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The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

Heftiger Sonnensturm, perfektes Wetter: Polarlichter über ganz Deutschland
In der Nacht zu Dienstag hat ein heftiger Sonnensturm für Polarlichter bis weit in den Süden gesorgt. In ganz Deutschland war das Himmelsphänomen zu bestaunen.

A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada to Utah has received an initial green light.
EnergySolutions is pursing a plan calling for importation of 1.31 million cubic yards of the waste from Canada for disposal in Tooele County.
Canadian officials and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission still need to sign off on the proposal.

EnergySolutions proposal to deposit Canadian radioactive waste in Tooele County gets initial OK
EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

»The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII:
A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours«
Good article that clearly shows that only hashing alone is not yet data safe. That's where HMAC belongs at the SHA-2 min. but also not to save passwords and the same.
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The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII
It takes a 2020 Macbook Air four hours to hash every North American phone number

TIL: Thorsten Kukuk works on no_new_privs/NoNewPrivs aka removing suid binaries from #openSUSE
Reading https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/no_new_privs/ I never realized how many such binaries exists.

Rython?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proposal-Rust-In-CPython

Python Developers Looking At Introducing The Rust Programming Language In CPython
A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/19/facebook-users-dec…

Meta, California agree to settle Facebook privacy case
Third parties harvested personal data even though the company claimed to offer privacy, a lawsuit says.

»MIT-Professorin: „In fünf Jahren werden verschlüsselte Nachrichten lesbar sein“
Yael Tauman Kalai hat Grundlagen von Verschlüsselungsmethoden mitentwickelt. Sie zeigt, wie wir trotz KI und Quantencomputern mündig bleiben können.«
Ob nun in 5 Jahren oder nicht ist mal dahingestellt aber Post-Quantum Verschlüsselung ist nun das Thema was in der IT sehr aktuell ist. Leider nehmen dies zu wenige wirklich ernst.
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MIT-Professorin: „In fünf Jahren werden verschlüsselte Nachrichten lesbar sein“
Yael Tauman Kalai hat Grundlagen von Verschlüsselungsmethoden mitentwickelt. Sie zeigt, wie wir trotz KI und Quantencomputern mündig bleiben können.

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD
(Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
-- Christopher Terry
https://blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/minnesota-…

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
Broadband Breakfast reports… Five more states have received federal approval on their final spending plans under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Idaho, Ma…