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The first non Google phone that officialy supports GrapheneOS is officially out!
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Brussels has frozen national social media age verification laws in Austria and Flanders for 12 months.
You might assume it finally noticed the privacy and free speech problem.
It didn’t.
The Commission wants its own EU KIDS Act to go first, and that law is far bigger. Every user on social media, app stores, online games and AI chatbots would have to prove their age through a government-approved system. Anyone whose age “cannot be established” would have their account disabled.
Adults who refuse to verify would be treated as children.
The Commission’s own age verification app was hacked in under two minutes. The fight in Brussels was never about whether to check your ID. It’s about who gets to do it.
reclaimthenet.org/eu-kids-ac…
As someone who wrote repair manuals that got fed into an AI: it is incredibly difficult to make an AI understand physical reality. The A would keep making up parts for devices it wasn't trained on it instead of saying "I dont know anything about this device."
HE TOLD THE MECHANIC TO FOLLOW THE CHATBOT INSTEAD!!
Fair to want a second opinion, or did the shop handle it right?
A mechanic says a tractor came in with a blown top end and metal everywhere. The customer passed on the repair, then sent AI-written instructions to fix the electrical system, using parts that don't exist on that tractor.
I use these tools too, and they're handy for a lot of stuff. But when a guy who's turned wrenches for years sends you pictures of shrapnel inside your engine, that's your diagnosis. The shop did it right. They sent pictures, gave a quote and offered to bring it back. They just wouldn't install parts that aren't made for it.
I want my boys to grow up trusting their own eyes and their own hands. A phone can help you think. It can't turn the wrench for you.
Good luck to the volunteer who signed up for this one.
Every single manager and stakeholder that looked at the first cyberattack against a fridge system two weeks ago and decided not to take everything off the internet until the vulnerability is known and patched is a certified idiot.
BLOODBANKS got attacked with this.
#BREAKING: U.S. warns of ongoing cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems at grocery stores.
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Supports GrapheneOS btw
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I want to know, I really do want to know, what went through the heads of executives after they saw last months identical attack and decided: "we dont need to look into our cyber security. We dont need to take our system offline until this is figured out."
BREAKING: Europe is under a massive cyber attack, with supermarket fridges and freezers in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia all hacked today by raising temperatures to up to 50°C, destroying huge quantities of food, per Reuters.
"Everything is destroyed," a sales manager in Sweden said, adding that "there has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees."
More than 40 supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected. "I only have two words for them: wake up, please, because there's something going on," a store manager in Belgium said.
This follows a similar cyberattack last month that hit hundreds of supermarkets in France, raising freezers as high as 80°C and causing major food losses.
It also comes after freezers at 6 US military bases mysteriously malfunctioned, spoiling large quantities of food, which the Pentagon is investigating as a suspected cyberattack.
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Advanced light-water small modular reactors are smaller, manufactured versions of large-scale reactors.
They typically range from 20 to 300 megawatts of electric power and can come in two types — pressurized or boiling water reactor systems.
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Europe’s energy ministers are running out of ideas to protect citizens from surging energy prices as winter approaches.
vist.ly/5qjrz
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Alabama passed a law, 138 votes to nothing, that makes every phone user in the state prove their age before downloading a single app.
A 45-year-old who wants a news app has to hand ID to Google first. Existing accounts get no pass either. Every one of them must be verified by October 2027.
Teenagers will need a parent’s sign-off to install Wikipedia, Duolingo or a Bible app, and kids without a parent to ask get locked out completely.
Apple, Google and Amazon’s lobby group has now sued to block it on First Amendment grounds.
reclaimthenet.org/alabama-is…
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‼️ French lawmakers voted for an internet traffic tax that the makers of VLC say would cost them more than €1M a year.
Content providers would pay €0.055 for every gigabyte sent to French users, as counted by ISPs. Its Socialist authors expect €10B a year.
The government opposed it, warning that about half the bill would fall on smaller providers, many of them French.
It passed 11 votes to 10, with 35 of 577 deputies present.
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Oh wow it works lol? I guess they... artificially delay the resolution of the policy router maybe?
nextdns.io been using them for years now where I need more control than Quad9
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What haunts Dunster Manor?
The third chapter of my #horror shortstory on royalroad and scribblehub. Geoffrey Walker's investigation into the supposedly haunted house continues. #Webnovel
royalroad.com/fiction/200865…
scribblehub.com/read/2639186…
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❌ Local gym keep your name and phone number
✅ Giant companies train AI on all your personal data
Did I get it right? What's the point of GDPR again?
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The government now has formal rights to just dream any weird and wonderful shit up randomly without a trial. Golden.
