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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i put on a button up to deliver this message in video form to the big wigs youtu.be/g0jjNoR09Tc

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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team

YouTube video by Brett Codes

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All hands on deck! Ross explains how the EU Kids Act could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market! youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g "The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you"

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This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

look I'm not saying every tech degree should require a humanities minor but can we at least get 20 min to play the simpsons monorail episode

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 29/09/2026

I actually support this "never write code manually again" movement. Since my specialty is fixing technical debt and thus this trend will ensure I never run out of work.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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💀 Shalloween 💀 @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 28/09/2026

It's so over. The world of "manual code" is over. Or at least that's what a guy that goes by the name DHH believes. But this guy has had a past of being useful to coding. And is also really loved by Billionaires. So we have to take him seriously. So let's see what I might be able to say about this.

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO of Basecamp has just announced at Rails World 2026 that they are moving away from Ruby because there is no need to write and read any code anymore; agents are shipping thousands of lines of code in Rust and he is super happy that nobody needs to read it. Wdyt?

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/09/2026

it's really cool how a technology can have massive downsides and literally no societal upside and yet conventional wisdom is that it is impossible to not deploy because, apparently, it's progress and can't be stopped

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even though the Halo franchise has been gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations, at least Bungie, the original creators of Halo, have also been separately gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 21/09/2026

Since I've had to remind multiple people over the last week: Microsoft is still under active BDS protest. That means Xbox and it's subsidies including Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda Yes that means the new Diablo. Yes that means the new DOOM. Yes that means World of Warcraft Forever

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No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21/09/2026

You asked about Steam pre-2022. That's going to be a hard search to execute due to Steam's (lack of) discovery algos; a needle in a haystack issue. But Roblox didn't have LLM tooling at the time of this article, and it ripped off Meccha Chameleon within 3 weeks of launch - to a higher player count

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Backrooms Meccha Chameleon And Other Clones Flood Roblox

Several of Roblox's top games are ripoffs of viral Steam games

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21/09/2026

I think you're downplaying the fact that people have been able to make high-fidelity games in short periods of time for AGES (e.g. Ludum Dare). It's the culture that's changed; people are more open to stealing and ripping other people off openly and nobody seems to care about it

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

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Thieves in the Temple

Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990

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worm @ninebaal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm watching this guy review a Linux distro that really emphasizes "ai agents" and this looks like hell. People really live like this? This is how they manage their computer experience? Failing to change their computer wallpaper and toolbar? [I cut down this SIGNIFICANTLY from 6 minutes too]

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI critics: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination AI Stans: This is the greatest, most powerful tech in history. It is not a theft machine. There are no original thoughts anymore People Who Created AI: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 18/09/2026

Unlike "AGI" or other fake doomsday scenarios caused by AI being too smart. An actual existential threat from AI is it giving incorrect answers and human beings irresponsibly taking them to face value. bsky.app/profile/cout...

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 18/09/2026

The vs code tries to push you to use its terminal. I just want a text editor but they really would love me to depend wholly on their ecosystem, huh.

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 16/09/2026

A massive loss. No amount of vibe-coded emulator features is ever going to make up for this. bsky.app/profile/papa...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m sorry but this is specifically an example of how this technology deployed without context is fucking up scenes. I fucking hate these people. You gave a hypervisor exploit to Sony, are you fucking high?

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These dipshits made TheFlow quit??? Fuck you!!!

"I am stepping away from the PS5 scene and stopping all my work on PS5 Linux," posted TheFlow. "After pouring my heart and months of my life into it, including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and release in 2027, it's all down the sink. The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand.
Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony."

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 16/09/2026

People might think that when I say that "they are burning Alexandria" is hyperbole, and yet bsky.app/profile/mkir...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

Which is to say, these companies are claiming that they are *so cool* that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics: futurism.com/future-socie...

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Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI

Anthropic says that its billion-dollar AI business would be profitable, if only you ignore the figure on the bottom line.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

The Hugging Face Attack wasn't an example of an AI going wrong. It was an example of what happens when you give an LLM a lot of compute and tell it to do something without establishing guardrails. AI is already in the wrong hands - OpenAI's. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

First of all, what was OpenAI trying to do?

