Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M+ DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B+ queries each month (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

fuck offfff

Very cool research: batteringram.eu "Low-Cost Interposer Attacks on Confidential Computing" "Battering RAM fully breaks cutting-edge Intel SGX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing processor security technologies"

ah but consider

pretty wild how fast they've adopted slop as mainstream political messaging. these suckers were back to back in x feed

is there a goliath s pumpkins

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material www.404media.co/openais-sora...

i just tried to vibe work and lost an hour+ yelling at a robot

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

Not feeling too great about how things are going!!! www.garbageday.email/p/a-slightly...

Most of the sites along the Freedom Trail are partners of the National Park Service and will continue to remain open during the shutdown. The Museum of African American History should also remain open. Why not give them a visit? @universalhub.com

i'm trying to use an llm to help make a latex plugin and it's just a fruitless terrible endeavor

OMB CHIEF VOUGHT: ROUGHLY $18 BILLION IN NEW YORK CITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS HAVE BEEN PUT ON HOLD -X POST

Would be a technical nightmare because now you’d have two versions of Apple encryption, where the security changes depending on where in the world you are (ie your IP address.) This is so dangerous that it’s tantamount to a global backdoor, including against US citizens.

As to question (1), the article isn’t super clear. But it’s worth pointing out that Apple doesn’t just provide end-to-end encryption for backups through their ADP feature. They also provide end-to-end encrypted backup for health data, web history and passwords, even without ADP.

So here we are again. This time the UK is narrowly targeting their request at UK users only. But this is baffling for two reasons. First, Apple no longer offers the ADP encrypted backup feature to new UK users, and existing users are being migrated. So what is the UK asking for?

The UK is demanding another backdoor in Apple’s encryption. www.ft.com/content/d101...

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

this must be seen:

Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

The Onion is so damn good.

New bench slap just dropped. They are coming at a truly astonishing rate. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS. Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!! store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

"ICE agents assaulted amNewYork’s own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of individuals attending immigration court proceedings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan." -- www.amny.com/immigration/...

Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (Samantha Cole/404 Media) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

(Battle Hymn of the Republic plays in the background)

BREAKING @knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended. 1/2

throwtheball throwtheball throwtheball throwthebaaalll

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

im trying to post an extremely cute video of my corgi and bsky keeps failing at it 🥺

every man I know who has tried on, say, a tunic, a kandura, a durumagi, or a kimono has gone "wow. this is great, though?"

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

an actual good and useful application

Google launches a new AI ransomware detection feature for Drive on desktop, trained on millions of real victim files encrypted by various ransomware strains (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

⚡️Poland detains Ukrainian suspected of Nord Stream sabotage, media reports. The suspect, identified as Volodymyr Z., was apprehended in the town of Pruszkow in central-eastern Poland. He is wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by a German court in 2024.

If there’s one thing that definitely works it’s mandating culture from the top down. And if you don’t believe that, well, I’m ordering you to

like I am resenting having to spend my morning listening to this and I am doing it remotely and it’s literally my job so I can’t imagine how I would feel if I’d had to fly around the world and it wasn’t my job

“war is very strange, you never know what’s going to happen with war” - President Trump literally just said this to the assembled generals