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The purpose of this account isn’t to dogpile what’s being posted here, or to dunk on the internet, but to highlight serious privacy and security issues + bad laws, with of course some funny things. If you have any suggestions please DM.

Holy wow. 25% of Microsoft. www.theverge.com/tech/1018666...

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store

POV you posted about AI with she/her in bio

The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors (Toby Sterling/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Holy cow, this seems like a complete victory to me. Can't wait to see how this plays out!

parents, please make sure check your kids' halloween candy for instances of the number 4

The details are now public, as of two hours ago. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... The secret P-384 keys for these intermediate CAs are all zeros except the last 8 bits. All not-updated software can be MITM'ed now. IOT boxes that can't or don't update are now trivially MITM'able forever.

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

in case you plan a jan 6 style event on jack dorsey's new work collaboration platform

someone help square this for me

IMPORTANT PRIVACY PSA: YouTube has foolishly rolled out a new “feature” that will dox you or compromise your privacy without you knowing! When you tap the share button on a video and send a link now, anyone opening that link will see your channel name, handle, and avatar! Enabled by default. 🫪

In China, for $30, you can have Dwayne Johnson drive your Tesla. Sounds too cheap to be true? Well, what you’re actually buying is a tiny replica of The Rock's head sitting above the rearview mirror and tricking Tesla into thinking an attentive driver is behind the wheel while FSD is engaged.

Remember, Elon still says X is going to be a bank where you can put your money.

Page Six is running ads for Meta Glasses via it’s Met Gala coverage, recording and posting social videos with the device it referred to as “pervert glasses” last month

This is a big deal. Already seeing evidence of this by way of OpenClaw installations. opensourcemalware.co... www.stepsecurity.io/...

All fellow UniFi users should update their network application tonight. community.ui.com/releases/Sec...

Less than five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg was so committed to the metaverse that he renamed his whole company after it. Anyways here’s @boone.bsky.social

In case you’re wondering how his night is going, Musk is currently reposting Grok AI videos made by his fans including one of him kissing a random woman

"AG Paxton alleged that Samsung uses automated content recognition (ACR) technology, which can capture hundreds of images of what’s on your TV screen each minute, without first obtaining Texans’ expressed, informed consent."

Oh no who could have foreseen this?

In 2023, OpenAI’s usage policy explicitly banned the military from accessing its AI models. But some OpenAI employees discovered the Pentagon had already started experimenting with Azure OpenAI, a version of OpenAI’s models offered by Microsoft, sources say.

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran. Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system. www.wired.com/story/from-u...

Jack Dorsey really is trying to do everything like Elon Musk

“We put them in our agreement” means there are no restrictions in the underlying models, unlike Anthropic, and you’re relying on *checks notes* the Trump administration to hold to this. So. Yeah.

This is just more proof the world should be pushing harder for data sovereignty.

"President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that such efforts could interfere with artificial intelligence-related services."

An eye-opening story from @ering.bsky.social and Karen Weise on how Jeffrey Epstein worked his way into the inner sanctum of Microsoft's C-suite www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

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My email is being spammed with activation requests because zendesk won’t fix their vulnerability. How is Zendesk not being punished by email providers over this?

techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/n...

it would be really nice for colleges to learn AI "detection" tools don't work. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...