@Techmeme@techhub.socialComp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/comp
@donelias@mastodon.crIn Havana, Garbage Trucks Replaced by Solar-Powered Tricycles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E-cd_XKs0
Havana has a garbage problem. El Rampeño has a solar-powered solution.
Meet the Cuban initiative using renewable energy to collect garbage with tricycles in the face of …
@david@boles.xyzBegging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother's memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/14/begg
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeYou owe me a meow 🫵
(and I'm here to collect) :3
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist checkpoint of local police racially profiling drivers to demand papers and collect commissions from ICE (Kenansville, NC, 7/16/26)
More Info:
#ice
@raiders@darktundra.xyzFernando Mendoza, A’ja Wilson among top winners at ESPYs https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/fernando-mendoza-aja-wilson-among-top-winners-at-espys-3851162/
@jake4480@c.im'ShieldFont is an open-source project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page’s source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen. Readers see the work as intended; mass scrapers collect an altered version.'
(Unfortunately, it's an accessibility nightmare, but I just like to …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney says its live-action Moana was set to collect ~$43M at the Box Office over the weekend, below its $60M goal, and just ~$95M worldwide; Moana cost ~$250M (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/business/media/moana-box-office-dis…
@bourgwick@heads.sociali can see why some fans might be miffed by artists pressing not-quite-finished albums to LP, but if i was a fan of these artists, i feel like i'd also be at least a little stoked? alternate takes/mixes/edits/drafts/outtakes/rarities! things to collect! https://www.
@rasos@fairmove.netLG TVs hören im Wohnzimmer mit. Auch wenn sie ausgeschalteten sind. Sogar wenn sie vom lokalen Netz abgesteckt sind. Die Daten werden an Werbepartner verkauft,. Auch welche anderen Devices im Home Network sind. Echt creepy ich überlege ein #DSGVO Auskunftsbegehren, was sie über mich und meine Familie schon wissen.
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
@servelan@newsie.social"However, a US intelligence report in 2021 ... conducted under John Ratcliffe, Trump’s then-director of national intelligence and his present CIA director, found China attempted to collect information on US voters, public opinion and political parties going as far back as 2008. Typically, such data is publicly available and cannot be used to alter votes."
Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims? | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/did-china-steal-2020-us-election-data-as-trump-claims?traffic_source=rss
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe first version of tempolocus, v1.0.0, is out.tempolocus analyses time-series activity patterns to infer likely locations.
I’ve been experimenting with this idea for years, but AI-assisted development now makes it much easier to collect and maintain country-specific holidays and their many exceptions.
#threatintel
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialPrinting in the 'before times':
Printing in the 'safe print' times:
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is moving to allow married couples with a
stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies,
a policy championed by Vice President JD Vance,
using funds from a federal program intended to assist working parents, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay parents to stay home and raise their children,
one of the most significant efforts to date by the Trump administration t…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialBumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees #environment
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI gather that Trump’s truth dot social runs on an #ActivityPub server. What if a private server were to federate with it in order to troll them, maybe feed them psyops crap, conspiracy fodder, fuck with them. Such a server might run behind a vpn, up only in stretches just long enough to get in & out to drop new shit and collect responses. Probably more
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--US probes suspected cyberattacks on two energy tankers,
--Iran deploys Chosen Brick spyware against dissidents,
--Spain reports first AI agent-driven data breach,
--OpenAI rogue agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts,
--CenterPoint confirms customer data breach,
--Revolut breach exposes high-risk customers,
--Norway probes Telenor over Myanmar abuses,
--Hacker uses AI malware to collect bug bounties,
--Hackers crack open a Flock surveillance camera,
--Hackers breach Russia’s election infrastructure,
--KREMLIN malware hijacks Chrome and Edge,
--Google faces questions over 514k fake Gmail accounts,
--Coupang rejects payouts for breach victims,
--CISA says federal cyber defense must move faster,
--Lawmaker demands government reviews of frontier AI,
--AI agents face $100 account fees,
--AI giants shun cyber experts on catastrophic hacking risks
https://www.metacurity.com/us-probes-suspected-cyberattacks-on-two-energy-tankers/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRetailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data (Arriana McLymore/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
@gray17@mastodon.socialvideogame genre roulette: extraction dating sim. you're an alien xenobiologist dropping into various town and city environments, and your goal is to collect human sperm samples while tangling with magical jealous rivals, cybernetic conspiracy theorists, and polymorphic government agents
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
@grumpybozo@toad.socialIt’s funny how unsurprising the 1Password support of #fashtech is.
It started when they stripped out all the features *that they already had* which enabled users to retain complete control of their secrets. Because they really wanted to collect rent from users for an intrinsically risky synchronization service.
