE protestors.

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BIDDEFORD, Maine (WGME) – A person is dead following a shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, according to House Speaker Ryan Fecteau.

• An organised anti-rights movement targeting the rights of women and LGBT+ people is growing in the UK. Over 60% of the organisations mapped have emerged since 2017, the vast majority gender critical organisations.

A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence.

This is basically MKUltra being used by the corpos. These techniques, when practiced by paid intelligence operatives, I think generally involve manipulation in the real world in addition to internet stalking.

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/13/3

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/13/2