A federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally sharing customer location data without consent, per a 2024 FCC ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
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T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; AT&T and Verizon verdicts still to come.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Microsoft has added COPILOT AI to Excel — but give it a miss if you use the spreadsheet software for numerical calculations or in scenarios with legal regulatory and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses," the company warns. Here's more from @theverge.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Copilot #Microsoft #Tech #Technology
Microsoft Excel is testing a new “COPILOT” function that lets you use AI to generate summaries, tables, tags, and more based on a group of cells you specify.Emma Roth (The Verge)
In Touch provides information about the new pricing structure of the JAWS screen reader.BBC
I’m looking for freelance work!
Apart from being a quite senior software engineer with management experience, a specialisation in fintech and card networks, and a talent for reading hundreds of pages of standards and docs and being really pedantic about them - I’m a jack of all trades, with a silly broad range of experiences, and enjoy novelty and variety.
Want a photographer? Bartender? VJ for your party? Help organising an event? Need to win an argument about Mastercard rules?
Something else entirely, where a background in tech, music and/or events might come in handy? Hit me up and I’ll see what I can do.
(I’m happy to help out nonprofits, clubs and others doing good/interesting things, but who don’t have very deep pockets, for a more affordable price. I started out maintaining a WordPress site for my dad’s choir, and I’m happy to do it for yours too.)
We'll be at the Austin JavaScript Meetup tonight! 🎉 Come say hi, chat about open source, and connect with the community!
#Thunderbird #JavaScript #Austin
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**Talk:** Building UIs for Everyone: Accessibility as a Frontend Responsibility **Speaker:** Kushal Kumar Nerella **Abstract:** Kushal will share some of tMeetup
Curious about our progress on Thunderbird Pro? Our latest update, direct from Managing Director Ryan Sipes, keeps you in the know - and lets you know how to stay updated:
#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdPro #OpenSource
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Our team is hard at work on Thunderbird Pro. Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send in our latest update.Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
great update, thank you! I didn't see any mentions about OS or platform availability though, did I miss them?
I'd love to hear details about how Android fits into these plans since many launches like this often tend to either exclude mobile platforms at launch or restrict the feature set. Is that the plan with Thundermail?
All except AI is welcome !
I'm not sure engineering and hosting are the same job for qn organisation, but why not. All the best!
2025 is the 100 year anniversary of sticky tape!
Masking tape, the 1st adhesive tape, was invented in 1925 by 3M employee Richard Gurley Drew who noticed frustrated auto painters using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars for painting then popular 2-tone paint jobs and stripes.
> auto painters using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars
wow... found a photo of this in action! they used both butchers paper and newspaper
Hey, something that regularly bums me out is that #Lego continues to make Harry Potter products. Lego brings me a lot of comfort, but their complicity in JK Rowling's hate campaign sours that significantly.
As a trans person, it makes me feel kinda helpless and invisible.
So I'd appreciate it if y'all could help me boost this petition across the fediverse, and share it around with group chats, and other socials if you're on them!
Not necessarily because I expect Lego to listen to a change.org petition, but because it would give me a lot more hope and faith in people if the voices saying "Hey, it's really messed up that Lego is doing this" were a lot louder than they are now.
(Alt-text: a change.org petition called "LEGO: End your relationship with JK Rowling and the Harry Potter franchise.")
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913 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?Hope Freeman (Change.org)
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
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Nothing surprising.
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detainedRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
The "Conversations" screen (which shows a list of open chats) has always been the main screen of #Conversations_im, following the behavior of Signal, WhatsApp, and Google's Messages (SMS) app. However, after sign-up, users were taken to the "New Chat" screen (which lists all contacts and group chats) on the premise that they have no chats yet and would likely want to start one.
This may have confused first-time users about which screen is the main one.
2.19.3 has an empty chat screen instead.
“Activists who disrupt the flow of weapons to a genocidal regime may violate petty criminal statutes, but they uphold a far greater law and a more profound human imperative: to protect a people and culture from annihilation,” she wrote.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/u…
#Directaction #Gaza #PalestineAction #solidarity #SallyRooney
PM’s office says it is a crime to fund a banned group after award-winning author promises to back pro-Palestine group.Al Jazeera
Plasticine Action is a group of like-minded artists and concerned citizens, who want to be vocal against the rise in AI generated animation and art, and raise awareness of how AI is being used in an increasingly authoritarian manner.
“Plasticine Action” t-shirts fundraiser plasticineaction.com/
Medical Aid for Palestinians
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Police Arrest “Plasticine Action” t-shirt wearing protester
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#Ai #Gaza #PalestineAction #PlasticineAction #Solidarity
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detainedRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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Consultations?!?
Shouldn't it be a Crown inquiry into the #wagetheft and #exploitation of Canadians in the industry?
