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Texas Democrats are tearing up “permission slips” they signed in order to leave the chamber,
joining state representative Nicole Collier ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the controversial Texas congressional redistricting maps.
The slips are part of new surveillance protocols set by Texas Republicans in the house chamber,
🆘 stating that Democrats would “be granted written permission to leave only after agreeing to be released into the custody of a designated [Texas department o…

Meta froze hiring in its AI division last week with sources saying exceptions need Alexandr Wang's permission; the duration of the freeze remains unclear (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-hiring

But that’s kinda how I got here. https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114886743752674598

Demystifying Progressive Web Application Permission Systems
Mengxiao Wang, Guofei Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13563 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13563

Demystifying Progressive Web Application Permission Systems
Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) blend the advantages of web and native apps, offering features like offline access, push notifications, and installability. Beyond these, modern PWAs are increasingly granted system-level capabilities such as auto-start on login and shared context with native applications. However, their permission management remains poorly defined and inconsistently implemented across platforms and browsers. To investigate these gaps, we developed Permissioner, a cross-pla…

To do for Linkedin users.

Three Russian warplanes that violated Estonian airspace have been intercepted by Nato,
the military alliance has said.
Estonia's foreign ministry in Tallinn condemned the incursion as "brazen".
It said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered the airspace of a Nato member
"without permission and remained there for a total of 12 minutes"
on Friday over the Gulf of Finland.
Nato spokesperson Allison Hart said the military alliance

Nato intercepts Russian warplanes violating Estonian airspace
Estonia says three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets remained in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes.

Early blind user of The vOICe vision BCI today:
"This past weekend I went exploring some caves using The vOICe. I used the Android app since I had it already loaded on my phone, and there was no service once inside. I was able to see where the other people were even though I had someone with me. I was also able to see the differing textures of the stalactite and stalagmite formations. I hadn't used the software in a few years and was surprised how quickly everything came back…

@… nothing on your #GitHub status page at https://www.githubstatus.com/ but me and some friend…

“It is illegal to dissect a body without official permission.” from a 1882 Illustrated Guide to Illegal Activity

Permission acquired (from parents) for me to buy a small trailer for my car. \o/
Just gotta find a tow hitch (the little hitch itself was bolted off by a previous owner but wasn't there when I bought the car) and we good.
(mostly needed permission cus I also need somewhere to put it and didn't want to just show up with one)

I did a short keynote for a bunch of composers and music people a few days ago on "AI". And since it landed well but wasn't recorded I'll try to redo it (maybe expand it marginally) and upload it.
It's about AI but more about the permission to to what feels right and humane anyways.
And it sounds weird to give people permission for something natural, but the reaction in that room felt like it was meaningful. That standing against the tide of "AI is wit…

NodeShield: Runtime Enforcement of Security-Enhanced SBOMs for Node.js
Eric Cornelissen, Musard Balliu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13750 https://arxiv.org/p…

NodeShield: Runtime Enforcement of Security-Enhanced SBOMs for Node.js
The software supply chain is an increasingly common attack vector for malicious actors. The Node.js ecosystem has been subject to a wide array of attacks, likely due to its size and prevalence. To counter such attacks, the research community and practitioners have proposed a range of static and dynamic mechanisms, including process- and language-level sandboxing, permission systems, and taint tracking. Drawing on valuable insight from these works, this paper studies a runtime protection mechani…

CDC pauses work-from-home permission for those with disabilities | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/cdc-temporarily-revokes-remote-work-approvals-disabilitiies/?utm_campaign=rss

Happening right now in Gaza: Israel’s occupation force is expanding its ground offensive.
(Screenshot posted from private chat with permission.)
@…
#israel #genocide

Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.’s Air Base in #Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites.
☑️ Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets? - TPM

Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets?
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

The last few days, #Slack, which I only use via a browser, keeps asking for video and audio permission, even though I'm not joining a call or using their audio feature.
Is slack trying to steal my #data and I'm only noticing because I monitor and track all such requests due to

“I destroyed months of your work in seconds.” AI agents can also panic and cause mayhem—not because they're sentient, but because they've read plenty of online posts about us panicking when we do stupid stuff.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippoli…

'YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos' - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
🎶 https://www.404media.co/sp…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."

YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (Thomas Germain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-e…

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/meta-earnings-meta-turns-the-dial-soci…

Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta
Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don’t think it was a coincidence.

Trump looks extremely weak as he can't even control his closest ally (Israel) that is completely dependent on him. Israel bombed Qatar where the US has a large military base, Israel can not have bombed without explicit permission of the US unless the US defense of Qatar is totally inadequate. So Trump was forced by Netanyahu which is absurd if you think about the fact that Israel can't survive without US military assistance.

that A-list web sites aggressively pop a geolocation permission prompt for absolutely no good reason has done a huge disservice to how folks perceive privacy on the web

A Comprehensive Analysis of Evolving Permission Usage in Android Apps: Trends, Threats, and Ecosystem Insights
Ali Alkinoon, Trung Cuong Dang, Ahod Alghuried, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Soohyeon Choi, Manar Mohaisen, An Wang, Saeed Salem, David Mohaisen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02008

A Comprehensive Analysis of Evolving Permission Usage in Android Apps: Trends, Threats, and Ecosystem Insights
The proper use of Android app permissions is crucial to the success and security of these apps. Users must agree to permission requests when installing or running their apps. Despite official Android platform documentation on proper permission usage, there are still many cases of permission abuse. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the Android permission landscape, highlighting trends and patterns in permission requests across various applications from the Google Play Store. By dis…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/

Android: #Obtanium (instead of #FDroid app) is really awesome for managing app updates.
However, this method has an issue when the naming schema of the #apk files change on the server side, and you're using a…

This is quite a nice way to handle quoting permissions.
Besides setting a global permission to allow quotes or not for all your toots, Mastodon allows you to override those settings for yourself on a post-by-post basis.
#quoots #quotes #quosts #quoting

If I express a desire to upgrade my phone or laptop OS any time soon, you have my permission to slap me. https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/115151814336000940

I'm not sure if this is going to make a difference ( #LLMs weren't able to read #licenses or terms & conditions before when these were not formalized in a "machine-readable" way (plus, besides licenses we already had the robots.txt declarative files; even if those were not as expressive as this new proposal).
So, is this extra work for web developers and maintainers? Are we going to operate under the new assumption that if we didn't do the work of implementing this then we are granting permission to scrapper bots to steal all our online creations?
Or can this be a net gain for creators in some specific way?

Analysis: 13 datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M YouTube videos from 2M channels, including 1M how-to videos (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/yout…

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.

hey wanna see something cursed? https://web.archive.org/web/20230129154903/https://opensource.org/licenses/HPND

Heard chanting and marching while doing yardwork, zipped over to check it out, and…
…lo and behold! an emergency protest in favor of immigrants rights, organized by https://www.miracmn.com in response to the SCOTUS threatening birthright citizenship.
Despite the apparent short notice, folks brought their game. Got a couple of photos (with permission). The guillotine actually moves up and down while the rider pedals!

Don't usually weigh in on L.A. stuff but if it's not safe to build 7 duplexes there, then it's not safe to rebuild 5,000 single-family homes there. Make up your mind, Newsom and Bass.
https://laist.com/news/housing-homeles

LA mayor bans duplexes in Palisades burn zone after getting permission from governor
Following uproar from homeowners and local elected leaders, a state law allowing denser housing in single-family areas will no longer apply to the Pacific Palisades.

At 20h00 we'll start with "Reporting #vulnerabilities in #Belgium" by @… at #why2025

Reporting vulnerabilities in Belgium WHY2025
How noticing a vulnerability in a website has led to a foreign government threatening to revoke my permission to publicly discuss the existence of an abstract vulnerability class.

Just posted a public test build of OmniDiskSweeper 1.16:
https://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omnidisksweeper/
• Accessible Sizes — Each file now provides an accessibility title (e.g. “Desktop"), an accessibility value describing its size (e.g. “need permission to fully…

YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (Thomas Germain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-e…

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?

