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🧠 Microsoft is reintroducing Recall in Windows 11 — a feature that captures screenshots every 3 seconds of your activity to create an AI-powered memory. What could go wrong?
It now includes:
🔐 Opt-in only
📍 Local device processing
🧑💻 Windows Hello authentication
But many still ask: is it a productivity boost or a privacy liability? 😳
Even with safeguards, the idea of your system quietly watching everything you do raises serious concerns about digital trust.
#Privacy #Windows11 #AI #Cybersecurity #TechNews
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That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
Meta release Llama 4 and faced blowback from the AI community over benchmark optimization.Kylie Robison (The Verge)
meta-llama (Meta Llama)
Org profile for Meta Llama on Hugging Face, the AI community building the future.huggingface.co
If you want to know how a spoon, ai, Matrix and accessibility are connected, then check out the #btconf talk description by @tink with the title “There Is No Spoon” beyondtellerrand.com/events/du…
#a11y #ai #accessibility #presentation #tellerrand
Léonie Watson is speaking at beyond tellerrand 2025 in Düsseldorf
Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. Shebeyond tellerrand Events
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Let's get 200 by end of April!
#Tech #Technology #Discord #Community #TechTalk #Techopolis #Accessibility #Code #Blind #Apple #AI
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mind the WCAG automation gap
"Disclaimer: this content was partially produced via automation FTW! Don’t fear the AI future or the reaper."
#a11y #WCAG #testing #automation #ai
Final update: The developer is now on Mastodon via @andrew_guide.
Update: The developer has removed the ability to download Guide until the security issues mentioned in the linked thread are fixed.
Update: this product contains some code flaws that are concerning from a security perspective, beyond just giving control of your computer to an LLM. You might want to read this thread before installing the product: toot.cafe/@matt/114258349401221651
Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more.
Just tried guide for fun. It's supposed to be an app to use #AI to help #blind folks get things done. I asked "Where are the best liver and onions in Ottawa?" It:
1. Decided it needed to search the web.
2. Thought that the "stardew access" icon on my desktop was a kind of web browser, so clicked it.
3. Imagined an "accept cookies" dialogue it needed to accept.
4. Decided that didn't work, so looked for Google Chrome (I don't have chrome installed on that machine)
5. Finally opened edge from the start menu. By the way, it just...left Stardew open and running. Because apparently having Stardew Valley running in the background is a vital part of finding liver and onions in Ottawa.
6. Opened a random extension from my edge toolbar (goodlinks).
7. Clicked the address bar and loaded google.com, instead of just doing the search right from the address bar.
8. Got blocked because it couldn't sign into my Google account, even though it could have also searched from the Google homepage.
To be fair to AI, that was the kind of open-ended task AI is terrible at. If I had asked it to check an inaccessible checkbox, or read a screenshot, or something, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Anyway, I'm still better at using a computer than an AI. So is my 87 year old grandfather, for that matter. www.guideinteraction.com
Guide - AI assistant for people with low vision or blindness
With Guide, inaccessible doesn't have to mean undoable. Guide is a Windows AI assistant that helps people with low vision or blindness navigate the digital world.Guide
There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys…I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?
Wow. For a few months, I was wondering why I suddenly have bandwidth issues when activating my camera in MS Teams meetings, so others can't understand me any more.
A look into my #nginx logs seems to clarify. Bots are eagerly fetching my (partially pretty large) #poudriere build logs. 🧐 (#AI "watching shit scroll by"?)
I see GPTBot at least occassionally requests robots.txt, which I don't have so far. Other bots don't seem to be interested. Especially PetalBot is hammering my server. And there are others (bytedance, google, ...)
Now what? Robots.txt would actually *help* well-behaved bots here (I assume build logs aren't valuable for anything). The most pragmatic thing here would be to add some http basic auth in the reverse proxy for all poudriere stuff. It's currently only public because there's no reason to keep it private....
Have to admit I feel inclined to try one of the tarpitting/poisoning approaches, too. 😏
DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI
DeepSeek's free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple's Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI's cloud-dependent business model.Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)
💰 Spain is done with AI slop and disinfo
｢ The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a "serious offence" that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover ｣
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Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs - The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium
Airbnb recently completed our first large-scale, LLM-driven code migration, updating nearly 3.5K React component test files from Enzyme to use React Testing Library (RTL) instead. We’d originally…Charles Covey-Brandt (The Airbnb Tech Blog)
Whether you're deep into AI or just curious what's going on, this stream breaks it down in a way that makes sense. Real talk, real insights, and a chance to ask questions live.
See you there!