I gave up on them at that point because it was clear who they were: not an…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesAfter waiting for months.. I just got a wire transfer from US Customs and Border Protection.
Tariff refunds are in. It’s a substantial amount, but also.. thats also what killed our business.
So fuck you Trump and those who elected him.
But I’m glad to have this refund (it’s not like they had a right to collect it in the first place)
#tariffs
@ascendor@social.tchncs.de#OpenPetition (@…) plant eine "Volksabstimmung zu vier wichtigen Themen, eins davon das Thema #AfDVerbot.
Also ehrlicherweise ist das eine …
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFlock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles https://www.404media.co/flock-pitched-a-plan-to-turn-uber-and-lyft-drivers-into-roaming-surveillance-vehicles/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/ai-makes-weather-predictio…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com"But to prove *intent* you'd have to like... collect evidence, such as previous history of actions, what they might have said or written in private. You'd basically have to ask them if they intended to do the bad thing and trust that they'd actually truthfully tell you."
Yes, yes indeed.
@cdarwin@c.imTardigrade hunting is the first small step in a gargantuan, wildly ambitious scientific undertaking:
to sequence the genomes of all life on Earth.
Accompanied by Prof Mark Blaxter,
who leads the institute’s Tree of Life program,
Morek, a postdoctoral researcher and tardigrade expert,
goes on to collect lichen from a walnut tree on the lush campus, before returning to the lab with his samples.
@steve@s.yelvington.comI was searching for water heater repair near me, and Google offered to have their AI contact plumbing companies and collect pricing on my behalf. I gave it a try. I don't know if anything useful will come back, but at least I helped drain the aquifer and contributed to global warming.
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaGo to collect a parcel, dude tells me he hasn't finished scanning them all in yet so it's quicker if I come back later, I walk away, 10m later *ping* ready to collect. Arse.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhat's the equivalent of hangover when you've been eating too much (for sure), and now your intestines (or liver?) came to collect the tab?
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzBrian Schottenheimer: "We Want to Build a Great Team, Not Just Collect Talent" | Press Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69u5xNrkeXE
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaThe Art of Reflection (PC) What if you could pass through the mirror to solve the puzzles?
So this game is more or less Portal but remove the portal gun and add mirrors. No "story" or narration to explain why you're in this maze floating in space, or why you're tasked with solving puzzles in it in order to get to cylinders that have musical instrument symbols on them. Once you collect them, you can return to the hub of the current section you're working on and p…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Tom Rosenstiel's idea that journalists should "run toward" AI to improve journalism, using it to collect and analyze data, find false claims, and more (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imTwo congressional Democrats asked a government watchdog on Tuesday
to investigate the Trump administration’s use of an obscure law
to secretly collect records on journalists, non-profits and unions without judicial oversight.
The request from the Oregon senator Ron Wyden
and the representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington
comes amid mounting scrutiny over the way the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
recently used its power to issue "administrativ…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesJ'ai commencé une petite collection des médias Québécois sur la fediverse / Mastodon. Uniquement les médias, pas des journalistes, etc.
https://jasette.facil.services/collections/116840975385455610
Faites moi signe pour ceux que j'ai oublié
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGulf states back plan to let Iran collect voluntary fees to use Hormuz (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/gulf-states-back-plan-let-iran-collect-voluntary-fees-use-hormuz-2026-07-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p11#a260728p11
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caMark Carney thought he was "selling a bridge" to poor stupid Donald Trump. Welp, looks like we're the ones who got sold down the river.
Seems all of Donald's deals go bad for him…. except with Canada. Nice work banker guy, nice work.
"the agreement makes no mention of Canada’s interest expenses or debt payments related to the bridge.... Under the original deal, Canada paid the entire C$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) construction cost on the condition that it would collect all the toll revenue until it was repaid.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #TheAmericanFascist #Grift #Corruption
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/carney-s-gordie-howe-bridge-deal-splits-50-of-net-revenue-for-15-years?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDMwNTEyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzg0OTA5OTI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSUJIRzNLSUpIOTQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzNTk2NzdDODA0QTY0N0JGQTZDQTdEMzgzM0VCNjRCQSJ9.sH1woMeKVF9PJBMLZFt8RjXKFa4rKGf-5siuR2xMKY8
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I have not used other implementations enough to give any sort of authoritative answer, but someone should collect the data to answer whether it's genereally true that everyone uses the subject for content warnings.
If you look at the wire protocol though, it's "just" a "summary" field.
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchangeThe slides from our #GDC session on #revocation of digital credentials in Geneva are public: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V2EdP8KD6FSy0dWodQuLkR5dGqGPdzoWxrXtjfwVTlY
While not fully polished, they have pointers to a lot of the different aspects we have been discussing, and I'd be happy to collect more feedback concerning potential other applications/use cases and their requirements/aspects for credential revocation.
