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“[T]hey noticed Meta AI automatically added to WhatsApp on iOS [..] Meta AI's integration into WhatsApp is mandatory and cannot be disabled.” https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/meta-rolls-out-ai-on-whatsapp-in-europe-and-users-cannot-disable-itEUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
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I am very glad that my article on Open-Source Software under the Cyber Resilience Act has been published in JIPITEC. The article delves into the (widespread) discussion surrounding the regulation of cybersecurity for open-source software under the CRA.
Working in open-source software and eager to know more about what the Cyber Resilience Act means? The article is, very much in the spirit of "open source", available in open access in JIPITEC now!
jipitec.eu/jipitec/article/vie…
The Cyber Resilience Act and Open-Source Software: A Fine Balancing Act
Open-source software, a type of software that can be publicly accessed, shared, and modified, is an integral part of modern digital infrastructure. Many products, from personal computers to internet-connected devices, run on open-source systems (e.www.jipitec.eu
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posted on 2025.03.29 at 06:08:36 (c=1, p=5)
I've taken a while to think about what to say about this since yesterday
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What I'd like you to notice is that it's not the law or government policy to raid Quaker meeting houses to arrest people for talking together.
Notice it was a choice made by police who wanted to do it, and knew they wouldn't be held to account for it.
And I can't stress enough how much you do NOT want unaccountable police making up public policy. There's a name for that kind of country.
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
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Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/c…
Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away
Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly.Vjosa Isai (The New York Times)
He enticed amateur sleuths into the wilderness with buried treasure. It didn't go well
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5336714/gold-and-greed-review-netflix-fenn-treasure?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?Mother Jones
Absolutely glorious and thrilling to see the solar eclipse today in London ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆
Made a solar projector using a colander! And also watching the Greenwich live stream: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/sola…
Partial solar eclipse LIVE
Watch the Moon hide a portion of the Sun live online with Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomerswww.rmg.co.uk
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing
: Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover projectRichard Speed (The Register)
If you are curious what is going on in Hungary, please read our article we wrote on this today, it's absolutely insane. And please subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/ai-surveil...
AI Surveillance to be Deployed...
AI Surveillance to be Deployed on Banned Budapest Pride
The yearly parade has been banned, and its organizers and attendees will be targeted with AI surveillance, facial recognition software, and automatic fines.s. baum (Erin In The Morning)
This deems delusional.
Did I miss some groundbreaking discovery about low back pain that discovers that it comes from an infection in our spine?
Because it’s kind of terrifying if they think low back pain comes from an infection that could be cured with antibiotics, so they think everyone with low back pain is walking around with a festering bacterial infection?
This sounds delusional.
theguardian.com/society/2025/m…
New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’
Exclusive: early stage trials of drug that uses antibiotics finds benefits for people whose pain is caused by infectionDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
Recreating the Analog Beauty of a Vintage Tektronix Oscillator
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Recreating The Analog Beauty Of A Vintage Tektronix Oscillator
Tektronix must have been quite a place to work back in the 1980s. The company offered a bewildering selection of test equipment, and while the digital age was creeping in, much of their gear was st…Hackaday
Scientists find a galaxy that defies conventional wisdom
It's a "surprising discovery."Mark Kaufman (Mashable)
The move is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under RFK Jr.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…
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Anyone working on an "AltCDC"?
AltNPS
Our Parks is all about enjoying our beautiful parks the right way. We're here to show you how to experience their beauty while making sure they stay beautiful for everyone, now and in the future.ourparks.org
nerd question: Would that be an EPDM membrane? I have heard those are used in parking garages too.
@Remittancegirl in Denmark we often use EPDM as a liner in garden ponds. Mine has lasted for 15 years now. They say it lasts up to 30 years.
100 years, 100 moments: How women shaped a century of music
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2025/03/29/g-s1-56540/how-women-shaped-a-century-of-music?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail."
nathalielawhead.com/candybox/m…
about sustainable alternatives to existing in the game industry, and the positive impact of failure.
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #FOSS #Software
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Enigma Heart, our sapphic take on a classic action RPG formula, is available to wishlist NOW on #Steam!
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Enigma Heart on Steam
Unravel the mysteries of your past, protect the ones you love, and shape your destiny in Enigma Heart, a modern new take on a classic action RPG formula.store.steampowered.com
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Here is this week's #Linux & #OpenSource News video:
youtube.com/watch?v=weFVHVPynR…
AI directly harms Open Source, Android goes private: Linux & Open Source News
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Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order
As US pivots toward territorial ambitions in the west, the Kremlin’s support signals a deeper alignment in their challenge to global normsAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
the irony that Trump says the US needs Greenland to protect from Russia, and Russia backs him is lost on them.
He is angling for a war he thinks he can win, given US recent history, not many targets for him.
‘Among the worst conditions’: Florida theme park raided after dolphin deaths
State investigation under way at Gulf World after four dolphins have mysteriously died in past six monthsRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
What green card and visa holders should know before traveling abroad
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343493/green-card-holders-rights-visa-detained-cbp?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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President Zelensky: Ukraine received another US variant of minerals deal earlier, pointing out that this is an absolutely different document.
"There are a lot of things that were not mentioned, and also some things appeared that, let's say, the parties had rejected before," he said.
Zelensky also stated that Ukraine will not recognize all the previous US military aid as debt.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
President Zelensky:
"We have agreed to hold an urgent meeting in Ukraine within a week with a few representatives of the general staffs of the main countries that will be 100% ready for a troop contingent on the territory of Ukraine. France, Great Britain, and Ukraine definitely will. This is, let's say, a triangle in this matter."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews
So how's the first few days of Poilievre's hypocrisy election campaign going? #Elxn45 #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre holds investments in Brookfield — the same company he attacks Mark Carney over.
Pierre Poilievre has bashed asylum seekers for crossing into Canada but documents reveal his own relative crossed at Roxham Road—and then was helped by Anaida Poilievre and a MP's office to stay in Canada.
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Dumbing Down of America
FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out
In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
"Gawd forbid we get a pandemic under the Trump regime. The death toll will be huge!"
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#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out
Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.
"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."
#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
Trump reverses termination of program tracking mass child abductions in Ukraine - for six more weeks
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#GiftLink #NoPaywall #UkraineWar
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Bob Downie
in reply to Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ • • •Sent to my MP
"Following the shocking report that a Quaker Meeting House was raided without warning, I ask you to protest this police behaviour to the Home Secretary.
The legislation under which this raid was conducted is chilling in its action in stifling freedom of assembly and honest expression of opinion. It has no place in a modern Britain and needs to be repealed immediately.
Please confirm to me that you have forwarded my extreme concern to the Home Secretary and ..."
Rachel Wright
in reply to Bob Downie • • •Bob Downie
in reply to Rachel Wright • • •@virtuosew Of course. I forgot to quote the exact legislation(s) that the police used. You might want to include this (see the original article for details).
Cheers
Rachel Wright
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