Update August 14 2025: Well, nothing stands still, and in particular, this letter continues to have legs. It is still being used for instruction and translated for multiple languages.
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.
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GDPR - A Practical Guide For Developers - Bozho's tech blog
You’ve probably heard about GDPR. The new European data protection regulation that applies practically to everyone. Especially if you are working in a big company, it’s most likely that there’sContinue reading
Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
“The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.”
NIGHTMARE OPERATOR
NIGHTMARE OPERATOR is a TPS action horror about hunting Youkai in the haunted ruins of Tokyo. Combat fuses the tense, shooting gameplay of classic survival horror, with the skill-based mechanics and execution of fighting games.
Charly Wargnier on Twitter / X
an AI agent literally destroyed all of this guy's production data 🤯Total AI disaster, yet totally predictable.here's the story:> Cursor agent (Opus 4.6) tries to fix a staging bug> Finds an unscoped Railway CLI token> Guesses an API call> Wipes Prod DB & 3 mos of backups… https://t.co/24KfDhMtVz— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) April 27, 2026
In Russmedia Ruling, the GDPR Displaces Europe's Rules for Online Speech
The ruling shows the serious problems that can arise when European courts rely solely on the GDPR, writes Daphne Keller.
Hilde Kuehne on Twitter / X
I'm currently writing and editing ICLR submission (and yes, I'm a dinosaur. I still do this by hand, no AI, just a spell checker) and I realized that when I work on a paper, at every step I try to imagine how someone would read this. Is the information clear? Will they get the…— Hilde Kuehne (@HildeKuehne) September 25, 2026
GDPR is a failure
I made 20 GDPR data deletion requests in the past year. 2 complied immediately. 6 complied after I filed complaints with data protection offices. 12 still haven't. The regulation exists, the enforcement doesn't.
Tibo on Twitter / X
Today we’re previewing Private Safety Processing, designed to let us keep offering Zero Data Retention while improving our safeguards. Even when benefiting from frontier intelligence, customers shouldn’t have to give up control of sensitive data.For ZDR deployments, content… https://t.co/W6Ls8W7x2l— Tibo (@thsottiaux) August 19, 2026
https://purgepalantir.com/
It is an unaccountable behemoth vacuuming up our data to use in everything from denial management for health insurance companies to unjust deportations to lethal and extrajudicial drone strikes in Palestine and beyond.
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This was 2022 btw vice.com/en/article/sex-workers-say-th…
Sex Workers Say They’re Being Silenced by the Government on Age Verification Plans
www.vice.comI spot a GDPR violation! GDPR, Art. 17 Right of Erasure, ensures that EU residents can request removal of their data from a service provider, especially if that service based in Europe and there is no regulated reason for retention (e.g., financial regulations)
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This is SO INCREDIBLY EXTREMELY valuable! Writing policy is really difficult, whether it's designed for humans or machines.
Dave Willner
At TrustCon this year I talked about a technique we’ve developed for automatically optimizing content-moderation policies, using an inversion of the binocular labeling approach Zentropi had already pioneered. Today we're shipping the tool that technique became. blog.zentropi.ai/optimizing-our-policy-optimiz…
