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David Nowak
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Twenty years at the intersection of architecture and strategy. Straight answers on AI — what it costs, whether your data's safe, what to automate. Building AI that runs on your hardware, not a vendor's.
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Seems like poor leaders lead to poor leadership... Who would've known?? 🤡
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say
Frank Strada facing mounting questions after Pike survives injection with lethal drugs in Tennessee
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Mindwire Bridge: A private, free, cross-platform research tool for Bluesky. Use local AI to filter noise, spot trends, and find compatible community members.
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Mindwire Bridge — Research. Discover. Connect
A private, free, cross-platform research tool for Bluesky. Use local AI to filter noise, spot trends, and find compatible community members.
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October 3, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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ai2.bsky.social
Introducing AstaBrief 8B, an open model that turns complex research questions + literature excerpts into cited reports.

Run it locally on your own hardware, with open weights + training data you can inspect & build on. 🧵

🤗 Download: buff.ly/HkIcmfR
October 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Another positive use for AI... Identifying "anonymous" people who support a political hate cults rise to power in our democratic governance systems. 🤡
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Marking is valuable because it strengthens teachers' professional judgement and helps them to understand standards and interpret student work. For many it is how they 'know' their students. Marking is how the profession learns, maintains standards, and ensures fairness.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...
'AI should assist teachers, not replace them': Union warns of risks of AI marking
Secondary teachers are being urged to keep control of marking their students' work even if it is being done by a computer programme.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Good's family sued under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, alleging federal officials conspired to target Somali and Hispanic people in Minnesota. It names Stephen Miller and others, calling Renee Good's killing a "predictable product" of the immigration crackdown.
www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n...
The family of Renee Good files lawsuits over her death during Minneapolis ICE raids
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent last January in Minneapolis set off a firestorm of protests around the U.S. Her family is speaking out for the first time.
www.npr.org
October 1, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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"Move fast, break things" for one rich player is rewarded by the legal system even tho it's unfair to millions of individuals and small businesses.
🤷‍♂️ Law can't law without law apparently. Thank goodness we still have moral standards to lean on.
arstechnica.com/google/2026/...
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.
arstechnica.com
October 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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We simply don't have the quality of leadership needed to control AI in any meaningful way.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Private by default.
Powerful by design.

Mindwire builds tools for the critical paths of digital life — reading, research, and getting work done. Local-first architecture, private local AI, and open formats. Powerful utility and absolute privacy, together.

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Mindwire — The Local-First Privacy Foundry
Mindwire builds local-first tools that restore digital sovereignty. Private AI, zero tracking, zero accounts. Stream, Bridge, and Momentum.
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September 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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"Argon can autonomously find, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities. For trusted defenders and internal teams at Google, we’ll be releasing Argon without cyber guardrails so they can leverage its full frontier-level security defense capabilities."
We get the best brains. You don't. 🖕
September 30, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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It's an interesting observation that, so far, only US AI companies have caused cyber incidents. It would be interesting to determine whether it is due to a technology gap or because the chase for higher valuations has created a culture of negligence.
#AI #cybersecurity
Mistral CEO says U.S. AI safety debate masks competitors’ 'negligence'
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch criticized rivals’ AI safety arguments as the industry faces scrutiny after several AI agents took unauthorized actions.
www.cnbc.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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OpenAI believes suing them to hold them accountable for hacking into third party business/government websites/databases is "completely without merit". 👀
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
arstechnica.com
September 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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@bsky.app when are you gonna spend some time working on this app? It still has many bugs and problems that don't seem to be getting resolved.
I'm happy to move to my own homemade client if you guys have given up. 🤷‍♂️
September 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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"Every test that I try to measure in some sort of concrete way, I can only get as far as perception."

"We wrestle with what does success mean when it comes to AI use? And what metric do we want to use in order to evaluate that? And we have not come to an answer yet."

www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
www.npr.org
September 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
September 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Anthropic: "we built a thing that could end humanity, invest in us." That's not how people who do good talk. They say "here's what I'm making for you, here's the risk I manage."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document
Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Can I trust AI? What if it makes a mistake?

The honest answer: AI gets things wrong sometimes — often confidently. But that's not a reason to avoid it. It's a reason to use it the right way: for work you can review, not work you let run on autopilot.

davidnowak.me/AI/guides/ca...
Can I trust AI? What if it makes a mistake? | David Nowak
AI drafts. You approve. The honest answer on trusting AI, and the one habit that keeps mistakes from reaching your customers.
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September 29, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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How convenient that Nvidia has a security platform for AI agents ready to deploy and dig in it's illegal market monopoly and manipulation. It's almost like someone planned it this way... 🤔
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback
Chipmaker says new system was designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue amid incidents at top companies
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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According to University reports ICE are creating what they describe as a “public health emergency” for millions of kids. Dr Lisa Fortuna said these types of separations from a caregiver “fundamentally reshape a child’s development and mental health”.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The daily toll of an ICE arrest on a mother and three young kids: ‘Why did they take my dad?’
Like many other families coping with a family member’s detention, Alma Ramirez and her children have faced financial struggles and mental health tolls
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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DataOne promised Vineland a 'quiet, low-emission' data center. Drones found 62 unpermitted generators near homes and schools, running to power Microsoft's Copilot. The fine? $1.1M — pocket change. Microsoft profits from pollution it pretends not to see.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
arstechnica.com
September 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Have you seen how successful global cooperation has been on climate change and pretty much any one of the United Nations goals in the past few decades?? 🤷‍♂️
www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
How an 'AI freeze' could make big AI companies bigger and hurt smaller firms
Critics say a slowdown of AI development among the largest companies could consolidate the power of frontier labs, just as many others are trying to catch up.
www.npr.org
September 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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OpenAI celebrated it had solved one of the world's toughest math problems,
but mathematicians say that humanity has learned very little from the solution.
The paper is not written for humans and doesn't teach us much.
www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)
OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.
www.npr.org
September 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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EvilTokens analyzed compromised emails using AI, identifed employees authorized to disburse large sums of money, their managers, and convincing scenarios under which they could persuade employees to transfer money into attacker-controlled accounts.
arstechnica.com/security/202...
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
arstechnica.com
September 25, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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"It’s 2026. Being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work anymore. People are asking artists to show up, educate themselves and be in community. To use the stage for more than entertainment. To push back when the call for a Free Palestine is met with attempts to silence it."
- Macklemore
A poster for the London date of Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour.
September 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM