Author: Robin Edgar
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Copyright litigation over Anne Frank’s writings likely to impact the fate of VPNs in the EU – Walled Culture
Source: Copyright litigation over Anne Frank’s writings likely to impact the fate of VPNs in the EU – Walled Culture
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Neither Android Nor IOS: DIY Smartphone Runs On ESP32!
You may or may not be reading this on a smartphone, but odds are that even if you aren’t, you own one. Well, possess one, anyway — it’s debatable if the locked-down, one-way relationships we have with our addiction slabs counts as ownership. [LuckyBor], aka [Breezy], on the other hand — fully owns his 4G…
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Australia will consider requiring app stores to block AI services without age verification
Australia’s government may take a strict stance on ensuring younger users cannot access AI chatbots. Reuters reports that Australian regulators may require app storefronts to block AI services that do not implement age verification for restricting mature content by March 9. “eSafety will use the full range of our powers where there is non-compliance,” a…
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Laser printed hydrogel implant could transform bone repair
Today’s implants are commonly made from the patient’s own bone, called autografts, or from metal and ceramic materials. Autografts require an additional operation to collect the bone tissue, which increases recovery time and surgical risk. Metal implants can also create problems because they are much stiffer than natural bone and may loosen over time, reducing…
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15.8M medical records stolen from French health ministry • The Register
Around 15.8 million administrative files were stolen after attackers breached a software supplier to France’s health ministry. The supplier, Cegedim Santé, confirmed the data was compromised in late 2025. Approximately 165,000 of these files contained notes penned by doctors, which in “very limited cases” contained sensitive information about an individual’s medical history. According to broadcaster…
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Hacked Tehran Traffic Cameras Fed Israeli Intelligence Before Strike On Khamenei
An anonymous reader shares a CTech article with the caption: “A brilliantly executed operation.” From the report: Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran. According to reporting by the Financial Times (paywalled), nearly all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras had…
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Data aggregators are selling personal Chatbot data
Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent. Lee S Dryburgh, an expert in AI visibility for consumer health and longevity brands, explained how this works in a report provided…
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Meta’s AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators
Users of Meta’s AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive financial information with moderators outside of the bloc, according to a report from Sweden’s Svenska Dagbladetreleased last week. Employees in Kenya doing AI “annotation” told the journalists that they’ve seen people nude, using the toilet and engaging in sexual…
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A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now In the Hands of Foreign Spies, Criminals
Security researchers say a highly sophisticated iPhone exploitation toolkit dubbed “Coruna,” which possibly originated from a U.S. government contractor, has spread from suspected Russian espionage operations to crypto-stealing criminal campaigns. Apple has patched the exploited vulnerabilities in newer iOS versions, but tens of thousands of devices may have already been compromised. An anonymous reader quotes…
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EU Tangled Github alternative closes $4.5M round
Source: Building Europe’s native code infrastructure: Tangled closes $4.5M round – Tech.eu
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After California, now Colorado Lawmakers Now Push for Age Verification at the Operating System
Well, I will just repeat what I said about California (A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup) – NB people on this LinkedIn post were not too happy about that either: Here we see the creeping sliding scale that is the…
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Airsnitch WiFi attack: Stay away from public WiFi (unless you have a VPN you trust) and don’t let anyone onto your guest WiFi unless it’s isolated via VLAN!
New research shows that behaviors that occur at the very lowest levels of the network stack make encryption—in any form, not just those that have been broken in the past—incapable of providing client isolation, an encryption-enabled protection promised by all router makers, that is intended to block direct communication between two or more connected clients.…
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ShinyHunters leaked the full 6.5m customer Odido dataset – including data that should have been deleted years ago
This data breach should not have been so large. Yes, it’s good that Odido stood up to ransomware actors and did not pay the ransom. No, they should have deleted most of that data years and years ago as per their own TOS and EU regulation. Source: ShinyHunters leaked the full Odido dataset
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Norway’s Consumer Council Calls for Right to Repair and Antitrust Enforcement – and Mocks ‘Enshittification’
The Norwegian Consumer Council, a government funded organization advocating for consumer’s rights, released a report on the trend of “enshittification” in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways consumers for consumers to resist. But they’ve also dramatized the problem with a funny four-minute video about the man whose calls for him to make things shitty…
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Perplexity Announces ‘Computer,’ an AI Agent That Assigns Work To Other AI Agent (or OpenClaw clone)
So this is basically an agentic coordinator (which the correct technical term is an orchestrator). The agents are like microservices, or little programs designed to do a specific job – usually by interacting with a tool (eg a weather API). This is part of the puzzle that was missing in Agentic AI, but which an…
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How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU | Techdirt
Source: How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU | Techdirt
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Freedom of speech? Open University deletes “ancient Palestine” references under Israeli lobby pressure despite historical accuracy
The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For years, we were told the danger came from the left: oversensitive students, censorious activists, no-platforming zealots. Yet the most aggressive and successful campaign to police speech in our public…
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U.S. Military Has Used Long-Range Kamikaze Drones In Combat For The First Time
The U.S. has used LUCAS kamikaze drones for the first time in combat, U.S. Central Command acknowledged on Saturday. The drones, based on the Iranian Shahed-136, were launched from the ground by Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS). The task force was set up in December “to flip the script on Iran,” a U.S. official told…
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Turning images into QR codes using Stable Diffusion
This is a 2023 post I somehow missed – I miss the days when people were doing strange abstract stuff with AI!
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Motorola’s partners with GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS is a possible alternative to Android, but more open, more secure, more private. Since Google intends to lock down Android by releasing the code once per quarter and not allowing the installation of external apps without developers registering with Google (and paying for this), we need a secure, open OS alternative. With manufacturers partnering…
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A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
Here we see the creeping sliding scale that is the terror of Age Verification. First of all, an OS does not need an age – it’s like saying any technology needs age verification: all gadgets use an OS, whether it is your washing machine, your smart light switch, your PSP or your PC. Second of…
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Wind Power Is Taking Off In China– All The Way To 2000 M AGL
2000 m above ground level (AGL), winds are stronger and much, much more consistent than they are at surface. Even if the Earth were a perfect sphere, there’d be a sluggish boundry layer at the surface, but since it’s got all these interesting bumps and bits and bobs, it’s not just sluggish but horribly turbulent,…
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Microsoft starts to offer Local offerings of their Azure and 365 Cloud Products thanks to the EU
Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour. The latest change comes amid heightened trade and geopolitical tensions between the US administration and Europe, with more customers in the trading bloc seeking reassurances about digital sovereignty. Like rival US hyperscalers, Microsoft has…
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Prediction Market Kalshi accuses 2 of insider trading: MrBeast editor and Republican candidate
An editor who works for YouTube’s biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi and reported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshi officials said on Wednesday. It’s the first time the company has publicly revealed the results of an investigation into market manipulation on the popular app. The MrBeast employee,…
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The Two Key Villains of 2022’s Crypto Crash are Trying to Rewrite History
Source: The Two Key Villains of 2022’s Crypto Crash are Trying to Rewrite History
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