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Privacy and security on computing devices need to become far stronger to protect people from pervasive violations of their rights. Users have their privacy pervasively violated by corporations, criminals and governments. There are endless privacy and security weaknesses in software with exploits of those happening on a large scale. Operating systems, browsers and other apps need to do a much better job protecting users. Enormous progress is needed on both privacy and security.

I accidentally had my scale set to the wrong increment when I measured my flour for the pizza crust. So I had to add more water until I got something usable.

The term - kokushobi - translates to “cruelly hot”, “brutally hot” or “severely hot”, and comes after Japan’s hottest summer on record.

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy warns of increased military activity in Belarus, suggesting Russia may deepen its use of Belarusian territory in the war.

Two other Palestinian officials had their visas denied for the Fifa Congress on 30 April

Acrylic on paper.

“We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at a heavy cognitive cost,” the study declares. Researchers went on to state that just ten minutes of using AI made people dependent on the technology, which led to worsening performance and burnout once the tools were removed.

Iran signaled on April 17 that access through the Strait of Hormuz remains conditional, despite earlier claims that the key shipping route was open.

About 11,000 women and girls survived the war with injuries that will result in lifelong disabilities.

Hundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as Walmart and Target, so that Amazon can appear to have lower prices, California authorities allege.

It never fails to astound me that people have been conditioned to truly believe basic human rights should be a profit source. That’s Grade-A gaslighting.

The orphan wells trace back to a tangled web of foreign investors, a company based in the British Virgin Islands and a last-ditch effort to sell to a Chinese company for $22M

Just wait until we bomb tomorrow to cover the spread on oil futures for these oligarchs. Nothing about this war feels real in terms of motives.

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Electric cars have crossed lifetime cost parity with petrol vehicles across much of Europe. In the used-car market they now have the lowest total cost of ownership.

The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.

The tech aims to identify people’s irises and stop the rise of fake accounts and malicious scams.

A peacock had to be captured after it terrorised a 92-year-old farmer's chickens.

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon’s store.

ProPublica now has a policy explicitly mentioning prediction markets.

Looks like in Radicale 3.7, there is improved collection sharing? Has anyone tried using this?

Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”

Apologies for some recent downtime and speed issues. The site was having some issues with random slowness, which was related to the downtime and should now be fixed.

A US state tax agency has placed taxpayers’ personal info at risk by missing an extended data breach that lasted 18 months.

Fiber optic cables aren’t just for controlling drones, they are sensor networks. It is critical for Ukraine to invest in this kind of technology and research, not only for defense purposes but in the aftermath of the war the amount of waste from fiber optic cables laid across intense parts of the frontline is a sacrifice that has already been forced upon the landscape, at least the cables could be used to collect seismic surveys before the arduous process of cleanup begins. Consider that a peacetime deployment of an equivalent amount of fiber optic cable would be cost prohibitive, ecologically dubious and politically very difficult to do as it would have to be laid EVERYWHERE to get to the point of coverage that certain places on the frontline have now.

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Why would anyone have more than one house?

I was supposed to have a tiny speaking part of a facility tour but when I got there it was like, okay well are going to break up into two groups and one group will go with potato

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Journée des prisonniers palestiniens : les tortures et sévices sexuels au grand jour

The theme for today is “Scavenger” and the palette is 8lueens Palette

A Boston Marathon Nike campaign, put up outside its flagship store on Newbury St. in Boston on Thursday, has the running world up in arms. The sign, which read, “Runners welcome. Walkers tolerated,” was heavily criticized for pace-shaming and not being inclusive to runners of all levels. On Friday, Nike removed the sign and issued an apology.

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Fatemeh Pasandideh ​and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh were granted humanitarian visas in Australia after the Asian Cup.

via Bill’s website