@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-11 08:24:00
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-10 14:41:13
The Privacy Paradox
Hadn’t realised that this short piece on privacy by Al Jazeera that I contributed to had aired. Apparently did mid August :)
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/aljazeerauntangles/2025/8/13/the-privacy-paradox
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-10-12 06:01:01
»Israelische Spyware-Firma angeblich an Hollywood-Produzenten verkauft:
Das bekannteste Produkt der NSO Group ist die Spähsoftware Pegasus, mit der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten überwacht wurden.«
Was wohl Hollywood nun an Propaganda mittels Spyware verbreitet?!?? Verwunderlich ist dies mMn nicht aber um so mehr sollte die Welt das Auge auf Spyware-Services, egal welche von wo, offen haben.
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-11 03:55:29
An unintended consequence of Trumpian authoritarianism is a massive awakening of citizens to the values and benefits of American democracy, and a determination to protect it.
In June, under the banner of
“No Kings,”
more than 5 million people, in more than 2,000 cities and towns, in all 50 states, participated in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
Every week since, protests have continued with thousands of participants in small and large cities, blue and re…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-10 12:46:20
Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a "road test" before a planned US launch as early as March (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-10 17:30:16
Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-11 20:43:48
Capitalism is so broken.
I learned about these two products in the past couple days. 😆 Be sure to control your laserpecker using the iPhone in its pantyhose pocket (aka iScrotum). 😂
laserpecker: #endstagecapitalism #apple #laserpecker
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-11 08:59:05
It's been a while since an energy supplier in France offered dynamic prices to households. Since this month, there's a new one.
Sobry doesn't offer smart device control yet, but for most EVs and many heat pumps and A/Cs, device manufacturers or 3rd parties offer tools.
https://www.sobry.co/particulier
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-10-11 06:30:35
“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-11-11 18:59:45
The design and reconstructible history of the #Mayan #eclipse table of the #DresdenCodex: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039 -> Ancient Maya astronomers accurately predicted solar eclipses centuries in advance / Scientists Reveal How The Maya Predicted Eclipses For Centuries: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/maya-astronomers-predicted-solar-eclipses/ / https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-how-the-maya-predicted-eclipses-for-centuries