Florian Damas (風呂李庵)

Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy The best way to stop this cycle of invasive tracking techniques and patchwork fixes is to ban online behavioral advertising. This would end the practice of targeting ads based on your online activity,...

#Meta’s Latest Attack on #Privacy www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers | Proton Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.

Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers proton.me/blog/apple-l...

The “Huawei Saga” in Europe Revisited: German Lessons for the Rollout of #6G.

The #EU should prioritize network diversity, enhanced encryption and reduced dependency on high-risk suppliers to preserve its sovereignty and digital resilience, says Tim Rühlig.
www.ifri.org/en/publicati...

Why is #Microsoft not offering the equivalent of iCloud Advanced Data Protection (from Apple) to all #OneDrive users? Why should Microsoft control users’ encryption keys?

‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease’ https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/

OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”. In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen AI-generated images representing […]

OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns

Here’s how: (3) GPS and communication disruptions
- Storms can interfere with GPS signals and communications, affecting navigation and data links
- Satellites that rely on precise positioning can drift or lose sync

Here’s how: (2) electronic damage
- Charged particles from the Sun can damage satellite electronics, especially if shielding is insufficient
- This can lead to temporary outages, malfunctions, or even permanent failure of systems like communications, power, or control

Here’s how: (1) Increased atmospheric drag
- Geomagnetic storms heat and expand the Earth’s upper atmosphere
- This increases air density at LEO altitudes, causing more drag on satellites
- Satellites can lose altitude more rapidly, may reenter the atmosphere prematurely and burn up

#LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites can be lost due to severe space weather storms, particularly during geomagnetic storms caused by solar activity like coronal mass ejections (CMEs) or solar flares. [#Starlink deploys LEO satellites and has lost some of them in 2022 and 2024]

UK is “undermining the foundations of cyber security, on which a workable tech industry relies.”

‘Open’ model licenses often carry concerning restrictions This week, Google released a family of open AI models, Gemma 3, that quickly garnered praise for their impressive efficiency. But as a number of developers lamented on X, Gemma 3’s license makes commercial use of the models a risky proposition. It’s not a…

‘Open’ model licenses often carry concerning restrictions

#Nokia completes acquisition of #Infinera to create innovation powerhouse in optical networks, with the scale to power the data center revolution www.nokia.com/about-us/new...

⚠️ End of Skype service. “For legacy users who still have credit in their accounts, Microsoft will be making a Skype Dial Pad available both in the Skype web portal and in Teams for an indefinite period.”

Firefox: About Your Rights

Time to dump #Firefox browser: “When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content” www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/...

Les organismes de #recherche et think tanks sont la cible d'un vaste panel d’acteurs offensifs, ayant des objectifs d’espionnage stratégique ou industriel, de déstabilisation, voire lucratifs.

📚 (Re)découvrez l'état de la menace à leur encontre :
🔗 cert.ssi.gouv.fr/cti/CERTFR-2...

A line drawing of the IBM 701's "main frame", showing its physical dimensions and how the frame swings open. The drawing is dated 3-4-53. The drawing is from the document "Type 701 EDPM Installation Manual", obtained from the Computer History Museum archives.

What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n

Commission approves acquisition of Infinera by Nokia The European Commission has approved unconditionally, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of Infinera Corporation (‘Infinera') by Nokia Corporation (‘Nokia'). The Commission concl

Commission approves acquisition of Infinera by Nokia ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

愛知のジブリパーク (Ghibli Park in Aichi)

🤩🫠 Japanese cuisine (search by area and genre) kyoudo-ryouri.com/area (🇯🇵) and kyoudo-ryouri.com/en/area (🇬🇧)

Keys under doormats: mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications ‡ Abstract. Twenty years ago, law enforcement organizations lobbied to require data and communication services to engineer their products to guarantee law en

In case anyone wants the academic analysis of why Yvette Cooper’s ‘backdoor’ mandates are so awful, here’s the classic journal article. academic.oup.com/cybersecurit...

Significant Risks in Using AI Models Governed by the Llama License Although it has already been explained that the Llama model and the Llama License (Llama Community License Agreement) do not, in any sense, qualify as Open Source, it bears noting that the Llama Li…

Significant Risks in Using AI Models Governed by the #Llama License shujisado.org/2025/01/27/s...

Why Is the Llama License Not Open Source? Many observers regard “Llama,” a series of AI models developed by Meta Platforms, Inc., as both highly performant and cost-effective, with relatively permissive distribution conditions. As a …

Why Is the #Llama License Not Open Source? shujisado.org/2025/01/27/w...

Meta’s LLaMa license is still not Open Source At a time when Meta is trying to redefine Open Source for their own benefit and at the expense of our freedom, we call on the whole Open Source community to unite and call out Meta’s open washing.

Meta’s #LLaMa license is still not Open Source opensource.org/blog/metas-l... #AI #OpenSource #Meta

The US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Technology is never a substitute for consent lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

A Nokia sale of mobile, especially to the US, would be nuts Nokia's hiring of Intel's Justin Hotard to be its new CEO has set tongues wagging again about a mobile exit, but it would look counterintuitive and inadvisable.

#Nokia's hiring of Intel's Justin Hotard to be its new CEO has set tongues wagging again about a mobile exit, but it would look counterintuitive and inadvisable. www.lightreading.com/5g/a-nokia-s...

Chrome and Firefox extension to detect AI-generated websites #GenAI

In France, telecommunications companies are now providing their subscribers with one year of complimentary access to top-tier artificial intelligence tools. Bouygues Telecom is offering Perplexity Pro, while Free offers Mistral AI Chat Pro. #AI #Telco