@pixelpusher220@dmv.communityUS bus drivers, and all union employees should take notes.
Strike...but make it hurt the right people
Do the job, but refuse to collect fares.
#Union #Transit
https://japantoday.com/category/national/okayama-buses-strike-by-continuing-to-run-and-refusing-to-take-anyone’s-money
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWish inspiration hadn't struck right at 1 a.m. when I have to teach tomorrow, but we'll see if I can get back to sleep now that I'm done with a draft of this story. Glad to have my first entry in my "incredulous young historians of the future" series actually written instead of just imagined. There are surely some typos ahead...
#SciFi #Writing #Technology #ShortStory
"The Age of Progress", a short story by Tiota Sram.
"Your assignment", said the teacher, "is to describe why the progressive vision of technology that gives us the name 'Age of Progress' today failed, and why it was actually a pessimistic view of technology. Your study guides have links to a few sources, but as usual you should synthesize information from at least two knowledge systems, and one of those shouldn't be family-based."
"Ugh", said Ye'xik, "this is gonna be tricky. Wasn't the whole problem with the Age of Progress that they were too optimistic about technology?"
"Well, they did talk a lot about the end of the world and extinction, and I did almost happen, right?" said Finan.
"Yeah, that's gotta count as pessimism, doesn't it?" Gedi chimed in.
"Well..." said Hallavia, with their usual deliberate tone, "I think it's not that simple, or at least it doesn't have to be."
The four of them were walking outside to have lunch, pondering the new assignment from this cycle's history and culture teacher. A brief silence fell as they pondered the Age of Progress.
"Maybe we should look at it through another history system?" offered Finan. "I mean, we've been learning about knowledge systems and lenses, and the 'Ages' lens of just one perspective with its own distortions, right?"
"My mab is working with my omeh on an oral history right now", said Gedi, "maybe I can use that as my second knowledge system? I'll see what they have to say about it!"
"We shouldn't all use the same knowledge systems though", said Ye'xik. "I think there's a bit of a thesis/antithesis thing going on here too? Like we were learning in ideas class?"
"Wait, I missed ideas last week", said Gedi, what's an antithesis?"
"It's just an opposite, really", said Ye'xik. "You take the thesis statement and construct any statement that contradicts it. The two form a pair, and then you can try to find a synthesis that combines both ideas."
"I didn't really get that part", Finan interrupted, "like, if they're contradictory, how could they be expressed together? Wouldn't you need to pick one that's true?... wait I guess maybe if you mixed different knowledge systems? But then would they really be contradictory?"
The group fell silent for a moment in thought.
Hallavi spoke up: "Incommensurate isn't the same as contradictory, I think. That's what it would be if you had two truths from different knowledge systems that didn't fit. Plus... not all knowledge systems have a concept of truth, or of contradiction?"
The group pondered this for a bit more.
"I think maybe there's lots of ways to be contradictory, even in a very logic-hungry knowledge system", said Gedi. "Then if your thesis and antithesis contradict in one way, you could find another sort out 'axis' in which they don't, and state your synthesis from there?"
"Oh, that makes sense", said Ye'xik.
"Anyways what were you saying about the Age of Progress, Ye'xik?" said Gedi.
"Wait", interrupted Hallavi, "Did that mashes sense to you, Finan?"
Finan had been silent, looking down at their feet, but replied "Oh yeah, thanks for checking Hallavi! I think I got the part about synthesis now, thanks Gedi. I was just thinking about optimism and pessimism more. Is that where you were going with this, Ye'xik?"
"Haha, yeah Finan, you got it", said Ye'xik. "Since optimism and pessimism can be opposites, does the teacher actually want us to form a synthesis of them?"
"Oh..." muttered Gedi, "that's a good idea."
"I think..." began Hallavi, pausing to collect their thoughts, "I think the teacher would have told us that, though. Obviously it's not a wrong way to approach this assignment because it incorporates pessimism, but teachers usually aren't too tricky. I think it's okay to be literal about the pessimism thing. And I think I have an idea..."
When Hallavi remained silent for a moment, Ye'xik opened their mouth to speak, but then looked at Hallavi and closed it again. Finan and Gedi were looking at Hallavi too. They pushed through the doors out to the meadow, and settled in their usual place to sit, pulling lunches out of their bags. Hallavi finally spoke up while the others were chewing: "The Age of Progress lasted from the Enlightenment to the Dim Times, and they believed that technology would always get better, no matter what. That's the progressive vision of technology our teacher was talking about. They thought it could solve any problem, and they wouldn't have to worry about weapons or extinctions or the climate or pollution or any of that stuff, because technology would eventually come up with a solution. They looked at the technology that solved problems like diseases or overcame engineering challenges and extrapolated too broadly, basically. That's the idea they had?"
