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Author @rek2@lemmy.ml

Hello fellow hackers and cyberpunk enthusiasts,

After 12 months of writing and research, I'm excited (and honestly a bit nervous) to share my first tech-thriller novella "Connection Timeout: The PingStarved Chronicles" with this community. This is my first time publishing fiction, so I'm both shy and thrilled to finally put it out there.

Set in 2030 Barcelona, it follows Andrés "PingStarved" Reyes, a 56-year-old hacker who must choose between protecting his estranged son and surrendering a revolutionary mesh networking protocol that could liberate global communications from corporate control.

What makes this different from typical cyberpunk:
* Features real mesh networking protocols (Meshtastic, Reticulum)
* Based on actual security research and exploitation techniques
* Grounded in technologies currently in development
* Authentic hacker culture representation - written by someone who lives it
* NO DRM - All formats are DRM-free because information wants to be free

This has been a labor of love, combining my passion for privacy tech and resistance against surveillance capitalism into a narrative that I hope resonates with our community. As someone who's been hacking for years but never written fiction before, I poured everything I know and believe about our culture into these pages.

Details:
- 29,429 words (86 pages, 2-3 hour read)
- Available in PDF and EPUB formats
- Price: $4.99 USD / €4.99 EUR
- DRM-FREE on all platforms

Available at:
- Gumroad (DRM-FREE): rek2.gumroad.com/l/connection-…
- Amazon Kindle US: amazon.com/dp/B0FPZ18STC
- Amazon Kindle Spain: amazon.es/dp/B0FPZ18STC
- Also available on Amazon in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Australia, and many other countries

If you enjoyed Neuromancer, Little Brother, or Mr. Robot, this explores similar themes of surveillance capitalism, digital liberty, and technological resistance - but grounded in the real tech we're building today.

Any feedback from the community would mean the world to me. Thanks for reading!

P.S. - For those who prefer open platforms, the Gumroad version comes with both PDF and EPUB, completely DRM-free. Support indie publishing and digital freedom!

The California Privacy Protection Agency, alongside the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, and Connecticut, today announced an investigative sweep involving potential noncompliance with the Global Privacy Control, or GPC, an easy-to-use browser setting or extension that automatically signals to businesses a consumer's request to stop selling or sharing their personal information to third parties. As part of the sweep announced today, the coalition is contacting businesses that may not be processing consumer requests to opt out of the sale of their personal information submitted via the GPC as required by law and requesting that those businesses comply.

California Privacy Protection Agency Announces Joint Investigative Privacy Sweep: CA, CO, and CT Investigate Businesses Refusing to Honor Consumers' Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Their Personal Information

California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)

^cppa.ca.gov

These are the ones that seem to be the best currently. Does anyone have anything else? (Using the Downloader app)

Streamfire - 2396773
Sportsfire - 4585605
OnStream - 597576
SmartTube (YT w/o ads) - 28544
Anime- anilab.to

Non avrei mai minimamente immaginato di dover pormi, e porre, questo quesito, né stasera né mai, ma ecco qui l’universo… Perché mai, in questa fabbrica che è stata mostrata in un servizio del TG2 di stasera (come immagini di repertorio, non specifiche), davanti ad un banco da lavoro o quel che è, c’è appeso un […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-09-09 19:40:19

Doraemon avvistato casualmente in fabbrica (in un servizio del TG2)

Non avrei mai minimamente immaginato di dover pormi, e porre, questo quesito, né stasera né mai, ma ecco qui l’universo… Perché mai, in questa fabbrica che è stata mostrata in un servizio del TG2 di stasera (come immagini di repertorio, non specifiche), davanti ad un banco da lavoro o quel che è, c’è appeso un foglio di carta con sopra un’illustrazione del fottutissimo Doraemon??? 🤯🤯🤯

Ho intravisto questa cosa mentre ero a tavola a cenare, e può essere che poco ci mancava che sputassi, perché fa così tanto ridere per qualche motivo che non capisco… forse perché è apparentemente fuori contesto, o forse perché mai mi immaginerei di trovare degli operai a lavorare attorno ad un quadretto di #Doraemon; comunque sia, è sicuramente poetico. E oh, onestamente bravo/a a chi ha fatto il servizio, perché si vede prima da vicino, e poi una seconda volta più da lontano… è inquadrato complessivamente, proprio assurdo. 🙏

