US AI labs: "Scraping the entire open internet without consent is fair use! It's transformative!"

Also US AI labs when someone distills their models: "Wait no not like that, that's intellectual property theft"

New post on why distillation is just the industry looking in the mirror:

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-great-ai-double-standard

🇪🇺#ChatControl 1.0 is back: EU governments (except for 🇭🇺+🇧🇪) have extended the suspicionless scanning of private messages by US services until 2028 – bypassing the EU Parliament.

What changes now and what happens next: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-governments-adopt-return-of-chat-control-1-0-breyer-the-true-losers-are-our-children/

🇮🇹Il #ChatControl 1.0 è tornato: i governi UE (tranne 🇭🇺+🇧🇪) hanno prorogato la scansione indiscriminata dei messaggi privati da parte dei servizi USA fino al 2028, aggirando il Parlamento europeo.

Cosa cambia ora e i prossimi passi: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-governments-adopt-return-of-chat-control-1-0-breyer-the-true-losers-are-our-children/

📱 Are you one of the DOZENS of Ubuntu Touch users?

Then you'll be happy to know that there are native Nextcloud apps available, thanks to our amazing community 🙏

Check them out here: https://open-store.io/?sort=-updated_date&search=nextcloud

This is nuts. #huggingface have just scraped the entirety of #github. https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

@arcanechat@fosstodon.org @fastfinge@fed.interfree.ca @jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe if XMPP's design by committee process was in any way conducive to producing good results we'd have multiple high quality cross-platform XMPP clients right now that would make nobody care about Telegram or Signal or Whatsapp because literally all the same functionality is implemented (the XEPs are there, it should be possible!) and it would have the largest network effect because zero lock-in, so there would be no excuse to not be using XMPP

But there's zero high quality cross-platform XMPP clients because this process doesn't work

and then Delta Chat makes the right decisions:
- build a quality core everyone can use which guarantees compatibility and an even playing field of security (not even Signal can claim this -- e.g., each app has a completely different networking implementation)
- build an app for each major platform and make them as identical as possible -- originally built off a good design that users are comfortable with: the actual Telegram client
- publish them all under the same name/logo because modern users think of "platforms" not "protocols"
- do the groundwork to be prepared if the app ever gets blocked/banned or Merlinux sued/shutdown so the same Delta Chat app can be published under a different name by someone else
- work hard to produce RFCs that are useful for everyone, not just Delta Chat (e.g., AutoCrypt v2 is meant to be used for ANY protocol, not just Delta Chat / email -- which is also co-published by someone from IETF/ACLU, an active OpenPGP member, and a Delta Chat member)
- provide a ton of documentation and user support resources
- provide a realtime feedback channels to all interested parties who are running their own Chatmail Relays
- bend over backwards to provide extensive backwards compatibility
- be actively involved with helping real groups of disadvantaged people around the world who suffer under oppressive governments, actually fly to remote places and provide information and training
- provide more details of the project's funding methodology than probably any other open source project that has existed
- actually go to court to fight for users' rights (e.g., Delta Chat in Russia last summer)

but this is just not enough for some people and either the project is considered too opaque/proprietary, or gets complaints that they shouldn't be using email this way

#Surveillance Cameras Can Now Be Retrofitted to Track Your Wireless Device Fingerprint

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/07/27/surveillance-cameras-can-now-be-retrofitted-to-track-your-wireless-device-fingerprint/

#privacy #Leonardo #ALPR

French DJ ​and electropop ‌musician Kavinsky found dead aged 50

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c204n74xyv3o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @thenewsdesk@flipboard.com

https://www.europesays.com/it/607672/ È morto il dj francese Kavinsky, famoso per “Nightcall” #Entertainment #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/ #LWN #Linux #GCC

#DEFCON bans #Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/28/def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses/5279763

#SmartGlasses #IoT #AI #RayBan #Oakley #privacy

https://www.europesays.com/it/608056/ Sprint sul decreto sul riconoscimento facciale, ira delle opposizioni – Notizie #Cronaca #Headlines #IT #Italia #Italy #News #Notizie #NotizieDiCronaca #NotiziePrincipali #NotizieDiCronaca #NotiziePrincipali #Titoli #UltimeNotizie #UltimeNotizieDiCronaca #UltimeNotizieENewsDiOggi #UltimeNotizie #UltimeNotizieDiCronaca #UltimeNotizieEnewsDiOggi

Identificazione biometrica: per il #Garanteprivacy, il dlgs sull’uso della #IntelligenzaArtificiale per l’attività di polizia "necessita di alcune integrazioni volte a rafforzare le garanzie rispetto al trattamento dei dati personali"

Il parere riguarda il decreto legislativo volto ad adeguare la normativa interna alle disposizioni del regolamento (UE) 2024/1689 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio, del 13 giugno 2024 (infra: “regolamento IA”)



https://gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/10275606

@aitech

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles.

This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused

https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

La Commissione ritiene in via preliminare che il design che crea dipendenza di Instagram e Facebook violi il regolamento sui servizi digitali

https://italy.representation.ec.europa.eu/notizie-ed-eventi/notizie/la-commissione-ritiene-preliminare-che-il-design-che-crea-dipendenza-di-instagram-e-facebook-violi-2026-07-10_it

@politica

GrapheneOS afferma che la sua password "di coercizione" per la cancellazione dei dati è perfettamente legale, dopo che un utente è stato accusato a livello federale.

La fondazione GrapheneOS non può aiutare, e non aiuterà in alcun modo, i procuratori statunitensi.

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html

@informatica

Grazie a UndividedZero per la segnalazione

🇪🇺 In this Euronews piece on #ChatControl, I explain why indiscriminate chat scanning sets a dangerous precedent, highlight high false‑positive rates in hash scanning, and outline real alternatives like security‑by‑design 👇

https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/28/why-is-chat-control-one-of-the-eus-biggest-digital-rights-fights