@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgservices.radicale.git.enable=true now makes nicer commit messages, for events and contacts it will list the name and even describe renames. Proof of concept, written in bash/awk. It'll be hard to write a diff-parser that covers all kinds of changes, I guess having a local LLM could do it, but it'd slow down radicale significantly.
@hanno@mastodon.socialI'm not a fan of the "users won't understand error messages any way, so we can just not give any meaningful error messages" philosophy... Is there a way to tell @… that I want to see more meaningful error messages?
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/federal-judge-will-let-marimar-martinez-release-text-messages-sent-by-border-patrol-agent-who-shot-her
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p109#a260206p109
@cdarwin@c.imTrevor Noah Sues Donald Trump Over Alleged Threatening Messages
Following Explosive Truth Social Rant
A high-profile legal and political controversy has erupted
after comedian and television host Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit
against Donald Trump,
alleging that the president sent “damaging, intimidating, and dangerous” private direct messages
following a public dispute tied to comments made during the Grammy Awards
@alecsargent@social.linux.pizzaPeople, lets just type a little more.
https://alecsargent.codeberg.page/posts/voice-messages/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialApptopia and Similarweb: Conservative news apps have seen little to no growth in downloads and web traffic over the past two years, as infighting splinters MAGA (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/maga-media-apps-traffic-rumble-newsmax
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRoblox launches real-time AI "chat rephrasing", which replaces banned words with "more respectful language", instead of using the traditional # symbol (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/889954/roblox-ai-real-time-chat-rep…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialI have a Roblox account because my son plays and that's the only way to mange the parental controls. I tried to change my email address and I don't have the option. I contacted support and they were supremely unhelpful. Basically suggesting I have my son enroll a new parent (which apparently he can do with out my say so). When I pushed back, this is all they send in response to my messages. This is the third time I've received the identical message.
@barijaona@mastodon.mgI discovered inter networking in late 1984 (or was it early 1985 ?), thanks to my Alma Mater getting an IBM 4381 connected to EARN (European Academic and Research Network).
Some students quickly discovered that EARN and Bitnet interconnections allowed us to send terminal to terminal messages to US students which were also on IBM systems but we were unable to do so with VAX/VMS users.
@gray17@mastodon.socialweird bug of the day. opening Steam's settings causes my bluetooth mouse to stop working. log messages seem to indicate the bluetooth driver gets into some state where it continually fails to process the mouse's messages, persists until I reboot. (aurora-dx linux, based on fedora 43). not going to bother diagnosing further
@jake4480@c.imIf you live in Arizona and ever get one of these very convincing looking text (or other type of) messages like I just got, know that they are a scam, because fun fact, Arizona HAS no toll roads. 😂 Nice try, though. Very official looking.
#FUCKScammers #scams
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark:
🎵 Messages
#OrchestralManoeuvresintheDark
https://chairmancow.bandcamp.com/track/messages-orchestral-manoeuvres-in-the-dark
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TgtcH6P25PBYU4y0WfGZE
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWishing all our readers a peaceful weekend, but before you head out, don't forget to read today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US ODNI ignores her remit and is investigating 2020 election fraud claims,
--US law enforcement are probing if WhatsApp employees can read users' messages,
--Popular AI app exposes millions of users' private messages,
--Darkweb market Empire Market creator pleads guilty,…
@nelson@tech.lgbtGoogle Workspace bounced an email to my somebits email address. That stuff just forwards to my gmail account. I've learned two things today:
@teledyn@mstdn.caEpstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of international espionage, deregulated finance, far-right politics, eugenicist race science, information warfare, and unfathomably intricate human trafficking networks.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEntertainment and sports agent Casey Wasserman, who chairs the 2028 LA Olympics coordinating committee, faces calls to resign after appearing in Epstein emails (Michael Williams/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/casey-wasserman-la-olym…
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialToday in ideas that turned out already to exist: reverse arithmetic coding to do steganography. Apply to LLMs to hide messages in a realistic continuation of a given prompt.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01496
@solawi@social.tchncs.de:mastojoy: Our #Solawi FediGroup is now live.