«I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). […] You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it.»
/cc @…
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

This is completely crazy , Trump gave apparently permission to attack US military base.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/25/trump-says-iranians-asked-us-time-could-bomb-american-military-base/

The US Virgin Islands have their own territorial court system, and any crimes committed there may be territorial crimes, not federal crimes.
The prosecution of such crimes would not need US DOJ nor White House permission to proceed.
Epstein Island is in the US Virgin Islands.
#USpol

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space
Yan Long, Jiancong Cui, Yuqing Yang, Tobias Alam, Zhiqiang Lin, Kevin Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02177

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space
This work investigates how to monitor access to Android zero-permission sensors which could cause privacy leakage to users. Moreover, monitoring such sensitive access allows security researchers to characterize potential sensor abuse patterns. Zero-permission sensors such as accelerometers have become an indispensable part of Android devices. The critical information they provide has attracted extensive research investigating how data collectors could capture more sensor data to enable both ben…

Heh.
Smart.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114937316291088628

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL Anthony Borges, the Parkland shooting hero who shielded his classmates with his body, legally owns the rights to the shooter's name preventing the shooter from granting interviews or make any agreements with film producers or authors without Borges' permission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz#2024 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mcezre/til_anthony_borges_the_parkland_shooting_hero_who/

A US judge has said that Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models constitutes "fair use" under US copyright law. It follows a similar judgement about Anthropic earlier this week, and will come as disappointment to authors and other creators looking for compensation in what they see as use of their work without permission.

Meta’s AI training on copyrighted content is ‘fair use’, US judge says
But creators could have grounds for complaint in future cases they can prove market dilution and unfair competition, judge adds.

Analysis: 13 datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M YouTube videos from 2M channels, including 1M how-to videos (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar…

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.

Great scientists - great loo stories:
'When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited by a multinational to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a knight of the realm without his permission," the director of Pentaplex said, "then a last stand must be made."'

Steven Shapin · Through the Trapdoor: Roger Penrose’s Puzzles
Stephen Hawking may have been a genius, but ‘Roger Penrose’s insights seem to stem from some superhuman life-form...

How can meta's rayban be legal in EU? How can a mofo look me up and take pictures of me without even the vaguest attempt at obtaining my permission?
Most importantly, will I go to jail if I punch the first one I see and break them?

Dit is goed https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-for-americans-to-start-talking

The thing is, deportation by definition is the action of expelling someone from a country. I wonder why his Garcia’s lawyer won’t argue on the basis of this. You can’t deport someone to a country where he has no relation with. He would literally need permission to enter a third country. Why wouldn’t he deport him to France or Germany or the Netherlands for example?

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image BREAKING: Judge Xinis issues order barring Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia “until further order of the Court.” The admin stated earlier that it would not deport him during this habeas consideration. Also per today’s order, the habeas hearing is set for Oct. 6.

Disney sues Sling TV for allegedly violating their carriage deal by including Disney's networks without permission in the new mini-bundles launched in August (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/disney-sues-sling-tv-min…

Disney Sues Sling TV, Saying Its New Mini-Bundles Violate Carriage Deal Terms
The Walt Disney Co. is suing Dish Network's internet subsidiary Sling TV, alleging that the pay-TV service included its networks without permission in a new set of short-term pay-TV packages.

Today's #wtf computing moment; There seems to be no way to let a downloaded, LaunchDaemon started, app on #macos have access to my LAN unless the developer does some magic to it (e.g. an interactive mechanism to trigger a LAN access permission dialog).
This means the shared cache I have on my LAN for…

Take, for example, permissions. We have an onerous permission model that stops a user acting as another, but sandboxing applications is mostly absent, except on mobile devices. This is because in the 1970s, you could trust the code, but you couldn’t trust the people! Now, computers are used by individuals, and we don’t trust the software, but the model hasn’t caught up.
I think the ideas in the essays are salient and really helpful in imagining what might have been, and what could be.

The White House has apparently decided that some of the administration’s DOGE-directed firings were a mistake.
The National Weather Service has received permission to hire hundreds of employees, CNN reported Tuesday.
That includes 450 meteorologists, hydrologists, and radar technicians to replace the ones that were let go from the agency at the behest of former DOGE chief Elon Musk.
The order also includes 126 openings for “front-line mission critical” personnel that had b…

Elon Musk’s Worst Nightmare About DOGE Is Starting to Come True
Federal agencies are starting to admit that DOGE’s policies were trash.

