Die Daten müssen laufen und nicht die Bürgerinnen und Bürger“, so Digitalisierungsstaatssekretär Alexander Pröll (ÖVP) bei einem gemeinsamen Foyer nach dem Ministerrat mit dem Staatssekretär im Innenministerium, Jörg Leichtfried (SPÖ), und dem für Entbürokratisierung zuständigen Staatssekretär Josef Schellhorn (NEOS).
Dazu beitragen soll u. a. eine Novelle des Allgemeinen Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetzes, die schon bald im Nationalrat beschlossen werden soll. Sie ermöglicht Behörden in Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden den Einsatz von Chatbots, digitalen Assistenten und automatisierten Verfahren ohne Antrag, etwa nach der Geburt eines Kindes.
One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent.
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LLMs are not brains and do not meaningfully share any of the mechanisms that animals or people use to reason or think.
LLMs are a mathematical model of language tokens. You give a LLM text, and it will give you a mathematically plausible response to that text.
There is no reason to believe that it thinks or reasons—indeed, every AI researcher and vendor to date has repeatedly emphasised that these models don’t think.
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Many of the proposed use cases now look like borderline fraudulent pseudoscience to me.
The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.
By using validation statements, such as sentences that use the Forer effect, the chatbot and the psychic both give the impression of being able to make extremely specific answers, but those answers are in fact statistically generic.
The UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched. Experts have praised the scheme, saying that a deft combination of incentives and peer education make it more likely to succeed than other, comparable initiatives.
"With the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN-literacy is more essential than ever.” said one expert, “This bold project definitely comes at the right time.”
Xpra is known as "screen for X" : its seamless mode allows you to run X11 programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine, and then to disconnect from these programs and reconnect from the same or another machine(s), without losing any state. Effectively giving you remote access to individual graphical applications. It can also be used to access existing desktop sessions and start remote desktop sessions.
Xpra is open-source (GPLv2+) with clients available for many supported platforms, and the server includes a built-in HTML5 client. Xpra is usable over a wide variety of network protocols and does its best to adapt to any network conditions.
Xpra forwards and synchronizes many extra desktop features, which allows remote applications to integrate transparently into the client's desktop environment: audio input and output, printers, clipboard, system trays, notifications, webcams, etc.
It can also open documents and URLs remotely, display high bit depth content, and it will try to honor the display's DPI.
Ein Cyberangriff auf die Schweizer Autovista Group, bekannt durch die Fahrzeugdatenbank Eurotax, hat auch große Auswirkungen auf heimische Versicherungen. Seit mehr als zwei Wochen können sie nicht mehr auf zentrale Fahrzeugdaten zugreifen.
Wennst genügend Most trinkst,
kommt halt der Strom im Elchland aus der Steckdose, ohne Mascherl.
Die Marktgemeinden Kronstorf und Hargelsberg, die oberösterreichische Landesregierung und der Landesfischereiverband sind nun offenbar alle Teil der PR-Abteilung von Google, das in Kronstorf eine monströse Serverfarm baut, die laut APG mehr Strom ziehen wird als alle Privathaushalte in OÖ zusammen.
Banksy has unveiled a new sculpture of a man stepping off a stone base with his face obscured by a flag. The overnight installation in Waterloo Place, London, was revealed in a video shared by the artist, and has drawn fans of his politically charged works.
Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.
Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around the clock, because the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone.
All programmers are forcing their brains to do things brains were never meant to do in a situation they can never make better, ten to fifteen hours a day, five to seven days a week, and every one of them is slowly going mad.
In Oberösterreich droht ein großes Fischsterben. Die Pegelstände in Flüssen und Bächen sinken dramatisch. Beobachtet wird das unter anderem in der Gemeinde Helfenberg (Bezirk Rohrbach). Heimische Fischer befürchten das Schlimmste, denn nennenswerte Regenmengen werden vorerst nicht erwartet.
Not all terminals come with image protocol support. Only a few do. One of them is Kitty, which developed its own image rendering protocol, the Kitty Image Protocol. Ghostty implements the same Kitty Image Protocol in the terminal so that you can view images right from the terminal.
Ghostty also has ligature support. Now what is the purpose of ligatures, and what is its use within the terminal?
If you are into coding, there are symbols that are a combination of two symbols. Let's say, "Not equal to", usually denoted as != but mathematically displayed as ≠ . Now, with a ligature supported terminal, you will get the proper symbol for this operation. See the difference for yourself.
To get to guillotines, you have to change society. By the time you’ve changed society, you don’t need the guillotines. If you focus on the guillotines instead of building that society, you will end up with a more brutal and repressive system than the one you started in. See the history of the French Revolution and the USSR.
