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DoD dismantles AI weapons testing team, outsources oversight to companies

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27 February 2026 4h16

Last year DoD gutted the team responsible for testing and validation of AI weapons systems and fired its head – leaving the internal practices of companies selling the tech the last line of defense. This isn’t a situation we should find ourselves in, ever: technologyreview.com/2025/06… Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. anthropic.com/news/statement… — https://nitter.net/AnthropicAI/status/2027150818575528261#m

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27 February 2026

Mass Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment, Poses Democratic Risks

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25 February 2026 8h54

Agreed. Mass surveillance violates the Fourth Amendment and has a chilling effect on freedom of expression. Surveillance systems are prone to misuse for political or discriminatory purposes. Boaz Barak (@boazbaraktcs) As an American citizen, the last thing I want is government using AI for mass surveillance of Americans. — https://nitter.net/boazbaraktcs/status/2026390982460125305#m

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25 February 2026

American citizen opposes government AI mass surveillance

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24 February 2026 21h17

As an American citizen, the last thing I want is government using AI for mass surveillance of Americans.

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24 February 2026

Telegram Security Myth Debunked: Real Privacy Risks Exposed

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11 February 2026 20h01

This cannot be repeated enough.

Not just because it’s true, but because when people believe the lie that Telegram is private and secure, they can put themselves and the people they communicate with in danger. https://t.co/ZYRPYhyXwT
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) 11 février 2026

This cannot be repeated enough. Not just because it’s true, but because when people believe the lie that Telegram is private and secure, they can put themselves and the people they communicate with in danger.

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11 February 2026

Malware Security Risks: Don’t Compromise Your Systems

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06 February 2026 16h23

Did malware write this? But seriously *do not do this* on a machine that touches any information you don’t want hacked/leaked, any software you don’t want remote exploited, any tasks that you don’t want compromised…

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6 February 2026

McCarthy’s Symbolic Systems Versus Connectionist AI Approaches

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04 February 2026 23h01

Fair, this is a good and helpful note, thank you. McCarthy himself was focused on symbolic systems, and skeptical of the connectivist/ McCullouch & Pitts schools, is a more precise way of making the point I meant to make.

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4 February 2026

AI as Marketing: Understanding the Core Narrative

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04 February 2026 21h58

I’ll address this, since I think it’s an important point that could appear trivial on the surface, and thus subject to reflexive rejection, even as it’s central for how we understand what we’re dealing with, and the agency we have in how we deal with it. Yes, AI is a marketing

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4 February 2026

AI OS Integration Privacy Security Risks and Harm Reduction

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12 January 2026 19h26

This is cute, and it’s important harm reduction infrastructure given the serious privacy and security risks posed by the integration of these AI systems into the OS to the people who spent their time and creative energy building this

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12 January 2026

AI Agents Infrastructure: Technical Reality and Privacy Security Risks

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07 January 2026 15h16

NEW w/#UdbhavTiwari Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent.

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7 January 2026