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European Commission: to protect Ukraine we must prevent their ability to have end-to-end secure communication
“Going Dark” is the new name for “Chat Control” the Commission will prioritise an assessment of the impact of data retention rules at EU level and the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption, to identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding
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Some subtle advertising here from Element/Matrix
I wonder what inspired them? Need to manage group chats? Use our identity management and group access controls to synchronise with sources such as Microsoft Active Directory. Element gives governments a consumer-style messaging app, but with enterprise-grade control.
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So let me get this straight: Trump’s tariff formula (a) was the result of an AI query which (b) was misunderstood by a human and (c) misapplied to (d) incomplete data on the basis of (e) bad economic thinking to (f) crash the world economy
This is, of course, an AI problem. Probably Mark Zuckerberg is to blame. Therefore the USA should invade Iraq. In Britain we can prevent it happening by issuing Digital Identity Cards.
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“Dutch computer scientist and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments should urgently exit the American clouds and how to do this fastest” | republik.ch
The problem is: administrations, governments and parliaments do not want to change anything, certainly not to migrate anything. They are not only technophobic, they hate new technologies. Our public servants are traumatized by printers that don’t work or by poor Wi-Fi, so they just want to keep what they know. Our officials are putting European
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Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world | POLITICO
Whoda thunk? National security adviser Mike Waltz’s team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work … according to four people who have been personally added to Signal chats … Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at least 20 such chats. All four said they saw
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European Commission takes aim at end-to-end encryption and proposes Europol become an EU FBI | The Record | …here we go again
The aim is to “identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights,” said the Commission. The identification of such solutions has been the subject of much controversy when attempted elsewhere. https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal
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Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought | Ars Technica
An excellent and very worthwhile read for any of who have been in the position of turning things off and on again: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/
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US Troll site Kiwi Farms receives Ofcom demand for Online Safety Act “Risk Assessment”, rejects it on 1A/Jurisdiction grounds, demands MLAT
Remember September 2020 when “good” people pressured Cloudflare into removing troll harassment site KiwiFarms (KF) from their services, thereby improving the internet? It didn’t work, was never going to work, and all it achieved was teaching KF to build resilient architecture. Now… …now Ofcom stomps in with its big boots on, demanding that KF perform
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild [US Social Security COBOL] Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse | WIRED
I suppose they could get Grok to write a COBOL to Rust converter to do it for them? What could possibly go wrong? :popcorn: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
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‘Have You Ever Watched A Daniel Tiger Show?’ | guy from the Heritage Foundation would not have funded ‘Mr Rogers’ due to ‘lack of demand’
“What does ‘Ugga-Mugga’ mean to you?” Via:
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30,000 years from now, the species into which humanity evolves will receive curious, highly personalised messages from space, detailing money erroneously transferred into Jovian bank accounts…
The Gaia spacecraft holds a deep emotional significance for those who worked on it. As part of its decommissioning, the names of around 1500 team members who contributed to its mission were used to overwrite some of the back-up software stored in Gaia’s onboard memory. Personal farewell messages were also written into the spacecraft’s memory,
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