Search results for tag #data
" 67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report. "
" U.S. and Iran pause fighting to give peace talks ‘space.’ Here’s where negotiations stand "
" Inside Florida's $85M James Bond-inspired mansion built to 'make a billionaire's jaw drop' "
What a rotten #capitalist system. "Everything goes" and ironically, everybody who has something meaningful to give back to society is broke at the same time because it is that minimalist and decadent capitalist system with its stupid monetary policies that refuses to budge for us. The lunatics leading this Ship of Fools have spent so much money on war and funding the billionaires' projects (DoD and military spending) while the companies have invested so much in surveillance capitalism to make the billionaires wealthy it's amazing we still have anything left of the incredible shrinking middle class.
The President of the United States doesn't want you to read the part below about what surveillance capitalism is, because that type of capitalism is how our fat lunatic and leader made over two billion dollars this year just from computers minting cryptocoins. DO THIS. BUY THAT. THINK THIS WAY. HEY, NO THANKS, CRAZY BLONDE GRANDPA. TAKE YOUR PILLS, GO TO BED, AND SOMEBODY MAKE DAMN SURE THAT THIS BELLICOSE MAN IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL OR SATCHEL WITH ITS ALL-IMPORTANT LAUNCH CODES.
Here is the core idea of surveillance capitalism, according to Claude dot ai.
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It describes an economic system where companies generate profit primarily by collecting and monetizing personal data — often gathered without people fully understanding or consenting to how it's used. The basic pattern:
Extraction – Companies harvest data from your behavior: clicks, searches, location, purchases, even how long you pause on a video.
Analysis – That raw #data gets processed to predict and influence future behavior (what you'll buy, click, watch, or believe).
Monetization – These predictions are sold, mainly to advertisers, but also to other buyers interested in shaping behavior.
People will say you have no expectation of privacy in public, and that is true, but it's not what we're actually talking about.
For the VAST majority of human history, we had no expectation of being *recorded*.
It's only the last few decades that that was even possible.
Our laws need to catch up.
Hello friends in fediverse,
I'm looking to connect with people who talk and share interesting topics about technology, data science, data analysis, research and open source.
#fediverse #fedi #introduction #DataScience #data #privacy #DataSecurity #research #tech
Europe's unique strengths are in encryption and security. If we look at companies and organizations like Proton, Wire and Threema, we can see that the European innovation is about privacy, data security and trust.
Europe has strong potential to become global superpower regarding these areas. Made in Europe means made with privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles.
Europe can offer the world the most secure, trusted and privacy-oriented solutions. What it needs to do is to embrace this path and recognize its own strengths.
#Europe #Europa #privacy #security #technology #tech #DataSecurity #data #MadeInEurope
https://www.europesays.com/3145687/ Uptick in immigration related detainments nationwide #arrests #CBP #CustomsAndBorderProtection #Data #detainments #EmailWeatherSearch #ice #immigrant #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Maine #MenuSubscribe #NewEngland #NowcastMaine #page #PrivacyNoticeTerm #TotalCoverage #UseNextfre #WMTW
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Uptick in immigration related detainments nationwide
Ohhhh....this is going to be *a lot* more than 226GB. Only some of the Google Photos found their new home for whatever reason. I had it sync'd to my old #TrueNAS box, but apparently a lot are missing. Doing the whole Google Takeout thing. 172GB of photos split into 2GB zip files.
And then dedup them. Yay! 🤦 🤯
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news
#GlobalWarming #environment #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #ClimateAction #pollution #future #nature #Earth #world #international #humanity #science #data #info #information #knowledge
Well *that* is inconvenient....
So the new cloud provider I'm using is Jottacloud out of Norway. Unlimited data for $119/year. Not bad. Really, I just need it to archive data from TrueNAS (building a more capable NAS this weekend). Jottacloud has separate sections for Files and Photos/videos. The latter functions like Google Photos.
I just discovered a few minutes ago you *cannot* move content from the Photo section to the Files section. The only way is to download all the data and then re-upload it into the Files section!
This was after I've uploaded close to a half terabyte of photos and videos too. I wish I knew that ahead of time. As per the Help section, this is by design. Ugh....
