France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/france-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-from-september-2026

#HackerNews #France #SocialMediaBan #AustraliaStyle #Children #Safety #2026

Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/

#HackerNews #Meta #Scammers #Playbook #Pressure #SocialMedia #Safety

A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands

https://github.com/kenryu42/claude-code-safety-net

#HackerNews #ClaudeCode #Plugin #Git #Safety #FilesystemCommands #DeveloperTools

Why Reliability Demands Functional Programming

https://blog.rastrian.dev/post/why-reliability-demands-functional-programming-adts-safety-and-critical-infrastructure

#HackerNews #Reliability #FunctionalProgramming #ADTs #Safety #CriticalInfrastructure

Ireland started a Pause Before You Post Awareness Campaign: sharing photos and videos of children online can lead to unintended oversharing of personal data, which, in the wrong hands, can have serious consequences. Wise initiative!

#socialmedia #video #photography #privacy #children #child #kids #safety #ireland

CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift

https://www.12onyourside.com/2025/12/23/ceo-killed-industrial-site-by-worker-operating-forklift-while-talking-phone-osha-report-shows/

#HackerNews #CEO #Incident #Forklift #Safety #WorkplaceAccident #OSHA #Report

AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/12/16/ai-bathroom-monitors-welcome-to-americas-new-surveillance-high-schools/

#HackerNews #AI #Surveillance #High #Schools #Privacy #Concerns #EdTech #Student #Safety

Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe

https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/

#HackerNews #Autoland #King #Air #Safety #Aviation #News #Emergency #Landing

Through our reporting, it became clear that patients and doctors don’t have all the information needed to make informed decisions about the medicines they take or prescribe.

More on how we gathered a trove of FDA information and put it all together:
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-fda-generic-drug-tool-methodology?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#FDA #Medicine #Medication #Drugs #Health #Safety #App #Data #Research

Public Citizen: Mushrooming Risk: Unreliable A.I. Tools Generate Mushroom Misinformation

March 18, 2024

"Emerging A.I. technologies are being deployed to help beginner foragers find edible wild mushrooms. Distinguishing edible mushrooms from toxic mushrooms in the wild is a high-risk activity that requires real-world skills that current A.I. systems cannot reliably emulate.

Individuals relying solely on A.I. technology for mushroom identification have been severely sickened and hospitalized after consuming wild mushrooms that A.I. systems misidentified as edible."

https://www.citizen.org/article/mushroom-risk-ai-app-misinformation/

#mushrooms #safety #foraging

If you want maximum user safety on your Mastodon server, you might be interested in the little-known "Limited Federation Mode".

This mode blocks all other servers by default, and allows you to individually name which servers you are willing to federate with. This is also known as an "allowlist", as opposed to the more common "blocklist" approach.

You can find out more about Limited Federation Mode on Mastodon in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Safety

If you want maximum user safety on your Mastodon server, you might be interested in the little-known "Limited Federation Mode".

This mode blocks all other servers by default, and allows you to individually name which servers you are willing to federate with. This is also known as an "allowlist", as opposed to the more common "blocklist" approach.

You can find out more about Limited Federation Mode on Mastodon in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Safety

JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/

#HackerNews #JetBlue #Air #Safety #Aviation #News #MidAirCollision #USAirForce

In Bloomberg, I argued that traffic lights are a street safety solution that’s hiding in plain sight

For instance, cities can
▪️ Install Leading Pedestrian Intervals to make those on foot more visible
▪️ Use "rest in red" to halt reckless drivers after dark
▪️ Lower the green wave speed on high-crash corridors

Note: None of these require AI or V2X mumbo jumbo.

Pushback from drivers is rare; they may not even notice.

#safety #streets #cities

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/how-do-traffic-lights-curb-dangerous-driving-it-s-all-in-the-timing

We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses.

Read our original investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dot-regulation-safety-rollback-sean-duffy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Transportation #Business #Industry #Regulation #Safety #Government

Amazon’s Ring is rolling out “Familiar Faces,” an opt-in facial-recognition tool that catalogs up to 50 known visitors 🚪

Amazon says data is encrypted, but past law-enforcement partnerships and security issues raise concerns about biometric handling 🔒

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/amazons-ring-rolls-out-controversial-ai-powered-facial-recognition-feature-to-video-doorbells/

#TechNews #Privacy #AI #Surveillance #Security #Data #Biometrics #ConsumerRights #SmartHome #BigTech #Policy #Safety #Ethics #DigitalRights #Accountability #Amazon #Ring #Encryption

Age-verification laws now cover half the US, requiring IDs or face scans to access “harmful” content 📄

Advocates warn these mandates expand surveillance, increase breach risks, and could enable censorship under bills like KOSA ⚠️

Groups like @fightforthefuture.org are pushing for safer alternatives 🛡️

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/

#TechNews #Privacy #DigitalRights #Censorship #Security #Data #AI #Policy #Internet #Safety #Freedom #Surveillance #USA #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #US

For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.

For decades, the government cleaned it up.

But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Nebraska #Environment #Health #PublicHealth #Safety #Family