EU fines X $140 million over deceptive blue checkmarks

#security #bleeping computer #bleepingcomputer #computers #technology #news #education #updates #tech
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^GitLab

This seems appropriate for today. Not my OC.

#cloudflare #technology #tech #ModernTechnology

Want to support a brilliant Social Web project before the end of the year?

🔥 @bonfire are so close to achieving their funding goal as they look to crowdfund the next phase of development in their democratic, thoughtful, and open, web of interoperable services.

If you're able, we're certain they would love your support.

indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonf…

#Bonfire #Fundraising #SocialWeb #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Tech #Suppport

Asking all #Android users out there:

What is the tracking device with the smallest dimensions on the market?

Want to mount it within the fork shaft of one of my bikes. #Samsung's SmartTag2 is way too big, Chipolo did not fit either.

Any suggestions from fellow Mastodon users? #tech #theftprotection #cycling

RE: social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/11…

Looking to escape the whole AI browser trend? Switching is still surprisingly simple 🤷‍♀️

#AI #Tech #Apps #Technology #Vivaldi #Browser

Vivaldi Browser (@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net)

Attached: 1 video Switching from Firefox to Vivaldi is easier than you'd think. 😊 One click imports your tabs and browser data. ✅ #Vivaldi #Tech #VivaldiBrowser #Browser #Apps #Browsers #Technology

^{Vivaldi Browser (Vivaldi Social)}

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘓𝘦𝘔𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Version without paywall:

archive.is/oHoVO

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

Rise of the LLeMmings

^{Lila Shroff (The Atlantic)}

China's huge JUNO neutrino detector turned on three months ago, and has already achieved new levels of sensitivity in studying these mysterious particles.

The detector weighs 20,000 tons & contains 45,000 sensors watching for rare neutrino interactions.

prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/p… #science #tech #nature

is #arduino dead?
youtube.com/watch?v=gO7hdxyCNC…

#tech #technology #diy

Isn't WSL2 just a VM?

ssg.dev/isnt-wsl2-just-a-vm/

#HackerNews #WSL2 #VM #Debate #WSL2 #Tech #Insights #Virtualization #HackerNews

Isn't WSL2 just a VM?

My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.

^{Sedat Kapanoglu (SSG's)}

Freedom Cities Honduras Connection To Pardon Of Ex-Pres Convicted Of 400 Tons Trafficking

#honduras #oligarchy #technocracy #billionaires #bigtech #tech #sovereignty #news #pardon #juliohernandez

tube.tchncs.de/w/cvSPeHW93q2aX…

Just read @pluralistic 's article on the Eurostack, and de-Americanization.

Here's a brief piece on the topic I wrote 12 years ago, that has aged well.

web.archive.org/web/2016030405…

#foss #opensource #GNU #GNULinux #China #India #History #Tech #Software

"Trump is a crisis, and crises precipitate change..." - @pluralistic

You know, I really don't care which country does this, or does it first - I just care that it happens.

Moreover, I absolutely believe it *will* happen. It will *have to* happen. The only question is if it's before or after the broligarchy destroys tech as we know it.

Will we reappropriate tech, or will we revive it after it's broken?

pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/dis…

#tech #business #enshittification

Taking a Curated Look at Black Friday Sales For 2025

A small curated list of Black Friday sales by independent creators or small businesses covering areas of technology, gaming and miscellaneous deals.

adamsdesk.com/posts/black-frid…

#blog #BlackFriday #tech #InfoSec #security #100DaysToOffload @Tutanota @b0rk

"Ripping out all the proprietary code that powers our cloud software and devices and replacing it with robust, auditable, user-modifiable free/open source software is a massive project [that is] long overdue. It's a move that's in the power of every government, because it merely involves changing your own domestic laws to enable adversarial interoperability..." - @pluralistic

Nobody complains about spending countless billions on oil infrastructure. Just sayin.

pluralistic.net/2025/11/26/dif…

#tech

When a user doesn't understand your product, they can't use it. But when the team doesn't understand their own product, then NO ONE can.

We neglected the conceptual layer of software development, and products have devolved from a coherent experience into Proper Noun soup. To unwind this self-inflicted problem, we must stop "optimizing" for just one part of the job.

Here's how.

(this is a much deeper problem than "just UX vs UI")

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/wh…

#ProductManagement #tech #UXDesign

When teams don't understand their own product

A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

futurism.com/artificial-intell…

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #chatbot #education #learning

Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

Researchers discovered a disturbing trend among people who learned about a topic with ChatGPT, instead of using a regular web search.

^{Frank Landymore (Futurism)}

Speaking of Defuse Dublin, @Alan gave arguably the best talk of the night, full of humour and content, and on a very important subject: accessibility.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5Ag6x-…

Make sure you don’t miss it.

#DefuseDublin #AlanDalton #accessibility #talk #IxDA #design #tech

🤦‍♂️

UK. ‘Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.’

Disrespectful to the students

theguardian.com/education/2025…

#ai #tech #education

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

^{Aisha Down (The Guardian)}

I believe Europeans need to worry more about Chat Control / ProtectEU.

It is absolutely dystopian & can not be allowed to be implemented!

After all, it can't be any good if the politicians want to be exempt from it ;)

youtube.com/watch?v=fPzvUW8qaW…

They also provide a nice summary here: mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vp…

(I didn't know Ashton Kutcher was that in love with mass #surveillance 🕺)

⏯️ by @mullvadnet

#ChatControl #ProtectEU #Privacy #eu #europe #europeanunion #it #europa #tech #news #digital

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)

These are all the same!

As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.

Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design skills of architecture and maintenance. #UX #servicedesign #contentdesign #uxdesign #tech

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux…

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"

Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

No thank you.

Sorry, I won’t even use #FaceID or that #fingerprint shite, #tech knows far too much about me as it is.

#iPhone users can now add #US #passport info to their #digital wallets

#InfoSec #privacy #BigTech #surveillance #law
apnews.com/article/apple-iphon…

🔴 Now Live

🪐 Metroid Prime 2 (Wii) - 100%

#retrogaming #OriginalHardware #FOSS #Linux #Fediverse #videogames #tech

stream.repeatro.de

In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebe…

Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊

Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated (@ele) thanks to @jannis and his amazing MagicPages (@hey) 🥳 🪄 📄

#resist #resistance #tech #BigTech #FOSS #blog

The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition

Looking back at a year of FOSS activism, spurred by political events.

^{Elena Rossini}

Elle a osé le dire: "Il n’y a pas assez d’euphorie autour de l’IA", affirme l'entreprise OpenAI, alors que les craintes d’une bulle augmentent. Le groupe demande davantage d’enthousiasme sur l’intelligence artificielle, réfutant tout risque autour des accords avec Nvidia et d’autres géants du secteur. VOUS ALLEZ KIFFER l'IA OUI OU MERDE? (je traduis) letemps.ch/cyber/il-n-y-a-pas-…

#Tech #Entreprise #OpenAI #IA #Intelligence #Bulle #Plouf

«Il n’y a pas assez d’euphorie autour de l’IA», affirme OpenAI, alors que les craintes d’une bulle augmentent

L’éditeur de ChatGPT demande davantage d’enthousiasme sur l’intelligence artificielle, réfutant tout risque autour des accords avec Nvidia et d’autres géants du secteur. Mais il n’y a pas unanimité sur ce sujet

^{Anouch Seydtaghia (Le Temps SA)}

This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.

It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz.

icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-pla… #space #science #nature #tech

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technol…

#ai #socialmedia #brainrot #brainrotting #tech #technology #moderntech #ModernTechnology #artificialintelligence #artificial_intelligence