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@remote_brain42

developer: pl/sql, php, security, privacy
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Major backtrack as Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates FREE for an extra year - but only in certain markets windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind… #windows10

Tuta (@tutaprivacy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳 Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶 #ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.

We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶

#ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.
Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was

Peter Girnus (@gothburz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I

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A loud minority makes the internet seem more toxic than it is. A small group of active users generates most hostility, while the majority remain civil. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

noyb (@noybeu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

noyb WIN: The Austrian Supreme Court has ruled that Meta must give users full access to their data. All of Meta's claims of trade secrets or other limitations were rejected, leading to unprecedented access to the inner workings of Meta. noyb.eu/en/austrian-su…

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Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of #Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to #Firefox. Public outcry prompted Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users that there will be an AI kill switch to turn off all AI features coywolf.com/news/productiv…

Adam Butler (@gestaltu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun fact: The 1998 paper that introduced Google and PageRank to the world ends with this acknowledgment: "Supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding also provided by DARPA and NASA." Sergey Brin was on an NSF Graduate

Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Everyone’s missing the real story here. xAI didn’t beat competitors by moving faster. They beat them by ignoring the rules competitors follow. The 122-day Colossus buildout? Powered by 35 unpermitted gas turbines that the EPA just ruled yesterday were operating illegally. The

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🚨 Researchers found an indirect prompt injection flaw abusing Google Gemini via calendar invites. A hidden prompt in an event could trigger Gemini, when asked about a schedule, to summarize private meetings into a new calendar entry—visible to attackers in some enterprise

🚨 Researchers found an indirect prompt injection flaw abusing Google Gemini via calendar invites.

A hidden prompt in an event could trigger Gemini, when asked about a schedule, to summarize private meetings into a new calendar entry—visible to attackers in some enterprise
Pim de Witte (@pimdewitte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The guy that built it didn’t know how to secure a database. We’re at the stage in the cycle where people are natively hooking up unsupervised CLIs to tools built by people who can’t tell a tree from a bush technically, and is just doing whatever an LLM tells him to do. Amplified

The guy that built it didn’t know how to secure a database. We’re at the stage in the cycle where people are natively hooking up unsupervised CLIs to tools built by people who can’t tell a tree from a bush technically, and is just doing whatever an LLM tells him to do. Amplified
Haifei Li (@haifeili) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ladies and gentlemen - here is a Notepad* RCE you've always wondered whether it was possible. msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/v… *Well, the modern, AI-powered one.. Who could have thought that with more features you bring more bugs.