Ma ora, a parte chiedermi chi più in tutto il paese stasera avrà notato questo dettaglio certamente da pochi (probabilmente dentro lo stessa redazione del telegiornale nessuno si sarà fatto domande; probabilmente nessuno avrà neanche riconosciuto la figura), mi chiedo, per l’appunto, come mai… Sarà un’ispirazione per l’azienda o per i suoi lavoratori? Magari la roba che producono è assimilabile a dei ciusky? E chi lo sa. Forse sarebbe utile riuscire a risalire alla specifica azienda, magari sfruttando le altre immagini del servizio, sperando non siano tutte totalmente scollegate… ma io in questo non sono capace, e quindi, per una buona volta, mi limito solo a segnalare questo incredibile bellissimo. 👌

#Doraemon #fabbrica #Rai #Telegiornale #TG2 #TV

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-rico-charges-61-9d0928ca44c5ddc931cd640a8805664a

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35917417

[This is great news!]

Peter Link

2025-09-09 19:22:31

Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters

[This is great news!]

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-rico-charges-61-9d0928ca44c5ddc931cd640a8805664a

Whitney Webb reported on the links between Epstein, Israeli tech company Carbyne, and the American intelligence apparatus

Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.

Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, President Trump — who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election — asked tech companies to “detect mass shooters before they strike,” a service already perfected by Thiel’s company Palantir, which has developed “pre-crime software” already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.

Palantir owner linked to Jeffrey Epstein as NHS questions arise

A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein

^{Willem Moore (The Canary)}

The U.S. Justice Department is in talks with Homeland Security Investigations about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters.

The voter registration data was gathered over the last several months by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which has sent requests for voter registration-related information to at least 24 states. Of those, the division requested a complete list of all registered voters from at least 22 states, according to a tracker maintained by the Brennan Center for Justice and letters reviewed by Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-dept-considers-handing-over-voter-roll-data-criminal-probes-documents-2025-09-09/

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- Hacker News.
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Here at Huntress, we love exposing adversary tradecraft, and we also love when threat actors make blunders. So imagine our delight when a threat actor installed Huntress onto their operating machine—after finding us via one of our advertising campaigns and starting a trial— giving us a sprawling inside look at how they’re using AI to build workflows, searching for tools like Evilginx, and more.

How an Attacker’s Blunder Gave Us a Rare Look Inside Their Day-to-Day Operations

An attacker installed Huntress onto their operating machine, giving us a detailed look at how they’re using AI to build workflows, searching for tools like Evilginx, and researching targets like software development companies.

^{Jamie Levy (huntress.com)}

A North Dakota interim legislative committee has selected Nucleon Energy, a Canadian development company, to chart the state’s path to a nuclear-powered future.

The Alberta-based nuclear development company will spend the next 12 months studying the possibility of attracting the resurgent nuclear power industry to the state. The key elements of the study will include identifying potential locations, gauging public support and laying the groundwork for the federal licensing process.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/09/08/company-selected-to-lay-groundwork-for-nuclear-power-in-north-dakota/

A North Dakota interim legislative committee has selected Nucleon Energy, a Canadian development company, to chart the state’s path to a nuclear-powered future.

The Alberta-based nuclear development company will spend the next 12 months studying the possibility of attracting the resurgent nuclear power industry to the state. The key elements of the study will include identifying potential locations, gauging public support and laying the groundwork for the federal licensing process.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/09/08/company-selected-to-lay-groundwork-for-nuclear-power-in-north-dakota/

• The NVIDIA Rubin CPX GPU is purpose-built to handle million-token coding and generative video applications.
• The NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX platform packs 8 exaflops of AI performance and 100TB of fast memory in a single rack.
• Companies can monetize at an unprecedented scale, with $5B in token revenue for every $100M invested.

NVIDIA Unveils Rubin CPX: A New Class of GPU Designed for Massive-Context Inference

NVIDIA® today announced NVIDIA Rubin CPX, a new class of GPU purpose-built for massive-context processing. This enables AI systems to handle million-token software coding and generative video with groundbreaking speed and efficiency.

