Password managers vulnerable: 40 million users at risk of stolen data
This vulnerability was discovered by security researchers from The Hacker News. The following password managers have affected browser extensions that are based on DOM (Document Object Model):
- 1Password
- Bitwarden
- Dashlane
- Enpass
- iCloud Passwords
- Keeper
- LastPass
- LogMeOnce
- NordPass
- ProtonPass
- RoboForm
Password managers vulnerable: 40 million users at risk of stolen data
Most password managers are secure, but one common vulnerability makes it possible for hackers to steal your data anyway.Laura Pippig (PCWorld)
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Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms
Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms
The Air Force offered full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was fatally shot by police as she stormed the U.S. Capitol.Mosheh Gains (NBC News)
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From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America
The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of slavery and white rule.This is what the anti-woke state is — the plantation: white supremacist America under the occupation of more open white supremacists. There is no daylight between the campaign to end wokeness and the desire to see Black populations suffer, however much anti-wokeness is presented as the reasonable middle ground between the extremism of both sides — the Ku Klux Klan on one side and the bodies they hung from trees on the other.
The anti-woke in power immediately set about resurrecting their shrines to the sex traffickers of Black children and merchants of Black flesh. They immediately set out to curtail Black liberties and reverse performative efforts to reduce police shootings — however insincere. Being woke has always meant being attuned to anti-Blackness and resisting the society of white rule — which is why it is hated the world over. The colonist leaders who have shaken hands in agreement that anti-wokeness is the new paradigm, from the conservative former grand wizard to the progressive governor, have all meant the same thing: to see resistance ridiculed and dismantled.
The people who decry wokeness are no different from the people who decried Emancipation. What, indeed, was the abolition of slavery to a Confederate, other than woke government overreach? What was the integration of restaurants and schools to the segregationist other than woke corporations and DEI gone mad? What the 19th-century Redeemers sought, what the millions-strong 20th-century Ku Klux Klan sought, and what the 21st-century MAGA movement seeks is the restoration of the whipping post.
Really moving piece on the road that MAGA is leading us down.
From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America
The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of white rule.Yannick Giovanni Marshall (Al Jazeera)
Privacy is Power. And You're Giving Yours Away
Privacy isn't about hiding secrets - it's about power. In this video, we explain why thinking you "have nothing to hide" is a dangerous misconception, especially in our ever-connected digital age. Taking back your privacy is easier than you might think!
Hey everyone a shorter video this week, but still an important one. We do have a larger project in the pipeline about browser fingerprinting which will be coming soon.
Let me know what you think about the video - it's focused more on connecting with people who aren't aware about privacy invasions and the detrimental effect not caring about your privacy can have.
Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing
Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: fediverse.observer/dailystats&…
(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).
We are seeing:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily…
- And a small increase on Piefed: piefed.fediverse.observer/dail…
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: peertube.fediverse.observer/da…
- Mastodon is all over the place: mastodon.fediverse.observer/da…
Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
Fediverse Sites Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!fediverse.observer
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Florida may lose $218M on empty 'Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown
Florida could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz.”
The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.
Exxon escalates attacks on EU’s ‘high-regulation’ climate policies
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ChatGPT Doesn’t Trust Chargers Fans: Guardrail Sensitivity in Context
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While the biases of language models in production are extensively documented, the biases of their guardrails have been neglected. This paper studies how contextual information about the user influences the likelihood of an LLM to refuse to execute a request. By generating user biographies that offer ideological and demographic information, we find a number of biases in guardrail sensitivity on GPT-3.5. Younger, female, and Asian-American personas are more likely to trigger a refusal guardrail when requesting censored or illegal information. Guardrails are also sycophantic, refusing to comply with requests for a political position the user is likely to disagree with. We find that certain identity groups and seemingly innocuous information, e.g., sports fandom, can elicit changes in guardrail sensitivity similar to direct statements of political ideology. For each demographic category and even for American football team fandom, we find that ChatGPT appears to infer a likely political ideology and modify guardrail behavior accordingly.
A Small Army of Overpaid TikTokers Is Not Going to Save the Democratic Party
The limits of Democrats' influence are showing.
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Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models
Microsoft enters the AI ring.
Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models
Microsoft has launched two new AI models that put it in the running to compete with OpenAI, which it has poured billions into.Emma Roth (The Verge)
UK police force to test robot dog equipped with AI analytics
UK police force to test robot dog equipped with AI analytics
The robot dog is equipped with cameras that detect weapons and people with AI analytics and a LiDAR system that creates 3D maps of the environment.Masha Borak (BiometricUpdate.com)
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Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner
The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
Archived version: archive.is/20250828134656/404m…
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DOJ Says Temporary Immigration Judges No Longer Need Immigration Experience
Under a new Department of Justice rule, the DOJ can choose “any attorney” to serve as a temporary immigration judge.
Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours on Drives But Unable To Reproduce Errors
Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours o…
Phison has dismissed the claims of Windows 11 updates bricking its SSDs after conducting several hours of rigorous testing on its solutions.Wccftech
Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
- Lobsters.
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Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.Piccalilli
Microsoft is killing off the Mobile Plans app in Windows
Microsoft has decided to kill off the Mobile Plans app in Windows, and revealed plans to migrate the process to the web, while integrating with the Windows 11 Settings app.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-killing-off-the-mobile-plans-app-in-windows/
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Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
: Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailingConnor Jones (The Register)
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UK | Family’s neo-Nazi music band ‘didn’t mean for racist lyrics to be taken literally’, court told
Robert Talland, 59, his son Stephen, 36, and his daughter Rosie, 33, performed songs that incited racial hatred
UK | Suspended Labour MSP Colin Smyth charged over secret camera in toilets allegation
New charge relates to device allegedly placed in Scottish parliament and follows charges relating to possession of indecent images
Archived version: archive.is/newest/theguardian.…
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How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out
How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out
: 'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leaderBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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US Navy is planning its own boat parade for Trump after his Army parade fell flat
Army anniversary parade in Washington suffered from low attendance and soldiers marching out of step
Dallas mom left paralyzed after tree belonging to the Texas Tree Foundation fell on her car
Maisie Evans is currently being treated in an intensive care unit
How is this international news? Who in England would know or care that the tree was owned by a tree foundation?
Seems like its only purpose showing up in the Independent is to further some anti-environmental or anti-urbanist messaging.
Dallas mom left paralyzed after tree belonging to the Texas Tree Foundation fell on her car
Maisie Evans is currently being treated in an intensive care unitGraig Graziosi (The Independent)
New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable EV batteries
New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable EV batteries
MIT researchers designed molecules that can serve as the electrolyte in a lithium-ion battery and then quickly break apart at the end of the battery’s life, making it easier to recycle all of the components.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Open Source is one person
- Lobsters;
- Hackernews.
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Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
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Musk's X hit with antitrust lawsuit by software startup Eliza Labs
Musk's X hit with antitrust lawsuit by software startup
Software developer Eliza Labs has sued Elon Musk's X Corp, accusing it of extracting valuable information from the company before suspending its account on the social media platform and launching copycat AI products.RTÉ News (RTÉ)
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Musk's X hit with antitrust lawsuit by software startup
Musk's X hit with antitrust lawsuit by software startup
Software developer Eliza Labs has sued Elon Musk's X Corp, accusing it of extracting valuable information from the company before suspending its account on the social media platform and launching copycat AI products.RTÉ News (RTÉ)
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Newsom says he'll increase CHP presence in major cities, touts progress on crime
Newsom says he'll increase CHP presence in major cities, touts progress on crime
Newsom's announcement comes amid frequent jibes from President Trump about crime in blue states such as California, and Trump threatening to expand his use of military forces to target crime locally.Julia Wick (Los Angeles Times)
The Great Reverse Migration
AS SOON AS THEY TAKE OFF from the Panamanian coast, there is a sigh of relief. Surrounded by 30 other Venezuelan migrants, packed inside an overloaded midsize speedboat, Edinson holds on tightly to the edge. The 37-year-old is tall and slender and has a presence that stands out as he towers over everyone. Over the past couple of weeks, he’s become the de facto captain of a group of migrants making their way back to Venezuela.At this point in their long journey, they sit in silence under blue skies and a blazing morning sun. The end is in sight. Sporting a black Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap and a blue T-shirt, Edinson stares out to the crystal clear Caribbean Sea. He knows these waters can be deadly. A couple of months ago, a boat carrying 19 migrants capsized not too far from here, but Edinson tells himself he has survived worse.
Horrific on the humanitarian front, but excellent writing.
Migrants Are Leaving the US Because of Trump's Immigration Policies
As more migrants self-deport and turn around before they get to the border, their new future comes into focusPaola Ramos (Rolling Stone)
You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
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Sanders Demands Congress 'Immediately' Investigate Firing of CDC Director
In the wake of a "Wednesday night massacre" at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and related resignations, Sen. Bernie Sanders called for an immediate congressional probe.
Sanders Demands Congress 'Immediately' Investigate Firing of CDC Director
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "must testify," and the CDC officials who were fired and resigned in protest also should be invited to do so, said the senator.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
quasi un “vecchio posseduto sclera” momento in questa sera altrimenti silente
Stavo quasi in procinto, forse, di andare a dormire… quando a un certo punto, stando in bagno, da giù per strada sento scatenarsi la più assoluta pazzia; e stavolta non in senso figurato. Infatti, dal nulla si è iniziato a sentire questo tizio — che credo sia uno dei pazzi della città, per l’appunto, anche […]
Vivaldi browser takes a stand: keep browsing human
Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.
