Leftovers

• Darren Goossens ☛ Word — alt text on a character/glyph

  I screenshotted this glyph after blowing it up quite large, then inserted it inline with text as an image, adjusted its size, then used the Font > Advanced menu to drop it down 1.5 pt (2 pt may be better?). Then I can add alt text to it in the usual way.

• Science

  • Computational Complexity ☛ Computational Complexity: Sampling the Oxford CS Library

    I had time to kill so I wandered around the library finding memories in the stacks including the 1987 STOC Proceedings, home to my first conference paper, The complexity of perfect zero-knowledge. The paper might be best known for my upper bound protocol which is republished here in its entirety.

• Hardware

  • Miod Vallat ☛ OpenBSD on SGI, 1/6: A missed opportunity

    Before I start narrating the tale of BSD on MIPS in general and of OpenBSD on SGI in particular, you might want to familiarize yourself with SGI hardware over the years.

    An excellent resource about SGI systems, from the early Motorola 68000-based IRISes to the latest Itanium-based Altix, can be found on Gerhard Lenerz' sgistuff site.

    In this narration, I will focus on only a subset of the MIPS-based systems. You might want to keep an eye on the timeline page as well.

  • Matt Birchler ☛ The massive success of the Nintendo Switch

    This puts the Switch just 5 million units short of the PlayStation 2, the top selling game system of all time. As Reynolds points out, it seems unlikely the original Switch will move another 5 million units, but it's still pretty damn impressive for a company who 10 years ago was being implored by most of the tech press to sell to Apple and just make iPhone games.

  • Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook Titan report 8 - The rollercoaster goes up

    My neverending Linux desktop adventure is one helluva ride. Up and down, sideways, and then we loop again, skidding precariously along the monorail of nerdy emotion, missed opportunities, tragicomic ego games, and a complete disregard of what product is meant to be. Case in point, me Slimbook Titan machine. Linked here you have the last report. Use that to go back in time, all the way to the moment of purchase. You will see my satisfaction seesawing, going from abysmal to solid to great to pointless to silly to nice, many which ways.

    In my latest report, I mentioned a workaround to intermittent system freeze issue via general purpose event (GPE) interrupt blocking or masking, which seem to have resolved said freezes, with the added bonus of having no sound notification when the battery charger is plugged in or out. But it does resolve a stupid and unnecessary issue, which bugged me greatly. Now, we shall see what gives a month later.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Lee Peterson ☛ Using mostly Analog tools

    All social media and news is off the phone and onto the MacBook so I don’t immediately have it. My phone is tool I use to

  • Ava ☛ a month without caffeine - conclusion

    Now that the month has passed, I'm back to report that it continued like the first post ended; I feel very calm, emotions and situations are more manageable, focus and task-switching is less of an issue. Getting up and going to bed feel easier. What took the longest to normalize were the gastrointestinal effects; it became clear my body relied on the caffeine to do that business at the usual times, and at first, everything was very delayed and I dealt with constipation. But during the third week, it went back to normal.

• Proprietary

  • The Register UK ☛ Nitrogen can't unlock its own ransomware after coding error

    The finding specifically concerns the group's malware that targets VMware ESXi. Coveware said that the program encrypts files with the wrong public key, making it impossible for the criminals to decrypt them, even if the victim pays for a decryption tool.

  • US Senate ☛ Open Letter to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Regarding "Salt Typhoon"

    As a result, I wrote to Mandiant requesting copies of these reports and other relevant documentation. But AT&T and Verizon apparently intervened to block Mandiant from cooperating with my requests.16 I believe this course of engagement raises serious questions about AT&T’s and Verizon’s current security posture, as they are either unwilling or unable to provide specific documentation that would show their networks are secure.

    If AT&T and Verizon are not going to provide Congress key documentation voluntarily, then I believe this Committee must promptly convene a hearing with their CEOs so they can explain why Americans should have confidence in the security of their networks amid mounting evidence that the Salt Typhoon hackers remain active and undeterred. The American public deserves transparency and certainty that our nation’s major telecommunications networks are not currently exposed to unacceptable risks. This oversight hearing would be an opportunity to provide precisely that.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Cantwell claims telecoms blocked release of Salt Typhoon report 

    Salt Typhoon’s intrusion into telecom networks exposed major security weaknesses and put sensitive communications and data belonging to U.S. politicians and policymakers at risk. The federal government has done little since to hold the industry publicly accountable. Advertisement

    Congress has neither proposed or passed meaningful legislation to address the issue. While a handful of federal departments and agencies began public regulatory and oversight reviews, most of those efforts have been shut down or rolled back.