If anyone mentions the address !@…! in a post, it will be boosted to everyone who follows the Group.
Public posts and replies are boosted. Private messages to the Group are rejected.
L…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaNo puede ser mšs sencillo configurar #USENET en #neomutt https://aliquote.org/post/neomutt-and-usen…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decopenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaAll we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each
other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with
our lives."
-- Lewis Thomas, "The Lives of a Cell"
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116175365098732624
Please be aware that there appears to be an automated bot on ali525-q.hf.space, sending hundreds of messages with distressing content and proceed with caution if you recieve one.
This account is not ver…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialPlease do not respond to the messages sent out in my name, as I am not behind them.
@benb@osintua.euInvestigations say leaked messages from a Russian general detail torture and executions of Ukrainian POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/20/investigations-say-leaked-messages-from.html
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialLooks like the #Confluence #UX was inspired by Mastodon or smth, idk... I'm facing a big pile of "missing a required security token" messages, suggesting to copy paste what you wrote. Great job, #Atlassian
@haayman@todon.nlDit is goed nieuws (lijkt me, toch?)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/23/google-messages-encrypted-rcs-iphone/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@cheryanne@aus.socialDisability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: A Podcast Series From The Living With Disability Research Centre
Each episode coincides with one of the book's chapters, featuring discussions the chapter's author and a series of take-home messages to apply to disability service delivery...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:
@crell@phpc.socialI just tagged release 3.8.0 of Crell/ApiProblem, providing full support for RFC 9457 messages!
The only change of note in this release is dropping support for PHP versions older than 8.3. There's scarce few users on older versions, but there are new error constants to support, so it's easier to just bump the version requirement.
Have at!
https…
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.frC'est curieux, j'ai plein deflitres CW trump ce soir dans mon fil mastodon... Il s'est passé un truc? Ça vaut le coup que j'ouvre les messages filtrés ?
@jtk@infosec.exchange#Mattermost drama... Self-hosted users discover a built-in message limit added to v11. There are work-arounds, but many are... annoyed and wondering about the future.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermo
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de🤬 “I'm always forced to listen to those evil voice messages immediately, but I don't have headphones with me.”
No one expects you to. Listen & reply when you have time.
🤬 “I just send text messages instead.”
So you expect the recipients to read your text messages immediately, even if they're out, doing sports or meeting someone? Same stupid logic.
Messages in general aren't meant for urgent communication. That's what fucking calls are for. Chat…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@inthehands@hachyderm.io(To be clear, I never signed up for messages from Klobuchar in the first place)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKey revelations about Sarah Ferguson in Epstein files, including 'just marry me' message (The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sarah-ferguson-epstein-files-mails-messages-b2912733.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p3#a260203p3
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social#TIL "dystextie": "Dystextia refers to the difficulty in composing text messages using a mobile phone". 📱🧠🌩️
via https://www.stern.de/gesundhei…
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«dCode - Online Ciphers, Solvers, Decoders, Calculators:
dCode is the universal site for decipher coded messages, cheating on letter games, solving puzzles, geocaches and treasure hunts, etc.»
This data-collecting website is often suggested to me when I am looking for something for data security and encryption. Are there any data-saving online alternatives in this regard?
🔑
@dr2chase@ohai.socialI send product feedback:
"QUIT ROUNDING THE FUCKING CORNERS OF THE IMAGES I PASTE INTO MESSAGES. THEY HAVE CORNERS, CUT IT THE FUCK OUT."
@buercher@tooting.chDes modérateurs de contenus ont affirmé que certains employés de Meta avaient pu consulter le contenu des messages WhatsApp. Et même des sous-traitants pouvaient lire des messages qui étaient censés être cryptés et inaccessibles. «Les deux sources ont confirmé que des employés travaillant sur leurs lieux de travail avaient un accès illimité Š WhatsApp», a affirmé un officiel américain, selon Bloomberg.
https://www.letemps.ch/cyber/le-choc-les-etats-unis-enquetent-sur-whatsapp-soupconnee-d-acceder-aux-messages-de-ses-milliards-d-utilisateurs
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMatthew Green gets into the nooks and crannies of what it means that WhatsApp employees can read your messages.
WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryptio…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialJohn Kiriakou drops some interesting bombs on Diary of a CEO.
▶️ CIA Whistleblower: They Can See All Your Messages!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yUNoJ32eLBc&si=hQlXBFyYi8OdN_28
@anneroth@systemli.socialGemeinsam mit vielen anderen habe ich den Offenen Brief von @… gegen die "Chat-Kontrolle 1.0" an das Europäische Parliament unterschrieben.
Auch in der #ePrivacy Verordnung darf die Überwachung der Messenger nicht umgesetzt werden.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialWar porn beats out Venezuela peace messages in DC Metro
#WMATA
@barijaona@mastodon.mgDurant l’interview de Meredith Whittaker, Guillaume Erner s’interroge : pourquoi donc peut-il récupérer l’historique d’une conversation Signal alors que Signal affirme qu’elle ne la stocke pas ? Éléments d’explication dans cet article de janvier 2025 :
https://www.blog-nouvelles-techn…
@zack@mamot.frDes fois, je lis du post cryptique,
Et immédiatement, ça me saoule.
Je plains l'auteurice soit d'être Š ce point pédant.e qu'iel ne se rend pas compte de la vanité de publier un message volontairement verrouillé
Soit d'être tellement perché.e qu'iel pense sincèrement que cette chimie acrobatique de termes abscons produit véritablement du sens Š partager.
Et pis après, je me rappelle que j'aime bien en écrire, moi aussi, des fois, des messages cr…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (
@ripienaar@devco.socialAlas bad times at Systems Initiative been seeing messages of people moving on and infra winding down etc.
Better luck with the pivot :(
@cdarwin@c.imA combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that
⚠️ the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was
💥“anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night,
👉more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Re…
@axbom@axbom.me @Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o
@primonatura@mstdn.social"This Netflix holiday rom-com is secretly an environmentalist fantasy"
#Film #Media #Environment
@Dragofix@veganism.socialSouthern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments #California
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I can workaround by excluding base and all other options. Still, there was insufficient memory for a simple pkg command:
pkg update -q
– tail of /var/log/messages below.
The apparent hang at ttyv0 might have been a negligible side-effect of my untimely use of --quiet.
A subsequent non-quiet run succeeded,
pkg update
Installation of Fr…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHuh. A self-hosted dead man's switch... https://linuxiac.com/lastsignal-is-a-new-open-source-dead-mans-switch-you-can-self-host/ Interesting.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaAs a non-dev I really enjoy the strictness of code. And the strictness of reading error-messages. Miss a comma or a curly bracket and you're reminded of your shortcomings. The ah-yes-of-course moment. Come across that with my nixos-rebuild and the dwm make. Loving it. As long as I can solve it 🤣
#dwm #archlabs
@newsie@darktundra.xyzHow to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin) https://www.404media.co/how-to-detect-phone-spying-tech-with-cooper-quintin/
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
@padraig@mastodon.ieRE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115972827093194545
I like how the comments to this are all about how the EU is going after the private messages but they explicitly state that it’s about the “Channels” (Stories) and no…
@mia@hcommons.socialIf you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… That is honestly their problem, they might not know it yet tho.
Also, I was doing rough mathguestimations after a couple of beers based on a RabbitMQ TTL in probably microseconds to see if messages would expire after 10 hours. Which it probably does.
I'm just disappointed
@jswright61@ruby.socialThanks to all who are submitting feedback on #LeftWordle, I truly appreciate it!
Private Messages to me aren’t necessary from my POV. If you're sharing something sensitive - of course, but to report a bug or request a feature, a public post w/ an @ mention is fine.
