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Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-w…

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

Mal eine #depol Frage: Wäre es nicht die Aufgabe von #JensSpahn als Fraktionschef dafür zu sorgen, dass wenn das Kabinett etwas beschließt und der Unionskanzler es es öffentlich verkündet, dass dann die Unionsfraktion auch ausreichend dahintersteht?
Das hat jetzt bei der

Prinz Harry zu unangekündigtem Besuch in der Ukraine
Nach seinem mehrtägigen Aufenthalt in Großbritannien ist Prinz Harry zu einem unangekündigten Besuch in die Ukraine gereist. Der Herzog von Sussex sei am Morgen mit dem Nachtzug in Kiew eingetroffen, teilte die ukrainische Bahngesellschaft mit und postete ein Video von der Begrüßung Harrys auf dem Bahnsteig. Zuvor hatte die britische Zeitung Guardian über die Visite bericht…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ USA und Verbündete werfen Kreml Rechtsbruch vor ++
Die USA und westliche Verbündete haben Russland nach dem Drohnen-Vorfall in Polen Völkerrechtsbruch vorgeworfen. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj sieht den Vormarsch russischer Truppen in der Region Sumy als gescheitert. Der Liveblog vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

🤦‍♂️ “Premajority Unionism” Is Not a Promising Path for Labor
#politics

“Premajority Unionism” Is Not a Promising Path for Labor
“Premajority unionism” is a new term for corporate campaigns, in which workers try to win concessions from employers using channels outside the workplace, like investor pressure and appeals to the public. Such efforts are not likely to achieve much.

OpenAI Paper: Halluzinationen offenbar unumgänglich
Große Sprachmodelle und KI-Chatbots, die nicht halluzinieren? Das hält selbst OpenAI für unmöglich. Aber es gibt einen Ausweg.
https://www.

Please freeze me in ice, so I can come back and fight an unhinged Wesley Snipes in the future, ala Demolition Man.

« Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites »
Very good paper and research.
VSAT vendors used to love their walled gardens: pseudo-standard DVB-S2 implementations, broken encryption everywhere, and zero cooperation on security, all to protect their proprietary turf.
The high cost of VSAT-style infrastructure and GEO satellite capacity was another major reason vendors avoided investing in security and interoperability.
Will this change? I…

@… Always fun uninstalling those. 😉
P.S. Actually its often not that bad, I once wrote a guide. https://gist.github.com/ruario/a36052a1ae1de4edbc6ad39…

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1977755427569111362

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,