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»Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days:
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.«
The @… halving the validity of the keys makes the web more secure (not more anonymous).
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Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid …

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-takes-down-ice-trac…

Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from Bondi DOJ
Apple dropped an ICE tracking app from its online store on Thursday in response to the Department of Justice raising concerns that the app put law enforcement officers’ safety at risk.

😼 Answerman - Is Superhero Burnout at the Box Office Affecting Anime Films?
#anime

Answerman - Is Superhero Burnout at the Box Office Affecting Anime Films?
If superhero fatigue is affecting anime, it's only in a good way. Read on to find out why.

A look at Middle East 24, a new project from right-wing X news aggregator Visegršd 24 that posts articles from anonymous authors and relies on crowdfunding (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/gaza-rage-machine-po…

A new Gaza rage machine—with Polish origins.
A site called Visegrád 24 rode the waves of military conflicts and social media angst to become a household name on X. Its new project, Middle East 24, is aiming to do the same.

The Online Safety Act, which went into effect in the U.K. on July 25, requires any website that might have adult content to conduct age-verification checks.
According to the U.K.’s Office of Communications, or Ofcom,
users must provide proof of age
in the form of photo IDs, credit cards, photos for facial recognition software, and other so-called age gates,
or else be denied access.
Though often heralded by parents as a way to keep kids from accessing sexually…

‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.

Secure and reversible face anonymization with diffusion models
Pol Labarbarie, Vincent Itier, William Puech
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01031 https://arxiv.…

Secure and reversible face anonymization with diffusion models
Face images processed by computer vision algorithms contain sensitive personal information that malicious actors can capture without consent. These privacy and security risks highlight the need for effective face anonymization methods. Current methods struggle to propose a good trade-off between a secure scheme with high-quality image generation and reversibility for later person authentication. Diffusion-based approaches produce high-quality anonymized images but lack the secret key mechanism …

Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting (Padraic Halpin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/i

Apple dropped ICEBlock, a widely used tracking tool, from its App Store Thursday
after the Department of Justice, at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi,
asked Apple to take down ICEBlock, the tool, which allows users to anonymously report ICE agents' presence w
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Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from Bondi DOJ
Apple dropped an ICE tracking app from its online store on Thursday in response to the Department of Justice raising concerns that the app put law enforcement officers’ safety at risk.