^{NVIDIA Newsroom}

New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to guarantee no-cost child care for all families, regardless of income, when the program launches Nov. 1.

The universal child care program will provide significant financial relief to families across the southwestern state.

New Mexico's Early Childhood Education and Care Department estimated families will save $12,000 on average per child each year.

The state is also launching efforts to increase the available childcare options, including launching a campaign to recruit licensed and registered home providers and establishing a $12.7 million low-interest loan fund to construct, expand, and renovate child care facilities, with an additional $20 million requested in the state's Fiscal Year 2027 budget.

New Mexico becomes first state to offer no-cost child care to every family

^{Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/49696960

• Evidence: The government seeks to deport an Ohio chaplain, but its case has come under scrutiny from supporters and legal advocates.
• Support: The U.S. paints the chaplain as a link in terrorist organizations, but in Ohio, families laud his work at a children’s hospital and in the community.
• Test Case: If the government secures its quest for deportation, experts say the case could empower the Trump administration’s mass deportation blueprint.

The Case Against Ayman Soliman Could Fuel Trump Immigration Crackdown

The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump administration a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations.

^ProPublica

Amid growing pressure for the Trump administration to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files, a New York Times investigation reveals how the country’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, enabled Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation and profited from its ties to him. The exposé is based on more than 13,000 pages of legal and financial records. The Times reports JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for Epstein totaling more than $1.1 billion, including payments to some of the women who were sexually trafficked. The bank “arranged for Epstein to be able to pay those victims, both in the U.S. and in Eastern European countries and in Russia,” says David Enrich, deputy investigations editor for The New York Times. Epstein “operated in large part because he had unfettered access to the global financial system. And for many years, it was JPMorgan that was providing him with that access.”

In “a mockery of international law,” per one expert, Israel has bombed the residence of Hamas officials negotiating peace in Doha, Qatar.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/theintercept…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Israel’s Peace Plan: Assassinate the Ceasefire Negotiators

^{Nick Turse (The Intercept)}

Support for FSR 4 officially expands to a total of 85 games

AMD expands FSR 4 with drop-in support for 85 games with latest Radeon driver update - but you still need an RDNA 4 GPU

^{Kunal Khullar (Tom's Hardware)}

This continues shake ups under the new CEO who has previously announced plans to flatten executive structure, making more departments and people answer to him directly.

Intel ousts CEO of Products as part of the latest executive shake-up, ending 30-year career — company also establishes new custom chip design unit

^{Jon Martindale (Tom's Hardware)}

AMD Zen 5 Clash!

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-vs-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-faceoff

A $379 point-and-shoot with a USB Mini port — in 2025.

Canon is bringing back a point-and-shoot from 2016 with fewer features and a higher price (it’s viral)

Canon’s PowerShot Elph 360 HS A point-and-shoot isn’t really new. It’s much the same as the 2016 original, which became a viral hit because of the digicam trend and celebs like Kendall Jenner.

^{Antonio G. Di Benedetto (The Verge)}

Archived copy of the article

This hurts the US, but it benefits the oil executives who paid a billion dollar bribe

https://www.wired.com/story/us-taxpayers-will-pay-billions-in-new-fossil-fuel-subsidies-thanks-to-the-big-beautiful-bill/

archive.is link

The AI-powered Friend pendant is now out in the world. If you live in the US or Canada, you can buy one for $129.

The smooth plastic disc is just under 2 inches in diameter; it looks and feels a little like a beefy Apple AirTag. Inside are some LEDs and a Bluetooth radio that connects you (through your iPhone) to a chatbot in the cloud that’s powered by Google’s Gemini 2.5 model. You can tap on the disc to ask your Friend questions as it dangles around your neck, and it responds to your voice prompts by sending you text messages through the companion app. You can reply to these messages with your voice or via text to keep the conversation going.

It also listens to whatever you’re doing as you move through the world, no tap required, and offers a running commentary on the interactions you have throughout your day. To perform that trick, the device has microphones that are always activated.

If the idea of a microphone-packed wearable that’s always listening to your conversations raises privacy concerns for you, just know that you’re not alone. If your experience is anything like ours, wearing the Friend will likely earn you the ire of everyone around you. Curiously, you might even end up being bullied by the chatbot itself.

https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend/

The specs are wild, this is likely going to be very expensive

It has a secure element so it could run Graphene no? The only problem is that it's not a mainstream device so I don't think it's going to be supported.

