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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 3h

Mozilla has started the development of a free VPN feature for Firefox users.

This will be a separate product from Mozilla VPN, the company's commercial OS-level VPN.

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussio...

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 12h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 7h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 8h

Studies are beginning to reveal fissures in the argument that AI boosts productivity, writes Tech Policy Press fellow @eryk.bsky.social. Nonetheless, companies and governments are pouring investments into speculative growth without ample evidence.

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 9h

A black hole fell into a star - then ate its way out again www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as the star is consumed from within

www.newscientist.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 8h

‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate

#dieselgate #airpollution
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‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate

Carmakers accused of cheating air pollution rules have faced little punishment in UK but trial brought by 1.8m motorists is about to begin

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 8h

Car manufacturers "took a conscious decision that customer convenience, which helped the industry sell more cars, was more important than reducing pollutants causing death”, court told

#dieselgate #airpollution
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Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn

www.theguardian.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 8h

"The widespread dieback of warm-water coral reefs is already underway, and it's impacting hundreds of millions of people who depend on the reef for fishing, for tourism, for coastal protection, and from rising seas and storm surges."

#environment #climatechange

Slashdot @slashdot.org · 8h

Earth's Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a 'New Reality'

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/1340224/earths-climate-has-passed-its-first-irreversible-tipping-point-and-entered-a-new-reality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Earth's Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a 'New Reality'

Climate change has pushed warm-water coral reefs past a point of no return, marking the first time a major climate tipping point has been crossed, according to a report released on Sunday by an international team in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Brazil this Novembe...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10h

Neither in the United States nor in the European Union are regulations yet fully prepared for the mix of intimacy and monetization that AI chatbots can introduce, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Giada Pistilli. We need to learn the lessons from past failures on social media, they say.

Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes | TechPolicy.Press

Privacy in the age of conversational AI is a governance choice, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimé Kaffee and Giada Pistilli.

www.techpolicy.press

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It's FOSS @itsfoss.bsky.social · 10h

Power meets affordability. Your Pi 5 deserves this case.

itsfoss.com/elecrow-rasp...

The Affordable Pironman Alternative Mini PC Case for Raspberry Pi 5

We have a new option in tower cases for Raspberry Pi 5. This one has a lower price tag but does that make it worth a purchase?

itsfoss.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 10h

well this is a shock.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 11h

Get Microsoft out of your schools.

It is a waste of money, violates privacy and bad for the students.

Seek open source alternatives and *FUND THEM*.

#eu #gdpr #opensource #privacy #education

noyb @noyb.eu · 14h

📰🧒 "The DSB, #Austria’s data protection authority, has ruled that #Microsoft is illegally #tracking students with Microsoft 365 Education and uses student data for its own purposes."

👇 Read the full article, including a comment by Max Schrems 👇

Austria says Microsoft illegally tracked school kids with 365

Microsoft accused of illegally tracking students, Austrian DPA rules

cybernews.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12h

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life www.wired.com/story/more-e...

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research.

www.wired.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 12h

Trump officials cancel major Nevada solar power - would have been biggest in N America, powering 2m homes

- who wants cheap, clean energy anyway?

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homes

www.theguardian.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 13h

The One where a Wired journalist attempts to explain Peter Thiel's insanity.

#religion #surveillance #privacy #siliconvalley

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

When you choose the most incompetent and corrupt people to lead.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the clouds roll.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

ok, thanks!

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone translate this to a blender noob? ☺️

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 1d

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft garbage.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

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Spurcus Fera @spvrcvs.bsky.social · 2d

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Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far

Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify people's cell phones, also known as IMSI catchers or Sting...

www.eff.org

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 2d

An IMSI is a unique 15-digit code tied to your SIM card that networks use to identify you.

Because your IMSI can be used to track you, cell networks, once they obtain your IMSI, assign you a temporary IMSI, or TMSI, that rotates as you move from tower to tower.

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