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The idea that dumping all data into "AI" will somehow provide us with unparalleled analysis has been continuously disproven, especially with similar systems like Lavender and Gospel perpetuating mass civilian death. Using GenAI will only worsen this: arxiv.org/abs/2410.14831

🚨 Hiring a new postdoc! 🚨 I'm looking for someone with quantitative analysis skills to join me in the ERC-funded project GEOCLOUD: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing. Hot topic, cool data, excellent career development opportunities! Apply by 9 Jan diesl.eu/open-position-…

"Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions." New from Nyalleng Moorosi in nature! nature.com/articles/d4158…

It costs around $50 million every year to ensure Signal is robust and available all over the world for anyone whenever they need it. And as a nonprofit, that money comes from all of you; the people who believe that we all deserve a place to speak freely. Signal.org/donate

Nach monatelangem Zögern will Deutschland trotz aller Kritik wieder Rüstungsgüter an Israel liefern: Panzer-Getriebe für den Krieg in Gaza. Menschenrechtler des ECCHR versuchen, das vor dem Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt zu stoppen. Meine Recherche: sz.de/li.3161212

Gaza is currently facing what many experts call an “amputee crisis”: it has the biggest cohort of children amputees in history. Now it appears that the last remaining orthopedic surgeon has been killed

While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the frenzy of tech leaders this week to woo Trump stood out from other industries (New York Times) nytimes.com/2024/12/14/tec… techmeme.com/241215/p7#a241… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵

Is AI a bubble? Will it burst? And what will emerge in its aftermath? Read about these questions and more in our last EU AI industrial policy newsletter edition of the year AI Now Institute Leevi Saari open.substack.com/pub/euaipolicy…

Re: Musk endorsing far-right AfD in Germany: As I‘ve argued in my MIT Technology Review DE column, if 2016 was a wake-up call to confront the health of the digital public sphere, 2024 must be a wake-up call to tackle the dangers of concentrated power in tech. frederike.substack.com/p/trump-musk-a…

This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics. Thank you, Ted! desfontain.es/blog/privacy-i…

wow. Upon Court order, incriminating exhibits were unsealed at 3:30am in an AI lawsuit against Meta. Once past a 'fake privilege,' it appears Zuckerberg approved the use of a highly controversial, pirated dataset. Note OpenAI, too? AI companies with no ethics or guardrails. /1

The German election is six weeks away. Where do political parties stand on AI, industrial policy, and competition in the German election? We took a close look: @leevisaari @ainowinstitute euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/german-elect…

🚨EXCLUSIVE: The EU's AI Office is closely monitoring DeepSeek, citing potential risks such as 🇨🇳 govt surveillance & malicious actors' misuse. The risk of an acceleration of the AI race that would push competitors to cut on safety is also envisaged. mlex.com/mlex/articles/…