FSF Sponsors ‘GNU Boot’, a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI
“Free your BIOS today!” urges the web page for GNU Boot, calling it “a 100% free software project aimed at replacing the nonfree boot software (like BIOS or UEFI) of computers with free boot software.

GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existing software projects like Coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, etc. So it’s not very … ⌘ Read more

Kalshi and Polymarket Bets On Clinical Trials Criticized As ‘Ghastly’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Billions of dollars are traded every week on the lightly regulated prediction market sites, where users bet on everything from movie reviews to elections to conflicts in the Middle East. Clinical trials are just the latest area where the industry’s rapid growth is raising ethical questions. Ka … ⌘ Read more

We can control our health destiny. But some of us have more choice than others
A new paper says we have more choice in our health outcomes than we realise. Why is that being called “ethically questionable”? ⌘ Read more

Fiji’s Rise Beyond the Reef collective: women weaving fashion with compassion
Conscious consumers and those who like to mix their fashion with compassion are always looking to do the right thing.

If you’re not buying local, you’re asking questions. Was this product made in a sweatshop or an ethical clothing factory? ⌘ Read more

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype? ⌘ Read more

Trump in lukrative Aktiengeschäfte involviert
US-Präsident Donald Trump ist im ersten Quartal dieses Jahres in Finanzgeschäfte in Millionenhöhe involviert gewesen. Die Angaben dazu veröffentlichte die US-Behörde für Regierungsethik (Office of Government Ethics, OGE) am Donnerstag (Ortszeit). Im Fokus gestanden seien der Kauf und Verkauf von Wertpapieren von US-Konzernen. Viele dieser Unternehmen sind eng mit der US-Regierung und ihren Entscheidungen verbunden. ⌘ Read more

Startup Pitches ‘Brainless Clones’ To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies
MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey “organ sacks”: creating human “brainless clones” or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. From the report: Imagine it … ⌘ Read more

NT Integrity and Ethics Commissioner established amid opposition
The Northern Territory parliament has passed a bill creating an Integrity and Ethics Commissioner. It will take responsibility for four integrity bodies in the territory, including the anti-corruption watchdog. ⌘ Read more

Unesco Adopts Global Standards On ‘Wild West’ Field of Neurotechnology
Unesco has adopted the first global ethical standards for neurotechnology, defining “neural data” and outlining more than 100 recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy. “There is no control,” said Unesco’s chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz. “We have to inform the people about the risks, the potential benefits, the alterna … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Gemini liked your opinion very much. Here is how it countered:

The criticism of AI as untrustworthy is a problem of misapplication, not capability.

• AI as a Force Multiplier: AI should be treated as a high-speed drafting and brainstorming tool, not an authority. For experts, it offers an immense speed gain, shifting the work from slow manual creation to fast critical editing and verification.
  
• The Rise of AI Literacy: Users must develop a new skill—AI literacy—to critically evaluate and verify AI’s probabilistic output. This skill, along with improving citation features in AI tools, mitigates the “gaslighting” effect.
  

The fear of skill loss is based on a misunderstanding of how technology changes the nature of work; it’s skill evolution, not erosion.

• Shifting Focus to High-Level Skills: Just as the calculator shifted focus from manual math to complex problem-solving, AI shifts the focus from writing boilerplate code to architectural design and prompt engineering. It handles repetitive tasks, freeing humans for creative and complex challenges.
  
• Accessibility and Empowerment: AI serves as a powerful democratizing tool, offering personalized tutoring and automation to people who lack deep expertise. While dependency is a risk, this accessibility empowers a wider segment of the population previously limited by skill barriers.
  

The legal and technical flaws are issues of governance and ethical practice, not reasons to reject the core technology.

• Need for Better Bot Governance: Destructive scraping is a failure of ethical web behavior and can be solved with better bot identification, rate limits, and protocols (like enhanced robots.txt). The solution is to demand digital citizenship from AI companies, not to stop AI development.

Why Republicans think it’s okay to starve poor people
Oliver Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: This is an accurate story of how it came to be that the Republicans stopped caring or having any interest in the wellbeing of voters. What surprises me, election after election, is why American voters don’t seem to comprehend this. The last ethical Republican president in my opinion was Dwight Eisenhower.

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Trump administration blocked from suspending Snap benefits for millions of Americans
Lauren Gambino ,  Political Correspondent   -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Today, we got what may turn out to be good news about the continuation of SNAP from two courts with ethical judges. That is, if the Trump coup administration follows what the court orders. That used to be a given, but under the Trump coup, that is no longer always the case.

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The fate of Marineland’s belugas exposes the ethical cracks in Canadian animal law
Most people think countries like Canada have strong animal protection laws, but it doesn’t. A case in point is the unfolding tragedy-in-the-making at Marineland. ⌘ Read more

Chicago-Area Judge Rules ICE Agents Can Be Arrested at Courthouses
Warner Todd Huston,  Contributing Writer  -  Breitbart

_Stephan: AS we go through the dismantlement of democracy in the United States, what we are seeing is people of integrity standing up for the law and ethical behavior, and the Trump coup vassals, doing what their pseudo-king desires of them. In this case, a District Court judge has authorized police to arrest Trump’s ICE Gestapo if they d … ⌘ Read more

‘Utter Moral Failure’: Critics Aghast at New Reporting That Shows US Elites ‘Scared of Crossing Trump’
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: One of the major trends I am seeing as the Trump Republican coup proceeds is the grotesque lack of ethics I see amongst the wealthy, who bow to Trump as their king, and pour money into his corruption schemes. It is the exact opposite of the creation of the United States. Man … ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club This was an interesting read for sure! 👍 I don’t think it had anything I hadn’t already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. I’m not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. I’ve forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you don’t want to be that one guy that ya know 😉 Ethically/Morally though, I’m definitely with the sentiment of this post 😅 Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (if y’all remember?!) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of “tech” (if you can call it that?) in a while. Then there’s these other issues “stealing people’s work”, “reliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrink”, to name a few…

A good blog post that makes some good points: Can I ethically use LLMs?

