Malwarebytes has been rewarded with prestigious accolades by two renowned publications, PCMag and CNET.Tjitske de Vries (Malwarebytes)
DolphinGemma will get its first test run this summer.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
For sci-fi fans eager to revisit the interstellar saga of Babylon 5 or discover it for the first time, 2025 offers a wealth of ways to stream the beloved 1990s series. All five seasons of J.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka & I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us.Distributed AI Research Community
AccessiWeather Beta Release (v0.9.0) We're excited to announce the beta release of AccessiWeather, an accessible weather application using NOAA data with a focus on screen reader compatibility! Wha...GitHub
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Weird how many things vanish in Trumpland:
messages, people...
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: CIA confirms that when it scanned Director Ratcliffe's phone for Signalgate messages, they were gone.
"That ear-splitting whine you hear with our computers? Oh yeah,that's normal. We won't try to fix it because we've defined it as normal. FU." --Lenovo
Seriously, what??
I don't think I've ever seen the video for this, although I half wore out a CD of Bloody Kisses and had such a hard on for this song and the self-conscious blasphemy of claiming the role of a sexually attractive Christ that I incorporated its lyrics into one of my first pseudonyms.
Videomaker obviously working on making the most of Peter Steele's impressive physical form by casting him as an incubus/erotic Christ stand-in, although I feel that we could at least have got some lower body shots in there.
Type O Negative - Christian Woman
youtube.com/watch?v=3sMALbhJU6…
Type O Negative's video for 'Christian Woman' remastered in HD off the album Bloody Kisses - available now on Roadrunner Records. © 2007 WMG Purchase Bloody ...YouTube
Thunderbird is een gratis e-mailtoepassing die eenvoudig ingesteld en aangepast kan worden – en het zit vol met handige functies!Thunderbird
I did this in 2020 and then again in 2021, but I’m in the mood to look around again. Let’s look through Are We GUI Yet? and see what’s up these days.www.boringcactus.com
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is th…Rob’s Posts
very gud btw
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Muž z Vysokého zámku (2015) - seriál: Recenze, Hodnocení, Zajímavosti, Videa, Galerie, Data uvedení, Diskuze, Filmotéka a další...ČSFD.cz
Thank you, Harvard University. You have the money to do the right thing. Let’s hope it’ll also help those with less cash.
„No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university on Monday.“
(Gift link) nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harv…
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.Vimal Patel (The New York Times)
Platnost certifikátů HTTPS a DCV (Domain Control Validation) je v současnosti 398 dní. Letos Apple navrhl ve fóru CA/Browse postupné zkrácení jejich…Jan Fikar (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
byl pro vás článek přínosný? -2
Tady je krásně vidět, že lidé nehodnotí přínos článku, ale spíše citový vztah k popisovanému tématu.
Shut out of medical school, he blames controversial admissions test which experts say lacks evidence
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They let a computer make a decision. But a computer is accountable to nothing... nor are vendors.
This is fucked up.
Hundreds of people from the Android, Pixel and Chrome teams, after coming off a long line of insanely profitable quarters. Imagine having all the talent you could ever want to hand and no idea what to do with it. No vision, no ideas, nothing.
To borrow a phrase - "investor-legible signal" - from a friend:
This is an investor-legible signal that Google has no idea what they should be building, but will definitely prioritize making a line go up than figuring that out.
One wonderful feature of the English language is the way you can append “ass” to any adjective to add emphasis.
For example: “long-ass ass shadows.” #asstodon
He is in the ninth grade and has a passion for engineering and helping others. He had a goal of creating a digital braille reader for less than $50 and he succeeded.Forbes
The best way to install them is through the F-Droid store, which is a catalogue of FOSS software for Android. It's installable by downloading the .apk file linked on the front page of the F-Droid projec'ts website. The mentioned apps from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology can then be found by searching for "SECUSO", which is the name of the research project behind them all.
Alternatively, you can also get them through the Google Play Store under this link or again by searching for "SECUSO".
In particular, I recommend getting the QR code reader, because many of the free-to-use scanners route everything you scan through their servers, so they're obviously collecting your data on their servers, wherever these may be located.
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.f-droid.org
🧠 Microsoft is reintroducing Recall in Windows 11 — a feature that captures screenshots every 3 seconds of your activity to create an AI-powered memory. What could go wrong?
It now includes:
🔐 Opt-in only
📍 Local device processing
🧑💻 Windows Hello authentication
But many still ask: is it a productivity boost or a privacy liability? 😳
Even with safeguards, the idea of your system quietly watching everything you do raises serious concerns about digital trust.
#Privacy #Windows11 #AI #Cybersecurity #TechNews
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Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029.
These are the three AI tools I use as a daily part of my life, and a list of five tools I’m still trying.stuff.interfree.ca
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Good evening to everyone except Intuit, who have bizarrely concluded that there's no need to differentiate passkeys by, you know, giving them user-configurable, useful names or anything. (The only option is "delete".)
And extra style points for the "Unkown" typo that made it to production.
![Intuit passkey config area.
Title: Passkeys
Intro: With a passkey, you can sign in without a password or one-time passcode. Learn more
Unkown [sic] Passkey Provider Created: 04/13/2025
Used: 04/13/2025
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Used: 04/13/2025](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/658570 "Intuit passkey config area.
Title: Passkeys
Intro: With a passkey, you can sign in without a password or one-time passcode. Learn more
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Manufacturers who sell TVs in the UK & want the TV to run BBC iPlayer (BBC Public Service live/on-demand TV app) have to get their TVs certified by us. There's a large suite of tests & technical requirements - a colleague just pointed out to me that those docs are public:
certification.bbctvapps.co.uk/…
TVs on UK sale now & marked with the iPlayer logo must support:
* TLS 1.2+
* Mutual TLS (client certs)
* HTTP/2+
* Service Workers
& lots more...those just caught my eye
Hungary passes a constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-pride-ban-amendment-orban-gay-rights-lgbtq-155ec12cbbde7cc6be0f96adb323de77?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.AP News
There's an interesting story in the Guardian this morning that rather disturbed me. I was particularly concerned that there's no consistent way to monitor these requests.
So I've done what I can to help, although helpfulness isn't my strong point.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titlesElla Creamer (The Guardian)
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