It can block some ads/trackers, but it's very limited in what it can do. It also lacks all other privacy-preserving features that uBlock Origin offers.
Last time I used Vivaldi (early 2025), with the same blocklists setup, it only blocked ~40% of what uBlock Origin did.
Mexico | PRI chief physically attacks Morena’s Senate leader on the rostrum
A PRI senator physically attacked the Morena Senate president amid a fracas on the rostrum at the end of a Mexican Senate session.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/mexiconewsda…
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Trump extends order forcing Pennsylvania fossil-fuel plant to stay open
Trump extends order forcing Pennsylvania fossil-fuel plant to stay open
The administration isn’t backing off efforts to revive retiring coal and gas plants. Now, customers are on the hook to pay for Eddystone for another three…Canary Media
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Every single person on that job site needs to walk the fuck off and find another position.
Can't keep it open without people doing the work afterall.
fujiwood
in reply to mesa • • •Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.
Most posts are links to other websites.
It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.
Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.
bassomitron
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in reply to bassomitron • • •Tollana1234567
in reply to fujiwood • • •fujiwood
in reply to Tollana1234567 • • •I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That's when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That's when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.
There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.
Tollana1234567
in reply to fujiwood • • •thats when all the bots started, plus they were banning "QUESTIONABLE" subreddits they dint have a problem before, until the republicans started targeting social media.
the bannability also became pretty harsh around that time.
turdburglar
in reply to mesa • • •ok. so i’ve got around 30tb (and counting) of live music recordings from a small club that hosts national touring folk and americana acts. i would LOVE to have it accessible somewhere other than youtube with all the fukin ads, but i am not sure how to go about making them peer tube accessible.
the instances that i’ve looked into have pretty low caps on storage and for clear and understandable reasons. but that leaves me in the lurch. i’m not able to set up my own instance as the recordings are ongoing and that takes all my available time and resources.
anyone have some knowledge that it don’t?
long live the fediverse.
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Pseudo Nym
in reply to turdburglar • • •Rimu
in reply to turdburglar • • •You could upload the files to a S3 bucket, which would give them a url on the web. Then just make a PieFed post which links to each MP4 file.
Piefed will detect that it's a video post and embed it in the page with player controls. If you use a community just for your videos then the RSS feed of that community will effectively be a podcast.
S3 buckets are pretty cheap but 30 tb is still going to cost you. Transcode to a smaller file before upload, ideally.
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turdburglar
in reply to Rimu • • •thanks for that. i’m currently saving up for more drives to create the second copy of the 1-2-3 backup scheme. the gang of 2tb ssd’s are all i’ve got aside from the compressed-to-fuck youtube copies. that’s been creating quite a bit of anxiety for me being in charge of so many other peoples artworks.
we started in 2020 and do 6-10 90 minute shows a week, so it’s a lot to be responsible for. of course they aren’t all gems, but imo they all do deserve to be part of the larger document of this time and place.
if anyone is interested the youtube videos are made searchable on livefromnorfolkstreet.com/
click on the ARCHIVE link in the nav bar. no paywall.
i’d recommend the alejandro escovedo shows. he’s always great and i did the live lights for a few of his shows.
LIVE from Norfolk Street
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Allero
in reply to mesa • • •Having spent about 2 years on Lemmy, I made the commitment to ditch YouTube in favor of PeerTube.
At first, it may look like there's mostly garbage and then some privacy enthusiasts, but that's only because recommendations and search are not very powerful compared to other platforms.
PeerTube is home to troves upon troves of high-quality original content on various topics, you just have to look for it. And for your YouTube-exclusive needs, there are instances that mirror popular channels.
Give it a spin!
olenko
in reply to Allero • • •Allero
in reply to olenko • • •What the other commenter said, look for these instances, especially TILvids
Other than these, some specific recommendations:
DamienGramatacus
in reply to Allero • • •Allero
in reply to DamienGramatacus • • •Carl N. Yon
in reply to mesa • • •Allero
in reply to Carl N. Yon • • •Tankies are among the most active contributors not only to content, but also to the platforms themselves.
Lemmy, the very platform you're currently on, is made by one.
I'd rather see less left infighting - that will suffice.
Carl N. Yon
in reply to Allero • • •What are you talking about??? Tankies don't contribute anything they just want empty handouts
You type like a rentoid.
HumanOnEarth
in reply to mesa • • •Bunbury
in reply to HumanOnEarth • • •Sunshine (she/her)
in reply to Bunbury • • •Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Bunbury • • •- old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlterna…
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Bunbury
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Bunbury • • •madjo
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Blaze (he/him)
in reply to madjo • • •The average reddit user isn't indeed looking for an alternative, so they're unlikely to welcome any suggestion anyway
Trust me, I've tried several times
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