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John Roberts Wants You To Stop Believing Your Own Eyes - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/07/john-roberts-wants-you-to-stop-believing-your-own-eyes/ "Maybe the problem isn’t the public’s understanding. Maybe it’s the Court’s behavior."

This is BAD bad. Instructure has been bragging about their data hoard to investors for years, and now it's been stolen. This seemingly affects every school that uses Canvas.

In addition to names and personal email addresses, the hackers got personal messages and discussion posts.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/hackers-steal-students-data-during-breach-at-education-tech-giant-instructure/

In celebration of Migratory Bird Day on May 9th, join Library Freedom Project for a deFlocking event! Learn about the tech in Flock cameras, how to find them in your area, and ways to fight back. Hear from EFF's Cooper Quintin, Lucy Parsons Lab, and LFP. RSVP below
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s3SZadG8RU28vDQr9bc1MQ#/registration

Protecting Our Neighbors from ICE

A do-it-yourself guide to community defense skills with which you can protect your neighbors from ICE and other federal mercenaries.

https://crimethinc.com/StopICETactics

The Chinese #EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S. - https://restofworld.org/2026/us-china-ev-tech-ban-isolation/ #murica left behind again thanks to #trump

10 trillion downloads are crushing #opensource repositories - here's what they're doing about it - https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-repositories-are-being-overwhelmed-but-there-is-an-answer/ " Companies are treating these repositories like content delivery networks - now the Linux Foundation and colleagues are saying enough is enough. Here's the plan. "

It's a myth that you need #Mythos to find bugs: #Opensource models can do it just as well - https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/04/24/open-source-models-can-find-bugs-as-well-as-mythos/5224166 "OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs"

World Health Organization expects more #hantavirus cases but doesn’t ‘anticipate large epidemic’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/may/07/ukraine-russia-drones-latvia-hungary-bulgaria-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-69fc9f258f089ae78b6e4d71#block-69fc9f258f089ae78b6e4d71 that doesn't sound very reassuring...

Thousands of #VibeCoded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web - https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/ "Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet." as expected...

Solid-state #batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why - https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/04/23/solid-state-battery-discoveries-could-improve-energy-storage/5220941 "Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate"

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does anyone need a sysadmin, SRE, or cybersecurity person with experience with cell and radio networks? i'm looking for a job to end my five month streak of unemployment

i have a BSc and MSc in Computing Security and 4 years job experience (resume upon request)

i can work in the Boston area or remote in the US

#getfedihired #fedihire

Respirator masks like N95s will prevent hantavirus infection.

Clean air will drastically reduce hantavirus spread.

We already have the tools, people just need to use them.

Public health requires everyone’s participation.

“You do you” gets people killed

#hantavirus #publichealth #wearamask #n95 #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness

Listening to Anthony Healy (?) head of APRA holding forth on RNZ. I'm reminded of how badly broken the concept of Copyright is. Their whole model is driven by corporate 'rights holders' who want to extract maximum $ from the market, and not the interests of individual creators who desperately need the income. The model rewards those who're already successful. New & small creators get nuthin', especially if they haven't sold out to the big evil streaming providers.

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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DEMENTIA DONNIE, in "ATROPHY CASE"
Dare you peer into the skull of Dementia Donnie...?
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https://boingboing.net/2026/05/06/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-peek-into-the-skull-of-dementia-donnie.html

Congress is long overdue to enact a strong comprehensive consumer data privacy law. But the SECURE Data Act is not it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/secure-data-act-not-serious-piece-privacy-legislation

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Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥

We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website.

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When all of this is over, I want all the companies that allowed (or, worse yet, pushed) slop liquidated, and all their property given to the people, not the state, the people! We can do this! We can fucking do this!

Do not let them continue operating like Siemens, Dr. Oetker, Bayer... were allowed to continue operating! Liquidate them!

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism #bigtech

@drmorrisj @hannorein @daisy in my experience in teaching in higher education, it makes a big difference how easy cheating is. LLMs made cheating easy enough that it went from maybe 20% of participants in a first semester lecture to something like 50%. Those additional 30% of students would have learned something before, but are near guaranteed not to learn anything now.