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  @djoerd@idf.social Actually, N=100 is the only value for which the formula is NOT a realistic prediction, as I'm sure there's a 100% chance of at least death caused by AI. I added that as a condition to improve the formula.

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  That factor k might also show up in Drake's equation.

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  I don't think there is a 10% chance that AI will wipe out all of humanity. A more realistic prediction is that there is an N % chance that AI will wipe out (100-N) % of humanity. Hopefully it's only kN, for some small factor k.

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  Congratulations to my colleagues Gunes Acar and @Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social for winning the 2026 CNIL-INRIA Privacy Award, together with researchers at KU Leuven and IMDEA, for exposing the insidious tracking by Meta and Yandex on Android. And thanks to the Radboud University for having these nasty Facebook trackers on our website, as that enabled Gunes to discover this... https://www.inria.fr/en/cnil-inria-prize-2026-when-your-smartphone-reveals-your-web-browsing-history-without-you-r...

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  De gemeente Nijmegen houdt op 7 November de 4e editie van NymaCon, met een CTF voor studenten en pen-test voor meer ervaren ethical hackers. Meer info & registratie op https://nymacon.nl

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  HALON (Hack Al het Onderwijs in Nederland) will be held at Radboud University this year, on Oct 30. At HALON, organised by SURF, students try to hack the IT infrastructure of universities to find and fix cyber security vulnerabilities. More info & registration at https://www.surf.nl/en/agenda/join-halon-and-hack-an-educational-institution