#AI #TechTalk #LiveStream #AICommunity #ArtificialIntelligence
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AI News For March 21
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Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved:
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Meta Language Model Litigation
The Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of a class of plaintiffs seeking compensation for damages caused by defendant Meta.www.saverilawfirm.com
#CNA A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference
A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference We took a look at the robots featured at Nvidia's developer conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday (Mar 18). #ai #robotics #robots #nvidia #nvda #news from CNA Video YouTube untuk artikel ini boleh ditonton di sini 💛
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#CNA A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference - SHIBUYA World News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xW8hub2x0 A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference We took a look at the robots featured at Nvidia's developer conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday (Mar 18).🐈 (SHIBUYA World News)
About time roflmeow
• AI comes to Narrator. Rich image descriptions powered by AI will be coming to Narrator in Windows Insider Preview this spring
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Microsoft Ability Summit 2025: Accessibility in the AI era - The Official Microsoft Blog
Today, we hosted the 15th annual Microsoft Ability Summit, with over 20,000 attendees from 164 countries coming together virtually to discuss the future of AI and accessibility.Jenny Lay-Flurrie (The Official Microsoft Blog)
Using an #AI email writer might seem like the perfect way to boost productivity, BUT the dangers far outweigh the benefits. 🤖 ❌
In this guide we take a look at 5 AI email writers and why not to use them 👉 tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers…
#AI #AIEmailWriter #PrivacyMatters #TutaMail
5 AI email writers and which not to use | Review | Tuta
AI email tools can help write your emails quicker, but the risks of granting them access to your private mailbox often outweigh the benefits. Here’s why not to use AI email writers.Tuta
Explore the course here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/trai…
Create accessible AI experiences - Training
This module provides guidance on how to collaborate effectively with customers, partners, and the disability community to create innovative solutions that are accessible and inclusive.learn.microsoft.com
Join me at 5 PM Central Time as I break down the biggest announcements, AI advancements, and accessibility innovations from this year's event.
When: Today at 5 PM CT
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Don't miss it. See you soon. #AbilitySummit #Accessibility #AI
Microsoft Ability Summit 2025: Top Highlights & Key Takeaways
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There’s something very depressingly emblematic that Chrome Dev Tools’ annoying “Ask AI” sprinkles everywhere include one that pops up and *covers* the Accessibility Tree toggle.
#google #chrome #ai #accessibility
Zit je niet op Signal, want "ik heb toch niks te verbergen..."?
Antwoord op die vraag en meer over #privacy, #AI en waarom #Signal voor iedereen goed is💙:
👉 youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg
Bij 48:00 🇳🇱 🚀
#signalapp #privacy #tech #sxsw via @Mer__edith
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
SXSW 2025 Livestream and On Demand Keynotes & Featured Speaker Sessions + VOD Portuguese and Spanish language translations presented by Itaú (these will be a...YouTube
It's that time of the month again, this time I wrote a whole blog about it:
“Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed” 🤡
#github #copilot #llm #ai #genai
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Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed 🤡
As a maintainer of a "popular open source project" ever since Copilot was announced I've been receiving monthly reminders that my free GitHub Copilot access has been renewed. If I was paying for t...sethmlarson.dev
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Samsung unveils Galaxy A56 5G, Galaxy A36 5G and Galaxy A26 5G...
Samsung Newsroom: Samsung Electronics today unveiled Galaxy A56 5G, Galaxy A36 5G and Galaxy A26 5G, the latest Galaxy A series smartphones. For the first time, the Galaxy A series is integrating...Windows 11 Forum
After reading these medium term goals, I'm honestly glad I stopped donating because I know some corporate thing will sponsor them now they will/want to add AI, even an AI Chat bot, to NVDA.
The below are just 2, but there's more AI stuff they have planned.
• Integrated AI image description: Free, secure, performant, private and VI-focussed on-device AI image description available out of the box.
• Help chatbot prototype: Exploring the development of an AI-powered chatbot to provide instant support and answer frequently asked questions about NVDA.
The second one is particularly nonsensical.
The Hollow Men Of Silicon Valley
I am, unabashedly, a Humean emotivist. Like David Hume, I hold that emotions—not abstract reason—form the foundation of our ethics. Cold logic alone doesn’t guide our moral compass; it is sha…Techdirt
Le Chat by Mistral AI - Accessible Android
Le Chat combines the power of advanced AI with extensive information sourced from the web and high quality journalistic sources, helping you rediscover theAccessible Android
Thing I want to exist but don't want to build: a #mud that does pretty much the same thing as #SillyTavern or #agnaistic, intended for selfhosting. A MUD would be an excellent interface for #AI assisted #roleplay. With #Evennia and #OpenRouter, this honestly wouldn't be that hard. I just hate #Python and don't wanna.
