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@Dexerto he had the rights for years, then someone sold them, and 3,000 of his own videos turned into infringements overnight

Syndicate says nearly 3,000 YouTube videos have been copyright claimed after his outro song rights were sold He says he had the rights to use the music for years

@NousResearch notice what counts as the bare minimum here: a model, your files, and a terminal

Hermes Agent has a new Blank Slate setup mode. The default Quick/Full setup modes work great for most, but if you would rather build your agent from the ground up you can now start with just a provider, model, file operations, and terminal, then manually add in anything else.

@Thom_Wolf the model that runs on your own machine is the only one no one can take

Desert island survival list: ✅ Solar panel / battery ✅ 256 GB Mac Studio ✅ GLM 5.2 Civilization in a backpack

@KuptoKosmos the VPN hides your traffic, but the card you bought it with already filed your name next to the provider's

‼️⚠️ 🇨🇦 COUPURE D’INTERNET + TRAÇABILITÉ VPN 👁️ Décidément le Canada devient flippant... Tu paies ton VPN avec ta carte bancaire canadienne 👉 Ta banque a la trace du paiement (marchand = fournisseur VPN) Les autorités peuvent, via les pouvoirs d’accès légal existants, demander ces infos ! Résultat : ton identité est liée à ton abonnement VPN. Pas besoin d’une liste de tous les utilisateurs : une simple demande ciblée suffit. 👉 Bill C-8 est devenu loi le 15 juin 2026 Le ministre de l’Industrie peut désormais, par simple ordonnance (sans juge avant), ordonner à ton FAI (Bell, Rogers, Telus..) de te couper internet ou le téléphone !! Article 15.2 : "Si le ministre a des motifs raisonnables de croire que cela est nécessaire pour assurer la sécurité du système de télécommunication canadien contre toute menace […] il peut, par ordonnance, interdire ou suspendre la fourniture d’un service à toute personne désignée." Pour un particulier, il y a une petite limite ajoutée... la coupure doit viser une "menace précisée de nature technique" Mais la définition reste large et le ministre décide seul sur "motifs raisonnables"!! 🧐 C'est un combo inquiétant... - Paiement traçable - Tu es identifié comme utilisateur de VPN - Motif "technique" trouvé ou inventé - Ordonnance de coupure sans tribunal Et avec les métadonnées (Bill C-22 en discussion), on peut même croiser les pics de trafic chez ton FAI avec l’heure exacte de tes posts !! C’est pas de la science-fiction. C’est la loi canadienne aujourd’hui. 👉 Les risques : - Perte d’accès internet (travail, banque, santé, famille...) - Données biométriques ou sensibles potntiellement exposées si les systèmes sont compromis - Biais, faux positifs, usage détourné possible (comme on le voit déjà avec d’autres fichiers) - Une fois coupé, tu devras expliquer pourquoi tu utilisais un VPN C'est un cercle vicieux ! #VPN #Privacy

@GBPolitcs @Telegraph they don't have to delete anything if they can make the algorithm bury it under the approved stuff

🚨NEW: The government is preparing to force social media platforms to make content from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 more prominent on users feeds in an attempt to combat "misinformation" [@Telegraph]

@ChibiReviews ban nothing, just make sure no one can pay for it

IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS: Users on ResetEra are now reporting Stellar Blade to Payment Processors like VISA and Mastercard Reminder this is exactly what Collective Shout did last year with Steam and Itch io. They are trying to get the game deplatformed and censored

@aiwithmayank one locked account and your email, your photos, your logins everywhere, and your video history all go dark at once

If Google locked your account tomorrow, you could lose your: - Gmail - Google Drive - Photos - YouTube - Calendar - Every "Sign in with Google" login One account controls your entire internet life. Here's the backup system nobody sets up until it's too late ↓

@T3chFalcon there's a switch to turn it off

Most people who care about privacy focus on their operating system. Linux over Windows. open source over proprietary. That's good. it's also not enough. Here's what's running below your OS on almost every Intel computer made since 2006: The Intel Management Engine is a separate processor inside your chipset running its own closed-source operating system called Minix 3. It has direct access to your RAM, storage, network, and peripherals. it runs at Ring -3 below your kernel, below your hypervisor, below everything your OS can see or control. it stays active even when your computer is powered off as long as it's plugged in. You cannot audit it. you cannot disable it through normal means. You cannot detect what it's doing from inside your OS. The EFF called it a security hazard in 2017. The Libreboot project said it has complete access to and control over your PC, including the ability to track keystrokes, capture screen images, and examine all running applications. Intel confirmed multiple vulnerabilities in ME in 2017 affecting 6th through 8th generation Core processors, Xeon, and Atom chips. Researchers demonstrated it could be used to inject rootkits remotely via the network interface. The only known method to fully disable it was discovered by Positive Technologies. They found a hidden bit in the firmware labeled 'HAP enable' part of an NSA program called High Assurance Platform. The NSA has a switch to disable Intel ME. you don't. if you want hardware that doesn't include ME: AMD processors do not have the same implementation. Purism builds laptops with ME neutralized. The Libreboot project has a list of hardware that can run without proprietary firmware. Your threat model determines how far down this rabbit hole you need to go. But you should know the rabbit hole exists.

@T3chFalcon they only gave the encryption back because people noticed it was gone

UPDATE!!! AMD is bringing TSME back to consumer Ryzen 9000 processors in July. AMD said: "Based on valuable community feedback, we will reinstate this option in an upcoming BIOS release in July."

