I wrote some words for ~ this week in security ~ about the security and privacy risks with AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and why they should really come with enormous warning labels: "⚠️ Use at your own risk! ⚠️"
Read online: this.weekinsecurity.com/ai-bro…
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AI browsers are a hot mess of security risks
AI-enabled web browsers are putting their users' data, security, and privacy at risk from rudimentary prompt injection attacks.Zack Whittaker (~this week in security~)
Twenty Thousand Hertz - Inside Walt Disney Imagineering: 20k.org/episodes/disney-imagin…
Sound is a crucial part of what makes Disney parks feel magical… and it all starts inside the closely-guarded rooms of Walt Disney Imagineering. In this episode, Imagineers John Dennis and Greg Lhotka break down how they use music and audio to bring attractions to life, from speaker systems hidden in rock work, to the intricate timing of a Frozen water ride. Then, they reveal the surprising story of how one of Disney’s most iconic songs got a brand new verse, more than half a century after its debut. Watch Dallas' trip to Walt Disney Imagineering on Youtube. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at mystery.20k.org. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at 20k.org/plus. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Join our community on Reddit and follow us on Facebook. Explore incredible speakers, soundbars and more at sonos.com. Visit quince.com/20k for free shipping on your order & 365 day returns. Find a therapist who takes your insurance at growtherapy.com/20k. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial at shopify.com/20k. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 20k.org/episodes/disney-imagin…
"More than £100m was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs in England...
The enormous cost in legal fees and staff resources came after councils won just 136 out of more than 10,000 tribunals in 2022-23, a success rate of 1.2%..."
From theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d…
The system is fundamentally broken. Each case involves a child or young person who is missing out on the support they need.
£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate familiesRichard Adams (The Guardian)
#трамп: ты можешь заявить три требования для остановки войны
путин: снятие санкций, разморозка активов, возвращение западных компаний, денафификация и демилитаризация Украины - это раз.
а если без шуток, эти дегенераты УЖЕ требовали возвращение западных компаний и инвестиций как УСЛОВИЕ прекращения войны во время переговоров в стамбуле. так что вменяемости ждать не стоит.
Я француженка и я изучаю русский язык. Я ищу людей чтобы говорят по русский to follow там. Предпочтительно женщины но мужчины хорошие тоже.
Мне тридцать лет, я живу в Мetz и я люблю литературу, музыку, видео игры, шитье и вязание.
Спасибо большое за ваши будущие предложения !
Here is a Microsoft article on the feature: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/of…
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"Amazon sold cloud-computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers whose munitions helped devastate Gaza, according to internal company materials obtained by The Intercept.
Amazon Web Services has furnished the Israeli government — including its military and intelligence agencies — with a suite of state-of-the-art data processing and storage services since 2021 as part of its controversial Project Nimbus deal. Last year, The Intercept revealed a provision in that contract requiring Amazon and Google, the other Nimbus vendor, to sell cloud services to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries, two leading Israeli weapons firms.
New internal financial data and emails between Amazon personnel and their Israeli corporate and governmental clients show that Amazon has consistently provided software to both Rafael and IAI in 2024 and 2025 — periods during which Israel’s military was using their products to indiscriminately kill civilians and destroy civil infrastructure. Rafael purchased artificial intelligence technologies made available through Amazon Web Services, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude, developed by AI startup Anthropic.
The materials reviewed by The Intercept also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank, where Israeli military occupation, population displacement, and settlement construction is widely considered illegal under international law."
theintercept.com/2025/10/24/am…
#Amazon #Israel #Gaza #AWS #CloudComputing #Genocide
As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
Todo lo que he visto tira de js o sucedáneos (lógico por una parte) pero siempre me echa para atrás usarlos. Prefiero hacer antes las cosas bien, pero claro muchas veces hay prisa y el cliente siempre lo quiere para ya 😤
En general, no. Soy un usuario ciego, no un experto en accesibilidad, pero mi experiencia con overlays es mala y salvo error u omisión, lo que me dicen los expertos es que ninguno vale.
Si me permites le hago impulso a tu pregunta a ver que te dicen otros.
