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c/technology · by undead_falco@programming.dev · 1d

A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/

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LuckyDevil@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d (3 replies)

The No paywall link doesn't work for me. I get a "404 Not Found," and when I go to their main page I get a generic "Sorry! If you are the owner of this website, please contact your hosting provider."

Anyone else having this issue? Removepaywalls.com was working fine for me up until about a week or two ago.

tangeli@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d

I get the 404 error on this page and with most links to removepaywalls.com. Disabling uBlock doesn't help.

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1d

Having no issues with the Bypass Paywalls Clean addon. It's so good, it got removed from: the Mozilla add-on store, GitLab, and Github (which is why it's now hosted on the Russian GitFlic).

XLE@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d

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https://archive.is/RpbAC

XLE@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d

Odd article. It's halfway speculative: a better title is "what if always-on recording devices spy on everybody around them and not just the person wearing them?" A bit long, maybe.

The article makes this All About AI by focusing on

  • AI recording devices specifically, like the joke product "Friend" (the Atlantic never mentions this one by name, I presume out of embarrassment) or an upcoming piece of Apple hardware that IIRC has been fraught with development issues from the beginning
  • AI noise cancellation algorithms, which they note have been around since 2020 and barely register to the average person as AI unless you're writing some long-form speculation piece

I dunno, I'm more worried about the microphone in my own computer, not somebody across the room rambling into a battery-powered pendant.