FPF Releases Updated Report on the State Comprehensive Privacy Law Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-report-on-the-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-landscape/
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In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are "grave and sometimes preposterous" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/paul-d
🦠 Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
#microbes
FRYING Russian propaganda dumb fakes! Mutant LOCUSTS hit Kremlin! | Weapons with @StarskyUA : https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/frying-russian-propaganda-dumb-fakes.html
And another nice shader speedup. Not quite the massive boost of the vector frequency/phase filters, but it's next in line after them.
I'm gonna use this random-access LFSR trick on so many filters that work with scrambled data lol.
v0.1.1 (20M point memory depth)
* PRBS31 generation: 65 ms
* PRBS31 verification: 360 ms
Latest (20M point depth)
* PRBS31 generation: 3 ms (21.6x)
* PRBS31 verification: 1.7 ms (211x)
Documents and sources: India proposes security rules that would force smartphone makers to share source code, prompting quiet pushback from Apple and Samsung (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-propos…
“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
Let me break it down for those of you whose salaries depend on conflating people with corporations and governments because it isn’t hard:
Privacy is a human right.
Not a corporate right. Not a governmental right. Not a law enforcement right. Not a military right. A *human* right.
Corporations, governments, police departments, militari…
Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/2026/02/11/professors-epstein-files-begin-face-consequences
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p92#a260212p92