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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 2d

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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Chris 🇺🇦 @dreyer.ch · 3d

ETH researchers uncover vulnerability in confidential cloud environments

Some data is so sensitive that it is processed only in specially protected cloud areas. These are designed to ensure that not even a cloud provider can access the data. ETH Zurich researchers have…

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 4d

With #AI making it easier for individuals to create #products and #services or even #companies, we move closer to the #InformationSociety and away from the #IndustrialSociety where the individual needed an organization. Where are the policies for #Freelancers and #Individuals?

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 5d

My hot take of the day is that people on the liberal-to-left side of the political spectrum who parse their positions excessively through a frame of moral purity are at elevated risk of sliding into authoritarianism

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 6d

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

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The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 7d

Today's the day! Start at 08:45

Follow today's #SwissIGF25 live here:

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Sarah Genner @sgenner.bsky.social · 8d

ABB verkauft Robotik-Geschäft für 5,3 Milliarden Dollar an Softbank Group

ABB verkauft Robotik-Geschäft an Softbank Group

Der Technologiekonzern ABB übergibt sein Roboter-Geschäft mit 7000 Mitarbeitenden an die japanische Softbank. Der Verkauf erzielt einen Buchgewinn von 2,4 Milliarden Dollar.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Engadget @engadget.bsky.social · 9d

ICE spent $825K this year on vehicles with IMSI catchers

TechCrunch has been tracking the agency's use of this controversial surveillance tech.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9d

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

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Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

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Tuta @tuta.com · Sep 9

✊ Tuta Mail to the EU: If you pass Chat Control, we’re forced to sue you.

We will never build backdoors or spy on our users. Privacy is a human right, guaranteed to everyone by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

#StopChatControl #privacymatters

Read the full comment 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

If Chat Control 73 3
passes, we as an
encrypted provider
have two options:
sue to fight for
people’s privacy,
or leave the EU.
And we’ve decided to
fight. We will never
weaken or backdoor
our encryption.”
MATHIAS PFAU, TUTA MAIL

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Markus Metz @markusmetz.bsky.social · 12d

Wir brauchen nicht mehr Hype, wir brauchen mehr Hirn. Wäge ab, überlege, nutze deinen Verstand. Das Richtige bewahren, das Bessere ergänzen. @wolflotter.bsky.social

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 12d

Criminals using AI to industrialise cyberattacks in EU

Criminals are abusing large language models to produce mass-scale, automated cyberattack campaigns targeting European citizens and services.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 14d

This genuinely troubling event does bring to mind one of the great tabloid cyber headlines of all time

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 15d

EU faces intensifying state-aligned cyber-threats, per ENISA

EU agency's cyber-threat report highlights "notable" rise in attacks on public administrations, which accounted for well over a third of those analysed

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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · 16d

Alle relevanten IT-Fachleute warnen vor der Chatkontrolle. Sie gefährdet die IT-Sicherheit aller. Das Digitalministerium kann das Gesetz verhindern. Doch Minister Karsten Wildberger duckt sich weg. Wenn die Chatkontrolle kommt, verliert er jede Glaubwürdigkeit. netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkon...

Chatkontrolle: Der Digitalminister duckt sich weg

Wenn in Kürze die Entscheidung fällt, ob Europa eine verpflichtende Chatkontrolle bekommt, ist auch die Haltung der Bundesregierung maßgeblich. Doch der Digitalminister mag sich lieber nicht positioni...

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 16d

Let's celebrate a favourite sound of my childhood at today's #DialUpDay as AOL shuts down the dial-up service for good #InternetHistory

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Dial Up Modem Handshake Sound - Spectrogram

YouTube video by Bitcore

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 17d

The discussion about #AI and #Governance in a fragmented, multipolar world remains a challenge, especially for multilateral institutions like the #UN

#DigitalGovernance

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U.S. rejects international AI oversight at U.N. General Assembly

While heads of state and world experts highlighted risks and opportunities from AI, U.S. representatives expressed deep opposition to any global effort to govern the technology.

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 17d

Good reminder from the #US that developing, buying and procuring a #technology does not automatically lead to effective adoption

#AI #drones

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Exclusive | U.S. Military Is Struggling to Deploy AI Weapons

A U.S. plan to field thousands of cutting-edge drones for a potential conflict with China has fallen short of its goal, and the Pentagon is moving the effort to a new warfare group.

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 18d

Die #digitalpolitischen Versäumnisse der letzten Jahr(zehnte) müssen nun endlich angegangen werden um eine positive Zukunftsvision für die digitale Schweiz zu entwickeln.

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 18d

Und sie bedeuten, dass wir jetzt erst recht den Vertrauensbeweis erbringen müssen: #Digitalisierung im Dienste der #Demokratie und der Freiheit des Individuums ist nicht nur möglich, sondern nötig und muss das Ziel sein!

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 18d

Das Misstrauen gegenüber staatlichen und privaten Institutionen, die grosse Angst vor #Digitalisierung als Nachteil für Grundrechte, das waren die Hauptpunkte, die in den Diskussionen um diese Vorlage mitschwangen.

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Nicolas Zahn @nzahn42.bsky.social · 18d

Mit diesem Abstimmungssonntag kann man kaum zufrieden sein. Neben den unnötigen und teuren Anliegen in Zürich macht mir vor Allem das knappe Ja zur #eID Sorge.

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 20d

Holy moly! Great work here by @zackwhittaker.com @sarahp.bsky.social

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 20d

ICYMI: A viral app called Neon, which pays you to record your phone calls so your audio can be used to train AI, has gone offline after I discovered a security lapse that allowed any user to access the phone numbers, call recordings, and call transcriptions of any other user.

Exclusive: Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

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