Evolution of problem-solving throughout the ages! #StoneAge to #ComputerAge
#History #Evolution #Cartoon #Humor #Technology #ProblemSolving #ComicStrip #Throwback #TechHumor
Disgusting. Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations
‚The Border Agency of the European Union, Frontex, is building a mobile application for individuals who are voluntarily or forcibly deported from Europe, as part of its EU Reintegration Programme (EURP).
The application will come equipped with an ‘AI chatbot’ feature, which allows deportees to learn about the available services within the program, such as the opening hours of the nearest return counseling centers, or the financial incentives offered to individuals who accept to travel back to their country of citizenship (given the relative lack of choice people face, some scholars prefer the term ‘self-deportation’)...‘
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/frontex-is-building-an-ai-chatbot-app-to-encourage-repatriations/
#Migration #Refugees #Chatbot #AI #Surveilance #Technology #Europe #FortressEurope #Frontex
AI Powered Medical Devices Leads to Spike in Surgery Mistakes
Botched surgeries are on the rise after medical companies crammed AI into their medical devices to enhance surgery procedures.
https://www.freezenet.ca/ai-powered-medical-devices-leads-to-spike-in-surgery-mistakes/
#News #Technology #AI #FDA #medical #MedicalDevices #Medicine #Scary #Surgeon #Surgery
AI Powered Medical Devices Leads to Spike in Surgery Mistakes
Botched surgeries are on the rise after medical companies crammed AI into their medical devices to enhance surgery procedures.
https://www.freezenet.ca/ai-powered-medical-devices-leads-to-spike-in-surgery-mistakes/
#News #Technology #AI #FDA #medical #MedicalDevices #Medicine #Scary #Surgeon #Surgery
Evolution of problem-solving throughout the ages! #StoneAge to #ComputerAge
#History #Evolution #Cartoon #Humor #Technology #ProblemSolving #ComicStrip #Throwback #TechHumor
Reminder that I am giving a talk on the battle between IBM and Compaq for the soul of the PC!
It's next week at the Computer Conservation Society. Tickets available for both in-person and online. #history #compaq #technology
https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/2025-26/20260219.htm
Reminder that I am giving a talk on the battle between IBM and Compaq for the soul of the PC!
It's next week at the Computer Conservation Society. Tickets available for both in-person and online. #history #compaq #technology
https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/2025-26/20260219.htm
@tante yes. This is not chicken and egg.
Just as #democracy precipitates #revolution, the systems bounding #technology must allow for #freedom by being open.
And that freedom comes with responsibility.
And that responsibility is something #techbros have shirked by moving goalposts of how much freedom users have while extracting from users. They do this because they can buy influence in a nation where #freespeech is measured in dollars.
The fediverse is an isle of coherence.
Disgusting. Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations
‚The Border Agency of the European Union, Frontex, is building a mobile application for individuals who are voluntarily or forcibly deported from Europe, as part of its EU Reintegration Programme (EURP).
The application will come equipped with an ‘AI chatbot’ feature, which allows deportees to learn about the available services within the program, such as the opening hours of the nearest return counseling centers, or the financial incentives offered to individuals who accept to travel back to their country of citizenship (given the relative lack of choice people face, some scholars prefer the term ‘self-deportation’)...‘
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/frontex-is-building-an-ai-chatbot-app-to-encourage-repatriations/
#Migration #Refugees #Chatbot #AI #Surveilance #Technology #Europe #FortressEurope #Frontex
Ten years ago today, physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away.
That was when we, as a species, developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column:
https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes #space #science #nature #technology
They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.
This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.
Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.
We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841
#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology
Ten years ago today, physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away.
That was when we, as a species, developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column:
https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes #space #science #nature #technology
Yo techies!
**Matrix secure chat is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty**
"Matrix is currently talking to circa 35 countries about FOSS communications infrastructure. For instance, Hodgson told us the United Nations is on board: it's using Matrix as the basis of its own in-house air-gapped communications tool, which helps it to remain independent of any country or hosting provider.
It's also being adopted at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which as The Register reported in October 2025 is busily ditching Microsoft Office. After the Trump administration imposed sanctions on ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, he reported losing access to his email and banking, disrupting the court's work.”
Yes any government can host their own Matrix instance and have full control over it. Matrix is actually implemented inside of other messaging tools, so many are using it without even knowing about it.
You just can't trust the tRumpies!
See https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat
#technology #privacy #digitalsovereignty #chat #opensource
Yo techies!
**Matrix secure chat is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty**
"Matrix is currently talking to circa 35 countries about FOSS communications infrastructure. For instance, Hodgson told us the United Nations is on board: it's using Matrix as the basis of its own in-house air-gapped communications tool, which helps it to remain independent of any country or hosting provider.
It's also being adopted at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which as The Register reported in October 2025 is busily ditching Microsoft Office. After the Trump administration imposed sanctions on ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, he reported losing access to his email and banking, disrupting the court's work.”
Yes any government can host their own Matrix instance and have full control over it. Matrix is actually implemented inside of other messaging tools, so many are using it without even knowing about it.
You just can't trust the tRumpies!
See https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat
#technology #privacy #digitalsovereignty #chat #opensource
"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
