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MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive
Interesting to compare this to government dismay when Meta shut down CrowdTangle; apparently government hates being held to account by third parties: Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive […said]: “We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts. “HMCTS’s own data proves they can’t do it —
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MUST WATCH: Superbowl “Ring” surveillance advert, ideal for organising lynchings, quelling protest, etc…
It’s worth clicking through to see all of the outrage and wonder how many of these people have not been paying attention to what’s being done in the name of “child safety”, let alone finding lost dogs:
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European Commission mandates Facebook (etc) must not take down right-wing hate content for 24h if posted on self-declared “editorially independent” websites
“what could possibly go wrong”? Presumably part of the point of this is also to get media outlets to sign up for regulatory oversight. Commission issues guidelines to protect media content on online platforms | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-issues-guidelines-protect-media-content-online-platforms Article 18 (1) of the European Media Freedom Act introduces concrete safeguards to protect media
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Epstein file PDFs contain OCR texts of complete, *unredacted*, Base64-encoded email attachments; forensics geeks commence challenging reconstruction…
“Oh dear.” Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments | The NeoSmart FilesThe NeoSmart Files https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/
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It’s almost hard to work out which country this is meant to be about…
If foreign intelligence controlled events, the mass killings across hundreds of cities would be impossible to explain. If such networks were real, a security state that tracks teachers and workers with such meticulous attention to detail would have arrested at least one of these supposed agents in advance. The story collapses under the slightest pressure,
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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell | CIA
Sad to lose one concrete positive: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. Let’s take a quick look into the history of The World
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Prediction: if it hasn’t happened already there will soon be a massive media story about “Quoted Printable” encoding, possibly including somebody getting shot because of it
There is just so much confusion and outrage as people who have never done computer forensics are suddenly faced with millions of corrupted PDF renditions of 7-bit text attempting to carry 8-bit & Unicode characters
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next, after age verification, will come “proof of humanity” …
…which will likewise fail; not to mention that there is nothing in the supposed demand which cannot already be implemented using TLS “the human-killing AI robots demand end-to-end encrypted privacy”
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Introducing Encrypt It Already | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[EFF is] launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a campaign where we pushed companies to fix longstanding
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Anna Riedl: “The amount of prompt engineering needed to not make medical professionals have wild irrelevant hallucinations is truly extraordinary”
Sometimes I agree people are more like LLMs and less like what they imagine: “For example, if you mention having had emotional stress they will entirely ignore the long list of physical symptoms you mention afterwards and suggest you look into „psychosomatic“ causes. At this point I don’t know whether to attribute „general intelligence“ or