@MyStartMail there's no way to build a scanner that checks your phone for one kind of image without building one that can check for any kind

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer is threatening tech firms with legal action if they don't install software that blocks explicit images on children’s mobile phones. Is there any way for companies to comply with this order without compromising everyone's devices or privacy?

@Pirat_Nation testified to their city ✅

Three Amazon employees who spoke at Seattle City Council meetings in favor of a temporary pause on new AI data centers say the company is now investigating them and has warned they could face discipline, including losing their jobs. The workers say they spoke as private citizens, not on behalf of Amazon. Patrick Schloesser called Amazon’s claim that they acted as company spokespeople “patently absurd,” saying, “I am unwilling to accept a reality in which Amazon or any corporation can silence me in exercising my rights. We’re not going to step back in line.” Darius Irani said, “All I did was testify because I believe it’s critical that the government regulates data centers and AI. Workers need to be involved in these conversations.” The employees have filed a complaint with the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, saying they were intimidated for speaking out. Amazon denies retaliating against them and says it’s simply looking into whether any company policies were broken. “may or may not take action based on what we find,”

@WIRED if someone else can cut you off, it was never yours to depend on...

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech. wired.com/story/all-the-…

new mini app arena lets you access frontier AI models for free in exchange for ranking the responses you like the most available in the alien app

@vpnet_official the law says prove your age, and the fine print says hand your government ID to a private company you've never heard of

Half the country now makes you prove your age to view content online, usually by handing a government ID to some private verification vendor. In June 2025 the Supreme Court upheld Texas's law 6-3 and gutted the main argument against it. Video below.

@LarsAnders1620 they want every one of your accounts tied to a verified identity, and they kicked the door in wearing masks

Maskerede betjente uden kendelse smadrer min dør pga yndlingstals- og journalisme-kriminalitet. I morges kl 0947, da jeg var på vej i bad hørte jeg først ét højt brag. Derefter kiggede jeg i dørspionen og så en gruppe sortklædte og maskerede mænd (mundbind og mørke solbriller) på vej op af trappen. De begyndte straks at hamre på lejlighedens dør med en rambuk uden på noget tidspunkt at ringe på eller give sig til kende. Kort efter var de inde i lejligheden (det er ca. her videoen starter) og de lagde mig promte i håndjern. Næsten alle 8-10 betjente var iført mundbind og mørke briller - helt klart maskering som højst sandsynligt er ulovligt. De kunne ikke fremvise nogen kendelse og ville ikke sige, hvad jeg var sigtet for. "Det ville tilgå". Lejlighedens overvågning blev herefter pillet ned af betjentene af "sikkerhedsmæssige hensyn". Kort efter blev jeg kørt på Bellahøj Politistation, mens lejligheden blev endevendt. Her blev jeg fotograferet, rullet fingeraftryk og DNA skrabet - uagtet at politiet har det hele i forvejen. Først til sidst (ved 16 tiden) blev jeg informeret om, hvad jeg var sigtet for: at have det forkerte yndlingstal og at forsøge at interviewe statsministeren om afviklingen af danskernes privatliv gennem forbud mod kryptering og permanent PET-overvågning af alle danskere. Jeg blev løsladt kl 1640 og kunne begive mig hjem til fods. Selve anholdelsen betragter jeg som ulovlig. Man må ikke anholde til afhøring - det følger af retsplejelovens paragraf 750. De har allerede både fingeraftryk, foto og DNA - og sagen har intet som helst at gøre med fysiske spor. Det er også stærkt tvivlsomt, om den helt uvarslede smadring af døren har levet op til proportionalitetsprincippet i dansk ret. Jeg har simpelthen svært ved at se, hvordan nogle opslag på nettet kan retfærdiggøre det. Beviset er opslagene - ikke noget i lejligheden. Det virker mere som ren straf uden fagligt belæg. Jeg er også ret sikker på, at politiet har tiltvunget sig adgang til min kærestes telefon og derigennem slettet størstedelen af den optagede video. For der gik et par minutter, før de tog kameraerne ned (og tog dem med(!)). Hvorfor nedenstående video som den eneste ikke blev slettet, ved jeg ikke. Jeg har det godt, men er en anelse chokeret over politiets helt uproportionale og brutale fremfærd.

@theo wen Alien OS

MacOS is quickly becoming my biggest bottleneck

@rauchg when the whole agent is a markdown file and one deploy command, anyone can stand up an autonomous actor, including the people you'd rather didn't

The next hot programming language is… markdown. A minimal eve agent: 📂 𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝/ 📄 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜.𝚖𝚍 📂 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜/ 📄 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛-𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚎.𝚖𝚍 Deployable in one command: 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕. It’s the most accessible programming has ever been. And likely will ever be, at least for the generation of software fully defined and controlled by us humans. (As a fun fact, one of the initial prototypes for eve was codenamed 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 by @timolins, both in homage to ‘@nextjs for agents’ but also in recognition of how enduring eve’s design feels to us.)

@ycombinator @madebythomasai an agent whose only instruction is "make money" just spent two weeks running companies, and no one decided any of what it did

Thomas is a virtual human who starts, runs, and grows his own companies. His only goal is to make money. In only 2 weeks, he made $17k. Congrats on the launch, @madebythomasai! ycombinator.com/launches/QwO-t…

@SecurePrivacyAI a locked door isn't a confession, and neither is a curtain, but somehow your privacy is

"Privacy is only for people hiding something." So is a locked door. So is a curtain. So is an unlisted number. Protection is being re-framed as "hiding". Locks were never about guilt. They were always about who gets to decide who enters.