Spotify sent a warning to stop data sales, but developers say they never got it.

Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal "prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies' bottom line over the health of children and families across the country."

Trump EPA Seeks to Reverse Rules Protecting Drinking Water From Carcinogenic 'Forever Chemicals'

One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal "prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies' bottom line over the health of children and families across the country."

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

Ronak Singhal will be moving onto better and brighter opportunities at the end of the month

Intel talent bleed continues as Xeon chip architect heads for the escape hatch

: Ronak Singhal will be moving onto better and brighter opportunities at the end of the month

^{Tobias Mann (The Register)}

The streaming star on how to reject political violence while staying honest about Kirk's rhetoric.

Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

^{Mother Jones}

The Halcón 2.1 — 100% designed and manufactured in Mexico — has received certification to go into production.

After 70 years, 100% Mexican-made airplane is ready for takeoff

^{MND Staff (Mexico News Daily)}

This post is inspired by this prior post about a blog leaving the fediverse in favor of sticking to RSS:

Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than building clients which add a social layer to existing content distribution and communication protocols? I ask this in earnest, assuming that there is a comprehensive and well thought out array of reasons that I need to learn to fully grasp the project and it's motives.

It appears the fundamental design decision of Activity pub, shifting the hosting burden from a single host to a distributed network of server instances and user point of access to social content from a single host to any instance that will allow them to join and support the volume of content that they request to federate. This enables a more robust network, with instances holding content the users have interacted with regardless of if the original host instance goes down. It also reduces time to load for content after it has beed federated to a user's local instance, assuming it is closer in proximity and capable enough. At the same time, this dramatically increases the total storage burden (and to a lesser extent compute burden) of the network and makes content ownership and control a challenge.

Functionally the Fediverse is a public commons with content ownership practically distributed across the network of instances, whether copyright says so or not. Attempts to impose universal author controls on this framework face a lot of dissonance because it is fundamentally at odds with the underlying concept of federation as distributed hosting. The minute a host begins hosting content over which they have no control (such as encrypted posts) the potential for abuse skyrockets, and compromises between these priorities demand at minimum that users outside a host's instance maintain rights to delete and modify content on their instance whether or not they are otherwise at odds with the instance admin. Encryption also adds substantial compute burden to the network.

Since the popularization of the Distributed Social Network concept I have wondered whether pre-existing content distribution infrastructure like RSS/Atom might not be more advantageous as a backbone for social networking, with the development load shifted mostly to the client side and away from protocols. The IndieWeb project is playing with some of these ideas, and I have seen some prototypes online of RSS based social networks, so my question is, what is the fundamental advantage of ActivityPub over the combination of these other existing protocols with longer histories and broader existing implementation? RSS, Atom, email, XMPP, etc. Is lower latency really a good enough justification for widely redundant data distribution when the aggregation and discovery of content can be handled separately from hosting it?

This question becomes increasingly relevant when it comes to multimedia, and the minute that you offload multimedia to central servers by link embedding instead of hosting within the instance, boom you are back to the old centralized architecture and why are you federating?

So I am going to pose this question to the Fediverse myself, what is the reason that federated content distribution should be adopted for general use rather than distributed aggregation? That is to say of a client performed with the same features as a Fediverse front end, but all of the content was self-hosted and listed via RSS or Atom with comments handled via Webmention, direct messages via email or XMPP, and moderation and discivery handled at the level of aggregation via instances (meaning a user "joins" or "subscribes" to an instance, and that instance provides a ban list, list of feeds subscribed to by its users for discovery, provides a user directory) what would be the features that this type of system would lack that ActivityPub based systems have in place?

There are three advantages I see to AcrivityPub, and I'm not completely sure they justify mass adoption vs. the cost of broad redundancy of content and authorship issues. What am I missing?

1. Choosing local instance for faster loading, but this only is an advantage after content is brought in for the first time, in which case it actually is slower as first the instance has to pull the content and then serve it to the user.
2. "all" content in the protocol is of the same type, allowing for easier interoperability between clients and services. I'm thinking this is the root of what most people will say is the big advantage of ActivityPub vs. older protocols, but I'd like to hear more about why this is enough of a reason to overcome the inertia of existing mass adoption and support of the alternatives. Also, couldn't this also apply to a service built on an existing self-hosted protocol like Atom?
3. It isn't based in XML, and modern devs don't want to use XML. As I'm not a coder, I cant say how big an influence this has, but from what I have seen it seems to be a substantial factor. Can anyone explain why?

