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UK | Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegal
Labour administration says ‘globally pioneering’ legislation will be brought in before next Senedd elections in 2026
> Labour administration says ‘globally pioneering’ legislation will be brought in before next Senedd elections in 2026
Archived version: https://archive.ph/6LFaV
Israel’s assault has displaced over 1 million people just since May, a UN human rights official said.
> Israel’s assault has displaced over 1 million people just since May, a UN human rights official said.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/Ile2Z
USA | Baltimore nurses at largest Catholic health network in US fight on for first contract
"We held the rally... to show [management] that we're not afraid, that we're not going to be intimidated, and that we're not going to back down until we win a good contract for our patients and for ourselves"
> "We held the rally... to show [management] that we're not afraid, that we're not going to be intimidated, and that we're not going to back down until we win a good contract for our patients and for ourselves"
Archived version: https://archive.ph/SE8Po
Letby is serving a life sentence with no chance of release — the most severe punishment possible under British law. Only three other women have received such a harsh sentence in the U.K.
> Letby is serving a life sentence with no chance of release — the most severe punishment possible under British law. Only three other women have received such a harsh sentence in the U.K.
Adversary-in-the-middle attacks can strip out the passkey option from login pages that users see, leaving targets with only authentication choices that force them to give up credentials.
> Adversary-in-the-middle attacks can strip out the passkey option from login pages that users see, leaving targets with only authentication choices that force them to give up credentials.
The firm has not commented on the possibility of customer data exposure yet, presumably because the investigation is still in its early phase.
Patelco Credit Union has disclosed it experienced a ransomware attack that led to the proactive shutdown of several of its customer-facing banking systems to contain the incident's impact.
> Patelco Credit Union has disclosed it experienced a ransomware attack that led to the proactive shutdown of several of its customer-facing banking systems to contain the incident's impact.
> On or about March 14, 2024, through March 15, 2024, Human Technology Inc., and its affiliates, Greer Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc., Murphy's Orthopedic & Footcare, Inc., and Hi-Tech Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc., ("Human Technology and its affiliates") suffered a data security incident. Human Technology and its affiliates became aware of this suspicious activity within its environment on March 15, 2024.
Buy now, pay later loan company Affirm is warning that holders of its payment cards had their personal information exposed due to a data breach at its third-party issuer, Evolve Bank & Trust (Evolve).
> Buy now, pay later loan company Affirm is warning that holders of its payment cards had their personal information exposed due to a data breach at its third-party issuer, Evolve Bank & Trust (Evolve).
You know, rather than paying out thousands or millions in lawsuits for retaliatory arrests, maybe states should just spend more money on skin thickening for their police officers. It’s not li…
> You know, rather than paying out thousands or millions in lawsuits for retaliatory arrests, maybe states should just spend more money on skin thickening for their police officers.
For decades there has been endless policy wrangling over whether “unlocking your phone” (removing restrictions allowing you to take the device with you to another carrier) should be all…
> For decades there has been endless policy wrangling over whether “unlocking your phone” (removing restrictions allowing you to take the device with you to another carrier) should be allowed. Giant carriers have generally supported onerous phone locks because it hampers competition by making it harder to switch providers. Consumer rights groups and the public broadly support unlocked devices.
You’ll have to pay more to go ad-free.
> You’ll have to pay more to go ad-free.
> Now, it’s a trend.
Law that requires porn sites to verify user ages faces First Amendment challenge.
> Law that requires porn sites to verify user ages faces First Amendment challenge.
Google says “reducing emissions may be challenging” as it integrates AI into its products.
> Google says “reducing emissions may be challenging” as it integrates AI into its products.
Even unlisted YouTube videos are used to train AI, watchdog warns.
> Even unlisted YouTube videos are used to train AI, watchdog warns.