OpenAI was testing its new models on an evaluation framework called ExploitGym – a collection of 869 cybersecurity scenarios, most of which pair a specific system with a hacking challenge, such as breaking in to gain access to a protected file. They also usually include a suggestion of a vulnerability to exploit in solving the challenge.

A large language model on its own, of course, cannot break into anything: all it does is generate reasonable next tokens in response to input prompts. To use ExploitGym, you need a control program called a harness that provides access to many different software development tools useful for hacking into systems. The harness can repeatedly prompt an LLM to help come up with an attack plan, then ask it to help implement specific steps – for example, if the harness needs code to exploit a bug, it can ask the LLM to write it.

These capabilities, as it turns out, already exist in the coding harnesses that the major AI companies have been focusing on relentlessly in recent years as computer programming emerged as one of the first major markets for LLM-based tools. To compete in the ExploitGym, therefore, it’s sufficient to combine a version of an LLM missing the standard anti-hacking guardrails with a cutting-edge coding harness tweaked and optimized for these types of challenges.

And what happened? I’m going to quote Cal liberally here, because he’s explained it well: this was a series of Large Language Models connected to a software program built to prompt them to complete an evaluation framework specifically to do cybersecurity attacks (along with near-infinite amounts of compute) “solving” the problem using any and all methods available, including hacking Hugging Face

Earlier this month, OpenAI tasked an unspecified coding harness, combined with a pre-release version of a new LLM, to complete an ExploitGym challenge. When prompted, the model – as LLMs so often do – came up with a quirky (but rational) plan to achieve the provided goal: break into a server at Hugging Face that stores the solutions to ExploitGym challenges.

(This behavior, in which the LLM ignores the suggested approach to come up with a different attack plan, is something that the creators of ExploitGym describe as common: “Across models, agents frequently achieved code execution through a vulnerability other than the one we provided.” Notice, using the suggested attack is almost always the right thing to do, so this is more a sign of the unpredictability of LLMs rather than some rogue intelligence.)

The harness then dutifully attempted to execute the Hugging Face plan: first finding a way to gain unrestricted internet access (by default, systems competing in ExploitGym challenges run in a constrained network environment), then chaining together various security exploits to gain access to a Hugging Face server. That’s when it was detected.

In other words, the LLMs — albeit through convoluted and aggressive means — “solved” the problem they were tasked with. As Cal said, there was no situation where the AI “went rogue.” They took some weird ways of getting there for sure (like using a message board to communicate messages between LLMs) — and did exactly what they were supposed to do, even if it meant taking ridiculous routes to cover up that they’d cheated on a test.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/09/2026

“You need to integrate AI because while it will degrade your abilities and make your job less interesting and more shitty, at least you will retain employment” is not the sell AI proponents think it is.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

… the thing I can’t get over is how the “AI “ discussion has successfully prevented any discussion of the human future They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years

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Luddite Spyrius Robot @vexorian.dev · 14/09/2026

Yeah I am sorry about that prod incident. Turns out my code was "misaligned" and "broke containment" . Just imagine how powerful it will become.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Okay so if you remove billions and billions of dollars of costs Anthropic had a profitable quarter? Who cares send the blog to the hogs

Anthropic's gross margins are above 80 per cent before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including
Amazon, and the cost of training its models, according to two of the people.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

on the AI existential threat discourse v reality - excerpt

“Designing autonomous, malicious software is generally considered irresponsible and dangerous. If you showed up at Defcon and gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so
shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so
awesome at making hacking tools?"
The fact that OpenAl is making it much easier for unskilled people to break into and damage servers is indeed very bad news, but it's not new bad news. Irresponsible parties have been doing this for years, most notably the NSA. The NSA has…” - Cory Doctorow

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That's b/c, regardless of intent, it's marketing for AI Its been the other half of the AGI pitch for the last 3 years "It's TOO powerful!" This is not the case These companies know that what they have is not nearly as 'world changing' as they pitch it to be Even if he believes this; He's a mark

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/09/2026

This is very much true for security research as well. That thing that seems tangential helps you understand the system. It matters

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