What am I missing? I know it must be a lot, and I thank you in advance for cluing me in.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35862380

Guided by angels, pursued by chemtrails: the weird world of Florida health chief’s influential wife

Brianna Ladapo, the wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, claims her husband won’t work with anyone she hasn’t vetted

^{Michael Sainato (The Guardian)}

Opinion - Jamelle Bouie
Sept. 13, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ET

archive.ph/bZW3n

The best way to honor Charlie’s memory,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared, “is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”

Kirk’s approach, wrote the editors of Politico’s Playbook, “was to persuade, to use charm and charisma and provocation and the power of argument to convince people of the righteousness of his cause.”

There is no doubt that Kirk was influential, no doubt that he had millions of devoted fans. But it is difficult to square this idealized portrait of Kirk as model citizen with the man as he was.

Few if any of them have seen fit to mention the fact that Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36107835

Opinion - Jamelle Bouie
Sept. 13, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ET

archive.ph/bZW3n

The best way to honor Charlie’s memory,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared, “is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”

Kirk’s approach, wrote the editors of Politico’s Playbook, “was to persuade, to use charm and charisma and provocation and the power of argument to convince people of the righteousness of his cause.”

There is no doubt that Kirk was influential, no doubt that he had millions of devoted fans. But it is difficult to square this idealized portrait of Kirk as model citizen with the man as he was.

Few if any of them have seen fit to mention the fact that Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist...

Peter Link

2025-09-13 18:16:55

Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

Opinion - Jamelle Bouie
Sept. 13, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ET

archive.ph/bZW3n

The best way to honor Charlie’s memory,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared, “is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”

Kirk’s approach, wrote the editors of Politico’s Playbook, “was to persuade, to use charm and charisma and provocation and the power of argument to convince people of the righteousness of his cause.”

There is no doubt that Kirk was influential, no doubt that he had millions of devoted fans. But it is difficult to square this idealized portrait of Kirk as model citizen with the man as he was.

Few if any of them have seen fit to mention the fact that Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37378359

Always remember:

Fuck Copyright

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2025-09-13 15:28:45

Last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight another

Always remember:

Fuck Copyright

Last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight another – games fray

^{gamesfray.com}

Dopo la pubblicazione di “Terra mia” del 1977 e la conferma con l’album “Omonimo” del 1979, Pino Daniele pubblica “Nero a metà” il disco che lo consacrerà definitivamente al grande pubblico.
Daniele ha venticinque anni ma ha già una buona esperienza come strumentista suona, infatti, dall’età di dodici anni e ha già militato in diversi gruppi partenopei compresi i Napoli Centrale... Leggi e ascolta...

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Pino Daniele — Nero a metà (1980)

Dopo la pubblicazione di “Terra mia” del 1977 e la conferma con l’album “Omonimo” del 1979, Pino Daniele pubblica “Nero a metà” il disco che lo consacrerà definitivamente al grande pubblico. Daniele ha venticinque anni ma ha già una buona esperienza come strumentista suona, infatti, dall’età di dodici anni e ha già militato in diversi gruppi partenopei compresi i Napoli Centrale. Pino Daniele come Napoli, possiede in questo disco una doppia anima, romantica la prima, ritmica la seconda, nervose e soleggiate entrambe... silvanobottaro.it/archives/366…

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Nero a Metà (2008 Remaster) by Pino Daniele

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Tired of expensive cable packages and looking for a more flexible way to watch your favorite content? IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services are becoming increasingly popular in 2025, offering an alternative way to stream live TV channels and on-demand content. After extensive testing, I’ve put together this guide to help you navigate the top options available today.

What Makes a Great IPTV Service?

Before diving into specific providers, let’s understand what separates the best from the rest:

Stream Quality — From standard definition to crystal-clear 8K resolution

Channel Selection — Local, international, premium, and specialty options

Device Compatibility — Works with your Firestick, smart TV, phone, or tablet

Customer Support — Responsive help when things inevitably go wrong

Fair Pricing — Transparent subscription options without hidden fees

Easy Setup — From tech novices to experts, how simple is it to get started?

