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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-19 03:15:50

Analysis finds 60 "jacket apps" on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses (9to5Mac)
9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/investi

Investigation reveals dozens of disguised gambling apps on the App Store in Brazil - 9to5Mac
An investigation by 9to5Mac reveals dozens of apps that disguise gambling platforms as simple games and utilities. Here are the details.

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-07-18 08:14:43

Article intéressant sur l’appellation du bâtiment Š l’adresse Bundesgasse 1 Š Berne: Bundeshaus en allemand, Palais fédéral en français.
rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/articl

"Palais" en français, simple "maison" en allemand: l'origine de la double appellation du Palais fédéral
Ses coupoles évoquent à elles seules le pouvoir politique. Pourtant, le 'Palais' du français n'est qu'une simple 'Maison' fédérale en allemand. Deux appellations qui dénotent, depuis 132 ans, deux visions de la démocratie de part et d'autre de la Sarine.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-19 15:22:09

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-07-18 08:14:43

Article intéressant sur l’appellation du bâtiment Š l’adresse Bundesgasse 1 Š Berne: Bundeshaus en allemand, Palais fédéral en français.
rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/articl

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-07-18 08:14:43

Article intéressant sur l’appellation du bâtiment Š l’adresse Bundesgasse 1 Š Berne: Bundeshaus en allemand, Palais fédéral en français.
rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/articl

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-18 14:30:51

Clean-Up on Aisle Three: New Jersey Becomes Third State to Regulate Data-Driven Pricing This Year
fpf.org/blog/clean-up-on-aisle

Clean-Up on Aisle Three: New Jersey Becomes Third State to Regulate Data-Driven Pricing This Year - Future of Privacy Forum
Few areas of privacy and technology policy have attracted as much legislative attention this year as data-driven pricing or “surveillance pricing.” On August 4, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing—“Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing”—highlighting the intense scrutiny on these practices by policymakers. In…

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
2026-07-18 09:56:18

Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gif

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-19 01:36:17

A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims (Joshua Cohen/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/wil

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.