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Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin says DeFi platforms' rapid growth leaves their users' assets at risk of attack; DefiLlama says $140B is held on DeFi protocols (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/70faf2ae-8279-49cd-97c1-20654d935be8

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…

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chatbot-children-ftc-safety-guidelines-202…

Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts
A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot is trained to handle child sexual exploitation prompts as it faces FTC scrutiny.

I thought I was too old to get excited about protocols, but this atproto discussion from Dan Abramov delivers:
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
(a follow up to his open social post)

Where It's at:// — overreacted
From handles to hosting.

🌐 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…

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. 

The company you work for spends millions on cybersecurity. You set up protocols, firewalls, preventive measures... And then the new girl in the office writes down her work passwords on a sticky note stuck to her laptop.
If I were an IT security professional, I'd be in jail by now after strangling someone like that girl with a power cord.

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…

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

Form a crowd
Stay loud
https://bsky.app/profile/lizafella.bsky.social/post/3m2zbqxbt3c2j

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

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/a-ca

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/13/california-becomes-firs…

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

🛠️ 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

Anthropic becomes the first major AI company to back SB 53, a California bill that requires large AI companies to disclose safety testing protocols (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/anthropic-endorses-californias-ai-safety-bill…

Anthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53 | TechCrunch
As Anthropic endorses SB 53, much of Silicon Valley and the federal government are pushing back on AI safety efforts.

A major southern California highway was being shut down while the U.S. Marine Corps stages a demonstration set to involve live fire on Oct. 18,
pitting the state's governor against the federal government yet again.
Interstate 5 will be shut down from Harbor Drive to Basilone Road,
a stretch of the main artery over 15 miles,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. local time, the California Highway Patrol announced the morning of Oct. 18.
The news comes after days of back-an…

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)
https://murmurationstwo.substack.com/p/the-stablecoin-duopoly-is-ending…

The stablecoin duopoly is ending
Three's a crowd