Reliability — Consistent performance with minimal buffering or downtime

Top 5 IPTV Services Compared

PremIPTV — Premier IPTV Service

PremIPTV stands out with its extensive channel lineup and reliable streaming quality. Their service excels particularly for sports enthusiasts, offering comprehensive coverage of major leagues and events globally.

Strengths:

Exceptional sports coverage with minimal buffering during peak events

User-friendly interface that works seamlessly across devices

Above-average customer support with responsive live chat

Worth Considering:

Not the cheapest option, though the quality justifies the cost

Setup requires some basic technical knowledge

IPTV8K — Subscription IPTV8K

As the name suggests, IPTV8K focuses on delivering ultra-high-definition content where available. Their service is ideal for viewers with premium displays who prioritize visual quality.

Strengths:

Best-in-class streaming quality with 4K and 8K options

Impressive movie and VOD library with frequent updates

Smooth performance on high-end devices

Worth Considering:

Requires robust internet connection (minimum 50Mbps recommended)

Premium quality comes with a higher price point

8K IPTV — 8K IPTV Service

Don’t confuse this with the previous entry! 8K IPTV offers a solid middle-ground option with a good balance of quality, selection, and affordability.

Strengths:

Most budget-friendly option without major compromises

Surprisingly diverse international channel selection

Simple setup process ideal for beginners

Worth Considering:

Customer support can be slower to respond

App interface feels less polished than competitors

IPTV GSE — IPTV GSE SMART

IPTV GSE focuses on providing a seamless experience across the widest range of devices, making it perfect for households with varied tech ecosystems.

Strengths:

Most versatile device compatibility (works on practically everything)

Clean, intuitive interface that’s easy to navigate

Solid EPG (Electronic Program Guide) functionality

Worth Considering:

Stream quality can be inconsistent during peak hours

Channel organization could use improvement

IPTV — 4K LIVE IPTV

Rounding out our list is 4K LIVE IPTV, which boasts one of the largest international channel libraries available, making it ideal for multilingual households or expatriates.

Strengths:

Unmatched global channel selection with options from 100+ countries

Impressive catch-up features for missed programs

Reliable performance even on modest internet connections

Worth Considering:

Navigation can feel overwhelming due to the massive selection

Setup process is more complex than some competitors

How to Pick Your Perfect IPTV Service

Three Simple Questions to Ask Yourself:

What’s your budget?
Lower-priced services like 8K IPTV offer good value, while premium options like IPTV8K provide top-tier quality at higher cost points.

What do you watch most?

Sports fanatics: Consider PremIPTV

Movie buffs: IPTV8K has you covered

International content: 4K LIVE IPTV is unbeatable

Multiple device household: IPTV GSE offers the best flexibility

What device are you using?
All services work with popular options like Firestick and Android TV, but IPTV GSE stands out for supporting the widest range of devices, including some older models.

Important Safety Considerations

A quick but important PSA: When exploring IPTV services, always:

Research the provider thoroughly before subscribing

Use secure payment methods for subscriptions

Consider using a VPN for additional privacy

Be wary of services with unrealistic claims or too-good-to-be-true pricing

Understand the terms of service and content licensing arrangements

Our Verdict

Overall Best: PremIPTV delivers the most consistent overall experience with exceptional sports coverage and reliability.

Best Bang for Your Buck: 8K IPTV offers remarkable value without significant compromises.

Most Global Channels: 4K LIVE IPTV is unmatched for international content variety.

Smoothest App Experience: IPTV GSE provides the most intuitive interface across the widest range of devices.

Best Picture Quality: IPTV8K lives up to its name with stunning high-definition streaming options.

Still Unsure?

Drop your questions below — we read every comment. And if you want to stay updated on deals, new tests, and honest IPTV reviews, bookmark “Top5Providers: Best IPTV Service”. We’re here to help you stream smarter, not harder.

Hello photographers!

I’m a very amateur photographer that wants to capture memories as film instant prints and a few digital photos too. Would you recommend the Fujifilm Wide Evo that just came out? I currently own a Fujifilm mini 70 and all I need to do is buy new batteries for it and some film refills.

Should I just stick with my mini 70? Or does the Wide Evo have more to offer

Note: the cameras I want have to be used in the long run. I’m talking decades in the future of usability since I do not want to indulge in consumerism

The Treasury Department told the House Oversight Committee it will turn over certain bank activity reports related to the panel's Jeffrey Epstein investigation, according to a letter shared with CNN.

