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How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation (Tiffany Ng/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/they-built-privacy-tool-grapheneos-now-sworn…

They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

A lot of the attention to changes in higher education has focused on cultural issues, such as debates over free speech.
“But there’s also a real economic and geopolitical dimension to what’s happening, in terms of the shifting away from the scientific enterprise and the leading global role that the United States has played for decades.”
Federal funding isn’t flowing to MIT as it typically has, Kornbluth said.
Some federal agencies are talking about taking geography — not …

MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus
Federal funding cuts have curtailed research at elite universities such as MIT, dulling America’s competitive edge globally.

42% of Republicans oppose President Trump’s $1 billion White House ballroom.
✅ Trump’s Ballroom and Other Recent Actions Lead Americans to Believe He’s Focused on the Wrong Things | Navigator Research
https://navigatorresearch.org/trump…

I see Proton are back on Mastodon after leaving in a huff last year after being criticised for praising the fascists running the USA.
Just a reminder their CEO thinks (I’m using the term very loosely here) that Trump and the Republicans will save us from Big Tech.
(They’re right about the corporate Democrats being shit. The solution to that is to flush the toilet, not jump headfirst into the sewer.) @…

Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉 (@swelljoe@mas.to)
Attached: 2 images @protonprivacy@mastodon.social this you? This is either hopelessly naive or irredeemably dishonest. Gail Slater was a lobbyist for those same oligarchs.

So once again, evidence the "conservatives" lying about the impact of their policies (NB: these are #NotConservatives, these are #fascists masquerading as consrvatives)
Killing the most vulnerable around the world to finance

Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world
The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countries

Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-microsoft…

Satya Nadella is reorganizing Microsoft around AI — and changing who holds power
Microsoft is reshaping its leadership for the AI era as CEO Satya Nadella pushes flatter teams, faster decision-making, and AI-focused executives.

They don’t want you to see, they don’t want you to hear, they don’t want you to know because otherwise you’d never believe their bullshit.
Look, listen, and learn… these are radical acts in a fascist world.

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/968572/google-gemini-flash-cyber-ai-s…

Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos
Google is launching a new cybersecurity-focused AI model, called Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, that’s capable of finding and patching vulnerabilities at a lower cost compared to larger models.