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For your Friday evening reading pleasure lol
New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4163345/new-us-house-privacy-bills-raise-hard-…

New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection
The SECURE Data Act and GUARD Financial Data Act are unlikely to pass, but they preview the privacy fights CIOs, CISOs, and CFOs will face anyway: data minimization, AI profiling, vendor accountability, and controversial new rules around teen data.

Coming up at 8:30 / 8:53 UTC the webcasts #RocketLab #Electron 'Daughter Of The Stars' Launch at 9:14 UTC with the first two satellites of ESA's #Celeste LEO-PNT in-orbit demonstration mission: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Watch_live_First_Celeste_launch

Pecans found to improve cholesterol and boost heart health #nutrition

Pecans found to improve cholesterol and boost heart health
A sweeping new scientific review suggests that pecans — America’s native nut — may pack more heart power than many people realize. After analyzing over 20 years of research, scientists found consistent evidence that eating pecans can improve key markers of cardiovascular health, including total cholesterol and “bad” LDL cholesterol, while also supporting antioxidant defenses.

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Implement garbage collection timeout for unconnected pages
Added a timeout to KittenPage instances so that if they do not connect within 10 seconds, they are garbage collected.

This is to avoid a memory leak in the scenario where a person rapidly refreshes a class-based (state maintaining) Kitten page. In such a scenario, the almost instant page lifecycle does not allow enough time for the page’s default WebSocket to connect and disconnect from the …

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-timi-montreal-closed

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio
The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.

The discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922

DxO Nik Collection 9: KI-Masken und neue Effektfilter
Die Effektsuite Nik Collection erhält Effekte für Farbverschiebung, Glas-Look und Lichthöfe sowie Werkzeuge für KI-generierte Tiefenmasken und Color Grading.
https:…