NEW: A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers
A cybersecurity loophole in an official government mapping service left private data easily accessible, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and ProPublica learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-crim-data-breach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PuertoRico #Government #Cybersecurity #Data #Privacy #SocialSecurity #Tech #Technology
Opera GX fixes critical GX Mods data leak flaw
🔗 https://cybersecurefox.com/en/opera-gx-gx-mods-css-xs-leak-vulnerability
#opera #gx #gx #mods #vulnerability #css #exfiltration #xs-leak #gmail #data #leak
@geerlingguy this paints the consumer more as a victim, maybe the real corp overeach is admitting they are basically proxies for gov't surveillance - willing profiteers, maybe almost as bad as the ai industry
#red shirt harms and impacts #tort law #ip #pii #license #osint #data brokers
Bright Data (formerly Luminati Networks) is a global technology company that offers web data collection and proxy services.
NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
Update. This article in Nature makes the case that reusing #OpenData for new purposes is a good solution for "cash-strapped and early-career researchers" who don't have the means to generate their own.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00434-x
True enough. But it undervalues the utility of past data for all relevant new projects, even well-funded new projects. The present thread gives some examples. Open data are not only, and not even primarily, for the indigent. They're for the savvy, those who notice their relevance, regardless of means.
Update. Here's a great opportunity to #reuse older #data for contemporary #climate research.
"An archive of over 1,600 sets of meteorological, magnetic and tidal observations taken from 1706-1915 from across the globe has been digitised for the first time."
https://royalsociety.org/news/2026/06/historic-weather-data-archive/
Update. Here's a good example of the #reuse of older #data in #psychology and #linguistics.
"Highly gendered languages are linked to larger personality differences between men and women."
https://www.psypost.org/highly-gendered-languages-are-linked-to-larger-personality-differences-between-men-and-women/
From co-author Roxana Hofmann: "We wanted to highlight how grateful we are for all the people who made the data public, which allowed us to test our research question. This included the anonymized personality trait data assessed across multiple countries, language typologies from the World Atlas of Language Structures, and also pretrained word embeddings that allowed us to estimate the gender association of words across multiple languages."
Despite this, the authors chose to publish in a paywalled journal.
https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pspp0000600
"Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change."
The government climate information website shuttered by Trump to hide the truth is back as a non-profit, run by folks DOGE purged.
All of the content that was deleted from the .gov is now back, along with blogs from experts, climate status reports, maps and data pathways, and national assessments of climate change.
EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
"Under a new agreement, the EU would open up European police databases to the US, handing over huge amounts of sensitive personal data, including fingerprints and facial images, on millions of Europeans, in exchange for keeping visa-free travel."
Sign the #petition here:
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06-dont-send-our-data-to-the-US-petition-EN
#privacy #security #jurisdiction #law #EU #visa #travel #US #Trump #biometrics #personal #data #fingerprints #police #database
A single archive in the folder of my contemporary gaming titles is already several times larger than my entire retro library. Data inflation is real! 😜
#Gaming #PCGaming #Preservation #StopKillingGames #RetroGaming #Data #Backup
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Looking at my current GOG.com backup folder...
