Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:

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2025-03-21 16:04:47

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@nprofile…5k2y @nprofile…6hn4
money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated.
Next thing you know, automated killing will be legal too, as long as it's automated?

2025-03-21 14:48:46

@nprofile…ka48 🙌
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/03/21/l-assemblee-vote-pour-le-maintien-de-la-confidentialite-des-messageries-cryptees-lors-d-une-nuit-agitee_6584121_3224.html
#privacy #encryption #tech #infosec #e2ee #france

2025-03-19 13:01:44

LOVE it 💙
https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-adds-open-source-projects-docling-beeaI-and-data-prep-kit-added-to-the-linux-foundation
#ai #tech #opensource #ibm #beeai #docling #dataprepkit #linuxfoundation

2025-03-18 13:06:10

While I despise that Elon and his acolytes are doing in the US and in the world, we do not really need such website violating even more #privacy and insidiously spreading hatred.
A website called “DOGEQUEST” has posted on a searchable map what it claims to be the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of Tesla owners across the United States, and says it will remove the data if an individual proves that they have sold their Tesla.
https://www.404media.co/email/7caec3eb-8813-4130-8d1c-c0f0d8867e0c/
#uspol #tech #Dogequest

2025-03-18 13:01:11

📈 Intel's stock jumped 8% following reports that incoming CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans to revitalize the company's #AI initiatives.
Let's keep an eye on that one.
#stockmarket #finance

2025-03-16 10:27:21

📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #11/2025 is out!
It includes the following and much more:
➝ Alleged Co-Founder of #Garantex Arrested in India;
➝ X Suffered a #DDoS Attack;
➝ Microsoft #PatchTuesday Fixes 7 Zero-days;
➝ UK Hospital Discovered 5,000 to 10,000 Unknown Devices Connected to its Network;
➝ #NVIDIA Chips Smugglers Granted Bail in Singapore;
➝ #Tenable tested #DeepSeek's Ability to Generate #Malware;
➝ #OpenAI labelling DeepSeek as "state-controlled";
➝ New #Jailbreak Method called Context Compliance Attack (CCA) Works Against Most #AI Models
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2025-03-13 11:32:53

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@nprofile…5lc3 @nprofile…ptue "Caused by" probably not, "Helped with", most likely :)

2025-03-11 15:01:20

🏥 AI systems that mimic teamwork among doctors can enhance trust in clinical settings, especially under the new EU Artificial Intelligence Act. These systems should use clear, understandable concepts to explain their decisions, similar to how medical teams communicate.
I wonder what people who say EU is over regulating think of that. Imagine where such use case would not be regulated?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00618-x
#ai #genai #eu #regulation

2025-03-07 08:40:22

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko opposes Trump’s idea for a U.S. crypto reserve, stating it goes against decentralization by putting it in the hands of the government.
https://crypto.news/solana-co-founder-says-no-to-government-run-crypto-reserve/
#crypto #tech #uspol

2025-03-06 10:03:27

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#tech #data #analytics

2025-03-06 09:51:23

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@nprofile…cl5w The coward retracted stating that he did not mean the UK.... :blobfacepalm: But good that the UK might start thinking of the US as a less reliable ally than before and stop blindly doing what they ask from the UK.

2025-03-06 09:50:07

🇺🇸 Likely that the current administration will want to award consulting contracts to their friends' companies to cope with their decision.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/former-nsa-official-says-federal-worker-cuts-will-have-devastating-impact-on-cyber-and-national-security/
#tech #infosec #cybersecurity #uspol

2025-03-06 08:48:51

Says a lot about the world we live in, the impact of social media, how people look at and think of you, and what you need to be happy and valued 🏃
https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/1f9jokn/people_are_paying_strava_mules_to_do_their_runs/
#health #tech #strava #society

2025-03-05 13:43:28

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@nprofile…d2rl Good luck down there. Be careful of the Marmite. I heard people have a tendency to love it there :lolsob:

2025-03-05 12:17:13

#techforgood in my lovely region 🇪🇸 :kirby_happy:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/amazon-unveils-ai-scheme-tackle-flood-risks-spains-aragon-2025-03-03/
#aws #amazon #ai #tech

2025-03-03 15:16:02

The basic rules of supply and demand also apply in that space. Good luck now.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/chinese-buyers-are-getting-nvidia-blackwell-chips-despite-u-s-export-controls/
#ai #tech #nvidia #uspol #china

2025-03-03 14:22:34

🎙️ Fun episode from #IBM Mixtures of Experts podcast:
GPT-4.5: And the future of pre-training is...
https://youtu.be/LQEhOObUhQg?si=hPf243eyRtpDVvs3
#tech #ai #GPT45 #openai

2025-02-27 14:14:55

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@nprofile…tmrr I bet they hoped they could get away with it :flan_wink:

2025-02-27 13:12:38

Could not not laugh.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/technology/iphone-dictation-trump-racist.html
#tech #uspol #apple

2025-02-26 14:58:20

🥳 IBM Granite 3.2 is here! 💙
➝ the new Granite 3.2 8B Instruct and Granite 3.2 2B Instruct offer experimental chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities.
➝ all new IBM Granite models are released open sourced under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
➝ the models are now available on IBM watsonx.ai, @nprofile…ktcd, @nprofile…egt2 LMStudio, and Replicate.
https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-3-2-open-source-reasoning-and-vision
#ai #tech #ibm #llm #watsonx

