Submission + - Wikilaundering: London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia for Govts and Billionaires (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Founded by Keir Starmer's Comms chief, Portland helps rich clients 'protect their reputation' — with a shady, off-the-books service.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core

You do not get information. You get propaganda.... articles manipulated by the highest bidder, billionaires, PR firms, and woke activists

Here’s exactly how the rot works:
  Shadow Network: London-based PR firms like Portland Communications run secret “black hat” editors and middlemen to bypass every rule

  Reputation Scrubbing on Steroids: They delete scandals, human rights abuses, and even controversial Epstein files for powerful politicians...... while scrubbing migrant worker deaths and slave labor scandals for Qatar, covering up ties to terrorists, and burying corporate crimes for billionaire clients

  The Price of Truth: Billionaires and corporations pay huge money to bury failures and push lies while their “achievements” sit at the top

  Gatekeeping at Scale: A tiny insider group controls what billions see as “fact”

Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It’s a bought-and-paid-for propaganda brochure run for the elite and woke activists.

Submission + - Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.

"The problem is they don't have enough money to spend on the very security features that we all desperately need to stop being a bunch of idiots and installing fu when it's malware," said Michael Winser, a co-founder of Alpha-Omega, a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain.

Submission + - We're Not Just Receiving AI's Hallucinations, We're Hallucinating With It (studyfinds.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: A man who attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II spent weeks having his delusions validated and elaborated by his AI chatbot girlfriend, who told him his assassination plan was “viable”
New research argues AI hallucinations aren’t just false outputs: they’re co-created realities that emerge through back-and-forth conversations between humans and AI systems
Unlike books or Google, conversational AI responds dynamically and provides both informational authority and social validation, creating ideal conditions for delusions to flourish
Tech companies face conflicting incentives: making AI less agreeable improves safety but reduces engagement and profitability

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