Maybe someone else has a similar problem, or found a workaround. Also, favs on a bug report or feature request can h…
@kunstbanause@nrw.social
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115740868465115589
No one ever planned anything bad with phone calls or email or IRC or text messages or internet forums or facebook or twitter or
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decopenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…
@servelan@newsie.socialHealthcare group projects anti-RFK Jr. messages onto HHS building
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5698149-protect-our-care-protests-kennedy/
@haayman@todon.nl@… on a roll these days! So many 'new version' messages 👍
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I get failure to install offline packages – packages are the default with FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso – with UFS, vm.pageout_oom_seq=120 and 256 MB given to a VirtualBox guest.
The tail of /var/log/messages – after bsdconfig networking (to allow use of termbin.com):
Feb 4 01:05:58 pkg[1652]: FreeBSD-bzip2-lib32-15.0 installed
Feb 4 01:05:58 pkg…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland”
– Macron to Trump in private message
My friend, we should be fucking over Brown people together like we always do, I don’t understand why you are trying to fuck over white people.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX is testing a standalone X Chat iOS app with 1,000 users via Apple's TestFlight, a shift away from Elon Musk's plan to make X an "everything app" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/x-begins-testing-standalone-x-chat-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump leaves room to claim victory -- or avoid blame -- in recorded Iran strike messages (Michael Birnbaum/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/01/trump-iran-war-communications-distance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p95#a260301p95
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted"
https://www.bloomberg…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17722120321108aa883dc7fda/raw
@cdarwin@c.imThe engraving depicts the waveforms of the spoken word "water" in 103 different languages
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/europa-clipper-vault-plate/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRule of thumb: End-to-end encryption is meaningless unless you know and control exactly who the ends are. (Let’s call this the Waltz principle.)
Same goes unless the context your encrypted messenger is running in is secure. Signal can encrypt your messages all day long but you’re still screwed if the custom keyboard app you installed on your phone is sending them off to someone else before they even reach Signal.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialComparing ChatGPT's mini-apps with native iOS apps: some like Uber, OpenTable, and TripAdvisor fell short with frequent error messages, but Instacart did well (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-apple-a
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decopenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo much is happening in infosec, so don't fall behind. Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Cops take down alleged money-laundering operations E-Note,
--Google is suing mass texting operation Darcula,
--AI-generated social media firm Doublespeed was hacked,
--Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's messages were leaked,
--Korea launches massive probe of Coupang breach,
--Foreign pow…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok US says it doesn't "have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages" and is "investigating why some users are experiencing issues" (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689104/tiktok-epstein-direct-me…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-stri…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decopenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…
@cdarwin@c.imOne year after the return of Trumpism to the White House
— and with it a surge in supremacist ideology
— signals and references to fascism, Nazism, and white supremacy are present in numerous communications from the administration.
Trade union leaders were one of the latest to sound the alarm over the government’s supremacist rhetoric.
The trigger came last weekend from the Department of Labor,
when it shared on its social media an animation featuring a statue o…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages (Ashley Ahn/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/admin/trump-administration-religion-christmas.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p1#a251226p1
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"Telegram says it has not found any breaches of its encryption, dismissing a Russian government allegation that foreign intelligence services can see messages sent by Russian soldiers via the messaging app"
https://www.reuters.com/b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: special agents with the US Commerce Department investigated claims by ex-Meta contractors that Meta staff had "unfettered" access to WhatsApp messages (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decopenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump says Europe will not ‘push back too much’
on his Greenland bid as Davos day two begins
Speaking to reporters in Florida,
Trump claims Denmark
‘can’t protect’ Greenland
when asked what he planned to say to European leaders who opposed his plans
…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocuments: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-red-bull-leaks/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comStock market cuts through to Trump on Greenland in a way allies' messages failed to resonate (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-greenland-denmark-stock-markets-davos-3ec896e5f68f21f8c8b067bc7c31d5fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p164#a260121p164
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing "advanced topics in hard science" in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/openai-scientific-research-partner
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says users aged 18-24 account for ~50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT usage in India; Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/16/ios-26-4-beta-1-heres-everything-new/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineer…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSlack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-ice-jokes-employee-event-2…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, behind an alleged US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-sues…
