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Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices | Apple Security Research
Cute: Today we’re introducing the culmination of this effort: Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), our comprehensive memory safety defense for Apple platforms. Memory Integrity Enforcement is built on the robust foundation provided by our secure memory allocators, coupled with Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
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Home Office to spend £1.3M on age-determining algorithm | The Register | I wonder what their acceptable false positive rate will be?
I am betting that I could just return “18+” and be correct more than 90% of the time: A contract tender … “Home Office are seeking to procure an algorithm that can accurately predict the age of a subject,” the contract’s description reads. “This will have multiple use cases for Home Office, an example could/would
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Russia squeezes out WhatsApp, pushes homegrown Max in messaging battle | WaPo | …in case you missed it…
…the next step for the UK government will be to obligate phones to be installed with state spyware, following the examples of Russia & China: The government’s expanding surveillance efforts are pushing users toward a new state-backed app called Max, which security experts warn would share private data with authorities, leaving Russians cut off from
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“it is simply not feasible to perform detection of known and new CSAM for hundreds of millions of users with an acceptable level of accuracy, independently of the specific filter”
The text below is an open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation. https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025
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Age Verification Providers’ Association (AVPA) desperately seeks ways to minimise UK VPN adoption numbers
Traffic to top adult sites “from the UK” apparently “fell by 47%” with no mention of comparative increase of traffic “from” other countries like Belgium, Netherlands, USA, or Singapore; then we get an unsourced “7%” usage figure for under 18s accessing adult content and compute 47% of that. This is not how to argue via
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We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else | Techdirt
Masnick again on top form. Also, me, previously. Consider the broader implications: if we normalize blocking AI tools from accessing web content, where does it end? We’ve talked in the past about how many visually impaired users rely on technological tools to “read” websites for them. If we establish that all technological intermediary tools can
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Signal >> Blog >> Introducing Signal Secure Backups
Seems reasonable: If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you’ll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free. If you want to back up your media history beyond 45 days, as well as your message history, we also offer
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Thomas Pearson: Video: Fight Chat Control EU
How you can take action:
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GOVERNMENT DECLARES BRITISH POPULATION AT RISK OF SUICIDE DUE TO RECENT GOVERNMENT POLICY, DECLARES CENSORSHIP REGIME TO COMPENSATE
Not joking, here’s the latest massive from DSIT — “let’s misrepresent mental health issues in order to pursue censorship & control of the internet” The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material that encourages
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“RCS messaging is now provided by your wireless carrier and governed by their terms and privacy notice. You can find the current version of these terms on your wireless carrier’s website”
I know it’s petty schadenfreude but I’ve been hanging out on the RCS subreddits where they spend vast amounts of time dissing “over the top” end to end encrypted “big tech” messenger software, awaiting their protocol Messiah that will liberate them from capitalism … only for the cracks beginning to show regarding local regulation and
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Fight Chat Control | Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
If you are in the European Union, click this and do something. https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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