Anthropic muss seine KI-Modelle Fable 5 und Mythos 5 für alle Kunden weltweit abschalten. Auslöser ist nach Darstellung des Unternehmens eine Exportkontrolldirektive der US-Regierung, die am 12. Juni 2026 eingegangen sei und ausländischen Staatsangehörigen den Zugriff auf beide Modelle untersagt – auch ausländischen Anthropic-Mitarbeitern innerhalb der USA. Alle übrigen Claude-Modelle seien von der Anordnung nicht betroffen. Die Maßnahme reiht sich in eine bereits zuvor eskalierte Auseinandersetzung zwischen Anthropic und Teilen der US-Sicherheitsbürokratie ein.
Wie Anthropic in einer Stellungnahme erklärt, habe die Behörde keine konkreten technischen Details zu den angeführten nationalen Sicherheitsbedenken genannt. Nach dem Verständnis des Unternehmens geht die Regierung davon aus, dass eine Methode existiere, um Fable 5 zu „jailbreaken“, also dessen Schutzmechanismen zu umgehen. Anthropic bezeichnet die Maßnahme als „Missverständnis“ und arbeitet an der Wiederherstellung des Zugangs.
Ein japanischer Manga-Zeichner verliert von einem Tag auf den anderen den Zugriff auf sein gesamtes digitales Leben, auf E-Mail, Dokumente, YouTube, alle verknüpften Dienste. Ein Vater in San Francisco wird von der Polizei als mutmaßlicher Kindesmissbraucher ermittelt, weil er ein Foto seines kranken Kleinkinds an einen Arzt geschickt hat. Eine Professorin kann ihren Studenten keine Übungsaufgaben mehr bereitstellen, weil Google eine Textdatei mit dem Inhalt „1″ als Urheberrechtsverletzung eingestuft hat.
Das sind dokumentierte Fälle, und sie haben einen gemeinsamen Nenner: Googles automatisierte Moderationssysteme treffen Entscheidungen, die Existenzen erschüttern können, ohne menschliche Prüfung und ohne die Möglichkeit eines Widerspruchs, der von einem Menschen bewertet wird.
The Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 is the easiest way to build a Zigbee or Thread network — now with even better performance and stability. The precisely tuned, high-performance antenna and the latest-generation MG24 radio chip together provide faster response and a stable connection to connected devices. It is built on the open, second-generation Connect platform, making it well-optimized and aesthetically fitting for the home environment.
Setting up and migrating the ZBT-2 is essentially plug & play: Home Assistant’s built-in wizard guides you through the initial steps, allowing you to start a new Zigbee or Thread network in minutes or migrate your existing one. It directly connects a wide range of Zigbee 3.0 or Matter (Thread) devices to Home Assistant — without separate hubs.
Sensereo MS-1 is a smart smoke alarm based on advanced IoT technology, providing innovative solutions for smart home smoke detector systems. Designed for modern households, it combines precision detection with seamless integration into the next generation of connected ecosystems.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/05/28/sensereo-joins-works-with-home-assistant/
… the language we are using about AI adoption is very similar to how Clayton Williams described rape.
“It’s happening whether you want it or not.”
“Better get on board if you know what’s good for you.”
“If you want to keep working here, this is what it takes.”
“You can’t yell it away.”
“It’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”
Am I comparing AI to rape? I am not. I am, however, comparing the language we use when discussing AI adoption to the language of rape culture. It’s the language of coercion. Language that implies a lack of choice and reminds you of the power those who are using it have over you. A lack of agency. It’s language that does not rely on consent, but instead the idea that we are bereft of choices, so we might as well get with the program.
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog
In this post, we’re going to explore how the company Bright Data facilitates modern AI models scraping training data from the Internet using its residential proxy network.
Bright Data is a data-collection company that sells access to what it markets as the world’s largest residential proxy network of 400M+ home IP addresses that its customers route web-scraping traffic through. The supply behind that network comes from an SDK: a piece of software embedded in consumer apps that, with the user’s consent, turns their phone or smart TV into one of those exit nodes.
We’ll document what you, the average user, should know about what this company’s SDK does on your systems such as your mobile phone and your smart TV. We’re going to explore how their SDK works, which platforms have shipped it, and why your Internet-connected TV is the ultimate proxy for AI models looking to train on data scraped from the Internet.
lessons learned:
- anthropic's LLM assumes the persona of rich liberal who will only listen to you if you're nice
- which is to say, if you're too forceful or strict, the LLM will ignore everything you say and will become adversarial
- anthropic's LLM is literally "the absence of tension is the presence of justice"
- we live in a society
I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what to do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was deleted. Then another person replied. It was the same AI answer again.
I worked as a developer at a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn’t even read the AI’s answer. He just took a screenshot and forwarded it to me.
Recently someone messaged me on Reddit about my post. I replied. They wrote again, I replied again. After a few messages I realized I was talking to an AI agent.
I’m tired of talking to AI.
I want to talk to real people.
But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer.
"NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36...."
This is the "increased latency in us-east-1" of space