Jari Korkiakoski

Information junkie, into live music, passionate about technology

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

CHAT CONTROL IS BACK → Today the urgent procedure for Chat Control 1.0 was passed.

NEXT UP: The EU Parliament is voting on Thursday.

If Chat Control passes: your messages, pictures, videos will all be scanned because the law will require it - this removes privacy and welcomes mass surveillance in the EU.

What's happening?

If Chat Control is passed, it will force client-side scanning - so companies will have to scan the contents of private communications, including encrypted messages and emails, before they are sent.

In March, it was voted against, but it's back and it was pushed through via urgent procedure. This changes the rules of the vote (of course to be in favour of chat control). Shockingly, blocking it now requires absolute  majority 361 out of the Parliament's 720 members, to be rejected.

This is hard to reach because:

‼️ People who do not vote are AUTOMATICALLY VOTED AS YES-VOTE in this procedure.

‼️ This was tactfully done: it's the summer break, this makes it even harder to reach 361 no-votes.

At Tuta, we have been fighting this from the start and we will not backdoor our end-to-end encryption. 🔐❤️

We believe that breaking encryption for everyone is not a solution: It is a surveillance infrastructure that puts journalists, activists, abuse survivors, and citizens at risk.

The main vote is Thursday. Please continue to contact your MEPs & reject to Chat Control: https://t.co/FUHuFlfW3m

Share this post, make some noise, and let's fight for our right to privacy. ✊🏻♥️🇪🇺

Pictured: Parliament President Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0! 😡

#ChatControl #Privacy #DigitalRights #EU #clientsidescanning

[The Unofficial Daring Fireball Feed @UnofficialDF]

The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly
https://t.co/3nfgGXz2n1

[Lorenzo Ferrante @ferrantelorenzo]

Apple just announced the new Siri AI features are coming, but not to EU iPhone users.

That shouldn’t be the outcome.

I vibe-coded a website to gather signatures for EU iPhone users who want access to the new Siri AI features.

Sign the petition: https://t.co/7cenGvUPyA

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

FSD Supervised now approved in Denmark 🇩🇰

Rollout will begin soon

[Nicolas Lellouche @LelloucheNico]

Apple m'a invité à une session sur le DMA et le blocage de Siri AI dans l'UE aujourd'hui, avec d'autres journalistes européens.

C'est à lire sur Numerama : https://t.co/GG0IqiK7ak

En gros : Apple a prévenu l'Europe dès fin 2025 de son projet SIri AI pour trouver un compromis. La marque voulait proposer un système appelé « Trusted System Agent » pour permettre à un assistant tiers d’accéder aux mêmes fonctions que Siri AI, mais avec les protections d’Apple. L'Europe aurait dit non : elle veut que les concurrents aient accès à toutes les données.

Apple dit que n'importe quelle app pourrait utiliser une IA pour lire les messages et les mails de ses utilisateurs si aucun garde-fou n'est proposé, d'où sa volonté de s'opposer frontalement à la demande de l'Europe. Google est dans la même situation avec Gemini et commence à se plaindre des demandes européennes, même si lui n'a pas attendu un feu vert pour lancer ses nouveautés.

Apple n'a aujourd'hui pas la moindre idée de comment faire accepter Siri AI en Europe : aucun développement n'est en cours. Le blocage pourrait durer des mois.

J'ai contacté la Commission européenne et je mettrai à jour cet article avec sa réponse.

Dernière info : Siri AI sera disponible sur Mac et Vision Pro en Europe, car ce ne sont pas des gatekeepers. iPhone et iPad bloqués par le DMA. Apple Watch bloqué car elle a besoin d'un iPhone compatible pour l'index sémantique. #WWDC26

[Jari Korkiakoski @jarikork]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Jari Korkiakoski @jarikork]

@juustominkki Muutaman vuoden kokemuksella ainakaan itsellä ei ole mitään valittamista sähkögrillistä 👌

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Dutch regulators (RDW), which just approved @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands, have just issued an official statement:

"Due to the continuous strict monitoring of the driver in the vehicle, the system is safer than other driver assistance systems. We have thoroughly researched and checked this system, more than a year and a half.

The RDW has issued a type approval for Tesla's driver's assistance system, FSD Supervised. This driver's assistance system has been extensively researched and tested on our test track and on public roads for more than a half years. Safety is paramount for the RDW. The proper use of this driver's system makes a positive contribution to road safety."

