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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

Paul Dacre says hacking and tapping claims 'grave, preposterous, deeply upsetting'
Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has described the allegations of phone hacking against his former team as “grave and sometimes preposterous”.

🦠 Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
#microbes

Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
QUT researchers have recovered the genomes of more than 24,000 previously unknown microbial species—some from entirely new branches of life that likely evolved before plants and animals. The microbes are detailed in two studies published in Nature Biotechnology and Nature Methods.

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…

El cabreo gordo de hoy: https://elpais.com/espana/2026-01-12/espana-es-condenada-por-la-manipulacion-sistematica-de-las-pruebas-de-dos-violaciones-en-pamplona.html

“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