Post Originaly from https://bsky.app/profile/fjox.win/post/3mofs2frbvs2v at 2026 06 16
my server had been down for like 5 days now. Now im stuck on this stupid place and don't even have acces to my nas. Then I found out I spend the last day and a half copying the wrong drive with ddrescue. Im soo done with this shit. I have decade old hard drives but ask a ssd to do more then 3 years hell no. I want a server that could run forever if electricity is provided. Ssds make it impossible. 3 months of 15 vms that probably didn't even do 500gb per day in total killed a drive that supposed to have a rw capacity of 2400 tb. Also I hate bluesky with its stupid twitter like post limit of 500. My mastodon had a limit of 65536. You could write a small book with that. And now that I have to copy shit with ddrescue again but instead of getting the same or better performance since its a ssd copying to a USB harddrive compared to a USB harddrive to the same USB harddrive its 30 times slower at peak. And that USB harddrive is 1tb bigger. now some might say just use the last backup. Well to even acces ir i need a vm on that ssd because nobody plans that ssd especially one from a reputable brand like samsung dies after 4 months of use. Even if mine was rather extreme compared to the usual use of one of them. it's ridiculousthat only 50 bad sectors and a passed smart test causes all the data to be inaccessible. Also the expectationthat I have backups that can survivea nuke is unrealistic. If i had the money i wouldn't use decade old hardware. Now you might say just play video games on your gaming pc. Well i don't have one, all my desktops are on my server and the only other computer that could game properly is copying the drive. I pirated gamesI alreadyown on a laptop for just to play some shitty DM for a dozen mins. This thread is probablybecoming longer then any serious post I made on the fediverse. Anyways now that i dont have a ssd for vms ig i gotta use a dozen decade old hard drives from the discard pile of a graphics design studio since im broke and you cant run multiple windows on a single harddrive cause that shit fucking lagggs. Im so done with this shit, i can even torture myself by editing long overdue videos and ive watched so many video essays that I can't watch anymore. I might just start looking on ebay for like epyc Rome shit or something. HAHA I GOT IT TO COPY AT 135MB/s. So now it's done at 0000... great. STILL BETTER THEN 10 DAYS HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHS OR THE PREVIOUS DAY AND THEN SOME ONTOP JAHAHHAHAHSHSHDHDHHDJDJFHDJDJDJDHHFJDJDJDHDJJFHDHDHFHNFJFNJDJFKFJFJDJDHFH it wasn't done, ddrescuetime calc sucks ass like it's not gonna be like 12 hours instead of 8... all the copying was fine no errors ddrescue didn't see any faulty sectors and yet all my data is shot. I can't boot truenas nor can I extract the config of it.
#thread #server #ssd #samsung #homelab #storage #proxmox #hypervisor #vdi #nvidia #fediverse #vgpu #serverrack #computers #computer #rant #hdd #hp #bsky #bluesky #twitter #externalhdd #usb #linux #ddrescue #datarecovery #data #nas #pc #thinclient #gaming #games #bsky #repost #bskyrepost
A Rennes, le datacenter Cogent avertit ses clients qu'il ne peut plus assurer la sécurité de leurs données à cause des températures extrêmes et les invite à se déplacer sur site pour éteindre les machines. Au même moment, le lobby des data centers réclame le sacrifice des objectifs climatiques de l'Europe au profit d'une tech qui carbure aux énergies fossiles... https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
#Politique #DataCenter #Data #IA #Chaleur #Informatique #SOS #Canicule #Rennes #Bretagne #Cogent #Adieu #Tech
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Dear Cogent Customer,
We would like to inform you of an exceptional situation affecting Cogent
communications Data Centre in Rennes (AV CHARDONNET - LORANS 30F)
Due to unprecedented and historically high temperatures in the region, it
has become impossible to maintain the environmental conditions required for
the safe operation of equipment hosted at the facility. Despite a thorough
on-site inspection carried out by a technician, no viable solution has been
identified that would allow us toc restore adequate cooling capacity under
the current circumstances.
As a precautionary measure, and in order to prevent potential damage to
your equipment, we strongly recommend that you send personnel to the Rennes
facility as soon as possible to perform an orderly shutdown of your
equipment. Given the current conditions, leaving the systems powered on may
expose them to a significant risk of overheating and hardware damage.
Please note that this recommendation is based solely on the extraordinary
weather conditions currently affecting the site. The temperatures being
experienced are significantly above normal operational thresholds and have
created circumstances beyond cur ability to mitigate at this time.
We understand the impact this may have on your operations and sincerely
regret the inconvenience. Our teams remain on-site monitoring the situation
closely and will provide further updates as conditions evolve.
We apologize for the inconveniences and appreciate your understanding.
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Gif Bob l'éponge: son ordinateur semble buguer plus prend feu
Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach
This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager’s tech partners was recently breached.
#cybersecurity #data-breach #lastpass #security
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/password-manager-maker-lastpass-says-hackers-stole-customer-support-case-data-during-klue-breach/
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Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach
Chrome Live Wallpaper Extensions Hid Ad Tracking Campaign
🔗 https://cybersecurefox.com/en/chrome-wallpaper-extensions-ad-fraud
#chrome #extensions #ad #fraud #malicious #extensions #chrome #web #store #data #collection
Europaweiter Zugriff auf deutsche Patientendaten?
