🚨 BREAKING: GreyNoise discovered a sophisticated backdoor campaign compromising ~9,000 ASUS routers worldwide. Unlike typical malware attacks, this operation uses the router's own legitimate features to create persistent backdoors that survive firmware updates and reboots.
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The web feels so broken. Subscription and login gates at every corner. Using Google on a phone now means being periodically quizzed on which of the buttons to press to *not* be redirected to the app store. Opening an Instagram link casually throws up a browser alert dialog because it tries to […]

Fair comment:

"For the second election in a row, voters have delivered a progressive super-majority to Parliament, and now the only thing standing in the way of Labor implementing its progressive platform is Labor."

#auspol https://mastodon.social/@IndyMediaAus/114492424317088314

So, we know that X has been abusing its algorithms to push far-right content for years. The DSA procedure started in 2023, and now we’re seeing fascist content being amplified during the German elections…

We have a fundamental problem in enforcing regulations […]

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What is there to say?

Peter Morwood was a man with a giant heart, a wit to match and an endless talent for the best sort of mischief.

He embodied joie de vivre; he could keep telling funny stories late into the night when lesser folk would have run dry or […]

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What on earth, SoundCloud??

"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the […]

The end of an era, Usenix announces this July will be its final annual conference. https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement

If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.

Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.

The problem is […]

Replacement battery on the left looking normal and respectable, on the right is the one I just levered out with a spudger, it's not happy about it

Buying the littleun an ereader for Christmas and

🦝 Whoa what happened to the good Sony ereaders? You used to be able to snag them for ten or fifteen bucks all day long, now they're like forty or fifty plus another fifteen for a new battery, what gives?

YEARS AGO:

🦊 Johnson, those page-turn […]

Good work everyone!
https://fediscience.org/@PoLaRobs/114450531373885646
PoLaRobs - 🏆🥇We've done it! We've raised atmospheric CO₂ concentrations to the point where, for the first time in human history, they have exceeded 430 ppm every day for a full week. It […]

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This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes […]

1. Replace workers with AI.
2. Now instead of wages you pay a company for AI services.
3. Despite the likely decline in quality of the work, suppose you become dependent as a company on this service. Suppose you make it work.
4. AI is heavily subsidized by venture capital, its priced lower than […]

Radio nerditry: every time I visit NYC and remember to turn on a radio, I marvel at the thriving and vibrant Brooklyn pirate radio broadcasting scene. My pal @pirateradiomap maintains an awesome archive of them at pirateradiomap.com .

There's another bigger loser than the Liberal Party tonight, Rupert Murdoch & News Corp. This is the official nail in the coffin of their influence over Australian politics. They are the old man yelling at clouds & no one is listening anymore. God it's beautiful! 😂 #ausvotes2025

"As of right now developers can start to build third-party payments into their apps and Apple cannot block them. It's the end of the app tax, a source of about $100b/year for Apple" by @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/

oh @Taweret