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Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

Trump doesn't want information on ICEBlock to be shared, so... UPDATE: I understood however there are possible serious security issues with this app
#trump

Der #Mangold wächst seit Monaten wie in den vergangenen Jahren prächtig und die nächste #Ernte steht an.
Wer auch mit einem #Balkongarten starten möchte, hier mein

Ah, ook binnen het CDA voldoende (te veel) Christofascisten. Maar laf, want anoniem.
Bah.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5516729/cda-asielwetten-kritiek-tegenstem-prominenten-fout-tweede-kamer

Gemor binnen CDA over tegenstem Tweede Kamerfractie over asielwetten
In het CDA klinkt gemor over het besluit van de CDA-Tweede Kamerfractie om tegen de wetten te stemmen die het asielbeleid strenger maken. "Een domme fout", moppert een voormalig CDA-bewindspersoon.

In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat,
an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading
“An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.”
Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer,
the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism,
far from improving the world,
was actually responsible for most of its ills.
That his bien-pensant re…

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
A Profile of Curtis Yarvin, the right-wing thinker behind the Substack “Gray Mirror,” who has been embraced by J. D. Vance, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other supporters of Donald Trump. Ava Kofman reports.

As we say here in Massachusetts - "shockah"
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eing…

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

SMOTE-DP: Improving Privacy-Utility Tradeoff with Synthetic Data
Yan Zhou, Bradley Malin, Murat Kantarcioglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01907 https://

SMOTE-DP: Improving Privacy-Utility Tradeoff with Synthetic Data
Privacy-preserving data publication, including synthetic data sharing, often experiences trade-offs between privacy and utility. Synthetic data is generally more effective than data anonymization in balancing this trade-off, however, not without its own challenges. Synthetic data produced by generative models trained on source data may inadvertently reveal information about outliers. Techniques specifically designed for preserving privacy, such as introducing noise to satisfy differential priva…

A dangerous shift is happening online.
All around the world, governments are quietly rewriting the rules of internet access.
Soon, privacy and anonymity online may become relics of the past.
The UK’s newly enacted Online Safety Act marks a fundamental shift.
You now need to verify your identity simply to watch a video, visit a website, or share your thoughts.
The Act mandates strict age verification and identity checks for websites and platforms considered to ho…

Show Your Papers: The Internet Is About to Change Forever — Ludlow Institute
A crackdown sweeping the globe is replacing the free internet with government surveillance

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
A Pentagon review determined that stocks were too low on some weapons previously pledged to Ukraine,
so pending shipments of some items won’t be sent,
according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide information that has not yet been made public.

The Defense Department did not provide details on what specific weapons were being held back.

The…

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
The U.S. is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much