This approval from the RDW clears the path for approval in other European countries. Tesla owners in the Netherlands will be receiving FSD (Supervised) on their cars shortly. Amazing day!

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation. 

Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer.

Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to:

– 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads
– 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs
– 4,500+ track test scenario executions
– Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements
– Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results

We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point.

We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

How Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp) got good at using AI tools for coding + work:

"I was forcing myself to figure out how to prompt the agent to produce the same quality result as mine. Even though I was working much slower because it was more than double the work."

[Marco Franzon @mfranz_on]

https://t.co/VUWgtr8HfW

[Jari Korkiakoski @jarikork]

@FrunkToTrunk https://t.co/xPEN8UcwMs

[Jari Korkiakoski @jarikork]

@Himanshu_tweaks Almost made a switch to Apple Music more than once, but I guess I listen to odd enough music as the result is always this

[Jari Korkiakoski @jarikork]

@SawyerMerritt https://t.co/xPEN8UbYWU

[Jari Korkiakoski @jarikork]

”No saattaa se jossain Kaliforniassa toimia, kun siellä paistaa aurinkokin kaiken aikaa. Ei varmasti toimi Suomessa, viimeistää talvi lumen ja jään peittäessä kaikki kaistaviivat on viimeinen niitti; ei tule koskaan tapahtumaan!” Hetkinen, eihän tämän pitänyt olla mahdollista🤩💥

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Now in Finland & Spain

🇫🇮 https://t.co/hBjdGZCuH7

🇪🇸 https://t.co/UODQ9QP4j5

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

If you think AI coding is a fad, I get it. I felt the same way about a year ago.

If you tried these tools out during the Copilot auto complete era, I understand entirely why you wrote them off.

Things have changed a lot since then. These tools are here to stay.

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Tesla has been working hard toward shipping Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Europe for over 12 months now. We have given FSD demos to regulators of almost every EU country. We have requested early access, pilot release programs or exemptions where possible.

We have developed & shared detailed safety evidence for FSD, now public in our latest Safety Report. And we have driven over 1 million kilometers safely on EU roads across 17 different countries (internal testing). 

Our main path to success is partnering with the Dutch approval authority RDW to gain exemption for the feature. This involves proving compliance with existing regulations (UN-R-171 DCAS) + filing an exemption (EU Article 39) for yet-to-be-regulated behaviors like Level 2 systems off-highway, system-initiated lane changes with hands-off the wheel etc. 

Some of these regulations are outdated and rules-based, which makes FSD illegal in its current form. Changing FSD to be compliant with these rules would make it unsafe and unusable in many cases. While we have changed FSD to be maximally compliant where it is logical and reasonable, we won't sacrifice the safety of a proven system or materially deteriorate customer usability. 

As a result, we are gathering evidence to get exemptions on a specific rule-by-rule basis. Unfortunately, the real world fleet-proven safety wins alone are considered insufficient. 

Currently, RDW has committed to granting Netherlands National approval in February 2026. Please contact them via link below to express your excitement & thank them for making this happen as soon as possible. Upon NL National approval, other EU countries can immediately recognize the exemption and also allow rollout within their country. Then we will bring it to a TCMV vote for official EU-wide approval. 

We're excited to bring FSD to our owners in Europe soon!

https://t.co/FhoK0xX81r

[Rob Roos 🇳🇱 @Rob_Roos]

Brussels is sneaking Chat Control 2.0 in through the back door.

On 14 October they claimed it was off the table – now we see it was only shelved in name.

“Risk mitigation” is just the new label for forcing providers to scan private messages, weaken encryption, erase anonymity and even lock teens out of basic apps.
Call it what it is: not child protection, but the construction of a mass-surveillance machine. Stop this now.

👉 https://t.co/pUiS1ecqdY

[Kim Väisänen @kimvaisanen]

EU haluaa liittyä totalitaaristen valtioiden kanssa samaan joukkoon ja skannata kaiken tietoliikenteen.

Tie helvettiin on päällystetty hyvillä aikomuksilla ja tässä rakennetaan sinne kahdeksankaistaista moottoritietä - kaikilla herkuilla.

https://t.co/ueXlwp1oFS