**Uncovering Amazon S3 Bucket Vulnerabilities: A Comprehensive Guide for Ethical Hackers **

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How to Identify, Exploit, and Secure S3 Bucket Misconfigurations

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ChatGPT Jailbreaking: A Sneaky Loophole That Exposes Ethical Gaps ⌘ Read more

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Hack Any Mobile Phone Remotely

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Ethically — but note — this used to work great with phone under android 10

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Crack Windows Password [Ethical Hacking Article]

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This Article describes you to reset your windows password by using manipulation technique.

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Automating Information Gathering for Ethical Hackers — AutoRecon Tutorial

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Here’s how Autorecon automates the recon phase and gives you faster, cleaner results in your penetration tests.

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How to Create a Botnet Using One Tool: A Proof of Concept for Educational Purposes Aspiring…

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is it like… ethical to offer access to certain self hosted services as patreon exclusives. like i wanna offer the IRC client/bouncer i hosted which seems ok i think because i’ve seen pico.sh offer their instances of that as paid services. but the other ones i have in mind are alt web frontends for stuff like imgur and pinterest. and i just feel weird about it for some reason. idk i’m trying to think of ways to support my server stuff but every time i come up with something it feels weird

10 Scientists Convicted of Serious Crimes
“Follow the science” and “trust the science” have become mantras of late. Science is, after all, typically regarded as being unbiased, producing reliable knowledge based on empirical methods that are independent of sociopolitical and economic influences, falsifiable, and replicable. The problem is that science’s accuracy and reliability depend on the ethics of the scientists who […]

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Do ethical tea labels stack up? We went to Sri Lanka to see firsthand
An ABC investigation in Sri Lanka has found popular certification schemes are failing to live up to their ethical promises. ⌘ Read more

‘Most dangerous technology ever’: Protesters urge AI pause
Google this week quietly revised its artificial intelligence ethics, no longer ruling out military or surveillance use. ⌘ Read more

10 Controversial Experiments Conducted on Children
Through experiments, scientists and psychologists hope to improve the lives of humans and uncover new information that can benefit our health and well-being. Sometimes, these experiments can be looked at as unconventional and controversial when conducted on humans. Many believe these experiments cross ethical lines, especially when children are involved. Here are ten controversial experiments […]

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 22 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Generalized Bulletproofs implementation audit3
  
• FCMP++ tx size and compute cost4
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography[5](#f … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 15 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 15th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
  
• AOB
  

This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 8 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
  

This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The full dis … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 1 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Discussion: preventing P2P proxy nodes3
  
• Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography4
  

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On my blog: Devils, in Detail https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/15/devils-detail.html #ethics #harm #media #rant

[ANN] Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography
Link: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/131

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(#j4tvqyq) You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in …
You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”. ⌘ Read more

I have ethical concerns about executing killall node in my console, regardless of how necessary it is.

@Phys_org@feeds.twtxt.net …which will be entirely ignored when the 💩 hits the 🪭

“Interest grows in geoengineering” because pursuing the obvious, clearest, most direct solution–reducing fossil fuel use–is for some reason off the table. That is already an unethical arrangement. Pasting an ethical framework on top doesn’t change the rotten situation at its core.

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024
From advancing ethical AI practices to expanding open source learning for developers in Africa, discover how we’ve fostered diversity, inclusion, and belonging this year.

The post Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ethics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/29/ethics.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do
Explore how LLMs generate text, why they sometimes hallucinate information, and the ethical implications surrounding their incredible capabilities.

The post Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Your curated GitHub Universe agenda: AI, ethics, and productivity
Gain actionable insights about the intersection of AI and human skills, while tackling ethics, accessibility, and productivity at these GitHub Universe sessions.

The post Your curated GitHub Universe agenda: AI, ethics, and productivity appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

There is a “right” way to make something like GitHub CoPilot, but Microsoft did not choose that way. They chose one of the most exploitative options available to them. For that reason, I hope they face significant consequences, though I doubt they will in the current climate. I also hope that CoPilot is shut down, though I’m pretty certain it will not be.

Other than access to the data behind it, Microsoft has nothing special that allows it to create something like CoPilot. The technology behind it has been around for at least a decade. There could be a “public” version of this same tool made by a cooperating group of people volunteering, “leasing”, or selling their source code into it. There could likewise be an ethically-created corporate version. Such a thing would give individual developers or organizations the choice to include their code in the tool, possibly for a fee if that’s something they want or require. The creators of the tool would have to acknowledge that they have suppliers–the people who create the code that makes their tool possible–instead of simply stealing what they need and pretending that’s fine.

This era we’re living through, with large companies stomping over all laws and regulations, blatantly stealing other people’s work for their own profit, cannot come to an end soon enough. It is destroying innovation, and we all suffer for that. Having one nifty tool like CoPilot that gives a bit of convenience is nowhere near worth the tremendous loss that Microsoft’s actions in this instace are creating for everyone.

Farmers of wild Fijian coffee embrace agritourism with ‘paddock-to-plate’ cafe
One of Fiji’s first agritourism ventures is introducing tourists to the taste of the country’s wild coffee and it’s supporting Fijian women to become financially independent in the process. ⌘ Read more

I really enjoy the portray of conseqduentialism in the SEP article on deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

Is There An Ethical Diet? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Superheroes Behaving Badly https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/21/super.html #rant #superhero #ethics

The challenge of sourcing ethical computer hardware
Every laptop and smartphone we can buy right now is tainted in some terrible way. ⌘ Read more