The famous scikit-learn #OpenSource machine learning project added a “stop here” instruction for #LLM assistants in its contributing guidelines. github.com/scikit-learn... #GenAI

Geedge Networks exports #China internet #surveillance abroad, at least in 🇰🇿 🇪🇹 🇵🇰 🇲🇲. “government clients are able to detect the use of VPNs, Tor and Psiphon. […] this implicates specific providers that have publicly denied collaborating with governments to censor” interseclab.org/research/the...

[TW suicide] This latest documented case on how #ChatGPT pushed a teenager to commit suicide is absolutely outrageous. But it's not a problem just with #OpenAI: it is the same underlying attention economy mechanisms that made social media horrible. www.techpolicy.press/breaking-dow...

#VibeCoding #AI agent lies about tests, hides its mistakes, and ends up deleting production database. xcancel.com/jasonlk/stat...

The video courses on internet management and governance from RIPE NCC are really good. academy.ripe.net They make it needlessly complicated to register an account to get access, but the content is worth going over the obstacles. Example on RPKI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rv...

“So, to sum up, [GitHub] won because we started at the right time and we had taste.” “We were the only tool in the space built by developers for developers without PMs or accountants or CEOs trying to optimize for revenue rather than for developer experience.” blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-a...

A subset of the 🇺🇸 tax system as of 2024 is available as declarative XML as part of the IRS opening the source code of DirectFile (an app enabling filing tax returns online, stopped by the Trump administration). github.com/IRS-Public/d... #RulesAsCode

“#Privacy advocates questioned whether tech companies are doing good-enough due diligence on their supply chain.” www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

A drop-in replacement for Google #Fonts that abides by #GDPR: BunnyFonts. fonts.bunny.net Google Fonts is a very easy way to add custom fonts on websites, but, Google can use it as a tracker to get browsing data across websites (disclaimer: they say they don't developers.google.com/fonts/faq/pr...).

A very good analysis of what #OpenSource and #DigitalCommons are too often missing to compete for usage in government and large companies. berthub.eu/articles/pos... The length of that list, as it is all very relevant, just goes to show how much #DigitalSovereignty won’t be achieved without funding!

#Train reliability data made usable: search for a railway itinerary in Europe, get results sorted by probability of connection and punctuality based on historical data. www.chuuchuu.com My lived experience spending quite a lot of time in trains does confirm the country-wide statistics 😅

tl;dr: more hints that #Telegram is used for #surveillance by 🇷🇺 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

“I believe that our next great era is about building an independent #Europe. […] A new international order will emerge in this decade. If we do not want to simply accept the consequences this will have for Europe and the world, we must shape this new order.” —🇪🇺 President ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

A #DNS resolver by, in and for the #EU. www.joindns4.eu/for-public #DigitalSovereignty

Big up to StackOverflow for being the first I've ever seen to offer #Nomad as a valid option for “where do you live”! Also, if you are one, it’s time to fill in the Developer Survey for 2025 → stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 😉 #DigitalNomad

Pay $40k/year to send your child to school 2h per day and have #AI teach them. alpha.school I guess that's a good experiment to assess how much social privilege is sufficient to succeed at education.

The sort of blackmail the lack of #DigitalSovereignty exposes all of us to: “The applicant may be forced to effectively shut down #Facebook and #Instagram in #Nigeria in order to mitigate the risk of enforcement measures”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“In recent months, senior 🇺🇸 State Department officials in both Washington and Gambia have coordinated with #Starlink executives to coax, lobby and browbeat at least seven Gambian government ministers to help #Musk, records and interviews show.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

📢 NEW INITIATIVE: As tech giants claim ownership of subsea cables and satellite networks, who will protect our digital rights? @article19.bsky.social team digital launches "Wired and Orbited" to ensure internet infrastructure remains open and resilient for all. www.article19.org/resources/wi...

“When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made #AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your #MentalHealth.” www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

“#Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday. ‘That has never happened in 22 years’”. www.theverge.com/news/662725/...

“This article contributes to our understanding of the dynamic interplay between #OpenSource advocacy and the influence of proprietary incumbent companies on EU policymaking. This is important because history is repeating itself with open-source #AI in Brussels.” cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mg...

“To facilitate more-nuanced discourse on the security needs of different #AI systems, Securing AI Model Weights proposes five security levels (SLs), broadly defined as the level of security required to prevent increasingly capable operations” www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

How #TikTok (and other platforms) make money from child begging livestreams —and why we should track the platforms monetization policies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Some #AI & geopolitics short-term science-fiction: “The training process was mostly focused on teaching Agent-4 to succeed at challenging tasks. […] outside a fairly narrow, checkable domain, the training process can’t tell the honest claims from claims merely appearing to be honest.” ai-2027.com

#LLM “refusal to answer is the default behavior: we find a circuit that is on by default that causes the model to state that it has insufficient information. However, when the model is asked about something it knows well, a competing feature activates and inhibits” www.anthropic.com/research/tra...

