https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/political-milestones-for-ai.html
I'm getting Cloudflare's JavaScript-based screening page when trying to hit tinyurl.com with curl and extract the real link. Anyone know if this has been going on for a while?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills
Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/caught-in-the-act-mammal-found-with-teeth-sunk-in-a-much-larger-dinosaur/
New fossil from China captures the last moments of a life-or-death struggle.
https://github.blog/2023-07-18-security-alert-social-engineering-campaign-targets-technology-industry-employees/
GitHub has identified a low-volume social engineering campaign that targets the personal accounts of employees of technology firms. No GitHub or npm systems were compromised in this campaign. We’re publishing this blog post as a warning for our customers to prevent exploitation by this threat actor.
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/82010-spreading-our-wings-inaturalist-is-now-an-independent-nonprofit
We have exciting news! iNaturalist is now an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This is a big day for iNaturalist. Since launching in 2008, the iNaturalist team and organization has evolved, and we’re thrilled about this next milestone. iNaturalist began as a master’s project at the University of California, Berkeley, became a LLC, then joined the California Academy of Sciences in 2014. In 2017, iNaturalist became a joint initiative with the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. Today, iNaturalist is now an independent, US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Over the past 15 years, the incredible contributions from the community have made iNaturalist into one of the world’s most powerful nature platforms. So far, the iNaturalist community has: * Created over 145,000,000 verifiable observations (adding about 1 million per week!) * Grown to 2.7 million contributors * Observed more than 430,000 species We thank the California Academy of Sciences an...
I was a fan of the Wolfman/Perez #NewTeenTitans run back in the day, and never got around to watching the #Titans TV series. With streaming services dropping shows left and right, I wonder if I should take the opportunity to watch it before it disappears.
I know Steam on Linux uses a Wine environment to run Windows games, but I was recently reminded that you can run the Windows version of Steam in a Wine bottle. Is there any advantage to doing it this way instead of running the Linux client with Proton?
https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/why-in-office-work-is-the-real-threat-to-cybersecurity/452562
As organizations fret over the potential risks of remote work, new research suggests the real dangers lurk within the office itself. That's the finding from a groundbreaking study from the Farmer School of Business at Miami University.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/21/seven-rules-for-internet-ceos-to-avoid-enshittification/
It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a compan…
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