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Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/honda_france_reusable_rockets/ #news

Facial recognition technology is fraught with inaccuracies and both defendants and the broader public have a right to examine the system, we argued in our amicus brief for a case in the New Jersey Supreme Court. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-nj-supreme-court-prosecutors-must-disclose-details-regarding-frt-used-identify

Experts pointed out striking similarities between the T1’s specifications and an already available, Chinese-made phone.

“Unless the Trump family secretly built out a secure, onshore or nearshore (fabrication) operation over years of work without anyone noticing, it’s simply not possible to deliver what they’re promising,” said Todd Weaver, CEO of @purism one of the only known companies to actually manufacture a cell phone in the United States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-sons-say-their-new-phone-will-be-built-in-the-us-experts-say-it-looks-a-lot-like-a-phone-from-china/ar-AA1GU3L8

#Purism #Librem5 #FOSS

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/

23andMe Says 15% of Customers Asked To Delete Their Genetic Data Since Bankruptcy - Since filing for bankruptcy in March, 23andMe has received data deletion requests ... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/11/214242/23andme-says-15-of-customers-asked-to-delete-their-genetic-data-since-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #biotech

Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews - Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools Australi... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/canva_coding_assistant_job_interviews/

Compound Press Bends, Punches and Cuts Using 3D Printed Plastic

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/compound-press-bends-punches-and-cuts-using-3d-printed-plastic/

Peace was never an option.

#roku #adblock #ButtonRemoval #DIY

If there were a Sun Microsystems laptop, with a modern beautiful and perfect OpenSolaris environment... I would certainly buy two. Like a Sparc Tadpole, but newer.

Linux Format Magazine Ends with Issue 329

https://linuxiac.com/linux-format-magazine-ends-with-issue-329/

#Linux

Headline: The #CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site

Subtitle: The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

Source: https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Drones, robots, and automated license plate readers - These are just some of the technologies we’ve explained for you in our Field Guide to Police Surveillance, Street Level Surveillance. https://sls.eff.org/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1927065711756636587#m

[2025/05/26 18:14]

Github should add those buttons to CI.

I love you THIIIIIS much!

#LossyPNG #Monochrome #Bayer #Dither #BayerDither

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/

Seeing the news today of AccuWeather boasting (without evidence) of being the best at hurricane forecasting at the same time that the future of the NWS and NOAA is under threat.

Companies like AccuWeather have been lobbying for a long time to push for the full privatization of weather forecasting services in the U.S. (weakening NOAA), so the timing and nature of this announcement is zero percent surprising to me. The warning signs have been there since at least the first T. administration.

Signal Messenger is warning that Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds, poses a risk to its users. Effective immediately, the Windows Desktop version will by default block the ability of Windows to screenshot the app. Of course, Microsoft provides no API to disable Recall from screenshotting specific apps, so Signal is getting creative. They are invoking a digital rights management API that blocks the screenshotting of copyrighted material.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Seems like some of the quality creators are no longer active on #Loops.

I'm seeing a whole lot of cross-posted tiktok drivel. :(

FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux.

https://freebasic.net/

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