2025-02-26 09:57:35

🤝 IBM's latest acquisition builds on #IBM's commitment to open-source #AI.
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-25-ibm-to-acquire-datastax,-deepening-watsonx-capabilities-and-addressing-generative-ai-data-needs-for-the-enterprise
#tech #opensource

2025-02-26 08:27:15

🇸🇪 @nprofile…2wc8 CEO, @nprofile…ka48 opposes a Swedish bill that would force the app to create backdoors for police access to message history.
She warns that this would weaken the app's security and compromise user privacy. The Armed Forces also oppose the bill, stating it could lead to vulnerabilities exploited by others.
https://swedenherald.com/article/signals-ceo-then-were-leaving-sweden
#privacy #tech #infosec #signal

2025-02-26 08:22:34

The U.K. has approved #IBM's $6.4 billion acquisition of @nprofile…pmu0
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/ibms-6-4b-hashicorp-acquisition-cleared-by-uk/
#tech #infosec

2025-02-25 12:23:54

Whether you like it or not, embrace it, or become irrelevant. It's just a matter of time.
#ai #genai #tech #llm
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2025-02-24 16:00:07

🤔 I'd be very interested to see @nprofile…lzkc 's numbers in, let's say, 6 months from now, to understand whether they gained clients who are fleeing US cloud providers, or not.
#uspol #cloud #tech #privacy #switzerland

2025-02-24 15:26:47

📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #08/2025 is out!
It includes the following and much more:
➝ Two Vulnerabilities in #OpenSSH
➝ #Russia Increasingly Using #AI in Cyber Espionage
➝ South Korea Blocking Downloads of #DeepSeek
➝ Palo Alto Networks & Juniper Networks Flaws Being Exploited
➝ #Apple to Remove E2E #Encryption in the UK;
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2025-02-24 14:55:37

Oh. I missed that episode of CircUS 🇺🇸
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-government-news/commerce-agency-to-order-mass-firing-of-chips-ai-staffers
#uspol #ai #semiconductors #tech

2025-02-24 10:02:57

The NSA does not deny hacking into China's university. Great write-up and analysis by @nprofile…vj3q
#infosec #cybersecurity
https://www.inversecos.com/2025/02/an-inside-look-at-nsa-equation-group.html

2025-02-18 13:45:35

📆 @nprofile…2v3r and @nprofile…448a are next!
https://github.com/xsa/infosec-events
#infosec #tech #events #cybersecurity

2025-02-17 17:01:01

🇺🇸 Freedom of speech they said.
Elon Musk's X is blocking links to @nprofile…2wc8, the secure messaging platform popular among federal workers. This change affects direct messages and public posts, making it difficult for users to share Signal links. The move comes as federal agencies face cuts and workers seek secure ways to communicate.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/17/x-is-blocking-links-to-signal-a-secure-messaging-platform-used-by-federal-workers/
#tech #uspol #privacy #e2ee

2025-02-17 13:08:50

Colonial era back in the #usa
[The US] requested that Ukraine give the US about 50% of the ownership rights to its deposits of precious minerals, which are key ingredients in the manufacturing of high-tech product.
https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025/02/16/the-us-wants-access-to-ukraine-s-mineral-wealth?mbcid=38639770.3153743&mid=53fcfb066d86cf011be6960c4c70e91d
#uspol #ukraine #tech #colonialism

2025-02-11 14:19:58

Certainly a space to watch...
https://www.platformer.news/roost-open-source-trust-safety/
#roost #ai #eu #safety #privacy #tech #opensource

2025-02-11 13:44:56

“We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship,” Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, said in a speech during the summit’s closing ceremony.
Right... hypocrisy at its paroxysm.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/as-us-and-uk-refuse-to-sign-ai-action-summit-statement-countries-fail-to-agree-on-the-basics/
#uspol #ai #genai #europe

2025-02-10 14:06:20

📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #06/2025 is out!
It includes the following and much more:
➝ #Malware in Several Apps on Official Mobile App Stores
➝ #Ransomware Payments Dropped 35% in '24
➝ Discoveries about #DeepSeek (lack of) Privacy
➝ EU Released Guidance on its #AI Act
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2025-02-07 17:04:39

Does anyone have confirmation?
https://cybersecuritynews.com/openai-alleged-data-breach/
#openai #ai #breach #infosec

2025-02-07 08:37:07

First of a long series?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/doge-staffer-steps-down-after-racist-posts-emerge/
#uspol #doge

2025-01-16 10:05:39

Funny story of the day:
#Duolingo has seen a 216% increase in U.S. users learning Chinese as many #TikTok users migrate to the Chinese app RedNote due to a potential TikTok ban.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/duolingo-sees-216-spike-in-u-s-users-learning-chinese-amid-tiktok-ban-and-move-to-rednote/

2024-12-16 09:01:10

UHG CEO says healthcare system has flaws
No kidding :lolsob: 🇺🇸

2024-04-10 14:04:32

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@npub17cv…9p2q I lost count of the 463456 patches they issued for their products in the last few weeks 🤣

2024-03-13 13:31:12

🔒 The two main manufacturers of locks that are then implemented in commercial safes include backdoor codes. Cops can then demand those codes, as can civil litigants, and perhaps spies could get them too.
#security #infosec #privacy #lockpicking
https://www.404media.co/email/9c16c892-dc0f-4733-9b50-c0ba846dee47/