Hello I wrote about the history of attempts to reduce the risk associated with auth token theft and why it's still not fixed: www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

There it is. From disability dongle to disability diversion to disability tax. Embrace extend extinguish.

@ec.europa.eu launches portal and guidelines to support implementation of Forced Labour Regulation. @ecchr.bsky.social @antislavery.org publish analysis of the Regulation, including assessment and recommendations to support implementation and enforcement www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

this is fascinating stuff :D

I know we’re all very busy, but I do think the Minister for Justice passing a law to invent a carve out for the police’s requirement to have Judicial oversight of their use of Facial Recognition of public places was worth a bit of attention. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-hum...

A Solitary Rugose Coral fossil. A remnant of an ancient tropical sea that once covered this area over 300 million years ago. County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Citrix has patched a series of bugs this week, including another CitrixBleed-like vulnerability that can allow remote attackers to leak a device's memory and find goodies inside, such as auth or config data. labs.watchtowr.com/citrixbleed-... support.citrix.com/support-home...

Are many folks on #spéirgorm using @mu.social? Would there be any interest in having a #TrustedVerifier for accounts in #Ireland, like @france-atmosphe.re is doing in France? Further details at: hello.mu.social/verification/. #speirgorm #spéirghorm

More UniFi updates if the last round of exploited vulnerabilities didn’t persuade you to turn auto update on community.ui.com/releases/Sec...

As if that wasn't bad enough, the last paragraph also references this article from earlier in June:

New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

The European Commission has evidence that EU governments have been issuing licenses seemingly without conducting serious human rights due diligence, and yet appears to have taken no action. Read more from HRW:

The Finnish Ministry of Defence, the Estonian Defence Forces, and the European AI lab for Defence NestAI have signed a Letter of Intent to advance the development of artificial intelligence capabilities puolustusvoimat.fi/en/-/finland...

The Oireachtas is leaning into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech. Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.

Once launched, they can't be unlaunched. Aloft they will extinguish the stars. When they fall and burn in the atmosphere they will destroy the ozone. 🧪 🔭

As a non-gamer, this is still an issue I think about because it's a direct hit to consumer tech ownership. We've seen the same thing happen with Amazon ebook purchases, the push for cloud storage & streaming platforms disappearing media. We pay for "services" that can be deleted or altered anytime.

ERA5 single levels and ERA5-Land datasets are now available in an Analysis-Ready Cloud-Optimised (ARCO) Zarr format in the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS), enabling faster and more efficient access to key climate data. ⬇️

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116843978394340259 fresh reminder to make sure all your lovely Bandcamp albums are backed up locally before you wake up one day and the download button is gone #bandcamp #BandcampFriday

Two independent datasets. Two European services. The same conclusion. 🌡️ 📈 @copernicusmarine.bsky.social & @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social confirm global sea surface temperatures have exceeded record levels for this time of year. https://bit.ly/4vM6aGU #OceanHeat @mercatorocean.bsky.social#OceanHeat

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public

WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE

the official publication of the American Jesuits using the word "schismatic" is a sign that things are really popping off

Hey all did you see the Society of Saint Pius X are Schisming? #spéirghorm

"Our findings identify behavioral robustness as a fundamental challenge for safe and trustworthy AI agents." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

From 36,000km up you can see a heatwave happen. This video tracks land surface temp across Europe during last week's record heat, as the ground baked under one of the most intense, widespread heatwaves the continent has seen. Green turns to orange, then deep red 🔴 as the heat takes hold. [1/3]

The Council for Civil Liberties are pushing boundaries with this case. The first class action lawsuit. #Speirghorm

Hope the MapTap person never gets milkshake ducked because it's one of the few places online that feels like the whimsical fun learning space of the internet pre-social media

The question @darach.bsky.social will not ask, for fear of setting Bluesky alight with fires of a posting war, is, of course: 'The Children of Lir: wereswans or not?

923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Inside you there are two wolves. They're fighting over where to keep the toaster.

This is a masterful demonstration of the unsecurable nature of LLMs, and how prompt injection by dedicated humans who know how to write will always win.

github.com/openai/codex..., news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4870... ": change the file permissions such that the user you run codex as can't read them, or run codex in a container without those files mounted." There is a lot of comments where devs think its obvious the risk of LLMs accessing files.

It seems super-cursed to build on the unmarked graves of little kids and babies. #spéirghorm

From the right to contest ADM under GDPR Article 22(3) to tracking pixels under Australia Privacy Act. The OAIC found that Monash interfered with the privacy of individuals whose sensitive information was collected via third-party tracking pixels. See www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

www.rtbf.be/article/j-ai... I was trying to find this link, and it took some time to get the rtbf Belgium news network to show up.

Memes in professional documentation? Yea or Nay?

"If the cosmonaut loses such skills because of his passive role, the probability of his choosing and carrying out the right procedure in an emergency would be small. This contradiction is inherent in automatic control systems." More here: web.mit.edu/slava/space/... and: web.mit.edu/slava/space/...

" (1) the checklist fallacy (reducing safety to discrete technical features), (2) the false promise of age verification (assuming identity verification will prevent harm), and (3) the design determinism myth (overestimating design's power to shape social outcomes). " dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

It feels like we perpetuated a fundamental misunderstanding about how LLMs work by trying to make a high variability non deterministic system govern itself into being low variability predictable in specific ways with just more input

Related: you can't enforce norms/protocols which get lost along the way with compaction (e.g., "when you do X, don't take shortcut Y")

The army hasn't figured that out and they have prisons.

Check your router updates and EOL, cable modem is a long story, set WiFi to WPA2/AES+WPA3/(optional or required PMF), set DNS to Quad9 ECS for malware filtering, know anything that sees its radio can infer your GPS location based on open maps of WiFi AP MAC's

Apart from my house, the oldest verifiable item I use in my everyday life is probably my sewing machine, now that it’s set up. The oldest non-verifiable (I have no idea when they were made) items are my office desk and filing cabinet, both of which I inherited from friends.