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DOGE: Elon Musk's team feeds sensitive US government data to AI
The team in the US government led by Elon Musk is making extensive use of AI to recommend massive cost reductions. Data protection is secondary.

UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

Google launches its largest and 'most capable' AI model, Gemini
The company is planning to license Gemini to customers through Google Cloud for them to use in their own applications.

Researchers Uncover 'LLMjacking' Scheme Targeting Cloud-Hosted AI Models
Researchers have uncovered a new attack called -LLMjacking- that targets large language models (LLMs) hosted on cloud services.

AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT
...customers are finding that moving their IT back on-premises is so attractive compared with remaining on AWS that they are prepared to do this despite the significant effort involved...

Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
A Ford Motoer Company patent application filed in February and published last month proposes software that would monitor in-car conversations and other data to help serve up advertisements.

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
The National Security Agency uses a bit of jiu-jitsu to turn the structure of Web ad networks against people who run Tor to remain anonymous.

Home Lab Beginners guide (Hardware)
Until recently, and for well over the past decade, my wife and I have been nomads. Moving from the Caribbean to Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and

Awesome-Selfhosted 💻️
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers