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Pluralistic: The (real) dead economy theory (17 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow June 18, 2026 Post interessante di Cory. Non mi ero soffermato a pensarci in questi termini (pensavo solo al fatto che il 19% delle promesse sono state mantenute..)

Here’s a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it’s $1t (nominally). But that’s not the fun fact; this is:

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Low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek gain traction in the U.S. – Rest of World June 18, 2026 Chi lo avrebbe mai detto ? BTW, qui si apre un mercato nuovo, quello dei guardrail, per le versioni hosted…

U.S. developers and startups are adopting Chinese AI models to significantly reduce their operational costs. Chinese models are gaining market share because they can handle most common tasks at a fraction of the

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The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible | WIRED June 18, 2026 Se me lo chiedevano, glielo dicevo anche io…

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model’s guardrails can’t be circumvented. Security experts say that can’t be done.

Source: The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks.… 📢 @ilquinta

L’AI nel settore aereo farà risparmiare 42 miliardi di dollari entro il 2035. Ecco come le compagnie la usano | MilanoFinanza News June 18, 2026 Il settore aereo fa 1165 miliardi di dollari di fatturato, secondo IATA 42 miliardi in 10 anni vuol dire una media di 4,2 miliardi l’anno, quindi mediamente lo 0,36% l’anno, che non è poco, se si guarda all’utile netto che nel 2024 è stato il 4,2% e nel 2025 il 2% (a volte mettere… 📢 @ilquinta

AI Use by the US Government June 18, 2026 5 mesi a novembre

The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The list has ballooned by 70% from the one published in the final year of the Biden administration, and includes many disturbing-seeming plans to hand over sensitive

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Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks – Ars Technica June 18, 2026 Ouch! un breach imponente, mythos -level! :

Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet itself. Nearly 74,000 Fortinet devices from more than

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Firma digitale stilografica June 18, 2026 📢 @ilquinta

Firma digitale stilografica June 18, 2026 📢 @ilquinta

UK eyes record year for PE exits—but sponsors are mostly selling to each other – PitchBook June 16, 2026 Chissà perchè, a proposito di record, mi viene in mente Pompeo, il nipote del Marchese del Grillo…

The UK is set for a record year for PE exit count as sponsors increasingly sell to each other to generate liquidity amid a dearth of IPOs—but listing reforms may yet turn the tide.

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OpenAI spending hit $34bn last year ahead of planned IPO June 16, 2026 post muto anzi no. ha ragione Amodei. “se togliamo i costi di R&D possiamo essere profittevoli” (aka di nonne, ruote e biciclette) Tutti i numeri in miliardi di dollari Quest’azienda vale quasi 1000 miliardi, miliardo più, miliardo meno. Non è sempre bellissimo e stupefacente il mondo della finanza ? La fonte dei numeri… 📢 @ilquinta

Exclusive: Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators | Reuters June 15, 2026 Ma che, davero davero ? Tesla ha presentato dati gonfiati ai regolatori europei affermando che il loro “Full self driving” rende le strade più sicure ? Dati gonfiati ? Ma no, dai… elmo mica racconta panzane, no ?

June 15 (Reuters) – In its efforts to secure European approval of its

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles | heise online June 14, 2026 Hai un bel parlare di sovranità nazionale se poi le applicazioni dello Stato usano i Play Integrity Services per verificare se le applicazioni sono originali. Un po’ come chiederlo alla NSA, ogni volta che le usi…

Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by

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John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement June 14, 2026

Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right to repair their equipment, and this week, they finally reached a landmark settlement.While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who

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ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload June 14, 2026 LOL che vuoi farci ? non c’è distinzione tra istruzioni e dati…

The setup was simple: an attacker-controlled email contained text that looked like instructions to the model. When a user asked Copilot to summarize that email, the assistant could be steered into producing attacker-shaped output inside a trusted Microsoft surface. The risk

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Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup – Ars Technica June 14, 2026 Auguriamo a Slate tutto il meglio, ma realizzare un costruttore auto è un task monumentale e i capitali richiesti sono astronomici. Tuttavia ci dimostra che fare auto rispettose degli utenti è un valore aggiunto e (penso) ci possano essere molti clienti disposti a pagare una somma extra per un optional “Pacchetto privacy”. Io lo… 📢 @ilquinta

Tesla Owners Say Their Old FSD Contracts Were Quietly Changed June 14, 2026 Jobs era un dilettante nella creazione di “reality distortion field”

“Tesla has retroactively updated my documents from 2019 when I paid for FSD,” Abcarius told Electrek. “Back in 2019 Tesla did not contain ‘supervised’ language in the purchase agreement. I can no longer actually open the document as it links to an invalid

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Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit. – The New York Times June 14, 2026 B.E.O.

Of more than 600 claims Mr. Musk has made … He achieved what he said he would only about 19 percent of the time.

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I’m the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs. The A.I. Job Apocalypse Is Overblown. – The New York Times June 14, 2026 Questo fatto che il numero degli impiegati delle banche (sottinteso, in USA) sia circa allo stessi livelli di prima di Internet, devo dire che un po’ mi sorprende sono andato a controllare ed in effetti in 30 anni la riduzione è stata del 7-10%, eppure con l’home banking uno si sarebbe aspettato un crollo!… 📢 @ilquinta

China rushes to build humanoid robots, but who will buy them? | AP News June 14, 2026 Carramba che sorpresa! Bella la definizione “performativi”

Most humanoid robots are still performative rather than functional, falling short of working in messy, unpredictable environments, said Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at the New America think tank focused on Chinese technology.“ The use cases of these robots are still so limited,” said Chibo Tang

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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI – Benefici che non lo erano June 13, 2026 Un rapporto con esempi di benefici ottenuti da aziende, che non lo erano, tanto che a distanza di nove mesi il report è stato cancellato dai siti web. Ma è come le smentite delle notizie: non le vede nessuno e tutti si ricordano la notizia originale.

A KPMG report on how AI is

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