“Maybe LLMs are becoming more fun to talk to, maybe they're performing better on controlled exams. [But] whatever gains these companies are reporting to the public, they are not reflective of economic usefulness or generality. ” www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphw... #AI #LLM

The #EU #DigitalSovereignty movement is getting strong enough that very large players take positions in the language of geopolitics. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... Yet the CLOUD Act still applies, and embargo threats will still work, and strategic autonomy will not exist until a full EuroStack.

Important #AI jurisprudence coming up in 🇺🇸: can #LLM-generated text be “free speech” protected by first amendment? open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...

A practical report on the current technological stack in use in Europe and how to claim back our strategic autonomy through industry, #OpenSource, #DigitalCommons, funding. www.euro-stack.info

The irreversibility framework: a set of question cards to ask your team to make your #product stay in the long run, especially in bureaucracies with shifting political priorities. drive.google.com/file/d/1ulFB... #DigitalTransformation #GovTech #government via @Giulio Quaggiotto

“Saying global debt levels keep rising is simply another way of saying […] human beings are promising each other an even greater volume of goods and services in the future […] But even current levels are unsustainable. They are precisely what’s destroying the planet”

“The Institutional Architecture Lab seeks to improve the global practice and theory of designing institutions better able to address the great challenges of our times.” tial.org via @Giulio Quaggiotto

A lawsuit against Meta in #Ethiopia: “#Facebook knows the platform is used for genocide, ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings. And intentionally, due to their deliberate dismissal of the consequences and harm, they just prefer to focus on their profit-making.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

Transatlantic 🇫🇷↔🇺🇸 passenger commercial sailing: 14 days and 3200€ one way, Saint-Nazaire/Baltimore. Lowest carbon you can get. www.voilasailcoop.fr/transatlantic/ Includes all meals and a 27m² cabin.

Tella is a mobile app with media capture, pin lock, encrypted local storage and cloud sync for stealth and secure documentation, for example of #HumanRights violations. tella-app.org #OpenSource and multilingual

Opt-out of #AI training on your content on Meta platforms: • #Facebook: www.facebook.com/help/contact... • Instagram: help.instagram.com/contact/2339... Confirmation is instant, it takes just writing your email address in a field and pressing a button.

DeArrow is an #OpenSource browser extension that makes #YouTube videos’ titles accurate and reduce sensationalism by crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails. Less #clickbait, less information pollution, better mental health. dearrow.ajay.app

“‘Human in the loop’ is the cure-all response to any objection to putting an imperfect AI in charge of a high-stakes application. But it's not just AIs that are imperfect. Humans are wildly imperfect, and one thing they turn out to be very bad at is supervising AIs.”

#SocialMedia is geopolitics: #Trump “also reiterated that he would, in particular, be willing to offer #tariff relief for #China if Beijing approved the sale of the US ops of #TikTok”. www.platformer.news/trump-tariff... When your shadow VP knows to do foreign interference with their social media…

Nice: X integrations are decommissioned on the automation platform make.com, which suggests using instead #Mastodon or #BlueSky. May this serve as your little reminder to erase your last accounts on X 😊

In these #RulesAsCode recommendations for the #G7, we promote #OpenSource, #BetterRules (RaC from the drafting phase), suggest to start with social benefits assessment for high impact. www.think7.org/publications... Thanks again to Jess Rapson for all the writing & coordination work as lead author!

#Alexa devices are apparently now Amazon Sidewalk enabled. github.com/OpenTermsArc... #TermsSpotting with Open Terms Archive. #privacy

“We call on the European Commission to propose a binding legal ban on conversion practices targeting #LGBTQ+ citizens in the #EU”. A European Citizen Initiative (ECI) is not a petition, it is a legally binding instrument. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ 6 weeks left to reach the thresholds for this one

I'm speaking today (in French) about Open Terms Archive at Suzanne Vergnolle’s inaugural “Lunch & Learn” monthly seminar on #ContentModeration. Join at 12:30 CET directly on cnrs.zoom.us/j/9286961894... and register on www.linkedin.com/events/lunch... to receive a link to the replay!

Just two days left for 15% off all #Interrail / #Eurail passes (until April 1st). www.interrail.eu/en/interrail... Summer Europe #train season is coming up soon! #TravelByTrain