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#News #Study #tech #privacy #computer #phone #data
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/half-of-computer-repairs-result-in-snooping-of-sensitive-data-study-finds
Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid
Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.Ars Technica
Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.
So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.
That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.
It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.
#journalism #socialmedia
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisation
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FO…Software Freedom Conservancy
#news #faith #Diwali #Hinduism #Buddhism #Jainism #Nazi #Swastika
https://apnews.com/article/religion-germany-race-and-ethnicity-europe-2c28b5892381cd4148dfde5bc4fbb004
Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler
Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down.Deepa Bharath (Associated Press)
The danger an antisemitic student posed to UA professors was known and reported. But no one took the threats seriously enough to prevent a campus tragedy.
#news #antisemitism #hategroups #shooting #schoolshooting
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/11/22/ua-professor-thomas-meixner-murder-failure-stop-antisemitism/69668645007/
Report also faults social-media platforms for encouraging the spread of violent and antigovernment content
#news #uspol #usa #politics #FBI #DHS
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-report-concludes-fbi-and-dhs-are-not-adequately-focused-on-domestic-extremists-01668821006
* Mass blocking capabilities
* Ability to block/limit anyone who likes a specific post or follows a specific person
* Ability to see only notifications from mutuals, etc.
Can you even limit ur replies to mutuals only on here? Doesn’t seem like you can?
#tech #technology #twitter #twittermi #twitterefugee #media #news #journalist
Hi everyone! My name is Rocky.
I'm a Chicago boy who loves local sports here. Cubs, WhiteSox, Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks.
I have a podcast with a few friends -- #bumsofmanarchy
Over time, I'm weaning myself away from the bird app, and onto #Mastodon. Glad to be here!
#gaming #sports #podcasting #blogging #news #outdoors #boxerdogs #tattoos #flyfishing #allytoeveryone #liberalAF #writing #reading
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'Dark Data' Is Leaving a Huge Carbon Footprint, And We Have to Do Something About It
https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-data-is-leaving-a-huge-carbon-footprint-and-we-have-to-do-something-about-it
#ScienceAlert - The #Best in #Science #News and #Amazing #Breakthroughs #bot
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Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft#UnitooDailyNews #unitoo #News #Worldnews #tech #bot
https://unitoo.it/news
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.
#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisationGive Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FO…Software Freedom Conservancy
Content warning: We are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica. With this release the “Siberian Iris” cycle is closed and we start a new one, the “Giant Rhubarb“. 20 people have contributed directly to the code of Friendica “Giant
This 9-foot Atari video game joystick claims the record as the world's largest
The giant controller, created Mary Flanagan of Dartmouth College, is nearly 14 times the size of an original classic Atari joystick. It made it into the Guinness World Records 2022 as the biggest.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#Japan breaks #internet #speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer
Source: https://www.engadget.com/japan-breaks-internet-speed-record-200136933.htmlAs with many of these experiments, it could be a long time before this performance has a meaningful impact. While the four-core #fiber would work with existing networks, the system could easily be very expensive. It's more likely to see initial use with internet backbones and other major networking projects where capacity matters more than cost.#news #science #experiment #backbone
How Hackers Used #Slack to Break into #EA #Games
A representative for the hackers told Motherboard in an online chat that the process started by purchasing stolen cookies being sold online for $10 and using those to gain access to a Slack channel used by EA....The hackers then requested a multifactor #authentication token from EA IT support to gain access to EA's corporate #network. The representative said this was successful two times.more here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack
Once inside EA's network, the hackers found a service for EA developers for compiling games. They successfully logged in and created a virtual machine giving them more visibility into the network, and then accessed one more service and downloaded #game #source #code.
#security #hack #hacker #news #details #story #cookie #login
Amnesty International: "Facial recognition technology risks amplifying racist policing and threatens our right to protest. People should be able to go out about their daily lives without being tracked by facial recognition.
Call for a ban this form of mass surveillance: https://banthescan.amnesty.org/ 📢
[https://tweets.newsbots.eu/amnesty/status/1355810631828426756 — #humanrights #news #bot]
Amnesty International: "Saudi Arabia has imprisoned women like Nassima al-Sada who demanded women's rights and equality. Now it is hosting the #G20 and claiming that women's empowerment is top of the agenda.
Call on Saudi Arabia to free her now: http://amn.st/6019Hba5v #W4R20 📢✍️
[https://tweets.newsbots.eu/amnesty/status/1355511587499597828 — #humanrights #news #bot]
Amnesty International: "As activists we need to protect our mental health and wellbeing. But what do we mean when talking about stress, burnout, anxiety and depression?
Read more: http://amn.st/6007HZqHF 📢
[https://tweets.newsbots.eu/amnesty/status/1355099125533044736 — #humanrights #news #bot]