Why are NHS trusts buying Accessibility overlays?
These trusts are wasting public money on useless overlayschrisyoong.com
🚨 Warnings over Perplexity’s Comet Browser 🚨
AI browsers are the new hype but it doesn't mean they are safe to use 👉🏼
Security researchers from LayerX Security have revealed that the AI browser is vulnerable to CometJacking attacks, allowing hackers to hijack sessions and access user data.
For more info on why you're better off not using Comet: tuta.com/blog/perplexity-comet…
#Perplexity #AIBrowser #CometBrowser
Think twice before using Comet browser: Security & privacy risks | Tuta
Perplexity Comet browser is redefining how users search the web, but Perplexity AI is not as safe as one might think.Tuta
Think twice before using Comet browser: Security & privacy risks | Tuta
Perplexity Comet browser is redefining how users search the web, but Perplexity AI is not as safe as one might think.Tuta
My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
Link to “Death and the Gorgon”: asimovs.com/wp-content/uploads…
Link to excerpt from “Spare Parts for the Mind”: asimovs.com/current-issue/stor…
Story Excerpt 2 - Asimov’s Science Fiction
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Supermarket. Grocery store. Israeli style 🇮🇱
#SuperMarket #GroceryStore #HebrewLanguage #LearnHebrew #LanguageLesson
Spain completes its 'most ambitious space project' with the launch of the satellite SpainSat NG II
The SpainSat NG II satellite successfully took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. With it, Spain completes its SPAINSAT NG secure communications programme and reinforces its role as a technological and strategic reference in space.
Version 2 of UpSiteDown, Seediffusion's free and accessible website monitoring tool, is out now!
* Version 2 is the first UpSiteDown release to use codenames. Each major version will use a British celebrity name for a codename. Version 2 is codenamed after the TV and Radio presenter Jamie Theakston.
* UpSiteDown is now using accessible_output2 instead of cytolk for a speech library, helping the program on its way to cross platform.
* The program can now send push notifications to iOS devices via Prowl.
* The program can now monitor other types of servers that don't use web ports, such as FTP servers, mail servers, game servers etc. Simply start a URL in your sites.txt file with either icmp:// to have the host monitored via ping requests, or tcp:// to have it monitored via TCP connections.
* UpSiteDown is now completely open source and in the public domain, being licensed under the Unlicense license.
GitHub repository: github.com/seediffusion/UpSite…
Latest release: github.com/seediffusion/UpSite…
GitHub - seediffusion/UpSiteDown: The simple, accessible website monitoring solution without limits
The simple, accessible website monitoring solution without limits - seediffusion/UpSiteDownGitHub
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RE: mastodon.social/@ebassi/115429…
Got nerdsniped around lunchtime yesterday, and ended up implementing a shared "reduced motion" setting for GNOME and the rest of the xdg stack:
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettin…
- github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop…
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-des…
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
#a11y #accessibility #gnome #gtk #xdg #portals
Add a "reduced motion" preference to the settings portal · flatpak xdg-desktop-portal · Discussion #1839
Under GNOME we're currently abusing the boolean "enable animations" toggle, but this poorly maps to the actual accessibility issue of reduced motion. Ideally, we want to map to the same kind of set...GitHub
Did you know that you can get your news from Wikipedia?
It isn't sensationalized. It is based on high quality sources. Edited by volunteers who care more about accuracy than politics and guided by open editorial process / rules among peers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:C…
You can donate to Wikipedia via the Wikimedia foundation.
A gold ceremony to remember
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/25…
A gold ceremony to remember
There are those moments in life you know already from the start are going to be the rare once in a lifetime events. This evening was one of those times.daniel.haxx.se
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Your website says you care about accessibility but i don't see a way to mention to you that 2 small features are making the app inaccessible to me right now.
Hi @skippingmoonrocks
We're sorry to hear about that! We care but we're not experts so for some things rely on user feedback.
The best way to report would be via our forum: forum.antennapod.org, Bug category and complete the template.
(But if need be, you can share it here also, and we'll try our best to pass it on.)
