Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
List of affected extensions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
US | Judge Slaps Down FCC Rule That Would've Made It Easy to Cancel Your Subscriptions
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How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
No, really, those are the magic words
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
: No, really, those are the magic wordsJessica Lyons (The Register)
The End of the Internet As We Know It
Perplexity's Comet wants to kill the click. OpenAI is poised to follow. Google Chrome might be next on the chopping block.
Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.Mikael Thalen (Straight Arrow News)
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Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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US | 'Guilty of Genocide': Protesters Condemn Trump-Netanyahu Meeting and Ethnic Cleansing Push
At the White House, Trump and Netanyahu once again discussed plans to forcibly remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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As Gaza Starves, Remember Writers Who Opposed UNRWA
These individuals have written opinion pieces calling for UNRWA to be defunded or dismantled
Nvidia briefly touched $4 trillion market cap for first time
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors bet on the tech giant that's building the hardware for the generative AI boom.
Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
Fair Trade Campaigners Call for World to Stand Up to Trump 'Economic Warfare' and Tariff 'Bullying'
U.S. President Donald Trump sparks global trade tensions with threats of tariffs against BRICS nations, angering China and frustrating allies.
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Fair Trade Campaigners Call for World to Stand Up to Trump 'Economic Warfare' and Tariff 'Bullying'
"We don't want an emperor, we are sovereign countries," said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Satirical 'Mamdani Times' Takes Aim at NYT's 'Desperate' Coverage of Mayoral Candidate
Is the media trying to sabotage Zohran Mamdani's mayoral bid? A satirical website exposes the absurdity while Mamdani faces attacks from all sides. #MamdaniTimes
Link: mamdanitimes.com/
Satirical 'Mamdani Times' Takes Aim at NYT's 'Desperate' Coverage of Mayoral Candidate
A new website imagines headlines attacking New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani—and calls out The New York Times' fixation on the progressive.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
“The Deception Game”: Trump Is Scrambling to Make a Gaza Deal on Israel’s Terms
Hamas accused the U.S. and Israel of waging a campaign of disinformation about ceasefire progress and insists it will not retreat from its “red lines."
Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.
Georgia Police Arrest Farmworkers — Then Get Warrants From DHS
Georgia authorities said their goal was to serve warrants for crimes against children. They swept people up and got immigration detainers later.
Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes
Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.
Philadelphia Union Ends Largest Municipal Workers’ Strike in Decades
“I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.
'A Call to Conscience': Damning Report Shows Every Major US LNG Project Fails Climate Test
"What we found was crystal clear—any further investment in LNG is not compatible with a livable climate."
'Profile in Cowardice' Award Seeks to Identify Leaders Enabling Rise of Fascist Trump
Former intelligence, military, and national security officials have launched the Profiles in Cowardice Award, calling out leaders who remain silent as the country descends into fascism under Trump.
Vote: profilesincowardice.org/
'Profile in Cowardice' Award Seeks to Identify Leaders Enabling Rise of Fascist Trump
The nominees "took an oath to 'support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,'" said retired Maj. Gen. Dennis Laich. "Through their actions, or inaction, they are violating that oath."jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
More Price Hikes Coming Soon for US Consumers as Trump Preps ‘Extraordinarily High’ Tariffs
Americans will get hit with historic tariffs started next month under President Donald Trump's trade policies.
More Price Hikes Coming Soon for US Consumers as Trump Preps ‘Extraordinarily High’ Tariffs
"It is very likely that these historically high tariffs will damage the economy," writes the Tax Policy Center.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Small Investment, Big Reward: Oil Giants Dumped $19 Million Into Trump's Inaugural Fund
"Every month that Donald Trump has been in power, we've seen a raft of anti-climate measures come out which are music to the fossil fuel industry's ears," said one investigator.
Small Investment, Big Reward: Oil Giants Dumped $19 Million Into Trump's Inaugural Fund
"Every month that Donald Trump has been in power, we've seen a raft of anti-climate measures come out which are music to the fossil fuel industry's ears," said one investigator.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
: Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordinglyConnor Jones (The Register)
'Don't Sabotage Mamdani': 30,000+ Petitioners Urge Gilibrand to Get Behind Progressive NYC Mayoral Candidate
Progressive supporters pressure centrist Democrats to back Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor after winning primary.