If the government is truly aware of the allegations, then they know the allegations go back AT LEAST as far as the Harper government... that means it spans decades... let's hear from every single one of them.
canada.ca/en/employment-social… #cdnpoli #polcan #unpaidwork #unpaidlabour #aircanada
Flight attendants play a critical role in keeping Canadian passengers and airline crew safe as they travel.Employment and Social Development Canada (Government of Canada)
(From last week)
Out-of-service OC Transpo bus gets stuck under shopping mall sign
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They went past a sign that say clearance is 2m.
oh god, They're Taking The Hobbits to Isengard is 20 today
Finally in HQ! Since all the versions of "They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard" here on Youtube are all rips from my medium quality original from my websit...YouTube
There is war in Europe. People are dying. And Donald Trump wastes European leaders‘ time showing them his collection of China made MAGA hats.
The things intelligent people have to endure, because some US voters elected a fool…
Future generations will not believe their own history books.
Perplexity is now crying because their plagiarism machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall. How about you start paying for stealing others' content to train your shity AI?
Perplexity Says Cloudflare Is Blocking Legitimate AI Assistants searchenginejournal.com/perple…
There is no Legitimate LLM or AI if takes all content without permission and these companies sell their services for money. It is stealing. Plain and simple.
Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered agents.Roger Montti (Search Engine Journal)
Inclusive hiring isn’t just good practice - it’s essential.
Our latest blog post, written by Senior Project Manager Felicity Miners-Jones, shares practical steps for making recruitment truly accessible.
From clear job ads to barrier-free recruitment platforms, these steps help keep the process fair, expand your talent pool, and show a genuine commitment to inclusion: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/…
Accessible recruitment is more than a policy - it’s a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person most capable of doing it.TetraLogical
### Summary A malicious WebSocket server can send a fragmented message (FIN=0) followed by a flood of continuation frames, causing the client (curl) to continuously allocate memory while waiting...HackerOne
Pretty confident an LLM was at least used to create the text. However I think this is a rare case of the user actually bothering to trim the output down so it’s readable.
If the problem were real that would be it, but you mentioned even the version they cited in the comment doesn’t exhibit the problem. For that reason I have to lean toward slop.
I updated the download tool comparison table. What is missing? What is wrong?
Hmm, I think the most obvious gaps from my perspective are..:
- rsync
- OpenSSH (scp(1)/sftp(1))
- a scripted/driven minimal browser (lynx/elinks/w3m/eww, etc.)
- a scripted/driven desktop browser (Firefox+Selenium/WebDriver, browsh, etc.)
I don't see anything obviously wrong.
Yesterday we saw 161 different versions of #curl make just over 1 million requests to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
The oldest version is 7.0.0 (1 request).
The newest version is 8.15.0 (18,969 requests).
I'd spotted a load of different cURL versions in something else so was curious how many versions we see.
"A Canadian family medicine journal has no place talking about courageous Hezbollah fighters," says Dr. Michael Kalin.North Star (The Canadian Jewish News)
➡️ Jsem namočený v pár projektech a dva se sešly do rozhovoru s mojí maličkosti. O AI, jak jinak. Tak si to přečtěte ve V zrcadle AI: S Danielem Dočekalem o tom, že AI je jen jiný Google, který vypadá sofistikovaněji.
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V rámci série rozhovorů “V zrcadle AI” přinášíme pohled Daniela Dočekala na současné trendy v AI, její benefity i rizika a budoucí směřování.Kateřina Müllerová (Ecoista)
What, the hell is happening to society? Seriously ask yourself…
"Skibidi", "delulu" and thousands of other new words to be added to Cambridge Dictionary. #BBCNews
@Scott @jakobrosin @frog67 @cachondo @BorrisInABox
I'll be honest, I think breathing is highly overrated.
I mean, there's no point really doing it, since
you don't gain anything by doing it.
All you're doing is wasting life.
And if you add up the time that you spend on
breathing in, you know,
you could be doing something else, like speaking.
And overlapping. You know, like when you build a
wall, and you've got a brick on top of a brick,
but the one brick is slightly offset from the
other brick?
Well, that's what it is when you combine your
sentences to make lovely, lovely, tight spaces.
You don't need to have dead air at all, not even
17 milliseconds of it.
So you just don't have any. There's no need.
Breathing is overrated, and I'm not going to do
it anymore.
As the leading provider of accessibility training, Digital Access Training is proud to offer on-demand courses that make it easy for you to learn at your own time and convenience.Digital Access Training
Trochu mi tu překážel kousek boku a byl akorát čas ho zpracovat.
V jádru má krásných 92 stupňů a pod sebou dubový hobliny... To tooterý prostě nemůže dopadnout špatně! 🤤
A vy se taky neodbývejte, bando. #dobrouchut !
The nice person bringing Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support into curl now proposes to bring it into Apache httpd.
I am all for adopting this.😍
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This PR adds Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) functionality to apache2, when using OpenSSL for TLS. Notes: ECH is not yet part of an OpenSSL release. We'd hope ECH will be part of OpenSSL 4.0 in A...GitHub
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