"Vienna researchers retrieved all #whatsapp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"

"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial […]

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @gargon@mastodon.social as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

RE: https://mas.to/@BrianSmith950/115547909427527108

We 💚 our repair café in #chester!
One year in, we've built a great community - and completed 100 successful repairs 🙌 🛠️
#repaircafe

Mozilla: we are developing our AI features for Firefox with user input and emphasis on user choice

users: please stop. no-one who specifically uses alternative browser Firefox wants this. our choice is no

Mozilla:

Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.

Them: “We should make open source sustainable”
Me: “Can I get paid for my work?”
Them: “Not like that!”

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

📚 #Cyberpunk a démarré son épopée rétrofuturiste sur #franceinter ce matin au🎙de Marion L'Hour & Ali Baddou.

💥Vivent nos vies contre leur folie.

🎧 www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

📚 #Cyberpunk a passé le test de 2 recensions importantes
@lemonde.fr
@telerama.bsky.social

La reconnaissance de Roger Pol Droit compte beaucoup. La comparaison de Juliette Cerf à Paul Virilio pour ce texte hybride, est immense.

Cyberpunk sort demain.
@editionsduseuil.bsky.social