'Don't Sabotage Mamdani': 30,000+ Petitioners Urge Gilibrand to Get Behind Progressive NYC Mayoral Candidate
"Democratic leaders love to talk about unity—until a progressive wins," said one prominent backer.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
NYC's Congestion Pricing Has Caused 'Quality-of-Life Improvement' in Just Six Months
After six months, the policy of tolling drivers has reduced traffic and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the city's transit system. But the Trump administration is still trying to shut it down.
NYC's Congestion Pricing Has Caused 'Quality-of-Life Improvement' in Just Six Months
After six months, the policy of tolling drivers has reduced traffic and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the city's transit system. But the Trump administration is still trying to shut it down.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.
https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/
Swedish PM’s private address revealed by Strava data shared by bodyguards
Data made public by Ulf Kristersson’s security revealed his location, routes and movements over several years
Bitcoin Depot breach exposes data of nearly 27,000 crypto users
Bitcoin Depot, an operator of Bitcoin ATMs, is notifying customers of a data breach incident that has exposed their sensitive information.
Russia's Cyber Spies: APT Bears and the Battle for Digital Dominance
Russia's Cyber Spies: APT Bears and the Battle for Digital Dominance
Russia’s modern wars are fought not only with tanks and missiles, but also with code and compromised networks.Matthew Parish (www.lvivherald.com)
Anarcho-capitalists aren't anarchists
A crudely drawn ms-paint-style comic. The first panel depicts a person with an ancap (anarcho capitalist) mask. The mask is black and yellow, the colors are divided diagonally. The person is saying "statist bootlickers fuck off!" to a boot. In the next panel, they are staring at the boot draw an amazon logo on it with a marker. The last panel shows the person deepthroathing the boot, saying "At least it's not the gubermint [government".
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Are Lemmy-style ":::" tags for spoilers in the community sidebar text for the Piedfed WebUI.
In Lemmy, you hide text blocks behind a spolier ":::" tag:
Go to: lemmy.world/c/hardware, and you'll get the following via the (default?) Lemmy webUI:
If you go to piefed.social/c/hardware@lemmy… (!hardware@lemmy.world) via the Piefed webUI you get the following view in the same siderbar:
If possible, it would be helpful to have the spoiler tag work in Piefed webUI as well.
Tbh its still weird to me after coming to Lemmy from reddit that they reinvented the wheel for comment formatting syntax.
From "> ! ! <" to :::
The lemmy-style spoiler syntax is a huge pain tbh, and very limiting in that for something to be a spoiler, it needs to be a separate paragraph. Adding || in-line spoilers || was one of my first contributions to piefed because I found it so annoying (that won't render as an in-line spoiler on lemmy).
The markdown-parsing library used by piefed supported using the same syntax as telegram/discord, with || spoiler here ||, so that is what I used for the feature even though I prefer the reddit/stack overflow style spoiler syntax better.
We've hard support for those spoiler things for a long time but there was a bug with it because /c/hardware uses the ::: tag in unexpected ways.
It's fixed now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Request to add active communities under Technology -> Hardware subtopic
Hi,
As I understand the technology topic uses the following hierarchy:
With the following communities being part of the "Hardware" subtopic:
Would it be possible to add:
!hardware@lemmy.world
!laptops@lemmy.world
!gaminglaptops@lemmy.world
!monitors@piefed.social
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Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they’re now struggling to thrive
Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they’re now struggling to thrive
Rewilding isn’t just about reintroducing predators. Without prey and habitat restoration, even wild-looking landscapes can’t support them.The Conversation
Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law
Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law
Lawmakers seem to think they’re capable of solving every perceivable social media problem via legislation. Sometimes, the intents are pure but the execution is lacking. In many more cases …Techdirt
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I flashed a $10 orbic to take to local protests.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
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in reply to egrets • • •At the moment, about all you can do is let others know and submit the log to EFF so they can better understand how these stingrays are being used.
Or I guess if you're feeling froggy; look around for a van/trailer with suspicious antenna(s).
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •Well I see a problem there. It doesn’t specify the cause of the danger or the reason the person is in danger in the first place.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I assume it's the same as the Internet (or more specifically HTTP): It wasn't designed with security in mind.
Unlike HTTP, for some reason it wasn't included in a new specification, though. My guess is that's because of the more centralized nature of cellular networks. The barrier for entry is a lot higher as well so there are few but big players who have little incentive to improve over the bare minimum.
IIRC encryption was initially proposed to be part of 5G but got shot down in the process.