Bislang können Patienten in Deutschland der Einrichtung einer elektronischen Patientenakte widersprechen. Eine neue EU-Verordnung könnte dieses Recht SWR-Recherchen zufolge aushebeln. Datenschützer warnen…..
#Datenschutz #ePA #Privacy #EU #Europe #Daten #Data #Gesundheit #Digitalisierung #Technology
The US used to require that corporations disclose the true identities of their beneficial owners (reducing the corrupt influence of shell companies) and kept a database of the info. Now the Trump admin is refusing to enforce the rule and deleting the data.
"Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats."
https://newrepublic.com/article/211855/republicans-making-world-safe-kleptocrats
PS: Because the database was never #OpenAccess -- basically, just for law enforcement officials -- it's probably beyond the reach of data rescue projects.
#Data #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Update. More here:
"FinCEN [Financial Crimes Enforcement Network] plans to delete data on U.S. companies from beneficial ownership database."
https://www.icij.org/news/2025/09/fincen-plans-to-delete-data-on-u-s-companies-from-beneficial-ownership-database/
#Data #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
I've been using weather.com for years for weather/forecast info but switched to AccuWeather about six months ago, partly because #Firefox was shoving it in my face on every new tab and partly because the former site was bombarding me with ads and sluggish web performance.
Recently, I've started using the National Weather Service, weather.gov. The wealth of information they provide upfront is great, too.
While there is some variation between all three sources, Accuweather.com has been, interestingly, the least accurate.
I was under the impression these 3rd party sites source their data from the NWS. But I guess this isn't the case?! 🤔
uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/kxtg1
#ai #ai-data-center #artificial-intelligence #data-center-moratoriums #meta #openai #policy
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/
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When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.
#ai #amazon #data-centers #google #water
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/when-it-comes-to-total-water-use-ai-data-centers-are-a-drop-in-the-bucket/
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Digital Sovereignty Becomes An Imparative As the US Reads Dutch Emails
"Microsoft allegedly shared the names and internal communications of Dutch officials working on EU platform regulation with the U.S. House of Representatives, including email addresses, meeting minutes, and invitations."
#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #microsoft #europe #USA #netherlands #US
Is Palantir the most evil company in the world?
Probably!
** Must watch & please boost **
“Palantir: It’s WORSE Than You Think”
via Double Down News Watch (feat. former Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr) on YouTube
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@ZackPolanski
@NHSrCommunity
@nhsactivistrn
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@palantirwatch
“Carole #Cadwalladr Exposes Palantir
‘It’s absurd and insane that we have a rogue US military contractor handling our most sensitive data. Your devices are going to be monitored 24 hours a day. Palantir had a very secretive contract with GCHQ. Palantir has a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no national security. This company should be nowhere near the NHS’.”
https://youtu.be/6H7VOoFwDtU?si=fTba-HsA0IjPMyu6
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #Palantir #Thiel #Karp #NHS #Data #Ellison #Oracle #Blair #TBi #Labour #Mandelson #Starmer #Epstein #GCHQ #ICE #US #Trump #Vance #SiliconValley #Guardian #MOD #Police #MetPolice
Komplettes Whatsapp-Verzeichnis abgerufen und ausgewertet
Wiener Forscher haben alle WhatsApp-Nummern abgerufen. Die 3,5 Milliarden Profile sind der größte Datenabfluss der Geschichte – und übler, als man meinen würde……
"“It feels like a #war on consumers,” said Sally Greenberg, the executive director of the National Consumers League, a 125-year-old consumer advocacy group. Households are being hit by “a tsunami of fees and hidden charges and tricks and traps”, she said.
...consumers “are starting to realize that a lot of the cool #data and #technology is being used against them”."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/04/us-consumer-rage-prices-economy
ht: @pluralistic
#Economy #Business #Tech #Politics #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
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Headline from The Guardian:
Consumed
US economy
Why are US consumers so angry? It’s not just high prices
Illustration of raised fists, one of them holding up a shopping cart
Illustration: Guardian Design / Getty Images
There’s a stew of factors at work behind the rise in consumer rage – but there are potential solutions, too
People in the US: tell us about your difficult consumer experiences
by Heather Timmons in Washington
Thu 4 Jun 2026 07.00 EDT
Last modified on Thu 4 Jun 2026 11.56 EDT
#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme
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Meme, showing a continuous circle of data breach messages from corporations…
Ahaha you're not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach.
