Six years after 8K's commercial debut, the higher resolution standard still looks distinctly stalled, with few TVs selling and still hardly anything to watch in that format. pcmag.com/opinions/in-2025-the…
"A group of robocallers impersonating FCC employees made the amateur mistake of trying to scam actual commission employees last year. They likely had no idea they had inadvertently dialed the very regulators responsible for cracking down on them": FINALLY! FCC Gets Tough on Robocall Fraud securityboulevard.com/2025/02/…
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Grazie alla collaborazione tra Devol, Open For Future Italia, Ufficio Zero e Feddit ha preso vita fedimercatino.it un mercatino decentralizzato, open source e federato. Il progetto nasce con l’idea di ridare valore agli oggetti inutilizzati, contrastando la cultura dello spreco. Fateci un salto! 🛍️ ♻️
Investors worry about EU satellite operators Eutelsat and SES amid soaring debt and rise of Starlink, which now has 6,000+ satellites and serves ~130 countries (Euan Healy/Financial Times)
As promised, here's one from last weekend's photoshoot, of me in leather shorts. I am not at all satisfied with this as a visual artwork; I made it partly just to establish that I fit in at least somewhat on woof.group.
@federicomena Indeed, or an Euler spiral! I wrote a little about the tattoo earlier. It's still one of my favorite curves, even though I've been doing more recent work on other curves.
Perhaps I'll take some heat for being enthusiastic about a proprietary thing that's only implemented by one vendor so far, but I now think that Cloudflare Workers (workers.cloudflare.com/) is fundamentally the right way to develop, operate, and pay for web application backends on the public Internet.
As for vendor lock-in, they've open-sourced a large part of their runtime environment in workerd (github.com/cloudflare/workerd), and I'm sure there are multiple other companies that can implement competing but compatible services.
Meta sta affrontando accuse di aver scaricato oltre 81,7 terabyte di libri piratati per addestrare i suoi modelli di intelligenza artificiale, secondo documenti giudiziari appena desecretati. Queste rivelazioni sono emerse in una causa per violazione del copyright intentata da autori, tra cui Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey e Christopher Golden, che sostengono che Meta ha utilizzato le loro opere senza autorizzazione per sviluppare le sue tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale.
Dva roky nedávno uplynuly ode dne, kdy Petr Pavel v prezidentských volbách přesvědčivě porazil Andreje Babiše. Nabízí se tedy otázka, zda je jako hlava státu dobrý. Ta je složitá a na celou diplomovou práci. Položme ji tedy jednodušeji.
Call with a universal credit agent a couple of days ago. 'So can you upload a CV?' 'Yes sure, I can do that.' 'How will you do that, can you use a computer?' 'Yep, no problem.' 'How do you do that, do you use bra-lay?' 'What?' 'Bra-lay.' 'Oh, you mean Braille?...' 'Yes, yes. Braille. That's it.' 'Well, I can read braille but I will use a screen-reader.' 'Oh, you use a screen-reader?'
Yep, that's how my call went. I've heard of some weirdness in my time but 'Bra-lay' for Braille, that, is a special kind of special right there.
A new AI tool says it can detect similarities in fingerprints that humans can't.Support our work. Become a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/membershipsSu...
- exactly why I always flash a de-googled rom or alternative OS onto any mobile device I use. You gain better battery life and as close as possible to an ad free experience as well. Calyx, Graphene, crDroid, /e/, iode, Lineage, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish, Mobian, Droidian, Postmarket, etc - all can work towards this.
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.
You can uninstall it but it will reinstall itself. Pretty sure this is being done under the banner of scanning for CSAM, similar to something Apple was involved with a few years ago. I don’t have many Android devices to worry about and none connected to a cellular network.
Nothing new. In the closed Source World you have to trust your Key to Companies. Only Open Source and with Math, you have the Right to check and proof. I do not trust, Google, Microsoft, Apple.. without Math or open Source... Compilers and or Hardware. I know we have no Choice cause sublayer complexity. However i would love to have Democracy and self sustainable informed individual Humans, Computers or Neural Networks. Like Perfect Markets or Internet, Worlds or Individuals...
TL;DR: Yes, it does client-side scanning for nudity, but it only notifies the user. It does not (according to Google) notify anyone else. This is unlike the Apple thing, which scanned for CSAM in particular and then sent anything it identified to the government.
