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If we limit warming to the Paris Climate Agreement of 1.5ºC, then we don't have to worry about dangerous levels of sea-level rise, right? Actually, no. Our research suggests that this is too warm. 🧵 1/n phys.org/news/2025-05...

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“A 2020 [CDT report] reveals that most vendors’ websites fail to acknowledge that their employee selection tests may be inaccessible to certain users, or to mention the legal obligation for employers to provide reasonable accommodations to those unable to take the test.” thewalrus.ca/human-r...

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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

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"Taiwan recorded nearly 63,000 COVID-19-related medical visits and 132 severe cases (patients ranging in age from under 10 to over 90) last week, both the highest weekly figures so far this year, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday." #COVID #COVID19 focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

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#infosec There are a few Cyber Attacks that I always refer to on different occasions. On of those ist the #Vaastamo hack. This was devastating because it affected patients therapy records which where used to extort them, which is absolutly horrifiying.

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Surprise! - Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...

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An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu: 🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles. 📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates, 🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops, 🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL #EUpol #sustainability #tech […]

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The question of whether ISPs should have to crack down more harshly on users accused of piracy could end up being decided by the Supreme Court in the near future.

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The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption.

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A New Covid Variant Is Rising Fast. Here’s What We Know About NB.1.8.1 https://gizmodo.com/a-new-covid-variant-is-rising-fast-heres-what-we-know-about-nb-1-8-1-2000608215

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Louisiana lawmakers move to ban something that doesn’t exist. Yay, go Louisiana lawmakers.

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Re: previous post on differences be between bsky and mastodon. I posted same on both platforms. Here, 19 reposts, mastodon 557 (!) + more than a hundred replies of varying usefulness* but some quite insightful. Folks here need to raise their repost game! The fediverse really* dislikes Elon Musk

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Motivational post of the day 😂😂😂

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There is research to show that making eye contact disrupts the cognitive resources used for complex tasks. This isn't autism research, but I think there's a good theory in here as to why autistic people find eye contact uncomfortable: it really is an overload. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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On his blog (which I highly recommend subscribing to), Rick Wilson (one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project) writes bit more background about the Pentagon, what it would take to get the NSA taps legally and what it would mean if they were illegal. therickwilson.substack.com/p/the-friday...

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I keep covering in security awareness training that likeness and caller ID, even in combination, cannot be used to authenticate a person. Use Signal, if for nothing other than authentication (while complying with applicable recordkeeping laws of course).

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Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers via @jessicalyons.bsky.social & @theregister.com

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New: Australia became on Friday the first country in the world to require victims of ransomware attacks to declare to the government any extortion payments made on their behalf to cybercriminals.

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And by the way, Congress made the point explicit when it came back to amend the Privacy Act in 1988: no national data bank.

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NEW: German cops appear to have named the alleged leader of the notorious Trickbot ransomware group—the gang extorted at least $724m from victims It's the first time officials have put a name on the ‘Stern’ persona, who has been a pivotal figure in Russian cybercrime Story with @lhn.bsky.social

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These are my comments presented earlier today at a conference on airborne transmission and what to do about it. 🧵

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The Data Protection Commission has moved to new headquarters in Dublin which will bring together all of the Commission's Dublin-based staff into one office

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These are stunning numbers, and show the stunning cost stemming from dismantling an independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which Europe views as critical to maintaining the US-EU Data Privacy Framework: www.performancemarketingworld.com/article/1919...

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Uh oh. This looks like it could be a problem for some organisations. SentinelOne systems appear to be down - according to sentinelonestatus.com Is anybody experiencing issues as a result?

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An important message from 2600 & @hope.net - www.2600.com/content/hope...

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The attack is likely being carried out by a nation-state or another well-resourced threat actor, according to researchers.

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Phone companies — including some of the largest and most well-resourced players, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile — need to do better at notifying their customers of surveillance requests. freedom.press/issues/phone...

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news.sky.com/story/russia... “Russia-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted staff at Britain's Ministry of Defence in a cyber spying operation that was spotted and thwarted, the government has revealed.”

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The Google Cloud security team has spotted Chinese cyber-espionage group APT41 deploy the TOUGHPROGRESS malware in recent attacks, a backdoor that uses Google Calendar as a command-and-control channel cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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Technicized propaganda serves one and only one kind of politics

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US will ban foreign officials to punish countries for social media rules

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Deranged and bizarre. I know I can only speak for myself but, in my humble opinion, when your puritanical crusading against the supposed horror of horniness online leads you to the "solution" of having kids sending selfies to porn sites for age verification then I think you've lost it altogether.

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Pay per privacy? 💸 ORG's new report warns that Meta mustn't use 'consent or pay' to bypass data protection law. It's not lawful to have to pay so that our personal data isn't used for targeted advertising, aka stalker ads. Find out more ⬇️ #StopStalkerAds www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

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This is not about porn. This is about building a system of tracking Internet use of everyone, adults or children.

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German court has established that energy companies can be held liable for climate change damages. Given those damages are in the 10s of trillions of USD, this is potentially a massive deal. Huge liabilities for historic polluters as more cases get established.

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Imagine if back in the 2000s all the file sharing companies like Napster and Audio Galaxy had issued a statement that copyright laws were going to kill their industry.

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The Czech Republic has accused China of a "malicious cyber campaign" targeting an unclassified communication network at its Foreign Affairs Ministry since 2022, summoning the Chinese ambassador in protest. The EU expressed solidarity with Prague following the announcement.

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Working as a cyber and tech journalist and writer in the UK/Europe at a time when it feels like US cyber and tech publications are all abandoning UK/Europe. Feels bad. en.ain.ua/2025/05/23/t...

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Voyeurs and stalkers enabled by smaller and smaller cameras... #surveillance www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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GitLab beat them by a few days, although that was in their agent rather than some 3P agent built to use their MCP server. See www.legitsecurity.com/blog/remote-... This is a structural issue for any agent consuming or MCP server returning untrusted data.

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💥Beware! In repeated trials, LLMs picked "Response B" over "Response A" about 60%–69% of the time. To boost your chances of success, make sure to put your preferred option as "Response B". www.cip.org/blog/llm-jud...

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