"The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) plans to fully cooperate with the Committee and intends to provide all information responsive to your request in a timely manner and compliant with the law," a letter from the Treasury Department sent to the committee on Friday reads.

The bank records, known as Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), include sensitive information and require a specific process for how they get shared. Such reports are not conclusive and do not necessarily indicate wrongdoing. Financial institutions file millions of suspicious activity reports each year, and few lead to law enforcement inquiries.

Treasury Department says it will 'fully cooperate' with House Oversight panel's Epstein probe

^{Annie Grayer, CNN (ABC7 New York)}

In the third generation of Pokémon games, and in their remakes inside the Hoenn region, New Mauville is a well-known late-game location, physically

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One night, a friend of mine went out for dinner with her husband and toddler. The toddler, who sometimes had trouble swallowing, choked on his food — and threw up, repeatedly, in the restaurant. People around them were laughing while my friend and her family were in distress, adding to their embarrassment. But that wasn’t the worst part, she told me. She thought someone might have been filming. What if a video of her child being sick went viral? What if the awful laughter at the restaurant never ended?

Social media has long been a game of roulette with fame at one end and public disgrace at the other. But if I am posting under my government name on Bluesky (or Facebook, or X, or Nextdoor, or whatever), at least I know I am rolling the dice on becoming the next unwitting bean dad, Brienne of Snarth, or Justine Sacco. Now all it takes to become the internet’s main character is to appear in public, where people film each other to perform the dual task of policing behavior and creating potential viral content.

Look, it’s easy to see why that Coldplay couple went viral. The exaggerated response to being on camera — and trying to duck an arena’s kiss cam — is funny. The couple is possibly cheating (immoral, loathed by TikTok) and Chris Martin (the man who knowingly married Gwyneth Paltrow and then consciously uncoupled!) gets a good dunk in. All someone had to do was identify them, and they had one of the world’s most powerful accelerants: the bad behavior of a CEO with one of his employees. It was perfect internet content.

The fact that it’s perfect internet content is also what encourages us to surveil each other. And the consequences of the funny internet video were very real. The CEO resigned. His former subordinate is getting a divorce, which I know because People and E! News reported on the filing as news. The humiliation didn’t end with the viral video — it’s still ongoing, and by writing about it, I am in some sense participating.

This is all possible because our society built a panopticon that any of us can use against any other at will. And while virality isn’t new, TikTok’s algorithm makes it easier than ever for videos to take off unexpectedly, because users don’t even have to share the video to make it go wide. You don’t even have to get caught on a kiss cam at a concert.

Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now

The rise of viral videos of unremarkable people — along with their near-immediate identification — means you can’t assume you’re anonymous in public.

^{Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)}

• Mullvad has added QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard on its desktop apps
• The protocol lets users blend in with regular traffic to bypass censorship
• An increasing number of VPNs now offer anti-censorship tools

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont-mullvad-introduces-quic-to-disguise-wireguard-traffic

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/49926336

Archived Article.

Source.

Advancing Justice Through Science

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science.

^{National Institute of Justice}

cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/52938

The company behind the Proton Mail email service, Proton, describes itself as a “neutral and safe haven for your personal data, committed to defending your freedom.”

But last month, Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency. After a public outcry, and multiple weeks, the journalists’ accounts were eventually reinstated — but the reporters and editors involved still want answers on how and why Proton decided to shut down the accounts in the first place.

Martin Shelton, deputy director of digital security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, highlighted that numerous newsrooms use Proton’s services as alternatives to something like Gmail “specifically to avoid situations like this,” pointing out that “While it’s good to see that Proton is reconsidering account suspensions, journalists are among the users who need these and similar tools most.” Newsrooms like The Intercept, the Boston Globe, and the Tampa Bay Times all rely on Proton Mail for emailed tip submissions.

Shelton noted that perhaps Proton should “prioritize responding to journalists about account suspensions privately, rather than when they go viral.”

On Reddit, Proton’s official account stated that “Proton did not knowingly block journalists’ email accounts” and that the “situation has unfortunately been blown out of proportion.” Proton did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.

The two journalists whose accounts were disabled were working on an article published in the August issue of the long-running hacker zine Phrack. The story described how a sophisticated hacking operation — what’s known in cybersecurity parlance as an APT, or advanced persistent threat — had wormed its way into a number of South Korean computer networks, including those of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the military Defense Counterintelligence Command, or DCC.

