FTC Seeks Comment on New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA (www.ftc.gov)
Stop KOSA. Why the KOSA Bill is Dangerous and Should be Rejected (www.stopkosa.com)
KOSA is a bill that aims to protect children online but it would do so in harmful ways. First, it would pressure platforms to install content filters that would censor large amounts of content, including important suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support resources. Content filters have a history of overblocking important...
[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There’s still a chance for...
Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App Store (thenextweb.com)
UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)
Neuronpedia - AI Safety Game — LessWrong (www.lesswrong.com)
Tuning and Testing Llama 2, FLAN-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio (www.sematic.dev)
UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (news.un.org)
How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died (www.theverge.com)
Apple already shipped attestation on the web(DRM), and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....
PRQL — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement (prql-lang.org)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset – Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/190707...
New method of recycling colored plastics offers possible solution to 'huge environmental challenge' (phys.org)
Meta's Llama 2 is not open source (www.theregister.com)
Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web) (github.com)
Hey everyone, thank you for your patience, and thank you to everyone who engaged constructively. It is clear based on the feedback we’ve received that a bigger discussion needs to take place, and I’m not sure my personal repository is the best place to do that - we are looking for a better forum and will update when we have...
Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage (www.techdirt.com)
More “for the children” invasive bullshit. Less privacy and more government intrusion is not what voters want out of bipartisanship....
Google pushing web DRM into chromium (github.com)
Found on hacker news.
A new partnership to promote responsible AI (blog.google)
GitHub - expo/expo: An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web. (github.com)
Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices (www.wsj.com)
Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app (www.abc.net.au)
The Legacy of Stagefright (blog.isosceles.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/190327 (!android)...