Your data is probably for sale online now.
That means someone could easily impersonate you.
Going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure its you.
“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.” — Sankaet Pathak
source https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o
Auch bei Twitter werden Nutzer*innen Daten zum Training von KI verwendet.....
Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect 09/29/23, giving them the right to use your posts & all of your data to train musk's "AI."
view-source:https://twitter.com/en/privacy
#47 & #cronies are doing their best to remove scientific monitoring systems that are critical to understanding what's happening as the #ClimateCrisis evolves.
While ostriches don't hide their heads in the sand to avoid danger, these #kleptocrats seem to think that if we don't know what's happening, we don't have to be concerned.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/fcas-palantir-deal-could-expose-uk-financial-data-to-trumps-us-critics-fear. Can we PLEASE have an absolute rule? #Palantir must have NO #access to ANYTHING in the #UK! They CANNOT be trusted with ANY of our #data!
Ohio lawmakers go deep on data centers
A committee on data centers met for the first time . Ohio lawmakers have an ambitious timeline, draft legislation may come by early June.
#data-centers #election-signal-2026 #mike-dewine #signal-statewide #state-signals
https://signalohio.org/ohio-lawmakers-go-deep-on-data-centers/
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NoTrace Project
No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.
https://www.notrace.how/ via @notrace
#Surveillance #Data #Privacy #DataSecurity
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https://www.europesays.com/3024540/ Panel highlights economic, environmental impacts of data centers on Maine #chemical #Data #DataCenters #DatumCenter #developer #ElectricalGrid #Energy #EnvironmentalImpact #Government #jay #JayDataCenter #Maine #MaineDataCenters #OtherPart #panel #PotentialDevelopment #project #sanford #SanfordWoods #work
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Panel highlights economic, environmental impacts of data centers on Maine
7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data
The data breach included names, dates of birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state government listing.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/...
#cyberattack #cybersecurity #data-breach #security #shinyhunters
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/7-eleven-data-breach-affects-over-185000-peoples-personal-data/
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7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data
Your periodic reminder that #AI cannot even *see* the #future, much less *be* the future.
No matter how much #data a model trains on, it cannot create anything #original.
This is among the reasons why AI cannot replace #people. Every #job, even the simplest, requires the person doing it to be able to respond to something new and unforeseen.
This is something people often get wrong. We use the word #accident because sometimes things go wrong despite an individual's or group's #training and #experience. This use of the word "training" is different from what #techbros mean when they use it to describe their AI #models. Which is *another* reason why it can't reliably do what people do.
RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116606089296164399
Remember this whenever you hear claims that your data is secure on some system or other that you do not own and control.
Like all that additional data governments want to gather via the slippery slope of “age verification” in the EU.
The only data that is actually secure on a third party is data you haven’t shared with the third party.
Hence: data minimisation.
Had I mentioned GDMR yet today? Because I feel I might have. But hey, here it is again:
#data #security #privacy #GDMR #microsoft #github #hack
AodeRelay boostedGitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the hack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/
http://www.techmeme.com/260520/p14#a260520p14
More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
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Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-child-parent-separation-estimates-brookings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Children #Family #Data #Research
"The Global Country Perceptions Database, 2026 edition, surveys people in 85 countries worldwide about how they view 132 countries & international organisations....
Based on 46,667 respondents surveyed online between 19 March & 21 April 2026."
https://www.niradata.com/global-country-perceptions-2026
The #UnitedStates comes in 128th with a score of -16. Only 4 countries are viewed as worse than the US: Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea & Israel.
[Thanks #Trump (and his #GOP enablers).]
#Data #World #News #US #USA #Iran #Israel
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Chart showing the rankings of countries and international organizations by how positively or negatively they are viewed. Of 132 countries and organizations, only 22 are viewed overall negatively. The US is ranked 128th at -16. The four countries viewed as worse than the US are Iran at -17, Afghanistan and North Korea at -19, and Israel at -24.
Switzerland and Canada are ranked highest at +36.
