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️ They don't want you to know this: we searched Odido customers who missed payments or committed fraud, by ethnicity inferred from last names.
North Africans/Arabs and Turks are 20.8× more likely to miss payments or commit fraud according to Odido's dataset.
In fact, all non-Westerners are 16.9× more likely to miss payments or commit fraud compared to native Dutch.
This is just an experiment to show what can be done with Odido data and AI. It is also data that policymakers should act on.
These are absolute values:
️Breaking: ShinyHunters just claimed responsibility for the Odido + BEN breach.
Shiny told us Odido "lied about their disclosure."
The stolen data includes 21 million records of 8 million customers. The breach is far worse than thought.
It includes:
- Plaintext passwords (!)
- Passport/driver's license numbers
- IBANs
- Addresses
- Emails
- Internal documents
- Source code
️Insane: Meta's Director of AI Safety and Alignment gave OpenClaw bot full access to her computer and email.
She couldn't stop it from deleting her entire inbox.
She's supposed to guardrail Meta's AI and future AGI.
@thelocalstack cool. I already did some comparing. It seems like they have the most invasive KYC data processing. Their CEO is now replying to my posts and other ppls posts on X. You should check it out. It’s hilarious.
️The CEO of Persona, the company that processes your passport, selfie, and facial geometry so you can get a verified badge on LinkedIn, doesn't have a profile picture on LinkedIn.
Let that sink in.
@thelocalstack Could you do a review of k-ID (Discord is using it right now)
Or perhaps we could make a table with all the known services and compare them across? My Signal: IntCyberDigest.20
@thelocalstack excellent article, I have posted it across our channels. Thank you.
️An "unsophisticated" Russian threat actor used AI to compromise 600 FortiGate devices across 55 countries.
AWS Security reported the actor, active Jan 11 – Feb 18, exploited exposed interfaces, weak creds & single-factor authentication.
Basic gaps AI helped exploit at scale.
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Wisconsin's State Senate wants to ban VPNs and force invasive age verification on any site deemed to host "material harmful to minors" — collecting government IDs, financial data, and biometrics just to access lawful speech.
Lawmakers have no idea what they're doing.
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OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberg said he chose OpenAI and the US because people there are more enthusiastic about what they're working on.
He also emphasized that the US has fewer regulations and labor laws, allowing him to move forward hassle-free and enabling employees to work overtime and get paid accordingly.
When we joked that it was about the billions of dollars, he told us it's not about the money:
"Most folks at OAI (...) got bigger offers from other companies, but they are in it because they love it."
With this statement, he joins a growing group of European entrepreneurs calling for a healthier environment to grow their businesses. Instead of regulations, Europe should focus on facilitating company growth.
@kkarhan there is no real alternative tbh... which makes me wonder WTF are German car manufacturers doing right now? They're lagging behind.
@kkarhan Haha ok ok. But I think in the future insurance will even disallow non-autonomous cars once autonomous cars have a proven safety record of 0 deaths versus the thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injured yearly in EU countries.
@kkarhan Well, I think they're going to give the approval (sources ;-))
But yah, I mean we need tech like autonomous cars.. in the future every car will be autonomous. Just a bit sad we have fascist autonomous cars as first experiment.
@kkarhan it will become legal this year.. Tesla is getting approval in the Netherlands (which means in entire EU once approved)
