NYSee Radar

Category: Tech

  • The ‘End Times Fascists’ Behind the AI Industry

    Brian Merchant · Blood in the Machine

    A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about what they call end times fascism in the tech industry.

    As audio or video

  • Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

    Dhruv Mehrotra · WIRED

  • Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

    Daniel Boguslaw · The American Prospect

    As Anthropic ramps up its efforts to monitor dissent with in-house intelligence teams and real-time protest tracking powered by AI, it will have to contend with the increasing economic desperation that plagues human beings outside its Bay Area towers. Last week, the security guards who patrol the campuses of OpenAI and Anthropic announced that they had authorized a strike over stalled pay negotiations. In response, Anthropic sent a company-wide email telling employees that it was best if they worked from home.

  • Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns

    Michael Sainato • The Guardian

    Surveillance capitalism strikes again

  • Metasshole 2026.08.23

    Metasshole 2026.08.23

    This is an early iteration of my Metasshole project.

    The device is an Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 with a the FeatherWing OLED attached. The module below runs the buzzer to the right of it.

    The goal is for when the device detects Meta AI glasses it sounds the alarm by triggering the buzzer. That buzzer is haptic only, so inaudible. I plan on making a vocal version.

    And the name, “Metasshole” … I know everyone is simply calling them “Pervert Glasses,” but I’m building on the “Glasshole” lable we used the last time around with the Google Glass.

    Current code:
    https://github.com/easykraken/metasshole

  • Coronet Cadence

    Coronet Cadence

    I scanned a mid-century modern light in front of a house in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood in Sacramento, documenting its design so I can build another or have a friend more comfortable working with wood build it for me.

    After the scan I had the model to build from. I was able to use the same captured data to make this video.

  • US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

    Daniel Boguslaw · WIRED

    Spencer Reynolds [senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund] says that, despite the real if limited threat posed … a category like “anti-tech extremism” could be drawn so broad as to ensnare peaceful data center protesters, AI skeptics, and anyone with a bone to pick with technology that permeates modern life.

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    “Suspicious activity reports are incredibly unreliable, often about vague or innocent behavior, issued under permissive standards. These reports, often received in large volumes, allow officers to inject their own biases and see what they want to see in the facts.”

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    Among the vaguely defined activities flagged by the Northern Virginia intelligence center as suspicious are “expressed/implied threat,” “observation/surveillance,” “photography,” “testing/probing of security,” and “attempted intrusion.”

  • drinkybird: Kismet v Ft Greene

    drinkybird: Kismet v Ft Greene

  • media.ccc.de shell one-liner

    media.ccc.de shell one-liner

    Love love love media.ccc.de by Chaos Computer Club. And I love that all of the files are available via their CDN.

    A screenshot of a web directory listing titled "Index of /congress/2025/h264-hd/". The page displays a list of video files and documents from the 39C3 conference, including multilingual recordings of ceremonies and talks on topics like AI, Rust programming, and government access.

    Browsing to the corner of the CDN with 39c3’s videos I decided I wanted to pull down only the English versions.

    This is the shell one-liner I wrote to parse the HTML, filter it via awk and looping through to download just the files I was after:

    curl -sL "https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2025/h264-hd/" | \
  grep -oE 'href="[^"]*\.mp4"' | \
  sed 's/href="//; s/"$//' | \
  awk -F'-' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if($i=="eng" && $(i+1) ~ /^[a-z]{3,}$/ || $(i-1) ~ /^[a-z]{3,}$/){next} else if($i=="eng")print}' | \
  while IFS= read -r file; do 
    wget "https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2025/h264-hd/$file"
  done

    If that’s not so much your thing, their frontend is nicely accessible as well. https://media.ccc.de/c/39c3

    A screenshot of the media.ccc.de website displaying the "39C3: Power Cycles" video playlist from the 2025 Chaos Communication Congress. The page lists several talks with thumbnails and titles, including a presentation by Cory Doctorow on an "ensheittification-resistant internet" and a talk titled "Hacking washing machines."

  • Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

    Joel Khalili · Wired

    “A lot of people here bought into the Google DeepMind tagline ‘to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity,’” the DeepMind employee told WIRED. “The direction of travel is to further militarization of the AI models we’re building here.”

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    “These conversations are happening . . . The workers at other frontier labs have seen what Google DeepMind workers have done. They’ve come to us asking for help as well.”