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Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds | BBC News | …READ THIS ARTICLE if you are interested in AI or Cybersecurity, because …
…it’s a microcosm of every clickbait techlash article of the past 20 years: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j0l0gg4go
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“Signal is better than most other commercial apps, but it’s not military-grade encryption” | …and we are all grateful for that small mercy
Fears grow that Signal leaks make Pete Hegseth top espionage target | Signal group chat leak | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/pete-hegseth-pentagon-espionage
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Proposal to Update Indicator 9B of the DPG Standard: Inappropriate & Illegal Content | …whyyyy do social-good activists still do stuff like this?
[Any…] system as-described can be trivially repurposed … to identify content pertaining to LGBTQ community, sexual health, abortion rights, political activism, democracy campaigns and resistance to foreign invasion. There is no such thing as a … system which can be permanently technologically limited to a narrow, politically defined “duty of care” scope, so there is
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My delightful discovery of the day is that not only does the word ‘pudding’ derive (roughly) from French blood sausage, but also there is a Korean blood sausage called ‘sundae’
You can’t make this stuff up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundae_%28sausage%29 See also the history of “black pudding” and “boudin noir”.
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“Processing an audio stream in a maliciously crafted media file may result in code execution”
About the security content of iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.1 – Apple Support Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS. https://support.apple.com/en-us/122282
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London Security Engineering Meetup: Alec Muffett “End to End Encryption: Why You Should Implement It” (May 08, 1800h)
Join us for the May edition of the London Security Engineering meetup at Wise’s London offices! We are thrilled to host Alec Muffett, a distinguished technologist and security consultant with over 30 years of experience in cryptography and security. https://www.meetup.com/london-security-engineering-group/events/307320393/ I’m going to try something a little more experimental with this presentation, aiming avoid slides and
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MITRE / CVE is being killed by the Trump Government
This is incalculable harm to coordination of infosec response; via Brian Krebs: MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for
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Google rolling out auto-restart security feature to Android phones | One of the things I really love…
…about companies attempting to copy and outdo each other in terms of individual privacy protection, is that this bar-raising exercise is very much in the spirit of improving security for everybody, in spite of what various government might think is in their own narrow best interest: https://9to5google.com/2025/04/14/android-auto-restart-security/
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The Pall Mall Pact and why it matters | Malwarebytes | …I don’t entirely agree that this is a good thing
Speaking as an author of “hacking tools” which have inspired the “hacking tools” of today — tools used by the kinds of people who *found* companies like Malwarebytes — I find perspectives such as this to be problematic, hypocritical, and lacking in dual-use perspective: Commercial hacking tools have enabled intrusive surveillance practices that undermine fundamental freedom
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Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up | The Guardian | …this is a really bad idea in several obvious ways
Dead batteries, lost documents, enabling “search” by customs & immigration… hell, no: The [ICAO] plans to dramatically shake up existing rules for airports and airlines through the introduction of a “digital travel credential”. This would allow passengers to store passport information on their devices to be used for travel. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/boarding-passes-and-check-in-to-be-scrapped-in-air-travel-shake-up-plans
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Why I Emphatically Oppose Online Age Verification Mandates | Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Eric Goldman on fire, again: I hold uncompromising views on this topic. For reasons I explain in 63 anguished and tear-stained pages, I am a categorical “no” on all online age authentication mandates. To me… To me, it doesn’t matter what the laws are called, how the authentication duties are styled, what sales hooks the
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tariff | PyPI
If you need a laugh this morning: The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again! https://pypi.org/project/tariff/
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