Dan York

Four days after #iOS26 officially became available, the global share of requests with post-quantum support from iOS devices has grown from just under 2% to 11%.

Africa: ~10%
Asia: ~12%
Europe: ~12%
N. America: ~10%
Oceania: ~7%
S. America: ~12%

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Image of a newspaper column that says “August 11 at 7:08 a.m., a caller reported cows in her front yard on Spear Street. The animals were located and the owner was notified.”

I enjoy reading the “police blotter” in our local newspaper because every now an then there are gems like this one:
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August 11 at 7:08 a.m., a caller reported cows in her front yard on Spear Street. The animals were located and the owner was notified.
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#Vermont

Submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupt connectivity between Europe and Asia.

Latency spikes as traffic is re-routed around the broken cables. @kentik.bsky.social's Cloud Latency Map captures the impacts here:
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Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol Date: 6th September 2025 A community letter on the recent heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol, co-signed by the people working on or with the respective protocols. This statement was ...

Note that the canonical copy of the letter by @thisismissem.social is now at writings.thisismissem.social/statement-on...

Impressive to see < 1 Gbps speeds out of Amazon’s #Kuiper #LEO satellite system. Yes, this is obviously a test in an ideal situation, but still impressive.

#Internet #InternetAccess #LEOs

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.

Fascinating (and long) article about how people in China are turning to DeepSeek for medical answers .. even knowing those answers may be wrong… largely because it is so much easier to engage with the LLM instead of engaging with the actual medical system.

restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat...

Our brains 🧠 are funny sometimes.. now that we own a black car for the first time (as of 3 weeks ago)… and now that I have driven it for 24+ hours over the past week (up to Nova Scotia)….

… I am suddenly noticing how many black cars there are on the roads of New England and Atlantic Canada! 😃😮🤯

23andMe Re-Opens Data Auction With $305 Million Bid From Former CEO Amy Wojcicki really wants her hands on that DNA.

Just a reminder... if you ever had your DNA tested through #23AndMe … all your DNS data is now up for sale to the highest bidder…

gizmodo.com/23andme-re-o...

United States Court of International Trade - Wikipedia

The #Wikipedia page you all may want to be reading up on to understand today’s events may be this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Particularly if you, like me, had no idea that there was a United States Court of International Trade! 🤯

Ah, thank you! I was confused as the other sources I was reading were not using “Xingwang”.

Thank you for all the work you do tracking all of this!

China launches third batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites China launched a third batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites Tuesday, advancing its ambitious low Earth orbit communications network to rival Starlink and other global systems.

@planet4589.bsky.social - I'm a little confused. You mention the Xingwang constellation, but SpaceNews is saying this launch was Guowang ( spacenews.com/china-launch... ) as is Space . com ( www.space.com/space-explor... ). Are *they* confused? Or which constellation is this? 🤷‍♂️

We just recorded an *emergency episode* (wee-oo wee-oo alert alert) about Apple pulling Advanced Data Protection, their E2E encryption for iCloud Notes and Backups, from the UK market, with special guests @josephhall.org and @matthewdgreen.bsky.social. Short and to the point, out this week.

CDT Joins Global Encryption Coalition Letter on UK Government’s Use of Investigatory Powers Act to attack End-to-End Encryption Today, CDT and a group of over 100 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts – as part of an effort led by the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC) – submitted a letter to British...

Today, CDT & 100+ civil society orgs, companies, & cybersecurity experts – as part of an effort led by the Global #Encryption Coalition (GEC) – submitted a letter to British Home Secretary calling on the UK Home Office to rescind its demand that Apple create a backdoor into its #E2EE services.

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

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USAID website goes dark, staff emails deactivated amid DOGE takeover, source says DOGE workers’ access to USAID systems signals an uncertain fate for the development agency.

🚨 USAID WEEKEND UPHEAVAL

💻🚫 The USAID website is offline
📧🚫 Thousands of staff emails are deactivated
🚧 The State Department published a USAID webpage

This follows a 90-day pause on foreign aid that stopped humanitarian work as top USAID officials were put on leave.

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

How to Get Around the US TikTok Ban TikTok is now unavailable in the United States—and getting around the ban isn’t as simple as using a VPN. Here’s what you need to know.

NEW: TikTok is offline in the US and it seems like the restrictions, even if temporary, are tougher than expected.

VPNs don’t work to get around the block, with TikTok accounts linked to US users seemingly blocked

Given that cursive is increasingly taught less (in favor of typing) and even when it’s taught, people just don’t write by hand all that much, it is interesting to think about a future where we can’t read our past. 🙁

#cursive #handwriting #history

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for. The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

Having grown up in the 1970s and 80s and spent a significant amount of time writing in cursive, I do find it fascinating that the US National Archives says “reading cursive is a superpower” and that they are seeking more people who can do so.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

#cursive #handwriting

U.S. Supreme Court weighing constitutionality of Texas’ age-verification requirement for porn sites The Supreme Court’s decision on Texas’ law, which adult entertainment website attorneys said were the most overreaching in the country, could determine the fate of similar laws in more than a dozen ot...

Texas “continued to incorrectly suggest that online age verification–which requires millions of internet users to upload and submit identifying information–is no different than quick, one-on-one, in-person ID checks," EFF’s Lisa Femia told @texastribune.org.

Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products. Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Loops by Pixelfed Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!

Try Pixelfed or Loops instead:

- pixelfed.org

- loops.video

Loops by Pixelfed Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!

Someone is working on exactly that over in the Fediverse- visit loops.video

It’s just been building over the past few months.

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast.

"How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work" by by @mattburgess1.bsky.social, quoting Milton Mueller, @arozenshtein.bsky.social, @prateekwaghre.com and myself: www.wired.com/story/how-th...

“If all you are doing is just saying ‘we don’t like a foreign country rearranging cat and dance videos,’ it’s hard to come in and make a national security argument.”

A compelling argument from the TikTok creators' attorney. He also pointed out TikTok will not be required to delete its data.

"La danse (second version)", painting by Henri Matisse. Text says: It's Public Domain Day! Every year on 1 January, the Wikimedia community celebrates the day on which artistic works become free to use once their copyright protection ends.

Every year on 1 January, Public Domain Day celebrates the artistic works that enter the public domain, becoming free for everyone to use, share, and adapt.

Wikimedia volunteers are at the forefront of sharing these works while navigating copyright restrictions. ➡️ w.wiki/CbAe

@jfoust.bsky.social FYI, in your article about the EIS for Vandenberg, there’s a typo where a “p” and “c” were swapped:

“The study includes two options that are identical **expect** for what hangar facility SpaceX would use at SLC-6…”

Good article! Thanks for all that info.

Later today, the Internet Governance Forum #IGF2024 begins in Riyadh. It's the 19th IGF, & it's still rather chaotic to navigate, even for those of us who've been there from the start. So, a thread on how to find yourself in sessions you find useful, rather than ones you regret attending...