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Tomi Engdahl says:
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Huang are set to unveil a joint AI pact intended to speed up the integration of AI products across German industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns Germany is falling behind in AI race
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/19/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-warns-germany-is-falling-behind-in-ai-race?fbclid=IwVERDUAVEbVNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo8dP9tjeEizK2JY1ejyllB935ta537hF-cbV9twqiQS8HMEq5pTMU4Y2tl1_aem_tS3T9jVMsCUh-ktdFwHSaw
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Huang are set to unveil a joint AI pact intended to speed up the integration of AI products across German industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that Germany is falling behind in the artificial intelligence race as he spoke to members of the media in London last week.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Geniuses at work. https://trib.al/CWkc0yQ
Zoom In
Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won’t Take Their Job
They’re fed up.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zoomers-ai-sabotage?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEbdRjbGNrBURtmGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeFUNcoGT8ZOYhDTNTE9MSAoABUMo4CTCf0utejz9bdNnU5wLjzXbvTOmL624_aem_Eo-aFlPDOLiqGaHdBLcVh
Is artificial intelligence taking our jobs in a sweeping overhaul of the productive economy as we know it? It’s a burning question with no definitive answers, but some workers aren’t waiting around to find out — and fighting back.
A new report by the AI company Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses’ AI initiatives.
The firms surveyed 1,200 “knowledge workers” — a fluffy term for wage-earning office workers — and 1,200 business executives. It found that a whopping 29 percent of workers admitted to sabotaging their company’s AI by entering proprietary info into public AI chatbots, using unapproved AI tools, or intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it.
That nearly a third of all workers are actively trying to wreck their company’s AI systems speaks volumes. But the concentration among Gen Z workers is particularly stunning: 44 percent of all zoomers admitted to sabotaging their in-house AI deployments.
Of those who reported wrecking AI initiatives, 30 percent cited AI automation as a chief concern. 28 percent claimed their in-house AI had “too many security issues,” while a telling 20 percent resented that AI added to the daily workload.
C-suite executives, meanwhile, are facing the heavy burden of squeezing blood from AI’s proverbial stone. 72 percent of all surveyed execs said their company’s AI strategy is causing them stress or anxiety, 32 percent of whom characterize their stress as “high” or “crippling.”
There’s also a major rift between how much each group uses AI. Though only 28 percent of wage-earning employees said they used AI for over two hours a day, more than half of all executives — 64 percent — said the same.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The latest outage has highlighted – once again – how vast parts of the web depend on a relatively small number of companies.
Why did the internet just break? Google Cloud outage takes down Revolut and others
Widespread outage highlights growing concern over the web’s dependence on a small number of companies
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-down-not-working-google-cloud-revolut-b3069754.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEnkZjbGNrBUSeN2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeRe0LiEKdY5V6-uBvd1ZrxlCetLhr_cyc4HMPlbShVCTc7U1EtEx_RnX_fNM_aem_o-8SefAKAvLg9uGxRNQSoQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
“They could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like.” https://trib.al/Xqy4MwS
Overnight Votes
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretly Ordered Cybersecurity Operatives to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It
“They could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-homeland-security-voting-machine-hacking?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVEsuJjbGNrBUSy0mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe0kaLJV2eHQMRedPHhH8ucRuwqGUJ307IyIfyYGvcHlKiPWY07rX__AyuyPk_aem_aQ6rrlXYDp1df2avpS4pBg
Donald Trump’s second spin in the White House has been mired in high-profile incidents of graft and corruption, like the family’s tech stock profiteering, or the now-infamous TrumpCoin scandal. But the president’s latest grift goes far beyond personal wheeling and dealing, extending into the very machines some 174 million voting-aged Americans could use to cast their ballots.
A bombshell investigation by ProPublica revealed that Trump’s cabinet goons overseeing the Department of Homeland Security instructed their underlings to procure a voting machine — and figure out how to hack it.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft has announced that Windows will begin blocking ReFS-formatted USB drives and external storage devices by default starting January 2027, as part of a broader effort to improve operating system security.
Read more here: https://wccftech.com/microsoft-to-block-refs-formatted-usb-drives-and-external-storage-on-windows-starting-january-2027/