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Confidential counselling calls were eavesdropped on by strangers | BBC News
People intuitively understand that communications are meant to be private amongst those people who are doing the communication: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxee3glz2pyo
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What railway pedestrian fatalities in Mumbai can teach us about online safety
I found a video on TikTok that tipped me off to a series of googleable stories over the past 15 years about reducing pedestrian railway fatalities in India caused by people walking along and over the tracks. In a nutshell: The latter is the important one to accept: there’s no way to force fatalities down
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Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group | this is an absolutely fantabulous website for people who…
…are fascinated by undocumented minutiae https://www.horg.com/horg
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The challenge of “dual use technology” elegantly contextualized in a single tweet
The same goes for: age verification, “child protection” content filters, upload filters to prevent copyright theft, …
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The Paradox Of Cyber
Even the biggest outage is only interesting when it’s intentional. Some would say that the difference is a failure to regulate to prevent outages, but outages are inevitable without centralised regulatory control which is not going to happen successfully, if ever. My take: the difference is that the Governments erroneously believe that they are in
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How long before NASDAQ opens?
I’m faintly worried that it has been going down all week.
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I ordered a green waste disposal / recycling bin from @HartCouncil at 0730am; it quietly arrived by 0930am
I cannot fault Hart District Council on this one, I just looked outside and *boom* there’s a bin. Well done, folks.
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I can’t defend continued use of an operating system where so much of the fundamental core integrity needs to be outsourced to random third parties
If you’re using Microsoft Windows as a core platform in this day and age, you need to add it to your risk register. Possibly you need to insure yourself against your own foolhardiness.
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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available | Google Developers Blog
Offering a link shortener for years and then killing it is an act of internet vandalism; that Google should do so is depressing. Perhaps the Internet Archive needs to save a copy of the database and unbreak the historical web? https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
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The EU’s pursuit of regulatory control over tech will lead to doctrinal self-extinction of Europe from the tech sphere and the primacy of Anglophone & Sinophone tech (HT: @KayJebelli)
Every so often humanity vomits-up a sect or cult that decides to do away with sexual reproduction on the grounds that it’s unregulated fun and therefore immoral; and almost inevitably this trait leads to what is called “ideological…” or “doctrinal self-extinction“. Thus the EU and its intention to regulate the training of LLMs in the