Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your *Android* phone, Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN.
The more I learn about atmospheric chemistry, the more terrified and angry I am about satellite companies' blatant lack of consideration for how their actions will harm the atmosphere. I hope this gets a lot of press. Great work by a whole team of scientists, including @astrokiwi.bsky.social!
My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!
When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.
Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.
Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks: America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
Even if being trans or gay was a choice, it would absolutely not justify trying to "fix" it.
Similarly, fighting racism on the basis that races "do not scientifically exist" is too weak IMHO. Even if they did, it would not be OK to treat human beings differently based on their ancestors or visible differences.
this is fabulous, but I hope developers don't start using it in place of making their apps just work with VoiceOver. We've already seen a number of apps do their own thing with regards to text to speech, when we as primary users already have a comfortable and preferred setup
Nějaký idiot, a idiot je slabé slovo, mi dnes ráno zde, mimo obec, nedal přednost v jízdě. Vtrhnul mi do cesty jak Hitler do Polska, čůrák. Okamžitě jsem začal brzdit a strhnul jsem volat vlevo, málem jsem skončil v té přikopě. No tep jsem měl tak 180 minimálně. Bílá Fabie combi z Darkovic. No škoda slov. A podotýkám znovu, je to mimo obec, takže jsem tam jel minimálně 80. Byli jsme od sebe zhruba tak, jak ukazuje fotka, když mi do té cesty vjel.
It guides you through writing a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about writing a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
"Ice can end". Spotted on the corner of Mission and 18th in SF. This is one of Sapien's "Magic Acrostic Squares" that can be read left to right, or top to bottom. #SFGraffiti #AbolishIce #Graffiti #MagicAcrosticSquare #Sapien
👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.
👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.
Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have
long considered
Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy.
Now, based on findings
published by the investigative journalism outlet ISt
> All Telegram servers are Telegram’s property maintained by Telegram employees. Unauthorized access is not possible. Telegram has neither employees nor servers in Russia. In the entire history of Telegram, it has never handed over private messages to third parties, and its encryption has never been hacked vot-tak.tv/87198696/fsb-chitae…
This answers exactly zero of the crucial points raised by the story.
Российские спецслужбы имеют доступ к переписке сотен миллионов пользователей Telegram — как в России, так и за рубежом. Об этом говорится в расследовании «Важных историй».
> All Telegram servers are Telegram’s property maintained by Telegram employees.
👉 First: the story is not about the servers, it's about whose infrastructure the traffic flows through.
👉 Secondly: Vedeneev, the Russian owner of the infrastructure provider GNM used by Telegram, had signed documents as Telegram's CFO (would that qualify as "employee"?), and presented himself in Florida court as the person authorized to handle Telegram's servers.
Unauthorized access to… what exactly? To the servers, which the story is not about? To data on the servers, which again, the story is not about?
Or do they mean the traffic? Because if they mean the traffic here, then GNM's access to it, as the networking provider, would be totally authorized after all.
So, either they are talking about something irrelevant (servers), or they make a statement that looks good but does not actually contradict the story.
> Telegram has neither employees nor servers in Russia.
There we go with the servers again!
Regarding employees – okay, so was Vedeneev a contractor? In the story he himself says that that the arrangement was "informal".
Telegram tries to pull a "Schrödinger's Vedeneev" here. He's an "employee" when handling the hardware in Florida, but not an "employee" in Russia? I guess?
Regardless, all that is beside the point, which is: traffic analysis and cleartext device identifier.
Ignoring dumb use of the h-word (🙄), Telegram encryption – specifically, the v1 of their homegrown MTProto protocol – had been shown to contain "a most backdoor-looking bug" some people have ever seen: words.filippo.io/dispatches/te…
This has since been fixed, and MTProto 2 has been rolled out. But it still smells funny to a lot of cryptographers.
More importantly though: the story is not about breaking Telegram's encryption
Apparently the Department of Energy is trying to eliminate accessibility/nondiscrimination regulations. If you live in the U.S., please take a few minutes to comment on DOE-HQ-2025-0015 and DOE-HQ-2025-0024: regulations.gov/document/DOE-H… regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…
This is really cool, could you please add alt text to the image you've posted? Really excited about AI in Shortcuts, I have a lot of ideas for things to try. I'm not a heavy Shortcuts user, but have always wanted to explore it more.
Want to test the #macOSTahoe beta but can't risk your main system? Create a second APFS volume in Disk Utility on your Mac so you can use the beta when you want, while keeping your primary system intact. #TipTuesdayapplevis.com/podcasts/experien…
In this episode, Levi Gobin demonstrates how to prepare your Mac for beta testing by creating a second volume on your Mac's internal disk to install and run beta versions of the operating system.
New at America's Voice: Stephen Miller’s brutal obsessions are on full display in workplaces, courthouses, and our neighborhoods.
