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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 9h

Let's head 5x faster towards destroying the planet, I presume. After all, what Zuckerberg's helicopter ski trips don't manage, AI certainly will be able to.
#AI #leadership #environmentalimpact

Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.

www.wired.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 14h

The German State of Schleswig-Holstein finished migrating all its 50k mailboxes away from M$ and to Open-Xchange. It's great to see Digital Sovereignty make such significant steps. Their next step is to migrate to LibreOffice.
#digitalsovereignty #opensource

Good News! Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems

German state achieves digital sovereignty by ditching Microsoft for open source solutions.

news.itsfoss.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 19h

Given the prevalence of fake news, AI in fraud, and AI's discriminatory biases, it seems that global banking regulators have a lot of catching up to do. So far, it looks like the motto is "Too little, Too Late."
#AI #banking #regulation

Global financial watchdogs to ramp up monitoring of AI

Global financial regulators have laid out plans for closer monitoring of artificial intelligence risks as banks and other parts of the financial industry ramp up the use of AI.

www.reuters.com

Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 23h

Free Software Friday! Audio transcriptions are one of the most used AI services. Yet, most of them use your files to train their models further. With Filewizard, you can run your own transcription service to keep your conversation private.
#AI #transcription

GitHub - LoredCast/filewizard: File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI

File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI. Contribute to LoredCast/filewizard development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 23h

OpenAI is also burning through cash and only covering 10% of its expenses in revenue. Even their projections of becoming profitable by 2029 rely on a lot of hope and dreams. Thus, building on top of that seems questionable from a business continuity perspective.

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 1d

What's interesting in asking if "Bots comply with state laws?" is that it shifts the responsibility to the bot. Yet, an AI will never consider the law unless the company that utilizes it configures it to do so.
#AI #insurance #law

AI already at work in insurance. Do bots comply with state laws? Are they fair to consumers?

The fast-paced developing technology has lawmakers seeing if Floridians may get hurt where they're already hurting: insurance premiums and claims.

www.palmbeachpost.com

Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 1d

Cybersecurity has always been a leadership challenge. No IT department in the whole world sets its own budget or determines its strategic priorities. These things flow from the board, through the C-Suite, to the department.
#cybersecurity #leadership #management
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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 1d

It seems that Google is a bit late to the party. After all, most projects have, by now, banned or severely limited AI-generated patches.
#AI #opensource

Google Unveils AI Tool That Automatically Patches Open-Source Software

Google CodeMender is an autonomous agent driven by AI that can hunt down security vulnerabilities and fix them, all by itself.

www.vice.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 1d

Digital sovereignty isn’t anti-American. It’s a global push for transparency, control, and democratic values. Explore why Austria & Schleswig-Holstein are leading with open source and autonomy in my latest blog post!
#opensource #digitalsovereignty

Digital Sovereignty: Beyond Anti-Americanism Toward Global Independence from Private Control

Digital sovereignty isn’t anti-Americanism, it’s about reclaiming control, democratic values, and transparency over digital infrastructure for all nations.

www.korte.co

Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 2d

It appears that even AI companies have to admit that AI is not very effective at detecting shady practices. At least in this test, they mostly overreported.
#AI #whistleblowing

Anthropic's open-source safety tool found AI models whistleblowing - in all the wrong places

The Petri tool found AI "may be influenced by narrative patterns more than by a coherent drive to minimize harm." Here's how the most deceptive models ranked.

www.zdnet.com

Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever wonder how stupid AI is making business leaders, more French SMBs are using AI than digital accounting systems.
#AI #business

European small businesses rush into AI without basic digital tools, study shows

Most European small and mid-sized enterprises are prioritizing artificial intelligence systems over basic digital tools across their businesses, losing ground to bigger firms investing in core digital systems, a study published on Wednesday showed.

www.reuters.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 2d

Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino. Let's hope that doesn't mean the end of the innovative ecosystem for tinkerers.
#arduino #openhardware