#Apple lies. I'm not surprised *that* this is true; I'm surprised *how* this manifests.
I was looking for a #game in the #AppStore. Not a specific game, but some kind of puzzle game that has reasonable #privacy practices.
Apple is *all* about how their #App Store has only curated #apps.
There are up to three parts to this standard disclosure. This particular set has the following:
- #Data shared across all the apps on your device that is used to #track you
- Data linked to your #identity that the app is not specifically sharing
- Data that is *not* linked to you with no indication whether or how it's shared
This particular set lists #Identifiers in both the "Data Used to Track You" section and the "Data Not Linked to You" and these are mutually exclusive.
Same for #UsageData that is "Data Linked to your Identity" and "Data Not Linked to You"
wtaf?
There's some kinda #fraud happening here, though I can't say I'm shocked. #Logic should prevent this listing from even being possible. You cannot track me with something not linked to my identity. Likewise, something cannot be both linked to my identity and *not* linked to my identity. I'm not the brightest cookie in the drawer, but this isn't rocket surgery, either.
And no, I didn't install that game.
#tracking #trackers #surveillance #iOS #iPadOS #walledGarden
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App Privacy >
The developer, GOODROID, Inc., indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the [link]developer's privacy policy.[/link]
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies: [ID card icon] Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: [bar graph icon] Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity: [ID card icon] Identifiers [gear icon] Diagnostics [bar graph icon] Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. [Link] Learn More[/link]
As a Muslim FOSS and data privacy purist, is it Halal to use Claude AI in incognito mode, where they promise not to train on our data?
Dear real internet.
Because search is so terrible and failing me: do you know of any LibreOffice Calc ChartType Add-ins?
Basically the selection of chart types is pretty rotten and I'd like to be able to generate other things.
But I can't find anything.
And it would surprise me greatly if such a customisation had never been achieved before. Especially since the in built options are so basic.
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Don’t worry, it’s European.
Needless to say, unless you’re a complete and utter fool, do not join W and warn your friends not to join W either.
#EU #europe #W #socialNetwork #identityVerification #surveillance #privacy #humanRights #democracy #data @lain https://lain.com/objects/aaa7d9d6-331b-4a59-aeda-b2badafc15c3
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Identity, a separate app that scans your passport or national identity card and verifies you directly on your own device. You stay in control of what you share with other apps and services.
Your ID data is stored only on your device unless you choose to share specific parts of it.
Questions where the answer details view is closed:
Must I use my real name?
What happens if I lose my device?
il hotwire ur hardwiring
look it's for cheaper car insurance okay? I aim them downward, mostly at my vehicle to reduce privacy infringement on people who also didn't ask for this. Fucking £650 my fat ass. And that was with agreeing to a month of monitoring via creepy app, ffs. At least it's not an all-the-time creeper black box.
Fucks' sake with this shit.
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7651521
#car #dashCam #cars #motoring #vehicle #drive #driving #DashboardCamera #Camera #surveillance #creepy #OverReach #private #privacy #DataPrivacy #insecure #Data #DataProtection #information #informationSecurity #consent #tech #technology #video #recording
Poll: say you have a table of data sorted in ascending order:
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
… etc
Which icon should appear next to the heading to show that it has been sorted that way?
#UI #Interface #programming #webdev #dev #data #coding #frontend
| Downward pointing triangle like ▼: | 4 |
| Upward pointing triangle like ▲: | 1 |
| Some other thing: | 1 |
Your face is becoming your password, and you can’t change your face.
Facial recognition systems turn your identity into a permanent digital key. If that data is breached, it’s not just another hack — it’s a lifelong vulnerability that can track you, expose you and be nearly impossible to undo.
https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-data-is-a-key-to-your-identity-if-stolen-you-cant-just-change-the-locks-278289
Today I did my first trail run with my new #Suunto Race S. No problems and it synced with #Strava just fine. The amount of #metrics and #data it collects is impressive.
However, you know what is NOT impressive? The #app wants to run in the background 24x7 and just #sucks the #battery in record time. 😡
My #phone's battery doesn't hold a charge well and it is over 4,000mAh. What should be lasting several days with mostly idling requires charging just a lil over 24 hours. Suunto's battery-hungry app takes it down to 16 hours or less.