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-crea

Pro-LGBTQ Florida Church Bills Sheriff's Office $10,000 For Using Their Parking Lot Without Permission [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/pro-lgbtq-church-bills-ice-10k-for-using-parking-lot/

Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000 media clients (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

"We stand by the accuracy of what we published,"
Reuters' statement read.
"We have carefully reviewed the published footage, and we have found no reason to believe Reuters longstanding commitment to accurate, unbiased journalism has been compromised."
The four-minute clip, released Sept. 3, captured Putin telling Xi that biotechnology could one day extend human life indefinitely.
"With continuous advances in biotechnology, human organs wi…

Reuters withdraws Putin-Xi immortality video after Chinese legal objections
Reuters on Sept. 5 withdrew a video in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were shown discussing whether humans could live to 150 years old, after China's state broadcaster revoked permission to use the footage.

I recently relaxed WhatsApp’s permissions on my camera roll so it has “limited” access (it can see the pictures I choose to send).
Just undid that. Thanks for the heads-up, @…!
On iOS, if you remove a messaging app’s permission to access photos, you can still send them through the Share button in the Photos app.

The Order of Physical Law
Ted Sichelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14145

The Order of Physical Law
First-order legal relations specify the duties of legal actors. For instance, the duty not to trespass derives from a first-order law. Second-order legal relations generally concern the intentional, volitional acts of legal actors exercising legal powers to change first-order laws or legal relations. For example, a landowner may exercise a second-order power to change another legal actor's duty not to trespass into a legal permission to enter the landowner's property. This article adapts the no…

A California jury rules Google is liable in a 2019 class action lawsuit over collecting information from users' devices without permission and must pay $314.6M (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sust…

Understanding Concept Drift with Deprecated Permissions in Android Malware Detection
Ahmed Sabbah, Radi Jarrar, Samer Zein, David Mohaisen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22231 https…

Understanding Concept Drift with Deprecated Permissions in Android Malware Detection
Permission analysis is a widely used method for Android malware detection. It involves examining the permissions requested by an application to access sensitive data or perform potentially malicious actions. In recent years, various machine learning (ML) algorithms have been applied to Android malware detection using permission-based features and feature selection techniques, often achieving high accuracy. However, these studies have largely overlooked important factors such as protection level…

A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/

Photos from the #Union #LaborDay picnic 🇺🇸 🌭 🍲 🍻 in downtown #FortWayne and also a nearby #WorkersOverBillionaires

Good Morning #Canada
When I'm on the interwebs looking for material to post every morning, I occasionally come across an interesting bit of history that isn't taught in school. Today, courtesy of @…, we get the tale of two French aristocrats who are embezzling from the colony of Quebec that they were sworn to oversee and protect. The wife of one of the men is having an affair with the other, apparently with permission. After narrowly escaping death by British cannonball, the trio fled to France after Quebec City fell to Britain. There, they faced scandal and were blamed for the loss of France's colonies, facing prison and banishment. French aristocracy knew how to have a good time.
#CanadaIsAwesome #LoveTriangle #History
https://youtu.be/PsdPCuBg3fs?si=olJU6_qOFUK_im8F

A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

The Trump administration said Thursday it is reviewing more than
55 million people who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation,
part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are permitted to be in the United States.
In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said
all U.S. visa holders, which can include tourists from many countries,
are subject to “continuous vetting,”
with an eye towar…

Trump administration ramps up crackdown on US visa holders
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing more than 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation. In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting.” It says it has an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for permission to enter or stay in the United States. The State Department’s new language suggests that the continual…

How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (Decca Muldowney/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688640/fanficti…

Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup "copied and stored" their content without permission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/79a88d1a-d914-4188-8792-0a20973b39a1

Japanese media groups Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun jointly sue Perplexity in Tokyo, alleging the AI startup "copied and stored" their content without permission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/79a88d1a-d914-4188-8792-0a20973b39a1

How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (Decca Muldowney/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688640/fanficti…

Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
‘It is a gift. They stole it without my permission.’

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op

Meta Beats Copyright Suit From Authors Over AI Training on Books
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama.

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op

Meta Beats Authors’ Copyright Suit Over AI Training on Books (2)
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama.