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The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 Chat Control is back on the lawmakers' table

You'd think, given how disastrously the privacy-destroying OSA is going + all the tariff threats from Trump, that lawmakers would take a pause on introducing Chat Control, which is arguably worse than age verification.

The Danish legislators didn't get that memo.

Separately, I continue to believe that if someone were to get ahold of and publish all the naughty conversations, backroom deals, and private chats made by supporters of Chat Control, there'd be no Chat Control.

It's a shame lawmakers never have to dogfood their own policies.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.

Two years ago after researchers found backdoor in an encryption algo used to secure radio comms for police/military/intel agencies around world, the org behind the algo advised users to deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the algo. Now researchers also found security issue with that

Hackers hacked (likely) North Korea government cyberoperators Kimsuky. Description of tools (like backdoors), techniques, methods. So there's also evidence North Korea hacked South Korea military and government. drive.proton.me/urls/Z5BX5M7... File dump: drive.proton.me/urls/ZQ1235F...

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-...

New, by me and @amanda.omg.lol: TeaForHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they dated, has exposed users' personal information & government IDs.

TeaForHer launched in response to the Tea app, which may be best known for its own massive data breach last week.

Not sure how this is legal or even within the MLS guidelines? Some years back, I had a real estate license (it was a regulatory compliance thing, I never sold houses) but in training we were taught that the guidelines were so strict we couldn’t even technically photoshop the weather lol

🔴 [DATI #RIVISTI] #terremoto ML 3.3 ore 09:50 IT del 09-08-2025 a Canale di Sicilia meridionale (MARE) Prof= 10.3 Km #INGV_43672392 http://terremoti.ingv.it/event/43672392

A photo looking up at a jet in the sky flying past and it has four contrails behind in the colours cyan magenta yellow and black.

Inkjet.

A screenshot from the article, with the first sentence highlighted: "Only after obtaining pro bono legal representation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Coders' Rights Project did the pair decide to follow through with their plan to speak" about Securam's vulnerabilities at Defcon. Omo and Rowley say they're even now being careful not to disclose enough technical detail to help others replicate their techniques, while still trying to offer a warning to safe owners about two different vulnerabilities that exist in many of their devices.

This is a story EFF was made for.

Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...

Scelti due novax, la destra al governo deve pur dar retta al suo elettorato complottista.

Northern Lights Forecast: These 15 States Could See Aurora Borealis Tonight Earth’s magnetic field will likely be disrupted by a recent coronal mass ejection, forecasters said.

Earth’s magnetic field will likely be disrupted by a recent coronal mass ejection, forecasters said.

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

True, but as a way to tamper the hype of the CEO(s) claiming "PhD Level intelligence", that's quite effective (and one can then have the tokenization discussion as a follow-up). A bit unfair to criticise people's reactions to dumb and grandiose claims for their lack of subtlety.

We need to end end-to-end encryption | Anonymous | The Critic Magazine One need not be a nightwatchman libertarian to fear a state apparatus that sees all. George Orwell literally wrote the book on the dangers of Big Brother, and he was a democratic socialist.

The delicious irony of calling for an end to end-to-end encryption via an anonymous author 🤷

Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear. But I still won’t put my name to my argument… 🤷‍♂️

thecritic.co.uk/we-need-to-e...

Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.

This is what all those American big tech donations to Trump were for.

Fondi green: più di un miliardo nelle aziende fossili La società di investimento Amundi ha fondi green che però finanziano aziende fossili. Negli ultimi due anni, ha destinato più di un miliardo di dollari a produttori di energie non rinnovabili, etichet...

Amundi, leader europeo del risparmio gestito, ha investito 1,1 miliardi di dollari dei fondi green in aziende fossili. Abbiamo tracciato i 38 fondi green che tra il 2024 e il 2025 sono stati destinati a grosse aziende di energia fossile 🔽

Palantir is well on its way to conquering Europe The controversial US tech company has longstanding relationships with many authorities throughout the EU.

Palantir is well on its way to conquer Europe: How deeply dependent European authorities are on #Palantir – and why Europol has considered suing the company www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

It feels disingenuous to be calling it a war. It's an extermination campaign being waged largely against children.

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

No ChatGPT non è né umano né più umano

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.

Snake-in-the-Box Problem

xkcd.com/3125/

Bored while waiting for a shuttle? Tap the sticker with your phone and make some art! #why2025

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Bar chart where 52>69 and 69=30 about gpt5 comparison

they should be taken to The Hague for this graph crime

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

From an Ofcom guidance: Business disruption measures 9.4 9.5 9.6 Business disruption measures are orders made by a court on an application from Ofcom. They apply to third parties which are able to disrupt the provision of the regulated service and thereby reduce the risk of harm to UK citizens and consumers. The third party need not be an Ofcom regulated entity and may not have had any previous dealings with Ofcom. The Act provides for four types of business disruption measure: a) a service restriction order; b) an interim service restriction order; c) an access restriction order; and d) an interim access restriction order. A service restriction order is an order applying to one or more providers of 'ancillary services' to a non-compliant regulated service. An ancillary service is a service that facilitates the provision of the regulated service (or part of it) (for example, payment processing services) or one that displays or promotes content in relation to the regulated service (for example an ad server). 110 The criteria with which a court must be satisfied to grant an application for an order are set out in section 144(3) and (4) of the Act and include that the court must be satisfied that the service provider has failed and is continuing to fail with an enforceable requirement or with a Technology Notice under section 121(1) of the Act. 111 A service restriction order requires the ancillary service against which an order is obtained to take steps aimed at disrupting the relevant regulated service in the UK...

Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.

When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.

Absolutely terrifying.

www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...