The Supreme Court’s opinions in the NetChoice/CCIA cases have been leading to some bizarre interpretations, as many people try to read into it things they wanted to see but just aren’t there. Cathy…
> The Supreme Court’s opinions in the NetChoice/CCIA cases have been leading to some bizarre interpretations, as many people try to read into it things they wanted to see but just aren’t there. Cathy already covered some of the oddities of Justice Alito’s concurrence (which Justices Thomas and Gorsuch signed onto), but I wanted to dig in a little more to his concurrence, pointing out a few things that show just how much Alito is willing to decide on an ideological basis, rather than one based on principles.
Meta Quest 3, PS5 Slim also received failing grades despite new right-to-repair laws.
> Meta Quest 3, PS5 Slim also received failing grades despite new right-to-repair laws.
Microsoft already has a board seat as well.
> Microsoft already has a board seat as well.
A case that divided the jury and the public will most likely be retried, according to prosecutors.
> A case that divided the jury and the public will most likely be retried, according to prosecutors.
Not Mastodon, but mastodon.social
. All the journalist on news focused instances are excluded.
On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
> On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Any countries want to stop all funding until claims can be investigated, or do they prefer to stick to their double standards?
Probably one of the best sci-fi shows created in the last few decades. It’s smart, deep, and engaging. You might need to get through a few first episodes if high school drama is not your jam, but after that you will be hooked.
All of them are considered in tandem, not individually.
Considering that OpenAI is making a commercial profit from developing its ML models
They are losing money during development (all those GPUs are not free and running them costs a lot of energy), they are making the money after it's trained. Just factual inaccuracy.
And being used for commercial purpose is not automatic rejection. Take YouTube, where fair use comes up constantly. Almost all the cases are for commercial purpose, but most qualify under fair use.
#3 also because the model usually ingests the entire work, not just part of it.
While they are trained on full works, the used work in the result is different. Probably minimal considering the size of the models. The fact that some courts already ruled that "AI" works can't be copyrighted gives weight to the argument that it's a unique work.
It's very hard to argue that "AI" generated is different from someone looking at the original and making a copy by hand. And since the latter is allowed, by the same token is the former.
Which is both sad and confusing as he pulled it out on set with the intention to pull the trigger for the scene.
It wasn't even an actual scene being filmed, It was blocking (working out the details of an actor’s moves in relation to the camera) where non-functioning props like cardboard are usually used. The scene script in question also didn't even have him pointing the gun. He was supposed to only draw the gun out partially.
They were one of the first to go.
I think my workplace would be more concerned about the fact that their own sex toy shopping is tracked than the fact that I use sex toys.
But I marked it as NSFW anyway.
Which part do you find NSFW?
At this point, it’s unclear what’s the extent of the incident and how many HubSpot customers were affected.
While TeamViewer states there is no evidence that its product environment or customer data has been breached, its massive use in both consumer and corporate environments makes any breach a significant concern as it would provide full access to internal networks.
Both things can be true. And in this case they are.
Checkout coffeezilla/voidzilla coverage if you haven't seen it yet.
Fucking pay them or write them yourselves.
This. Refactoring the whole code is insanely time intensive, even if developers know multiple languages. All these critical components you rely on, you use without any compensation or support and then dare to complain it's not to your security standards. Fix it, or pay for it to be fixed.
Follow up story to https://lemmy.zip/post/18016094
It really depends on each person's threat model. But there are a few things everyone would benefit from. Like VPN, email aliasing, password manager, 2FA/MFA. They don't have any convenience cost and in most cases make your life easier.
If you are interested in learning more:
There is also Vivaldi (based on Chromium/Blink) which is employee owned, but the choices are shrinking.
Mozilla Foundation is still non-profit, but Mozilla Corporation is not. And while they claim to operate by Mozilla Manifesto, it's non-binding and has been broken multiple times. Remember Pocket and their promise to open source it?
Firefox own data disproves your statement. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
I know there are strong feelings about posts that include Threads and to lesser extent Bluesky, but it's important to know what corporate media thinks of Fediverse and how they compare it to corporate alternatives. You are encouraged to dissect the article and point out all of its failures, or just downvote the post and move on. But I won't be removing it.
P.S. The author of the article definitely has a pro VC stance.
[email protected], created not long ago, exactly due to similar reasons.