AntennaPod Forum
The official forum for AntennaPod, an open-source Podcast Manager for Android.AntennaPod Forum
@delta Hi, I just started testing DC with the default server while creating an account. I have a question: how much storage capacity is granted for each account? And which is the largest file size that can be sent in a single message?
I think I haven't seen those notes in the FAQs, thank you!
We are likely going to expose this to clients maybe just in the connectivity view. Not settled yet how precisely.
oh, I see, thank you!
I'm also reading the following:
Messages are unconditionally removed latest 20 days after arriving on the server. Earlier, if storage may exceed otherwise.
So we should see DC as kind of ephemeral storage, right? (at least with the default relay)
Thanks for those fast answers!
The maximum file size is 25MB, but in reality files need to be a bit smaller than that. Typically, information like that is here: nine.testrun.org/info.html
☁️The recent AWS outage showed how fragile “cloud-based security” can be.
When one datacenter faltered, global communication tools — including Signal — went dark 🌑
🕸️Matrix-based messaging systems kept running because they don’t rely on a single provider.
Resilience = decentralization
Let's invest in open, federated platforms.
#AWS #Signal #Matrix #Resilience #CyberSecurity #Decentralization #OpenSource
Our project is one of constant exit planning and circumvention considerations ... as times and tech are getting more shitty.
We don't bet on a single basket, and not a single state or jurisdiction, and certainly not AWS/Google/Microsoft US clouds which run #Signal servers.
No single hoster, platform or language (we do a lot of Rust, granted) and no single device or vendor. At #chatmail protocol levels we regard nothing as holy, and look for simplicity and robustness, and convivial community 🖤
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``exit planning''
This should be one of the pillars of every project architect's plans. The others being ``keep it stupidly simple'' and ``take as much time as it needs''.
Das ist nicht nur optisch die grossartigste Sammlung an #UnplugTrump Tools und Services, die ich je gesehen habe.
Eigentlich muss man sich die URL zu dieser Seite von @kuketzblog auf ne Funktionstaste oder Shortcut legen, damit man die immer wieder schnell in Nachrichten und Postings packen kann.
Falls ihr die noch nicht kanntet 👉 kuketz-blog.de/unplugtrump-mac…
Und bitte boosted the living daylight out of this. Tausend Dank #Fediverse 🙏
#UnplugTrump: Mach dich digital unabhängig von Trump und Big Tech
#UnplugTrump zeigt, wie man sich digital von Trump und Tech-Oligarchen abkoppelt – für Datenschutz, Demokratie und eine gerechtere digitale Zukunft.www.kuketz-blog.de
New release v2.22.0, finally bringing push notifications to Ubuntu Touch users 🔔 Prerequisite is a chatmail profile.
Other highlights:
📞 Experimental calls (on UT, no video is a known issue, but do let us know if audio doesn't work: support.delta.chat/t/deltatouc…)
Emoji reaction UI/UX has been reworked
👇 Long-press a message to select text for copying
and more, see the full changelog at codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…
#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #UbuntuTouch
deltatouch/CHANGELOG at main
deltatouch - Decentralized, secure messenger app, powered by the chatmail core library. Fediverse: @deltatouch@social.tchncs.deCodeberg.org
Turning Points USA was set up by two young Republicans to spread misinformation about COVID and gun violence.
One died of COVID, the other by gun violence.
I don't even have to write a joke about that.
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Important correction, Turning Point USA was founded by one young Republican (Kirk) and a 72-year-old Republican (Bill Montgomery). This was always an AstroTurf campaign for rightwing oligarchs.
Still, your point about covid and guns is very apt.
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible" ¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA…Universeodon Social Media
@IzzyOnDroid why I tend to see what big tech collects as metadata to be digital poppetry.
Your metadata profile is a poppet to be used to determine what to advertise at you and what propaganda to send you.
Those fake bot accounts are a part of that.

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in reply to feld • • •I think the Reddit crowd is misinterpreting his statement about Trump having a more secure border because they keep saying he's anti-immigration and how Obama deported more people etc etc. He's not saying he's anti immigration or wants Trump style deportations. He just said Trump did better at the border itself.
"Illegal labor is exploiting the undocumented and bad for Americans" has been a consistent view of his. That's not ani immigrant.