RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116942321109334514 It's a great day for … contract killers?! #uspol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@donni/116916284572319761 JOIN US

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116899363388135620 This looks like a great process, though it's all but guaranteed to nominate a centrist, ignoring the majority of voters who chose a progressive despite his edginess (Nazi tattoo, sexting). #uspol

Energy storage is hard. It's also necessary to pair with many #renewable sources like solar, wind, and tidal, which do not provide continuous power. There are a few ways to do it, such as salt pits to store heat and pumping water uphill for hydroelectric power on demand. Now there's one more […]

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

vibe-coded captchas work as well as you might have expected https://www.neowin.net/news/googles-new-hand-wave-recaptcha-can-be-bypassed-with-a-stock-photo/

Featherlight planets! https://apnews.com/article/super-puffs-cotton-candy-giant-light-planets-db1ebf1cb946e1c0bba67a5040bfc8a9 > These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh from the can.

ICYMI, the US Postal Service proposed a rule allowing it to refuse mail ballots in states that don’t provide voter rolls to the federal government. This could impact millions of Democratic voters and could disrupt the 2026 general election. You have less than a week to comment via mail or email.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116810673204863384 Every once in a while, we observe flaws in media players that allow exploits to be delivered by video files. These files often get free passes in security gateways. Fortunately, it doesn't work by default. BleepingComputer wrote: > the RCE […]

https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751 This post by @jrconlin about moving on after working at @mozilla is touching and spot on. When they cut Rust and Servo out, they lost their soul. I get the desire to be self-sufficient, but Mozilla shouldn't be prioritizing profit. If the Google bribes had […]

RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116732194100466437 I've often wondered why games like Pokémon Go don't compose databases of captured data to e.g. beat the pants off of Google Streetview in both cost (volunteer cameras!) and quality, probably also coverage and recency. Yeah, it can […]

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer’ The fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it echoed what Trump said of the shooting […]

.@protonprivacy screwed up today: Proton's affiliate program sponsored a far-right politician and then botched the response even when admitting that should never have happened. One redditter suggested "the cover-up is worse than the crime" This is the third hint I've seen that they are […]

RE: https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/116582684084696616 I'm thinking about switching from @bitwarden to @protonprivacy Pass. Sadly, neither company has taken a stance against LLM-assisted coding, which is a major security concern, but I think Proton has a stable profit model and good momentum behind […]

RE: https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/116582684084696616 I'm thinking about switching from @bitwarden to @protonprivacy Pass. Sadly, neither company has taken a stance against LLM-assisted coding, which is a major security concern, but I think Proton has a stable profit model and good momentum behind […]

A 20yo security bug in Outlook got noticed … thanks to Dovecot on Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-43-upgrade-revealed-20-years-old-outlook-security-bug/

“Illegal! You cannot intimidate voters. You’re in a polling place. Get the fuck out of here!” Trump’s ICE goons intimidating voters in California…

I eagerly await the rest of the #60minutes team leaving to create a new show called something like "3600 Seconds" or "One Hour"

WTF is this? Delaware, which has more corporations than people, will let corporations vote?! https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporations-can-vote-in-delaware #uspol

https://malus.sh/ Using #AI to recreate F/OSS in a "clean room" without acknowledging that it trained on F/OSS takes copyright evasion to an uncomfortable new level. To anybody actually versed in machine learning, this is a feedback loop (and a shell game […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

RE: https://flipping.rocks/@colinpurrington/116318048935686803 Interesting warfare on mosquitos. Seems pretty easy, though it does require regular maintenance:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116609183314128647 Digital HIV: this malware attacks your system through your antivirus system.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/116606719764376414 Visit a site once, get added to a botnet. This survives restarts. The bug was resolved but then reopened because it is still love (and even less visible now). I think this only affects Chromium-based browsers. NoScript presumably […]

You know that adage about when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail? **#AI is screwdriver.** We have no idea what the screws are, but people in power think it's a hammer, maybe even the whole toolbox. And we're all … screwed.