A similar device that's currently released is Nokia XR21, but the only pro is that it's manufactured in Hungary

Don't bother with HMD's candybar dumbphones if you wanna escape Android, mine calls 999 (ambulance) if I put it in the backpack and it did it two times on its own (HMD 110 4G 2024), flip phones shouldn't have this problem though.

firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live kindly invited me onto their show to chat. Looking forward to it!

Episodes are uploaded to their Peertube and you can catch the stream online here

Fireside Fedi Livestream

Fireside Fedi is an attempt to learn more about folks within the Fediverse.

^{Fireside Fedi Livestream}

Questa app è una piccola bomba:
- traduzione completamente offline con il motore recentemente implementato in Firefox
- riconoscimento da immagini con tesseract
- overlay del testo tradotto sull'immagine originale

E' ancora un'app giovane ma funziona piuttosto bene. Inoltre mi sembra un passo fondamentale verso la de-googlizzazione

Codice sorgente: github.com/DavidVentura/firefo…

Offline Translator | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

On-device translation of text and images

^f-droid.org

Four masked men in police tactical vests surround a young scooter rider, cuffing his hands behind his back. One person, whose face is fully obscured with a cap, sunglasses and a balaclava, is heard on eyewitness video telling the scooter rider: “You came into this country as a J1, as an exchange student. You didn’t show up … You lied, ok?”

“Yeah, he’s illegal, either way,” another person is heard saying, before they lead him to an unmarked car.

Screengrab from a video showing a man being arrested by federal agents along Florida Avenue Northwest, Washington DC on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Source: Instagram/@will.allendupraw

Nearby, two Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) cars are seen blocking part of the lane. Uniformed MPD officers stand around the area, neither intervening nor appearing to participate directly in the arrest.

MPD vehicles seen blocking part of a lane where federal officers are arresting a man on a scooter along Florida Avenue Northwest, Washington DC on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Source: Instagram/@will.allendupraw

The video was posted by Will Allen-DuPraw, whose profile says that he is a photographer and videographer based in DC, on Sept. 2. Allen-DuPraw wrote in the post that bystanders reported that authorities were stopping Latino men on scooters along Florida Avenue Northwest, a major road in Washington DC, and had arrested two.

An urgent alert sent out on the morning of the same day by Stop ICE Alerts, a community-driven alert network for those affected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, reported similar information. The alert said that ICE, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) – a branch of ICE focused on investigating transnational crime – and MPD were “stopping Latinos on scooters” and had arrested one or two people along Florida Avenue Northwest.

A Metropolitan Police officer directs traffic at a checkpoint on New York Avenue after US President Donald Trump deployed US National Guard troops to Washington and ordered an increase in the presence of federal law enforcement to assist in crime prevention, in Washington, DC. Source: Reuters/Al Drago

With US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, scenes of federal agents detaining people while accusing them of immigration offences have been cropping up all over social media from around the country. An analysis of ICE arrest data by DC-based think tank Cato Institute found that in June and July alone, ICE conducted almost 9,000 street arrests nationwide of immigrants who had no criminal convictions, charges, or removal orders. About 90 percent of these were immigrants from Latin America.

The incident on Florida Avenue Northwest was one of 42 that Bellingcat and our partner Evident Media geolocated and verified using videos and photos from social media and news reports. These showed federal agent encounters in the capital, in the month or so since Trump’s federal takeover of DC on August 11. The full dataset can be downloaded here.

In the three weeks after DC was placed under federal control, Trump’s administration said more than 300 people without legal immigration status were arrested in the District.

Like previous immigration raids that we documented in Los Angeles, the federal agents involved in the DC cases were often masked and in military wear. Some wore generic “Police” vests, while others had attire indicating specific government entities such as ICE and HSI. The vehicles they used were usually unmarked, with plates from a variety of US states.

Car plates from a variety of US states that federal agents in DC were filmed using in Washington DC. Source: Evident Media

There is one key difference, however. In LA, a state law prohibits local law enforcement from using its resources for immigration enforcement in most cases. But in DC, where no such law applies, MPD has frequently been seen working with federal officers since the federal takeover last month.