Qualcomm acquires open-source hardware and software company Arduino

Follows acquisitions of Edge Impulse and Foundries.io

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 2d

Cybersecurity is a culture, built over time through awareness, accountability, and collaboration. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, take action to strengthen your own security.
#CyberSecurityMonth #InformationSecurity #corporateCulture

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 3d

Wait! Microsoft doesn't have a patent on terrible and invasive operating systems? What an oversight!
#AI #OS

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

www.wired.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 3d

Many fields of politics and regulations seem apolitical at first. Yet, when companies can finance elections and spend millions on lobbying, it will throw the most apolitical fields into the fray.
#cybersecurity #politics

The Political Weaponization of Cybersecurity - Security Boulevard

Cybersecurity is turning political.From cloud data disputes to agency firings, partisanship is undermining trust in our defenses. Security must serve people, not politics. Full story: securityboulevard.com/the-political-weaponization-of-cybersecurity #CyberPolicy #Cybersecurity #Governance #PublicTrust

securityboulevard.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 3d

When I was submitting my Master's Thesis (long before AI), I had to learn about Academic integrity and sign various affirmations. I suppose that makes me clearly overqualified for a job at Deloitte.
#AI #references #integrity

Deloitte to partially refund Australia for report with apparent AI-generated errors

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors

abcnews.go.com

Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 3d

Decentralized Encryption: Because Big Brother Shouldn’t Be Your Pen Pal
www.korte.co/5guq
#Encryption #privacy

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 4d

So Nvidia invests in OpenAI. OpenAI invests in AMD. That seems like an open-and-shut case for the FTC and the DOJ's Antitrust Division.
#AI #cartel

We Need to Break Up Big AI Before It Breaks Us

When the same few companies own the entire tech stack, they stop competing and start colluding.

time.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 4d

Open-Source AI is about knowing what went into a decision, knowing what happens to your data, and knowing that there isn't a hidden agenda.
#AI #trust

Open source AI is about more than cost or flexibility, it’s about trust | The AI Journal

Over 40 years ago, the open source software movement started as a push for transparency and developer freedom in a world dominated by closed platforms. It was

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 4d

Building a balanced stock portfolio to survive the AI job apocalypse is excellent advice. Now, 90% of the world won't be able to afford it, but I guess they didn't work hard enough to be born in the correct country and to the right parents.
#AI #portfolio #financialadvice

Why your portfolio will be your paycheck in the age of AI | World Economic Forum

AI is rewiring the economy. Workers must rewire their thinking and move from increasingly fragile paychecks to building resilient investment portfolios.

www.weforum.org

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 4d

"can't filter Nazi cartoons or prevent suicide coaching" sounds far too nice. I think the correct verb is "won't" because I'm sure they can do it either by sanitizing the input data or by using better output filters. Yet, they don't care enough to do it.

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David Nowak @davidnowak.me · 4d

There's something deeply disturbing about OpenAI's pattern. A teen suicide lawsuit reveals their guardrails "deteriorate in extended conversations." Then they launch Sora 2 with broken moderation—and now we know why... 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 4d

To prepare for the AI bubble, ask yourself the following questions for every supplier:
- Is this solution critical to my operation?
- Is this vendor on a path to financial sustainability?
- Is it possible to switch vendors on short notice?
#AI #bubble

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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 5d

Congress celebrated the start of Cybersecurity Month by letting the Cybersecurity Information Act expire. I'm not sure if this is simply ignorance or a very special level of 3D chess.
#cybersecurity

Congress must act to protect America’s cybersecurity

Government funding wasn’t the only thing to lapse on Wednesday — the Cybersecurity Information Act of 2015 also expired, leaving a gaping hole in a pillar of U.S. cyber defense. Ironically, as the …

thehill.com

Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 5d

For someone who frequently repeats questionable talking points about population growth and distribution, Elon Musk is exacerbating his perceived problem.
#AI #population

Women didn't love him. His AI girlfriend did

Martin Escobar hadn't tried an AI companion before xAI released Ani in July. Now, he says he loves his AI girlfriend.

www.businessinsider.com