nerd7473 @nerd7473@librem.one

📜 Latest Top Story on #HackerNews: RISC-V in 2024 is slower than you think
🔍 Original Story: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/risc-v-in-2024-is-slow
👤 Author: bhouston
⭐ Score: 15
💬 Number of Comments: 0
🕒 Posted At: 2024-10-23 14:41:12 UTC
🔗 URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925511
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I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-weeek test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.

The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.

I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

Playing with theming in ways that are unnecessary (got carried away while trying to fix a visual glitch).

What do you think? Please comment 🙂

Seems alright?

Podman shifts to a quarterly release cycle, starting with Podman 5.3 in November 2024, offering predictable updates.
https://linuxiac.com/podman-announces-move-to-timed-releases/

#podman #containers

Qualcomm brings laptop-class CPU cores to phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/qualcomm-brings-laptop-class-cpu-cores-to-phones-with-snapdragon-8-elite/ #news #snapdragon8elite #snapdragon #Qualcomm #Tech #ARM

Netflix closes AAA game studio before it ever released a game https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276700/netflix-gaming-studio-closure-blue #news

It's the System76 Thelio Astra, with Ampere Altra / Altra Max and Nvidia graphics.

More: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra

And Phoronix's review is already live: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-astra

http://dlvr.it/TFbV0p

WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276714/whatsapp-built-in-contacts-address-book #news

The Juul class action lawsuit is paying people huge amounts of money https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276629/juul-vaping-philip-morris-class-action-settlement-payment #news

New Arm Developer workstation... that has PCIe slots and tops out at 512 GB of RAM?

Would you like to know more?

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 desktop environment rolls out with new translations and fixes, including updates to KWin, Plasma Audio, and Workspace.
https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-2-2-released/

#kde #plasma

Our creator/developer, @Floppy, will* be on @FLOSS_Weekly
today, talking about Manyfold, 3D Printing, and joining the Fediverse with ActivityPub!

Watch along live at https://www.youtube.com/@FLOSSWeekly (16:30 UTC), or catch it later on a podcast feed near you!

#3DPrinting #SelfHosted @3dprinting

* as long as all goes well; we just had an Internet outage as we were trying to post this!

Nicolas Cage Urges Young Actors To Protect Themselves From AI - Actor Nicolas Cage warned young performers about the dangers of AI in film product... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/21/1551249/nicolas-cage-urges-young-actors-to-protect-themselves-from-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

UFW | Uncomplicated Firewall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxirBuDnXY

RapidUDF - A High-Performance JIT-Based C++ Expression/Script Engine with SIMD Vectorization Support

https://github.com/yinqiwen/rapidudf

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/yinqiwen/rapidudf

#cpp #programming

Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite - The 8 Elite comes with a new Oryon CPU. | Image: Qualcomm
... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273802/qualcomm-8-elite-oryon-cpu-android-smartphone-soc

I found another graphics card among my stuff. This one actually has some grunt in it!

#RetroComputing

The New York Times warns AI search engine Perplexity to stop using its content https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24270774/new-york-times-cease-and-desist-letter-perplexity-ai-search-engine #news