PCMag proudly states it has 65 experts with 44 years of experience. This doesn't fill me with confidence: their average expert has eight months (and four days) of experience.

Doom's iconic industrial-metal-inspired soundtrack is now preserved in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry 🤘 https://www.engadget.com/2173357/the-original-doom-soundtrack-is-officially-in-the-library-of-congress/

New research suggests brain-controlled hearing technology can help people single out a voice in a crowd, hopefully covering the largest deficiency of hearing aids. https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-controlled-hearing-aid-60465/ Paper (open access) […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116561340492332433 AI is, among its myriads of problems, also driving a further wedge in our class system. #uspol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/116556317019164009 This is a great essay about how chatbots are shaping our minds, even if we are trying to avoid them.

#uspol, April 30, 2026: 36 doctors went on Congressional record, invoking their duty to the "Declaration of Geneva—the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials", and unambiguously declared Donald Trump unfit for office. […]

“You opened this page. It already knows the following.” https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I was so consumed by making excuses for my dear aunt that I got owned here. #math

@bsky.brid.gy feature request, assuming you can afford the nontrivial load: you decided not to automatically bridge everything for privacy purposes, right? How about auto-bridging accounts with ≥10,000 followers? You could set it up so accounts can break the bridge by blocking the bridge account.

@masnick.com – I see you're bridged here in the Fediverse but Techdirt is not. Could that account follow @bsky.brid.gy so it's bridged? I'm currently subsiding with @techdirt.com which is a bit suboptimal.

"Even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software." https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/ > Like keeping booze away from teenagers or nudie mags out of the hands of young lads, slapping a big “restricted, 18+” label […]

If you care at all about whether public bodies, like the NHS, publish the code you paid for, you probably want to take a look at https://keepthingsopen.com #opensource

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116521805012366059 Chrome prohibits first-class ad blocking extensions. Chrome now installs a 4GB AI model. Google is an ad company. They harvest your data. Use Firefox or else a Chromium fork like Vivaldi.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116470414631938021 I am very grateful for being able to afford a Pixel so I can run GrapheneOS, which lets me use Contact Scopes to limit which contacts (if any!) I let an app view. It's a shame this type of feature isn't more available. As […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116499146658427751 The idea of closing currently-open-source software "for security reasons" makes no sense whatsoever; at best, it's closing the barn door after the animals have all left. At worst, it prevents accessibility and public scrutiny that could make […]

The Colorado bill with which big tech tried to destroy Colorado's right-to-repair law was defeated, but only just barely!

RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/116478659183004819 Regarding the recent #signal "hack": 1. There was no infrastructure breach 2. This was a social engineering attack: attackers posed as Signal Support and convinced users to hand over their credentials 3. Upcoming changes to Signal […]

#uspol Assassination will not help! It'll martyr him, exacerbating the very problems you're trying to solve. There is no shortcut to removing him. The _only_ path forward is to vote for pro-impeachment candidates in November. #assassination attempts will thwart this […]

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/116463258486755229 If you wonder why the government is pursuing a case against SPLC that they are very unlikely to win, this is the reason. (And animus, of course.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116454784259012506 Big compromise at Bitwarden, affecting _only_ the command-line interface. If you had that, you need to update and investigate the damage that may have been done. It looks like this targets Github accounts in particular, but everything is […]

Maryland just passed the nation's first law banning "surveillance pricing", which is a great step in the right direction, but it is unfortunately rather toothless due to some loopholes added to appease the Maryland Retail Alliance […]

Remember when military mischief was harmless? https://yle.fi/a/74-20221623 > Flight data shows several aircrafts taking off from Tikkakoski in Jyväskylä at around 7.30am. The subsequent radar images indicate that at least four of the flights went on routes that resembled the shape of a penis.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

i wrote an internet standard https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html (it's published on ietf so you know it's real and official and endorsed by the ietf)