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A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More | WIRED
Somehow I think this story is going to be overshadowed by TikTok https://www.wired.com/story/biden-executive-order-cybersecurity-ai-and-more/
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Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica | …salient for those who believe rapid updates by software companies are the proper route towards user safety
The frequency alone should have been a red flag suggesting a flailing organisation: In July, Spence apologized for the maligned redesign and said Sonos would fix the app with *biweekly updates* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/app-redesign-blowback-will-cost-sonos-up-to-30-million-ceo-says/
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REDnote emergency-hiring English language content-moderation (i.e. censors) due to sudden influx of American TikTok users
Of course we must remember that content moderation is not censorship, no, of course it is not, not at all.
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All porn sites must ‘robustly’ verify UK user ages by July | BBC News
Media and safety campaigns against VPN usage by teenagers will start ASAP and run smack into the US TikTok and age verification failure discussions? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye3qw7gv7o
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1/ US Gov’t censors US-Singaporean TikTok as “National Security Risk” 2/ Users jump to *Chinese*-owned RedNote 3/ Users learn RedNote / China is massively illiberal 4/ …
… 4/ USG learns that IMPLEMENTING CENSORSHIP IS HARD & REQUIRES SERIOUS AND ONGOING COMMITMENT So much popcorn:
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“Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S.” | …whilst the world watches
Someone on Bluesky aptly described this as “the dog that caught the app“, as per dogs chasing cars but not knowing what to do if they catch one. Unsurprisingly this is much the same problem that Ofcom in the UK faces: the world doesn’t work how people think it works, the people don’t want what…
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THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A/B TESTING, FOLKS!
“Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to do away with Meta’s third-party fact-checking service was presented as a sweeping cultural change across the company—but apparently, it will apply only in the United States.” https://bsky.app/profile/newrepublic.com/post/3lfryyc2z7q26
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Does anyone know precisely how the US government proposes to prevent millions of teens / millennials from accessing TikTok?
I’m aware many impacted users are proposing to go use telegram instead — a huge national security footgun for the US intelligence community — not to mention the collective cyber impact of millions of naive kids side-loading trojan TikTok binaries and having their bank accounts raided. But… …but what I am really interested in is…
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Reminder: when a platform or tool is lauded for implementing safety features like social-network mass-blocking-lists, those tools can be used to quietly silence *good* people, too…
Quoth rahaeli on Bluesky: [Pin:] if my posts show up as blocked to you if you repost or reply to them, it’s because you were subscribed to the abusive and vendetta-filled “lolicon artists” or “CSAM supporters” blocklists by @csam.okconfirmed.com [that] were deleted by Bluesky. When a mod list is deleted for being abusive, some remnants…
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It’s Tuesday, my house is a plague pit*, Trump v2.0 is due soon, friends are burning their Neil Gaiman books, and I’m here for Americans who believe TikTok will entirely cease to exist by the weekend…
1/ I really hope the VPN providers are geared-up for a massive spike over the next few days 2/ I hope not too many innocent teenagers get ripped-off by malware as a consequence 3/ Government needs to learn that cyber-posing blunt regulation around “safety” leads to concrete harms [*] I’m walking evidence that vaccination works…
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johnsonjh/altoschat: Altger Altos Chat | GitHub
Nerds, especially European, of a certain age, will remember “Altos” as a bulletin board (Millennials: “social network”) that powered much of hackerdom in the 1980s, via the semi-commercial, semi-academic X.25 PSS networks which of course were not under threat from this upstart TCP/IP “ARPANet” thing. This is a fossil: https://github.com/johnsonjh/altoschat