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The temporary shutdown comes amid continuing attempts to find technical solutions to address the problems, which have included flashing body parts and showing potentially offensive images.
Gosh, maybe the people who invented the Dublin to New York Portal need to talk to the age verification & child safety lobby who have got this all sorted out and who are simply waiting for their fixes to land in all the world’s platforms. “social problems require social fixes” https://news.sky.com/story/dublin-new-york-livestream-portal-to-be-switched-off-following-inappropriate-behaviour-13136067
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Today’s internet is the worst of all possible networks, excepting all those which were designed to predate, supplant or fix it
I don’t agree with the attached, in the same way that I acknowledge that the human body* is extremely badly designed but “fixing” it would bring other problems. So I’ll start calling this perspective — along with its “rewilding” cousin argument — the “digital eugenics” approach to network architecture & cybersecurity: telling folk after the
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The End of TikTok Is a Win for Beijing | The New York Times
From the “No Shit, Sherlock” department: But at what point does matching China at its own game become a betrayal of American values?These charges of hypocrisy will resonate beyond China’s borders. After Twitter deleted a tweet by the Nigerian president in 2021, which intimated violence against an ethnic group, Nigeria banned the app. The government
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Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination
4 minutes of comedy and insight, time well spent if you choose to watch it:
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We’ve heard that AI will bring about the apocalypse for 6+ months now; could it please get a move on?
It’s almost as if all of the doomerism schtick was not a realistic picture of how the world works. We set aside worrying about so many other things (war, famine, disease, racism, education…) in order to worry about AI, and as a hostile actor it is clearly under-delivering. It’s a shame because if the world
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Jeremy Hunt bets on creating a $1tn ‘British Microsoft’ | …oh, bless…
Because of course the way you get a £1tn tech industry is to mess with stock market rules whilst fearmongering & regulating tech out of existence. Also: “a decade”? “What’s my yardstick of success? I’d like to see a British Alphabet, I’d like to see a British Microsoft” Hunt told the Financial Times. … “It might
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Elon Musk Weighs in on the Encryption Wars Between Telegram and Signal | Headline misses: “Telegram is not even encrypted by default”
And now I’m literally wondering if Elon sees Telegram as the exit strategy for X https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-encrypted-messenger-app-wars-telegram-signal-2024-5
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“Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk” | @matthew_d_green
> Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has recently been making a big conspiracy push to promote Telegram as more secure than Signal. This is like promoting ketchup as better for your car than synthetic motor oil. Telegram isn’t a secure messenger, full stop. That’s a choice Durov made. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789687898863792453.html
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Gosh, it’s almost like what we should have been doing all along is teaching people to have critical faculties and opinions
Silkie Carlo on Twitter: > Today’s leader in the Times (!): The “sinister irony of the disinformation industry” is that in posing as “neutral arbiters of accuracy” it “risks creating a new form of misinformation”.
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Dell API abused to steal 49 million customer records in data breach | …an example of poor security through lack of both rate limiting & behavioural modelling
Once they gained access to the portal, Menelik told BleepingComputer they had created a program that generated 7-digit service tags and submitted them to the portal page starting in March to scrape the returned information. As the portal reportedly did not include any rate limiting, the threat actor claims they could harvest the information of
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Undersea cables and the vulnerability of American power | Engelsberg Ideas
Interesting essay, especially for anybody who has previously read The Victorian Internet https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/undersea-cables-and-the-vulnerability-of-american-power/