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• Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

• GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

• Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

  cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/66435

• You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network

  You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network

• Post #4063633

  Maybe he was born in 1969 and started coding at 6 months old.

• ‘Isn’t It Humiliating to Be Unable to Answer?’ Asks Ossoff After Trump Spy Chief Nominee Won’t Say Who Won in 2020

  cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/64890

• AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

• Most Empires in History Fell by Age 250. The US Is at a Weighty Crossroads.

  cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/61936 As a veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, I visit high schools on a regular basis to talk about the military. I try to fill in the blanks that military recruiters intentionally ignore. I find that when asked, most students can say very little about the reasons why the U.S. fights. They often wrongly assume that the U.S. fights in self-defense or to protect democracy when in reality the U.S. Source From Truthout via This RSS Feed.

• 300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C

• Post #3596653

  We could always just not, and use whatever RAM we can get. I’d rather have a thriving market with slightly worse RAM than motherboards that require a RAM no one can afford.

• WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History

  cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1183337 Comments

• Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.

• The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

  cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1169183 Comments

• Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

  cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/47704486 The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

• Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

• Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill - National | Globalnews.ca

• Post #3296262

  Alongside other neo-Nazis. I’m sensing a theme with these Trump people.

• Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration

  cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/46804253 …bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also pro...

• The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started

  cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/38188482 Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough. Technology’s allure is always future oriented: Personal computing was going to supercharge productivity; social media and smartphones would strengthen interpersonal connections; and now AI will stream...

• 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

  cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1124610 Comments

• Post #2988433

  Only a day or two left to write to your MP and object to it.

• Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill

• Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users

  cross-posted from: piefed.ca/…/signal-to-ottawa-we-ll-leave-canada-b… Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail

• France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

  cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1096740 Comments

• The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

• Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

  cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1091783 Comments

• FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service

  FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service

• Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

• Just how much has Canadian travel to the U.S. declined? Researchers suggest it’s more than we thought

  Just how much has Canadian travel to the U.S. declined? Researchers suggest it’s more than we thought

• A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down

  cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/64745676 A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form