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Yes, we can have nice things. Thanks to gravitational lensing. nautil.us/nasa-shares-...
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Yes, we can have nice things. Thanks to gravitational lensing. nautil.us/nasa-shares-...
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Come work with us! We are looking for a 2 year fully funded postdoc on Usable Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Attribute-Based Identity Wallet Technology in a large EU project. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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damn, MapQuest is coming back strong
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
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So sad to see the country we once cherished is completely going off the deep end. www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...
We did "Red-teaming policy", targeting the Anonymization Guideline of EDPB, with CS/legal scholars and regulators/international organizations. Great fun, and enlightening to identify vulns in regulation, and design exploits. Thanks heaps @hodthoughts.bsky.social! More: ps.tm.kit.edu/english/1094...
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Speaking of @torproject a new version of #Tor is out with more security fixes. Please UPDATE! https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.14/ChangeLog
Meta's "Muse": "a sudden spike in reported KVM escapes" - in a device by the <s>most trustworthy company in the world</s>. What could possibly go wrong (good that they found *some* of the product defects/vulnerabilities before starting to sell).. yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/...
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Random discovery at the bookshop, just finished and so happy it found me! Cyberpunk brought to the new millennium in the best possible way ❤️ Thank you so much for the ride @ianthegreen.bsky.social
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When I'm winding down lately, I find it relaxing to browse FabScene and learn about the cool tech and niche devices coming out of the Japanese maker scene (translate as needed.) It kind of reminds me of the '90s. fabscene.com/new/special/...
Makes you wonder at which stage we can bring these people who repeatedly knowingly ignore and aim to circumvent court rulings to prison. www.heise.de/en/news/Chat...
... their only reason was to demonstrate what BS Musk was trying to sell to gullible investors said people familiar with the matter...
Next week, Google is putting an experimental satellite into orbit that is the first step towards building A.I. data centers in space. This technology is all still very speculative, but tech leaders are increasingly adamant that this is the future of compute. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
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News hat Beschäftigte von österreichischen Inlands- und Militärgeheimdiensten identifiziert, ihre Wohnhäuser, Arzt- und Friseurbesuche - auf Basis eines kommerziell erwerbbaren Datensatzes aus der digitalen Werbung, der Standortdaten von 562.448 Smartphones in AT enthält: www.news.at/investigativ...
Hilarious: If I run metasploit against some servers to show they're misconfigured I go to jail "coz hAXxoR!!", if OpenAI does the essentially same thing by mistake it's "Rogue AI" 🤠 slashdot.org/story/26/09/...
Ahaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha! Whenever you think it can't get more ridiculous, he can!! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Digitale Resilienz - IT-Experte Manuel Atug: "Wir haben alles aus der Hand gegeben" "MDR Wissen: Insgesamt klingt das trotzdem alles ziemlich düster. Haben Sie noch Hoffnung? Manuel Atug: Es gibt einen Grund, warum ich meine Hoffnung nicht verliere..." www.mdr.de/wissen/natur...
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Neun Monate lang habe ich der Glücksspielbehörde in Curaçao live bei der Arbeit zugeschaut. Ohne dass die Mitarbeiter davon wussten. Ich konnte sehen, wem illegale Online-Casinos gehören, wer sie finanziert und was die Behörde über ihre Geschäfte wusste. www.lilithwittmann.de/series/casin...
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"Use of personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful" Insanity. Total liability laundering
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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Großer Erfolg für Kubicki: FDP landet nur 3,9 Prozent hinter CDU www.der-postillon.com/2026/09/kubi...
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Datenhändler verkaufen metergenaue Standortdaten von EU-Personal – diese Recherche von @roofjoke.netzpolitik.org und mir wurde für den Deutschen Journalistenpreis nominiert. 🥳 Sie ist Teil der #DatabrokerFiles feat. Bayerischer Rundfunk. Wir freuen uns sehr über die Ehre! www.djp.de/preistraeger...
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Ubiquitous camera surveillance is a security threat, not a security measure
www.heise.de/en/backgroun... Nice wrap up of our way into digital mass surveillance of the "free societies" after 9/11.
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This worries me a lot. I got a bad vaccine when I was a baby. Bad because ineffective. But because of my autoimmune condition my doctors do not want me to get revaccinated. This leaves me vulnerable to measles.
40-year-old woman in Pennsylvania dies of measles www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social
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#OTD in 1941, Dennis M. Ritchie was born. Ritchie received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
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Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365
Never expected to agree with this agency, but here we go, there's a first to everything!
Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Verfassungsschutz, refers to the sale of mobile app location data as a "grave privacy intrusion" and warns that foreign actors may use the data to approach or attack individuals in the security/defense industries: www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
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Historikerin begeistert, dass sie live miterleben kann, wie das alles angefangen hat damals www.der-postillon.com/2024/09/aufs...
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Behörden überwachen regelmäßig Messenger-Kommunikation in WhatsApp, Telegram und Signal – ganz ohne Staatstrojaner. Das geht aus einem Dokument des Zollkriminalamts hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Ein Jura-Professor hält diese Messenger-Überwachung für rechtswidrig. netzpolitik.org/2026/messeng...
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Die Polizei überschreitet ihre rechtlichen Befugnisse: Sie lesen insgeheim verschlüsselte Messenger wie WhatsApp, Signal, Threema, Telegram mit netzpolitik.org/2026/messeng...
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Again we need EU owned and based tech solutions or else this bullshit will continue. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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Comcast's new Wi-Fi Motion feature turns newer Xfinity routers into home motion sensors. Enabling it means Comcast can share the data it generates with third parties, without notifying you, for law enforcement requests, subpoenas, or legal disputes. Full story: https://bit.ly/46wcXcy
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This is significant. The requirements listed in a recent procurement notice for ICE's renewed purchase of LexisNexis Risk's LexID and Accurint Virtual Crime Center products mention inferring identity from "behavioral indicators, device metadata, network signatures, commercial telemetry data".
Yikes. ICE is asking LexisNexis to integrate with Palantir. This paragraph jumped out at me - they're looking to take "anonymized behavioral indicators" combine it with other data to "infer the identity of the end user." This sounds a lot like LexisNexis' ThreatMetrix, an anti-fraud product.
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Standing firmly doing nothing. It's been almost exactly one year since the previous batch of sanctions against the ICC yet the Commission still has no strategy for European independence, let alone any implementation. Leadership when?
@eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu and I stand firmly with the International Criminal Court, President Tomoko Akane and the officials who uphold its mission. The ICC helps deliver justice to the victims of some of the world’s most horrific crimes.