The way to do it would be:
1. Set up a #docker#Evennia environment, to make distribution easy.
2. Add an attribute on Evennia accounts to hold an openrouter API key, and a userflow to get a users key via OAuth: openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/oauth-pkce3. Use the #OpenAI Python API and hook it up to NPC's to let them chat, generating responses with the user's API key. Figure out function calling and hook it into the various creation functions of Evennia for extra fun. Probably need to store attributes for what models and parameters to use on each NPC, with global defaults probably from the user's account.
4. Dump the room name and desc, the player desc, and chat history into the AI context.
5. Something something MSP/MXP and ElevenLabs for sound effects and music.
6. Something Something MXP for images.
7. Dockerize the thing and upload it to let users run there own muds for AI roleplay for themselves and their friends.
If I either liked Python or was unemployed, I would do this. If only AI coding was good enough to just make the thing based on my design skeleton above.
OAuth PKCE - Secure User Authentication
Implement secure user authentication with OpenRouter using OAuth PKCE. Complete guide to setting up and managing OAuth authentication flows.OpenRouter Documentation
GitHub - Zyphra/Zonos: Zonos-v0.1 is a leading open-weight text-to-speech model trained on more than 200k hours of varied multilingual speech, delivering expressiveness and quality on par with—or even surpassing—top TTS providers.
Zonos-v0.1 is a leading open-weight text-to-speech model trained on more than 200k hours of varied multilingual speech, delivering expressiveness and quality on par with—or even surpassing—top TTS ...GitHub
Now that we have three different #AI Music generators, I wanted to give them a tricky test and compare the results. I'm totally not musical, so hopefully one of my followers will chime in to this thread with some musical theory criticism.
The prompt we'll be using today: "A comic operetta in the style of Victorian satirical comic operettas making fun of President Donald J Trump." We'll be leaving all other settings as default.
The things I'm looking for:
1. Does the song refer to recent events?
2. Can it follow my strong style instructions? I'm wanting something in the style of gilbert and Sullivan. But if I mention them directly, the AI's either refuse on copyright grounds, or generate endless bad versions of A Model of A Modern Major General.
Let's start with riffusion.com. It gave me a song called "Why won't they let me edit?" It's apparently about how Donald Trump wants to edit his wikipedia page. I'm not aware of this being a thing that happened, but it's possible I missed that? It starts off enough like an opera for my taste, but it quickly devolves into a kind of 2000's pop musical style. I give it 8/10 for topicality, and 5/10 for style. Link: www.riffusion.com/riff/40bbc4f8-c557-4bb4-9a95-1bbcb66c38de#riffusion
Why Won't They Let Me Edit? by fastfinge
Comic operetta, Gilbert & Sullivan style, orchestral, Victorian parlor musicRiffusion
Musk will OpenAI kaufen - und erntet Spott
Techmilliardär Musk will zusammen mit Investoren OpenAI kaufen - für fast 100 Milliarden Dollar. OpenAI-Chef Altman, ein Musk-Erzfeind, reagiert mit Spott. Auch der Verwaltungsrat sage Nein. Von. R. Spiegelhauer.
Remember Aaron Swartz, because Zucc won't be getting any jail time for this.
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Meta leeched over 80 terabytes of books of off torrents for commercial purposes. Not personal use. They made sure to not seed the books to cover their behinds.
When you do it, it's 30 years in prison, when they do it it's a fine.
#AI #ProfessionalPiracy #Meta #Llama #Ollama
Facebook Illegally Downloaded ALOT of Books...
In this video I discuss how Meta/Facebook has been illegally downloading dozens of terabytes of books from Z-library, Libgen, and other sources to train thei...YouTube
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
"...court records reveal that the social media company used pirated torrents to download 81.7TB of data from shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen. It then used this information to train its AI models."
#tech #news #Meta #AI #books #bookstodon #writers #libraries #media
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Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
Did they think they could get away with it?Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
🚨 Welke gegevens van je zou #Meta nog meer allemaal gebruiken om #AI te trainen? 🤔
tweakers.net/nieuws/231648/met…
#WhatsApp heeft al AI in de app...🤷 faq.whatsapp.com/1002544104126…
Zeker zijn dat je privégesprekken en data niet en nooit worden gebruikt? Kies #Signal: signal.org/install
'Meta gebruikte ruim 80TB aan illegaal verkregen data om AI te trainen'
Meta gebruikte naar verluidt ruim 80TB aan illegaal verkregen data om het Llama-llm te trainen. Werknemers van het bedrijf zouden onder meer ruim 35TB aan documenten uit Z-Library en LibGen hebben gedownload aan de hand van torrents.Yannick Spinner (Tweakers)