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Qobuz has published an "AI charter" earlier this month. In it the French music streaming service declares a "zero-tolerance policy when it comes to AI-generated content" and promises "Detection and monitoring systems for AI-generated content"

Content that's AI assisted rather than "100% AI gen" will however continue to be permitted on the platform in the future:

We support AI as a creative tool for human artists (mixing, mastering, composition aid) when it serves an authentic artistic process.

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/24810676

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/24810493

SKG has anounced the final, verified count of all valid signatures. 1,294,188 signatures out of an original total of 1,448,270 have passed the test making an invalid rate of only ~11%. An accompanying Reddit post said the following:

Hello,

Another announcement. Things are moving quite fast right now, and we’ve decided to share the final count with you ahead of schedule. Originally, this wasn’t possible due to certain background limitations, and our plan was to wait until shortly before our next meeting with the EU Commission.

At that point, we intended to reveal everything through a video, alongside a redesigned website, a restructured Discord, and several other updates that—ironically—I still can’t talk about just yet. We didn’t want to present our case unprepared, unintentionally leak information to lobby groups, or worst of all burn out our team.

(...)

Tomorrow, we’ll also be sharing this information on our newly rebuilt or, in some cases, entirely new-media channels. Ross has kindly agreed to lend his voice and face to help with that rollout.

The handover is planned for mid to late February.

Cheers

Moritz Katzner for SKG

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1qluxts/stop_killing_games_final_count_of_verified/

Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative with the goal of combating planned obsolescence in video games due to mandatory online functionality. It collected signatures up until summer of last year. Since then things have been relatively quiet around the initiative while the relevant authorities where checking each signature for its validity.

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/24810493

SKG has anounced the final, verified count of all valid signatures. 1,294,188 signatures out of an original total of 1,448,270 have passed the test making an invalid rate of only ~11%. An accompanying Reddit post said the following:

Hello,

Another announcement. Things are moving quite fast right now, and we’ve decided to share the final count with you ahead of schedule. Originally, this wasn’t possible due to certain background limitations, and our plan was to wait until shortly before our next meeting with the EU Commission.

At that point, we intended to reveal everything through a video, alongside a redesigned website, a restructured Discord, and several other updates that—ironically—I still can’t talk about just yet. We didn’t want to present our case unprepared, unintentionally leak information to lobby groups, or worst of all burn out our team.

(...)

Tomorrow, we’ll also be sharing this information on our newly rebuilt or, in some cases, entirely new-media channels. Ross has kindly agreed to lend his voice and face to help with that rollout.

The handover is planned for mid to late February.

Cheers

Moritz Katzner for SKG

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1qluxts/stop_killing_games_final_count_of_verified/

Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative with the goal of combating planned obsolescence in video games due to mandatory online functionality. It collected signatures up until summer of last year. Since then things have been relatively quiet around the initiative while the relevant authorities where checking each signature for its validity.

SKG has anounced the final, verified count of all valid signatures. 1,294,188 signatures out of an original total of 1,448,270 have passed the test making an invalid rate of only ~11%. An accompanying Reddit post said the following:

Hello,

Another announcement. Things are moving quite fast right now, and we’ve decided to share the final count with you ahead of schedule. Originally, this wasn’t possible due to certain background limitations, and our plan was to wait until shortly before our next meeting with the EU Commission.

At that point, we intended to reveal everything through a video, alongside a redesigned website, a restructured Discord, and several other updates that—ironically—I still can’t talk about just yet. We didn’t want to present our case unprepared, unintentionally leak information to lobby groups, or worst of all burn out our team.

(...)

Tomorrow, we’ll also be sharing this information on our newly rebuilt or, in some cases, entirely new-media channels. Ross has kindly agreed to lend his voice and face to help with that rollout.

The handover is planned for mid to late February.

Cheers

Moritz Katzner for SKG

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1qluxts/stop_killing_games_final_count_of_verified/

Central thesis: "In a world where established platforms are turning from the promised rescue of digital journalism to its danger, journalism should consider being active in the fediverse."

