Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer twists time as Q returns - CNET - Patrick Stewart will be joined by Next Generation stars who played Data and Q when the sh... - https://www.cnet.com/news/star-trek-picard-season-2-trailer-q-returns-on-paramount-plus/#ftag=CAD590a51e

"It begins with one doorbell camera on the front of your house.. It extends to cameras inside the home...It would not surprise me if in the next year or two, Sidewalk becomes an avenue by which they can extend that surveillance out into the neighborhood."

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1002590964

The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-inches-toward-letting-ai-control-weapons/

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Libreture's core mission is to support readers to discover, buy, and read independent ebooks. The language and messaging around this can sometimes get a little... awkward.

https://www.libreture.com/blog/books-are-made-words-libreture-uploadageddon/

Supreme Court Sides With Google Over Oracle in Copyright Battle - The Supreme Court threw out a lower-court ruling for Oracle that said Google’s Android in... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-for-google-in-multibillion-dollar-copyright-battle-with-oracle-11617632233?mod=rss_Technology #paid

Religion and the Decline of Democracy
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/religion-and-the-decline-of-democracy-1b8

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Package Release: 04/02 Python 3.9.3 Python: an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language https://www.python.org/

Google’s next Pixels will reportedly switch to a custom in-house GS101 processor - Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Google... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364543/google-pixel-6-custom-in-house-processor-gs101-whitechapel-arm-report

Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190709-has-humanity-reached-peak-intelligence

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Feds say hackers are likely exploiting critical Fortinet VPN vulnerabilities https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/feds-say-hackers-are-likely-exploiting-critical-fortinet-vpn-vulnerabilities/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @dangoodin001
#newsbot

Just as democratic elections are fundamental to our society, so is a functional and fair judicial system. Creating barriers between a defendant and the ability to pay for adequate legal representation jeopardizes that judicial system. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/crowdfunding-legal-fees-not-crime

Google is limiting which apps can see everything else you have installed - Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Google... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364632/google-play-store-apps-see-other-installed-may-5-query-all-packages

Russia now requires all smartphones and devices in the country to be pre-installed with the country's software https://web.archive.org/web/20210401121406/https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-requires-phones-devices-have-russian-software-pre-installed-2021-4

We've got 100+ original #Pinebook laptops running #manjarolinux with #kdecommunity KDE Plasma to donate to a worthy cause. We're looking for a suitable nonprofit.

Help us help others.

https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/03/help-us-help-others/

Officials say SolarWinds hackers succeeded in part because NSA is barred from monitoring domestic networks, leading to calls for new spying powers for the NSA (Kim Zetter/Zero Day) - Kim Zetter / Zero Day:
Officials say SolarWinds hackers succeeded in part because NSA i... - http://www.techmeme.com/210402/p23#a210402p23

“In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.*

*This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

OAuth 2.0 Authentication Vulnerabilities
https://portswigger.net/web-security/oauth

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A password manager is a tool that creates and stores passwords for you, so you can use many different passwords on different sites and services without having to memorize them. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/creating-strong-passwords

Facebook freezes Maduro's page over Covid claim - Venezuela's president will not be able to post for 30 days for disinformation over a herbal remedy... - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56551350

"Since you've got nothing to hide, you don't mind unlocking your phone for me, do you?" Legislatures and courts must stop police from asking us this question. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/so-called-consent-searches-harm-our-digital-rights