Of course Google might be lying, but that's always the risk of a closed OS. This changes nothing.
Quoting a Mastodon post by GrapheneOS: "The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users."
The functionality provided by Google's new Android System SafetyCore app available through the Play Store is covered here:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on-google-messages.
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
I swear the MAME developers sometimes find the goofiest things to emulate. Take this one from a few years back. Talking Wrinkles, a talking hand puppet plushy dog from 1986. This one is of special interest to me as I received one for Christmas in 1987 when I was nine years old. IIRC the product packaging said it can say 1,000 things. I had tons of fun with it at the time. Now I mostly find it annoying. Emulation isn't perfect, but here's around 6 and a half minutes of me playing with the thing in various ways. At one point I emulate putting the toy bone it comes with (it has a magnet at one end) in his mouth and letting him chew on it for a while. Then twice I put it in, then take it away too soon, which he doesn't like. During the last part when he is snoring, I have deleted about thirty seconds of silence before he finally says "Bye," and powers off. In particular, notice the extremely electronic-sounding speech and doggy noises. It has 32K of ROM and, surprisingly, a cartridge slot, though no cartridges are known to have ever been released for it. The speech is not LPC, it sounds more like Digitalker to me.
Here's a Youtube video about this talking dog, where the guy talks about it for a while, then plays with it, gets more and more annoyed with it, finally rips its batteries out, then takes it apart to show us what's inside. youtube.com/watch?v=b4ovn4aT9b…
This is the ONLY electronic toy I still have from my childhood. I got this from a babysitter in 1987 when I was four years old. This toy has spent 1997 throu...
I did this I updated my system and got curl 8.12.0, that caused a segfault in kodi when it tried to do https requests somewhere. Rebuild kodi for testing against curl 8.12.0 but that did not change...
I did a static analysis on the DeepSeek Android app
tl;dr it does aggressive device fingerprinting, root detection, has anti-tampering mechanisms, bundles native code and has dynamic code loading and execution facilities
none of which should be necessary for an app like this
Thanks to YouTube I now know I really didn't miss much by not watching the Samsung unpacked event, it turns out you can summarize it in about 40 seconds. Also is it just me or is there some sampling potential here, future idea for someone's Movuary track perhaps? youtube.com/watch?v=UyyYbl0huC…
Did anyone else start hearing "hey, guy...?"Disclaimer: This video is a transformative work under the Fair Use doctrine (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). I...
Title: Potential Use-After-Free Vulnerability in cf_h2_proxy_ctx_free Function of libcurl
Vulnerability Overview: A potential Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability has been identified in the...
are these entirely generated by AI? Seemingly the thread was a person who was submitting a vulnerability they had no understanding of and was entirely AI-sourced. Do I have that right?
@relistan they always follow this pattern: user uses a AI tool somehow, user submits an issue. And yes, the AI just made something up that is not an issue
We have enabled Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens (XEP-0484) on conversations.im. This completes a set of extensions designed to significantly improve the speed, reliability, and security of login.
could you share some details about what needed to be done to enable this on the server side? I would especially be interested in the modules that need to be configured for Prosody (if that is what's powering conversations.im )
In Massachusetts, one of our regional transit providers found that eliminating fares:
• Saved time and maintenance • Lowered rider complaints • Eliminated conflict between drivers and riders • Led to 60% higher ridership than pre-pandemic
This is while the nearby MBTA's ridership is down 36%.
PlayStation Network has been experiencing a multi-hour outage, affecting account management, gaming and social, and PlayStation Video, Store, and Direct website (Jay Peters/The Verge)
PlayStation Network (PSN) is experiencing some major problems as of Friday evening. Account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store, and the PlayStation Direct website are all dealing with issues.
Ve věku 101 let zemřel ve Spojených státech válečný pilot Antonín Fajkus. Příběh „zapomenutého pilota“ popsal Radiožurnálu historik Jiří Klůc, který ho objevil pouhou náhodou.
If anybody is interested, here's the link to my first of two lectures about accessible games. If this link doesn't work, look for the CCB podcast in your podcast app of choice. castro.fm/episode/jsysC3
We learn best when we’re busy having too much fun to realize that it’s happening. With their power to engage us, games can teach us lessons about ourselves, each other, and the technology we use to play them.
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