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in reply to einkorn • • •Wait, 5G isn't encrypted? I think it does have some protections still. I mean, not that it would matter to me, they only use NR-NSA in my country so it isn't even full 5G with all its advantages.
At the risk of sounding like an AI-generated ad, I use an app called Privacy Cell on Fdroid, that confirmed there is no true 5G anywhere in my country. I just wish there was a way to differentiate between the two versions of 5G natively, kinda like 4G-LTE showing up as LTE instead of just 4G.
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in reply to theshatterstone54 • • •Encrypted data channels can still be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Like when you connect to an unknown host with SSH, and the client pops up a big warning.
In this case, ICE or whomever sets up a "valid" cell tower that your phone connects to, and they (law enforcement) route your packets onto the rest of the Internet. They can decrypt the 5G data, and see all of the IP headers. They can't necessarily read the TLS traffic, such as https. But most important of all, they can log all of the IMEIs that connect, which effectively gives them a database of all of the protestors.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I believe it's because they assume it's not necessary because it was until now
places) wireless band allocation before you could deploy anything
... so I imagine there was no authentication because there was no practical threat beside few "fun" examples in CCC or DEF Con.
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in reply to utopiah • • •The use of Stingray by US law enforcement has been challenged on grounds that the law enforcement agencies have no spectrum license. Those challenges seem not to have found success.
On the other hand, prisons in the US have been stopped from operating cell phone jammers on prison grounds, on the same complaint of no spectrum license.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I don't know the specific methods, but 3G, 4G and 5G do authenticate bidirectionaly, just 2G doesn't, partially why Android now has "Disable 2G" toggle.
Also probably why they said they can downgrade you to 2G to intercept communication.
What's happening here is probably similar to anyone being able to send Wi-Fi deauthentification frame to your device to disconnect you. Unless you're using WPA3.
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •At protests you should not bring your smartphone but instead rely on anonymous drvices such as Meshtastic.
If you want to bring your smartphone to a protest, set Airplane mode and communicate with others through Bluetooth or WiFi networks using Briar or Bitchat
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in reply to Maeve • • •Not at the same scale as mobile traffic
Bluetooth by definition doesn’t go much past 10-20 meters
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in reply to tired_n_bored • • •It's amazing how many times I saw this knowledge being spread, together with thousands of umbrellas and hard hats during the Hong Kong riots from day one with "Hong Kong, add oil" as their first slogan combined with very mild mannered arguments (we don't know if it could lead to more serious things) against the extradition law which was supposed to affect maybe half a dozen people per decade, all serious criminals. A law almost every country has on earth that the US used against the daughter of the owner of one of the largest companies in the world, for the flimsiest of reasons, in contrast to the walled-off-to-arrest-one-particular-teen-girl-axe-murderer-to-be-shipped-to-Taiwan-law Hong Kong tried to implement.
How many people have been affected by the Alien Enemies Act again?
And how did the ~~The protests were call "No kings" remember that? Remember that it was called NO KINGS "Unbiased. Straight. Facts" SAN? Do you remember that? No? Okay, well...~~ "anti-ICE" ~~it is~~ protests go?
Because apart from the shocker that you were being surveilled, I think the protests needed a little bit less "Zero demands, not one more" chants and a little more 'We demand and protest until we win and get what we want' kind of thing.
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in reply to tired_n_bored • • •Meshtastic with 3 jumps would be stretching for actual communication. Plus Bluetooth is even worse for security. Direct connection might be a better way to use the device.
I've had meshtastic for about 2 ish years now and its still being worked on.
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in reply to mesa • • •What is unsafe about cell communication is that there is virtually no way to prevent being tracked. Bluetooth is not necessarily more secure but has several advantages:
1) Its Mac address can be easily changed. With a fake Mac address it's more difficult to track someone down, albeit it needs some "technical skills" (going in the developer settings)
2) With these apps communication is encrypted by default unlike cell tower communication
3) The range is limited. If police listens over Bluetooth they'll be able to track less people down
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •This is exactly why I was railing against some of the earlier protests which featured politicians openly asking protestors to take out their phones and send texts to opt-in for fundraisers. Besides all the obvious bullshit, it put those protestors who didn't know better at serious risk.
Thankfully, I haven't seen too much of that at the protests I've been to recently, but this is a good reminder that we have to keep educating people to leave their phone at home.
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