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Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
How open source money fixes a corrupted banking system (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17303063...
Police are Using Drones More and Spending More For Them (www.eff.org)
Rolling Back Protections for Child Labor in the Name of ‘Parental Rights’ (fair.org)
This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77 (www.core77.com)
Why is this still so funny to me?
Advice on best way to replace personal Atlassian Jira subscription
I'm currently paying a moderate amount to atlassian to host jira for me, and I'm looking for a FOSS way to replace it. I don't use it every month and I've decided it's not worth continuing to pay, plus I want to transition to FOSS wherever I can. I just feel trapped. I'm sure people here know the feeling when using...
Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)
In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...
Finally a useful feature (no) (jlai.lu)
What happened to Louis Rossman's live yesterday?
Yesterday, there was a live scheduled by Louis Grossman, titled "Addressing futo license drama! Let's see if I get fired...". I was unable to watch it live, but now the stream seems to be gone from YouTube....
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement (www.theatlantic.com)
As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...
Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought (www.wired.com)
Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. (thehackernews.com)
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