Investigation: EU citizens' private messages are run through Palantir’s software

kept by lunarbor oct 15

EU's temporary Chat Control law lets tech firms scan private messages, with the resulting data analyzed by Palantir’s software via NCMEC.

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X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM and announces no fixes, while HN commenters question the platform's liability and lack of safeguards.
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Developer Daniel Gultsch announces that Conversations, his federated Android XMPP client, is now free after ending reliance on Google Play revenue due to frustrations with the store's policies and review times.
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A CERN for AI-assisted science?
To prevent AI-driven scientific research from being controlled by private companies, we need a publicly funded CERN-like institution for AI-assisted science.
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Forward Deployed
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