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During five months of covering ICE raids, LA Public Press added legal training for staff, digital security protocols, threat assessment policies, and more (Michelle Zenarosa/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-…

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it

TIL: Besides UTC, there also is TAI – Temps Atomics International aka International Atomic Time. And well … TAI currently is UTC 37s 🤯
For other interesting things about time, computer time and time protocols, I highly recommend the talk on PTP from last years #39C3:

It's kinda a wild fact that there are these Internet Protocols that are used extremely widely, but knowledge how they work is scarce.
For reasons, I just wondered a few things about OCSP. That's part of TLS, and, idk, most people would probably attribute "knowledge of TLS" to me.
Yet... I kinda know what OCSP does, but... I don't really know how the protocol works.
And if I google for something like "easy explanation of OCSP", I don't find a…

Building skills for eduGAIN Federation Operators
To support new & emerging operators, the eduGAIN team will run the next Federation Operators Training in Paris 🇫🇷, 30 March – 3 April 2026, hosted by RENATER.
🔹 Learn the core concepts, protocols, tools & best practices
🔹 Gain hands-on experience deploying your own Identity Providers, Service Providers & Discovery Services
🔗 Register your interest:

A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/raise-act-new-yo…

Here's what's in the RAISE Act, a state-level AI bill opposed by Trump and industry leaders
The RAISE Act would require large AI companies to publish safety and risk protocols and disclose serious safety incidents. 

Open vs. Closed: The Fight for a New Internet
The Story Behind — A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.
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DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…

TRUMP'S PLAN
1. Deport non-white immigrants
2. Make up story to rationalize violent engagement
3. Declare war under false pretenses
4. Enact Alien Enemies Act
5. Deport naturalized Latin citizens
6. Repeat with another non-white race
Next up:
▫️Persians/Middle Easts
▫️Chinese/Asians
▫️Blacks/Afrikans
☑️ How #ICE Turned Venezuelan Migrants …

How ICE Turned Venezuelan Migrants Into Enemies of the State
The Trump Administration has ignored legal protocols and stoked fears about the gang Tren de Aragua while arresting asylum seekers in Aurora, Colorado, and across the U.S. Jonathan Blitzer reports.

💓 Are We Really Training at the Desired Intensity? Concurrent Validity of 16 Commercial Photoplethysmography-Based Heart Rate Monitors
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At an undetermined point in the future, the Commission intends to establish requirements that align uni- bidirectional charging capabilities with relevant grid codes and communication protocols, as is already required for charging infrastructure.
https://single-market-economy.ec.e…

On 30 April, 1993, CERN published the complete source code to the #WWW protocols developed by @…, as well as his client and server software with this statement: “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyon…

🌐 eduGAIN piloting use of OpenID Federation
eduGAIN has relied on SAML for years, but modern protocols like OpenID Connect 1.0 & OAuth 2.0 are now industry standards.
The eduGAIN service is running a 12-month pilot to test how OpenID Federation could be used as the future trust technology for eduGAIN, alongside SAML.
🔗 Read more in the latest #CONNECT50 article by Lars Fugl…

The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-sign

Great article on MIDI and a reminder that open protocols won't easily go obsolete once adopted
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/midi-essenti…

🛠️ Monitor logs & events: user prompts, tool results with accept/reject decisions, #API requests with detailed cost/duration/token counts, error tracking with retry attempts & tool decision patterns
⚙️ Setup options: Launch via #VSCode or terminal with environment variables, configure centralized #OTLP exports via #gRPC or #HTTP protocols, use administrator-managed settings for organization-wide control

A different, not only technical look at the technology behind the #Fediverse:
"What if instead we thought of the federation protocols (e.g. ActivityPub and friends) as something that could be added to most websites and make them interoperable with other sites?"
Talk, video & slides by @…
https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-the-fediverse-to-the-open-social-web/