Today, 21 January 2026, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA). Framed as a technical modernisation of Europe’s telecom rules, the proposal marks a decisive shift away from core principles that have safeguarded an open and neutral internet for almost a decade.

Talk by Meredith Whittaker (president of the Signal Foundation) & Udbhav Tiwari (VP for Strategy and Global Affairs at Signal)

Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stopping to ask permission or consent. What could go wrong? These systems are being integrated directly into operating systems and applications, like web browsers. This move represents a fundamental paradigm shift, transforming them from relatively neutral resource managers into an active, goal-oriented infrastructure ultimately controlled by the companies that develop these systems, not by users or application developers. Systems like Microsoft's "Recall," which create a comprehensive "photographic memory" of all user activity, are marketed as productivity enhancers, but they function as OS-level surveillance and create significant privacy vulnerabilities. In the case of Recall, we’re talking about a centralized, high-value target for attackers that poses an existential threat to the privacy guarantees of meticulously engineered applications like Signal. This shift also fundamentally undermines personal agency, replacing individual choice and discovery with automated, opaque recommendations that can obscure commercial interests and erode individual autonomy.

This talk will review the immediate and serious danger that the rush to shove agents into our devices and digital lives poses to our fundamental right to privacy and our capacity for genuine personal agency. Drawing from Signal's analysis, it moves beyond outlining the problem to also present a "tourniquet" solution: looking at what we need to do now to ensure that privacy at the application layer isn’t eliminated, and what the hacker community can do to help. We will outline a path for ensuring developer agency, granular user control, radical transparency, and the role of adversarial research.

The talk will provide a critical technical and political economy analysis of the new privacy crisis emerging from OS and application level AI agents, aimed at the 39C3 "Ethics, Society & Politics" audience.

• 1.3' round display
• costs $199
• starts shipping in may

Announcement blog post: https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever

Unser digitales Leben befindet sich in der Hand weniger Superreicher. Mit der Monopolstellung ihrer Unternehmen bestimmen Menschen wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos oder Mark Zuckerberg weltweit, wie wir uns online informieren, wie wir diskutieren, kommunizieren oder handeln. Einen solchen unkontrollierten Einfluss sollte kein Mensch und kein Unternehmen besitzen, weil wir dann nicht mehr in Freiheit leben können.

An jedem ersten Sonntag im Monat veranstalten wir deshalb den #DigitalIndependenceDay: Wir holen uns unser freies digitales Leben zurück, zerstören die Demokratie nicht weiter und wechseln zu demokratiefreundlichen digitalen Alternativen.

Es ist nicht kompliziert: Heute mal einen Wechsel ausprobieren, am nächsten ersten Sonntag im Monat den nächsten. Also schnell in den AppStore, Alternative herunterladen und mit uns #DIDay feiern!

SoC and modem

• The SoC will be an unpublished MediaTek Dimensity 7000 series chipset. As it is still unpublished we can’t disclose details about it and need to wait the SoC vendor publications
• For the 12/256GB memories we’re shooting for LPDDR5 for the RAM and UFS3.1 for the mass storage, both from top tier Korean vendors. Please note, there is an unseen global shortage on memory chips which may effect the availability of memory types, thus we’ll confirm the particular memory types closer to the mass production.
• For the cellular bands we have been able to fit the following 4G & 5G bands:
  • LTE FDD: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28AB, 66
  • LTE TDD: 34, 38, 39, 40, 41 5G NR: n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n20, n26, n28, n38, n40, n41, n66, n77, n78
• In regards the SIM configuration, it will be a single tray dual-sided nano-SIM with a separate slot for the microSDXC. I.e. in total 3-slots in one tray.

Cameras

• The primary back camera will feature Sony IMX766 AF 50MP sensor module, known for its quality and performance within the price range The secondary back camera will be a 13MP ultrawide AF Sony IMX214
• Front camera is set to be a 32MP wide lens FF Sony IMX616

Size and the battery

we’re able to find a physically smaller (and slimmer) battery on the same capacity, i.e with a higher density. (...) Thus, the length of the device looks like will be 1-2mm shorter than the original spec.