What exactly is this app doing to consume energy at an unhinged rate?
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🧵 Pixel art works, 8/x
Isometric pixel illustration for a Dutch infosec company.
#PixelArt #InfoSec #security #privacy #safety #data #CharacterDesign #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #painting #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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Stylized isometric pixel artwork of a character operating a rugged laptop in a protected environment, surrounded by walls and security cameras.
Follow-up to this, I am noticing that what I gravitate towards more and more is a job that aligns with my values & morals. I want to do at least *some* good in the world - it should be a net positive.
ALSO incredibly hard to find. Nonprofits, charities, green tech, urbanism, anything?
Preferably remote in #Canada, but would consider hybrid in #yeg.
Are there any, ANY Data Analytics, Visualization, Storytelling jobs out there that DO NOT require the use of AI just for the sake of AI?
I truly feel like I need to leave my current job as it has become unsustainable for me for multiple reasons, but whatever job ad I see out there also says AI this, AI that, and *for no good reason.* Just so they can say we "do AI."
... does this exist? am I looking for a unicorn?
Look, @EUCommission, I couldn’t care less about visa-free travel to a shithole country but I do care about our data not being shared with said shithole country and its fascist regime.
Implement visas. They’re a two-way street.
Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720
#HackerNews #Notion #Data #Leak #Email #Security #Privacy #OSINT
Dangerous apps - In the web of data brokers
What many smartphone users know: the apps on their phones collect detailed location data.
What few people know: the information often ends up with a global network of data brokers and advertising companies.
🇺🇸 "Law that has allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to collect... overseas communications without needing search warrants is set to expire"
Here is a completely wild thought: instead of changing or renewing it, how about the #USA stops ignoring people's basic rights worldwide? 🤪
#News #Privacy #Surveillance #UnitedStates #Uspol #Politics #Law #Legal #Humanrights #US #America #Techcrunch #rights #surveillancestate #fbi #cia #nsa #data #internet #spy #agencies
Is there anyone who can validate the claims in this post?
I don't believe it, but believe is not fact
Switzerland Ends #Palantir Contract Over #Data #Sovereignty Risks - #Cybersecurity
#Switzerland’s decision to discontinue the use of Palantir is not a #technology story.
- It's a #risk management story. The platform was not rejected because it failed to perform. On the contrary, it delivered advanced data fusion and operational insight.
It was rejected because the residual sovereignty risk was considered unacceptable.
#security #BigData #insecure #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
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AND…all of those stories about how the turbines kill birds is just oil-industry propaganda.
Source:
https://www.statista.com/chart/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/
#Data #Facts #Green #Environment #WindTurbines #Birds
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Infographic titled “what is killing U.S. birds?” The Statistica-sourced data shows annually: 365 million to 2.4 billion by cats, 373 million to 955 million by other collisions, 60 million to 280 million by cars, and only 140 thousand to 679 thousand by wind turbines.
"Nearly a third of physician practices are using AI scribes and others are working to add the tool, in an effort to cut down on administrative work.
If your practitioner suggests using an AI scribe at your next appointment, here are three things to keep in mind."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/healthq-ai-scribes-notetaker-doctor-visit-data-privacy/
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web
I've written before on here about my favorite metaphor, eating your seed corn ( https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1705679109.757852 ), but I also think there's a decent analogy with peak oil as well. Microsoft Recall is the tar sands and oil shale of the "data is the new oil" era. The internet had the easy fields; now we're moving on to the dirty, dangerous, environment-destroying ones. If the pattern follows that of oil, wells will be drilled closer and closer together over time to slurp out value as rapidly as possible at the expense of long-term field health.
#Microsoft #Recall #AI #data #BigData #LLM #GenerativeAI #GenAI
If you accept the viewpoint of ecological rationality, data (about people) is not nearly as useful for predictive purposes as it's made out to be. There is a "less is more" phenomenon in many applications, especially those that claim to predict behaviors or outcomes of some kind. See also this talk: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/how-recognize-ai-snake-oil .
There is a "less is more" effect with food, too. People need a baseline amount of food to maintain health, but having significantly more food than that doesn't confer significantly more health. Also food can spoil if one hoards it.
If data is a liquid, it's more like milk than oil.