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I think that one of the reasons that I’m not worried about AGI is that I’m still waiting for the end of the world to be caused by Quantum Computing
The apocalypse is a perennial favorite for pulp authors: https://ai-2027.com/
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By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall | Signal Windows app leverages DRM content protection hacks to hide messages from Windows Recall
According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.” So that’s exactly what Signal Desktop is now doing on Windows 11 by default. https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/
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Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives
I’m not making this up:
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NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms
The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing the results as if causative: Via: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480657-attempt-to-reach-expert-consensus-on-teens-and-phones-ends-in-argument/
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Mid-Book Audiobook Review: “How Spies Think” by David Omand
Christ, I’m having a hard time with this book, and I’m not even done / he hasn’t even gotten onto the “tech industry” parts yet. I seek greater understanding of the mindset of how Sir David Omand, GCB, former head of GCHQ, got on stage at an event I attended in 2015* and said words
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I swear the #Eurovision song contest is the single best argument / thought-experiment against Messenger #interoperability under the EU Digital Markets Act
Imagine you have a single messenger app which brings together SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and one or two other chat apps; what would it really be like to have the same conversation 3-to-5 times over in 3-to-5 different “places” in the same interoperable “app”, but with different “platform” backends? It would be bedlam, because… …because each
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Google Online Security Blog: Advanced Protection: Google’s Strongest Security for Mobile Devices
I think I’ll give it a go: Whether you’re an at-risk individual – such as a journalist, elected official, or public figure – or you just prioritize security, Advanced Protection gives you the ability to activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices, providing greater peace of mind that you’re protected against the most sophisticated threats.
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Lol that @triclassified podcast has used a banner picture of @runasand in the 4th episode Re: @snowden, which so far has focused on personalities rather than impact, and…
…and for my taste has (so far) entirely ignored the positive benefit of Snowden’s impact on online security and safety. We would have: no WhatsApp or Messenger end-to-end encryption, no mainstream (e.g. BBC) “darkweb” sites, no/delayed TLS 1.3, no “Schrems” laws, reduced drive for PQ algorithm adoption, we would probably still be using RSA rather
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The Mastodons are inventing “Algorithms”
I wonder how long before we see advertising?
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Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’ | Wikipedia | The Guardian
Personally I’m disappointed that Wikipedia is not challenging the whole thing, but this is better than nothing: The foundation said it was not challenging the act as a whole, nor the existence of the requirements themselves, but the rules that decide how a category 1 platform is designated. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/08/wikipedia-challenging-uk-law-it-says-exposes-it-to-manipulation-and-vandalism
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A “Duck Test” for End-to-End Secure Messaging
This is my technical definition of End-to-End Encryption* which can also be summarised as: “there are ends; respect them” …but this version has the advantage of being measurable. I don’t believe I’ve previously posted this as a standalone blog post; the embedded video is my test run for the presentation which I subsequently gave at
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