In half of the incidents in our dataset, local DC law enforcement could be seen working alongside federal agents. Most of the DC local police were from MPD, though some were from the Metro Transit Police Department. Aside from ICE and HSI, agents from federal agencies including the US Park Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were also seen in the videos.

Agents from US Park Police, FBI, DEA and ATF were seen in the videos. Source: Evident Media

“We are definitely seeing MPD cooperate at a level we’ve never seen before, and it is resulting in people getting arrested and sent to detention,” Michael Lukens, who runs immigrant rights centre Amica, told Evident Media.

MPD has not replied to Evident Media’s queries about their cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies as of publication.

Of the cases we analysed, 22 involved the arrest of delivery drivers or tradespeople, such as workers in an air conditioning and heating truck.

In two widely shared videos, DC resident Tyler DeSue claimed agents pulled over his Uber Eats driver for having “incorrect tags” on his bike, then checked his registration and insurance and saw it was valid. DeSue said they then asked for his immigration status and detained him.

Police officers, one in an HSI vest, seen questioning a man in a video posted by Tyler DeSue on Aug. 17. Source: TikTok/@td13__

The videos DeSue posted did not show the initial encounter between the agents and the driver, but did show the arrest. DeSue can be heard in one video telling agents that the man they were questioning did not understand what they were saying, and they should use Google Translate. Another witness is heard calling the arrest “ridiculous” and questioning if the agents have “better things to do than to harass Uber Eats drivers”.

In a second video, also posted by DeSue, agents are seen wrapping the man in chains before putting him in an unmarked car.

A second video posted by DeSue on Aug. 17 show agents wrapping the man in chains before putting him into an unmarked car. Source: TikTok/@td13__

Another video posted by NPR reporter Chiara Eisner on Aug. 21 shows an agent in a “Police” tactical vest handcuffing a man in front of a truck, with US Park Police nearby. When Eisner asks what is happening, a Park Police officer says this is a traffic enforcement because the man was driving a commercial vehicle on park roads.

US Park Police stand by as a man is arrested by an agent in a “Police” tactical vest, after what they said was a traffic enforcement for driving a commercial vehicle on park roads. Source: TikTok/@chiaraeisner

Evident Media asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about videos of these two specific incidents, as well as whether federal agents were using race or language as factors in their stops and arrests. In response, a DHS spokesperson said:

“What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is if they are illegally in the US – NOT their skin colour, race or ethnicity. America’s brave men and women are removing murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, rapists – truly the worst of the worst from our communities.”

The spokesperson also claimed that the men detained in these two incidents were undocumented immigrants who entered the country illegally. They did not mention any other criminal record for the men or comment on why the men were stopped by local police in the first place.

Lukens told Evident Media that ICE agents had been seen in areas with larger immigrant populations, such as Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan, which he described as “high-level racial profiling”.

Constitutionally, the Fourth Amendment protects anyone in the US, regardless of immigration status, from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.

“If you are an ICE officer and the only thing that you have to fall on or to fall back on in justifying arrest is a person’s racial makeup and what vehicle they are driving, then you have conducted an illegal stop and an illegal arrest,” Lukens said.

Melissa Zhu, Eoghan Macguire, Pooja Chaudhuri, Kolina Koltai, Vladimir Zaha, Fraser Crichton and Bonny Albo contributed research to this piece.

From Evident Media, Jennifer Smart, Kevin Clancy and Zach Toombs contributed to research and production for the video report.

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A Mahoning County Commissioner contends that Ohio’s sales tax would need to more than double to replace property tax revenue used to fund schools.

Commissioner Geno DiFabio stated on Monday in a social media post that the state’s current tax structure would not support a full repeal of property taxes without a significant increase in other taxes.

DiFabio said the state's property tax system generates about $15 billion for schools annually. He contrasted this with the state's portion of sales tax, which is 5.75% and yields about $14 billion a year.

His analysis suggests that to cover the current school funding, the sales tax would need to increase. In Mahoning County, the current sales tax rate is 7.5%, while neighboring Trumbull County has a rate of 6.75%, and Columbiana County's is 7.25%.

https://www.wfmj.com/story/53067961/commissioner-ohio-schools-would-need-doubled-sales-tax-to-replace-property-tax