L’intelligenza artificiale come progetto umano. Intervista a Luciano Floridi https://www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/lintelligenza-artificiale-come-progetto-umano-intervista-luciano-floridi%C2%A0/lorenzo-perin
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Ben Werdmuller
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This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
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“Absent a court decision or a change of attitude by the White House, the Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status will expire on Tuesday (3 February) at 11:59pm. Springfield local authorities believe that an ICE surge will begin on Wednesday (4 February) and last for thirty days. The governor has said the same.” https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio
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did you mean to link a json response object?
Would be good if the EU could follow suit.
Hidden car door handles and lack of fully mechanical door opening is a massive safety failing.
Good idea, and yeah the EU /; UK should follow suit.
> Four arrested in Manchester as [a UK police force focussing on "intellectual property crime"] dismantle £750k illegal IPTV operation that halts millions of illegal streams
> The investigation began after Sky reported suspicious activity linked to a large scale illicit streaming service. Investigators identified the individuals believed to be operating an illegal IPTV service that supplied millions of consumers across the UK. One suspect is alleged to have generated more than £3 million in revenue from the operation.
@neil fun fact, Sky’s employee app has what is basically a “snitch on a pub” form which allows you to report any venue/etc that doesn’t have the visible commercial marker on it when showing things like sport events
A few things about this article on the claims WhatsApp's E2EE is fake:
The most important thing to keep in mind here is that Meta’s encryption happens on the client application, the one you run on your phone. If the claims in this lawsuit are true, then Meta would have to alter the WhatsApp application so that plaintext (unencrypted) data would be uploaded from your app’s message database to some infrastructure at Meta, or else the keys would
They would not have to be sent as plaintext. They would be sent encrypted with some key that Meta owns.
The other simple way of doing this is to intentionally weaken the key generation function. If you are generating a key with 128 bits of entropy, you can start with a 96-bit secret shared between the server and the client. Then you add 32 bits of random number and feed the result through some cryptographic hash function. You end up with a key that, to an outside observer, is one of 2128 possible values. But to the server operator, it is one of 232 possible values and so takes a few seconds of CPU time to recover. And there are ways of doing this that look a lot like an honest mistake. Telegram has a thing in their protocol for the server to provide part of the entropy seed, which they claim is intended to provide additional defence for devices with weak entropy sources and critics argue is for exactly this kind of attack. Putting the same kind of entropy seed into an out-of-band request to another Meta service that WhatsApp uses would be quite feasible.
And there are ways of hiding this kind of thing from various forms of forensic analysis, such as dynamically patching the random number generator from another thread when some trigger is applied. It's not impossible to find, it's just really hard, and someone would have to be looking for the right thing.
There's also WhatsApp Web. This runs something in the web browser that talks to your phone and uses end-to-end encryption with a key exchanged by a QR code shown in the browser. Signal does not implement a feature like this because designing it in such a way that it's verifiably (by the user) secure is almost impossible.
@david_chisnall Signal implements an interface allowing you to have your own Signal Terminal (see e.g. https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs) app.
In this sense it doesn't seem to be much different from what Meta is doing with their WhatsApp Web app - the signup is done via a barcode.
Catalin Cimpanu
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Julian Fietkau
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Catalin Cimpanu
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A fun one about the Notepad++ incident is, although my toots about it auto deleted (I have my toots set to auto delete unless I bookmark them), it was first revealed on the Fediverse in followers only mode a few months ago - I had a thread running for it back then.
When in follower only mode, the C2 infrastructure was still up so I was still able to track it - they only burnt it down when I wrote the blog. So follow me to see nation state espionage get live tooted, I guess.
Il Vietnam sembrava destinato a un percorso di apertura diverso da quello cinese. Ma l’accentramento del potere e il controllo sui cittadini ricordano molto la Cina di Xi Jinping. L'articolo di Junko Terao.
La tentazione autoritaria di H...
# Akkoma # Statistics 2026-02-03 17:00 CET
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Secret Panel HERE 🍦 https://tapas.io/episode/376653
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What a treat to chat with React pioneer Tom Occhino about the evolution of vibe coding and Vercel's new v0 launch today. As it turns out generating code isn't really the hard part for an enterprise - it's all the stuff around it.
Re: @julian how is your experience with soft deletes and mastodon so far?
@pfefferle@mastodon.social instead of an Undo(Delete), can you send an Update(Note) instead?
Perhaps that will trigger the tombstone to be... exhumed 
Otherwise let's bring it up with the Mastodon team for better support 👍
Re: @julian how is your experience with soft deletes and mastodon so far?
@pfefferle@mastodon.social as for your use case, it seems like I am missing direction for Undeleting! Let's see what the Mastodon team says...
@nartagnan
Imagine, iels font toustes semblant à cause de la pression sociale, en vrai.
Si ça se trouve, le ptit capitaine tout beau tout propre il a un compte en attente de validation sur kolektiva.social
Non mais imagine.
@LaQuadrature vazy trouver une cable usb-A <-> usb-A en 2026 ...
@benjamin @LaQuadrature wah wah wah, 40GB !
No, Trump does not have the legal authority or the practical ability to “nationalize” US elections, for all the same reasons he also didn’t when he issued an executive order a few months ago abolishing mail in voting. Elections are governed by states, and, to a limited extent, Congress. Not the executive branch.
There are plenty of very real, immediate threats to democracy to get worked up about right now. This isn’t one of them.
@mattblaze and saying this is completely disingenuous, misleading, and ignores reality.
He can't deport people illegally. He can't send people to foreign countries to be tortured illegally. He can't rename the Kennedy center illegally.
These are not self-enforcing things. If they are saying they are going to seize control of elections by force, then guess what? They sure as fuck are going to try. And they don't CARE if they screw it up. Screwing it up is the POINT.
Dear f***ing lord!
Nearly one every three Meta ads showed in the EU and UK over 23 days pointed to online scams
This should be the easiest layup for govt agencies in the history of enforcements
https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/scam-ad-machine-meta
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