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“As design ethicist Aral Balkan explains: ‘Dark patterns might boost short-term metrics, but they ultimately corrode trust and damage brand reputation. Ethical design creates sustainable relationships rather than one-time transactions.’”
https://ui-deploy.com/blog/e…

Ethical Dark Patterns: Identifying and Avoiding Manipulative Design
Learn to identify and avoid manipulative dark patterns in favor of ethical design that builds long-term user trust.

A post from the archive 📫:
Validate your identity on Bluesky with your GitHub account
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/validate-your-identity-on-bluesky-with-your-github-account

GOTO065054 593624 - an 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers: #Kilonova Seekers - the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/533/2/2113/7735340?login=false -> A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/citizen-science-project-identifies-20-new-astronomical-discoveries

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.

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.

Microsoft: Das sind die Jobs, bei denen KI am stärksten zum Einsatz kommt
Microsoft-Forscher haben 40 Berufe identifiziert, die am stärksten von KI betroffen sein könnten. Sie analysierten dafür 200.000 Eingaben von Copilot-Nutzern.

If an "undercover" officer is seen and known to the press then I would not hesitate to publish their face image and identity - in part because they have failed actually be "undercover".
That said, the fact that agents can't be identified as actual Federal agents, much less identified down to the individual actor when they do ill, is simply unacceptable.
TSA at least has numbers on their "name" badges, so one can make a complaint about a person …

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Who Approved $2 Million Payout To Disgraced Russia Hoaxers Identified As Left-Wing Activist Brian Netter (Mollie Hemingway/The Federalist)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/exclusive-doj-official-who-approved-2-million-payout-to-disgraced-russia-hoaxers-identified-as-left-wing-activist-brian-netter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p130#a250801p130

Montag: Online-Störungen bei den Sparkassen, WhatsApp-Status wird multimedial
Online-Banking fehlerhaft WhatsApp-Status mit neuen Funktionen KI-Speicherbedarf besorgt Seagate Trickbot-Bandenchef identifiziert Rekord neuer E-Autos

Paleoseismic activity in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley inferred from boulder falls and landslides: #Moonquake Dangers that Could Threaten Future Missions: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/nicholas-schmerr-helps-identify-moonquake-dangers