The mass deportation architect-in-chief's lifelong, maniacal preoccupation w/vilifying immigrants (and non-white people overall) has reached new autocratic heights 👇🏽 americasvoicecnn.substack.com/…
Not only is the Trump regime’s escalation an attack on our values and personal freedoms, Miller wants to instigate disorder, in order to push through the big, ugly budget bill that would turbocharge his nativist fever dreams and make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the nation.
This is one of the best communicated responses I have ever seen against people trotting out "these are riots, not protests, look at the property destruction."
The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems
Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.
The Alternative?
Librem 5 Phone running PureOS, a Debian-based, fully auditable Linux OS, built for security from the silicon up.
✔️ No Intel ME or AMD PSP ✔️ No telemetry, tracking, or backdoors
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
if he was arguing for the looks and style of 20th century user interfaces, sure, I'd get it. But I think he is arguing for the technology that was backing all of that... I wonder if he has read the ICCCM or EWMH specs. He probably wouldn't be this loud if he had.
here, "late 20th century user interface standards" means maybe 15 years at the most. And a lot less if we're talking about accessible graphical user interfaces.
So I should be releasing a comprehensive 2 and a half hour Zoom H2 Essential audio tutorial covering all accessibility options plus everything else with in the next week. From recording to IOS control, it should be all there. It will be on YouTube and also available as zipped mp3s. I will also be including links, resources and articles regarding H2E features. Please cut me some slack since this is my first project of this kind so the editing might be a little rough.
GNOME: goes out of its way to pay for accessibility work that no company wants to pay for, regardless all the billions they make
The Register:
> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.
A few weeks back I read on Mastodon that the US Dept of Health and Human Services was getting rid of COVID tests. This is bad for all the reasons, but some enterprising government employee did a program where you could fill out a form and get anywhere from 300-3000 COVID tests (unexpired) sent to your home. I figured why not try? Last week I got seven boxes of COVID tests delivered to my porch. I posted to a local mailing list and I am getting them pointed towards my community. Thanks Mastodon!
Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed Monday that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26.
Here's my first bit of WWDC 2025 coverage: I wrote about the early response to Apple's new "Liquid Glass" design language and reshared my newsy tidbit from my chat with the company's accessibility boss.
I was on the ground yesterday at Apple Park covering this year’s WWDC keynote . The star of the show was Apple’s introduction of its all-new Liquid Glass design language. The company has a great session on Liquid Glass in the Developer app.
I wanted to share something I just finished making… an arrangement of *Kass’s Theme* from **The Legend of Zelda**! 🎶🪶 Hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!
Hey y'all! I put the iPadOS 26 beta on my iPad Pro M4 and must say while many general things feel quite allright, there are definitely some areas that are very beta with regards to VoiceOver. Control Center doesn't talk at all, the multitasking control at the top of apps isn't accessible, in Files, none of the file or folder names read, and so far, I haven't found a way to activate the much talked about menu bar in Mail, Notes or any other app. So yeah, unlike previous years, the beta feels like a beta indeed from the getgo. Has any other VoiceOver user experimented with the beta on iPad and found ways to accomplish accessing the menu bar?
Do you think you're promoting rape culture by depicting women the way you often do?
Rob Zombie: I think I'm making films with graphic content. Women play the role of killer in my movies as well.
Do you think you're glorifying murder and psychotic behavior?
No. I think I'm showing characters doing stuff that's really sick and wrong. If you want to see murder and psychotic behavior, look at Israel and Palestine. Look at what any number of governments do to innocent people every day. That's some killing.
While I understand and on some level commend Apple's dedication to requiring "apps" to keep current with platform technology (it's irresponsible to connect stuff to a network that doesn't have active security support), this is a good reminder that you should never buy games that you might care about from Apple because they all stop working eventually, with no compatibility layer, emulator, or shim that will help you get them running again arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
The contrast with the Windows platform is striking. I recently helped a blind student get started with a program called Talking Typing Teacher that, as far as I can tell, was last updated in 2006. It runs fine on his Windows 11 laptop.
@matt On the one hand, commendable, I also enjoy reading The Old New Thing; on the other, Windows's security story kinda speaks for itself. Somebody *really* needs to find a way to unify these approaches
Some kinds of programs are self-contained enough that they could run fine in a VM and basically bring their own platform, if someone implemented a lightweight desktop virtualization app (VMware Workstation/Fusion, VirtualBox, etc. tend to be clunky things). I think games would fall in that category given a low-overhead way of virtualizing the GPU. The Talking Typing Teacher program I mentioned is certainly that self-contained; the user is even supposed to shut down their screen reader.
APPLE!! OMG Apple! They wrote a very smart paper showing LLMs don't do reasoning! I love Apple now!
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