The other three were all nodding their heads, knowing Hallavi needed room to think and put words together.
Hallavi continued: "So it seems like it's optimistic, because they thought it could do anything. But they were thinking about technology like I just talked about it: like an 'it' that could 'do'. That's not what we've been learning in our technology class. Invention is a social phenomenon, and technologies have both material and social bases, not to mention communities of practice and knowledge maintenance. So I think the idea of technological progress divorced from social participation is pessimistic, because it mythologizes technology in a way that makes it seem uncontrollable."
"Huh" said Gedi and Finan while at the same time Ye'xik said "mhmm".
Hallavi looked up shyly at the rest of them, but they were all looking back with admiration.
"I think you're right, Hallavi", said Ye'xik. "Or at least, that's probably what the teacher wanted us to puzzle out. Good thing they asked us to include two knowledge systems so we can each have our own perspectives to contribute, otherwise you'd go first and our presentations would all just be 'What Hallavi said'".
Hallavi blushed but Finan laughed "Hah! You're right and that Ye'xik."
Gedi was looking at their sandwich with some intensity. They looked at Hallavi then back at their sandwich. "It's like they thought they were strapped to an out-of-control rocket, when you put it that way", they said. "It must have been scary, really, to believe that technology was almost an entity, changing in an inevitable way. That word 'inevitable' really takes all the human agency out of it, doesn't it. And even though they kept saying that technology would inevitably solve problems, look at what the technologies they invented actually did!"
Finan shuddered. He added, "Really, it was their dominators who were saying it was inevitable wasn't it? Back then it wasn't like today where historians travel and sample all kinds of ideas, so the primary sources we're reading are almost all from dominators, right?"
Ye'xik responded "Yeah, I keep forgetting to account for that. It was such a weird and horrible time, it's kinda hard to believe everything we read and hear sometimes."
Gedi picked up the thread again "That makes it worse, right? All those dominators saying the stuff they're doing is inevitable, and lying to everyone's faces about it being progress and wonderful stuff, meanwhile two thirds of it is the most awful stuff there's ever been, I mean they could have literally killed everyone and ruined the whole planet, and they almost did."
"They did actually crush a lot of cultures beyond recognition so the survivors had to rebuild with only weak ties to their old traditions", said Hallavi with a quiet intensity.
They all were silent for a moment, pondering the horrors of a bygone age.
Finan broke the silence: "That's a terrible kind of pessimism, to believe that technologcal 'progress' is inevitable, at a time when most people are dominators somewhere in a hierarchy and the ones on top constantly talk about how technologies like medicines will 'save' the world while mostly inventing new technologies of violence. Everyone must have understood what they really meant based on the technologies they were actually developing and investing into. I think I still don't understand how the Age of Progress and the Dim Times could even happen".
"Yeah, and the pessimism is only part of our assignment", signed Ye'xik. "We still have to describe why the progressive vision failed, although I think maybe you just did a lot of that, Finan".
A gloom descended briefly, until Gedi said "Well, this assignment is supposed to take a week or two, right? Thanks to Hallavi we've already cracked the crux, I think, so we don't need to ruminate too much right this moment about ancient history, and we know things turned out okay in the end. Let's finish lunch and go climb a tree!"
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/117001226897197428
So while I’m also upset about this*, I need to point out that this is a false equivalence.
Libraries throw out way more books (combined) than AI companies ever shred; they do this to make room for more and newer books.
The content of the old books do not get lost, there are still many copies around in special libraries that were created to collect all written works (usually the national libraries of a country).
Simply put: almost no book is rare.
*it has the potential to increase prices of used books, I buy almost all books used (my wife and I are a bit of book hoarders and probably have at least a thousand, even though we regularly cull)
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTrue liability would help; the Equifax hack should have been a company-ending event.
But that’s a mitigation for necessary data collection. (And I’m not sure credit reporting in its current form is actually useful or necessary.) “Don’t collect it, don’t provide it” is always the best starting point.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comE. Jean Carroll Moves to Collect the $5 Million Trump Owes Her (Angie Orellana Hernandez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p64#a260701p64
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI recommend getting an #aronia shrub.
• you don't have to do anything about it most of the year
• after a few years it gives enough fruit to add to ice cream the whole year round
• the fruits come in large bunches and have relatively tough skin, so it's easy to collect
• most of people are prejudiced against it, so you have it all to yourself
#gardening
@adulau@infosec.exchangeHave you seen any evidence of the famous « collect encrypt data and decrypt later » in incident response ?
Until now, I haven’t.
#pqc #crypto #cryptography #dfir