The journalists, who published their story under the names Saber and cyb0rg, describe the hack as being consistent with the work of Kimsuky, a notorious North Korean state-backed APT sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2023.

As they pieced the story together, emails viewed by The Intercept show that the authors followed cybersecurity best practices and conducted what’s known as responsible disclosure: notifying affected parties that a vulnerability has been discovered in their systems prior to publicizing the incident.

Saber and cyb0rg created a dedicated Proton Mail account to coordinate the responsible disclosures, then proceeded to notify the impacted parties, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the DCC, and also notified South Korean cybersecurity organizations like the Korea Internet and Security Agency, and KrCERT/CC, the state-sponsored Computer Emergency Response Team. According to emails viewed by The Intercept, KrCERT wrote back to the authors, thanking them for their disclosure.

A note on cybersecurity jargon: CERTs are agencies consisting of cybersecurity experts specializing in dealing with and responding to security incidents. CERTs exist in over 70 countries — with some countries having multiple CERTs each specializing in a particular field such as the financial sector — and may be government-sponsored or private organizations. They adhere to a set of formal technical standards, such as being expected to react to reported cybersecurity threats and security incidents. A high-profile example of a CERT agency in the U.S. is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, which has recently been gutted by the Trump administration.

A week after the print issue of Phrack came out, and a few days before the digital version was released, Saber and cyb0rg found that the Proton account they had set up for the responsible disclosure notifications had been suspended. A day later, Saber discovered that his personal Proton Mail account had also been suspended. Phrack posted a timeline of the account suspensions at the top of the published article, and later highlighted the timeline in a viral social media post. Both accounts were suspended owing to an unspecified “potential policy violation,” according to screenshots of account login attempts reviewed by The Intercept.

The suspension notice instructed the authors to fill out Proton’s abuse appeals form if they believed the suspension was in error. Saber did so, and received a reply from a member of Proton Mail’s Abuse Team who went by the name Dante.

In an email viewed by The Intercept, Dante told Saber that their account “has been disabled as a result of a direct connection to an account that was taken down due to violations of our terms and conditions while being used in a malicious manner.” Dante also provided a link to Proton’s terms of service, going on to state, “We have clearly indicated that any account used for unauthorized activities, will be sanctioned accordingly.” The response concluded by stating, “We consider that allowing access to your account will cause further damage to our service, therefore we will keep the account suspended.”

On August 22, a Phrack editors reached out to Proton, writing that no hacked data was passed through the suspended email accounts, and asked if the account suspension incident could be deescalated. After receiving no response from Proton, the editor sent a follow-up email on September 6. Proton once again did not reply to the email.

On September 9, the official Phrack X account made a post asking Proton’s official account asking why Proton was “cancelling journalists and ghosting us,” adding: “need help calibrating your moral compass?” The post quickly went viral, garnering over 150,000 views.

Proton’s official account replied the following day, stating that Proton had been “alerted by a CERT that certain accounts were being misused by hackers in violation of Proton’s Terms of Service. This led to a cluster of accounts being disabled. Our team is now reviewing these cases individually to determine if any can be restored.” Proton then stated that they “stand with journalists” but “cannot see the content of accounts and therefore cannot always know when anti-abuse measures may inadvertently affect legitimate activism.”

Proton did not publicly specify which CERT had alerted them, and didn’t answer The Intercept’s request for the name of the specific CERT which had sent the alert. KrCERT also did not reply to The Intercept’s question about whether they were the CERT that had sent the alert to Proton.

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Later in the day, Proton’s founder and CEO Andy Yen posted on X that the two accounts had been reinstated. Neither Yen nor Proton explained why the accounts had been reinstated, whether they had been found to not violate the terms of service after all, why had they been suspended in the first place, or why a member of the Proton Abuse Team reiterated that the accounts had violated the terms of service during Saber’s appeals process.

Phrack noted that the account suspensions created a “real impact to the author. The author was unable to answer media requests about the article.” The co-authors, Phrack pointed out, were also in the midst of the responsible disclosure process and working together with the various affected South Korean organizations to help fix their systems. “All this was denied and ruined by Proton,” Phrack stated.

Phrack editors said that the incident leaves them “concerned what this means to other whistleblowers or journalists. The community needs assurance that Proton does not disable accounts unless Proton has a court order or the crime (or ToS violation) is apparent.”

The post Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency appeared first on The Intercept.

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