  • Wired ☛ Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been [Breached] by China

    Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state [attackers] who used their control to deliver backdoored versions of the app to select targets, developers said Monday.

  • The New Leaf Journal ☛ Itch.io Outdated TOTP 2FA App Recs

    While Windows Phone was the first thing that caught my attention, it was not the only thing. See its non-Windows Phone recommendation: “Google Authenticator on iOS, Android, and Blackberry.“

  • The Register UK ☛ Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day

    Workday is laying off about two percent of its staff in a bid to align its people with its “highest priorities,” but at a significant cost to its margins for the quarter and the year, the company announced on Wednesday.

    The SaaS-y HR vendor said most of the cuts will be to non-revenue generating roles in its Global Customer Operations team.

    The Register sought more details and a company representative referred us to a regulatory filing.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Techdirt ☛ OpenAI’s New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace ‘Prism’ Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AI Slop

      Another issue with LLMs, that of “hallucinated citations,” or “HalluCitations,” is well known. More seriously, entire fake publications can be generated using AI, and sold by so-called “paper mills” to unscrupulous scientists who wish to bolster their list of publications to help their career. In the field of biomedical research alone, a recent study estimated that over 100,000 fake papers were published in 2023. Not all of those were generated using AI, but progress in LLMs has made the process of creating fake articles much simpler.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ PC vendor warns of upcoming price hikes due to SSD and memory volatility — PowerGPU to pass costs to customers once existing inventory depletes

      PowerGPU, a system integrator known for its high-performance gaming PCs, just issued a devastating price warning on social media. The company said on its X account that costs of SSDs and other parts have gone up, and that it expects to increase prices soon. This is catastrophic news for gamers and enthusiasts who have been suffering from continuous prices increases on memory and storage since late last year, which has been brought by the incessant demand for memory and storage chips for AI data centers.

    • The Register UK ☛ AI bot traffic closing in on human web visits, study finds

      Tollbit, an outfit that tracks AI bot traffic, said in its latest State of the Bots report that by Q4 2025, there was roughly one AI bot visit for every 31 human visits to a site, up from just one bot visit for every 200 human visits in Q1.

      That's likely a conservative estimate too, says Tollbit, as AI bots just keep getting better at seeming like humans when they navigate a website.

    • Cyble Inc ☛ French Police Raid X Offices As Grok Investigations Grow

      French police raided the offices of the X social media platform today as European investigations grew into nonconsensual sexual deepfakes and potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM) generated by X’s Grok AI chatbot.

    • Michael Geist ☛ An Illusion of Consensus: What the Government Isn’t Saying About the Results of its AI Consultation

      Since the government used AI to summarize the expert reports, I thought I would do the same. I uploaded all 32 documents to both Chat GPT and Perplexity AI and asked for summaries of the major themes and areas of disagreement (the Chat GPT summary I generated is available here). While there are obviously many overlaps since these are summaries of the same documents, there are some notable differences that suggest the government had not provided the public with the full picture. Indeed, the direct advice from the experts that identifies policy choices and their implications is consistently softened into “government-speak” with balancing discussion that creates an illusion of consensus that isn’t really there.

    • Kyle Kingsbury ☛ Trudging Through Nonsense

      Last week Anthropic released a report on disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage which finds that roughly one in 1,000 to one in 10,000 conversations with their LLM, Claude, fundamentally compromises the user’s beliefs, values, or actions. They note that the prevalence of moderate to severe “disempowerment” is increasing over time, and conclude that the problem of LLMs distorting a user’s sense of reality is likely unfixable so long as users keep holding them wrong: [...]

    • David Revoy ☛ Everywhere... - David Revoy

      A comic in four panels: [...]

    • Juan Ernesto ☛ I miss thinking hard.

      Before you read this post, ask yourself a question: When was the last time you truly thought hard?

      By “thinking hard,” I mean encountering a specific, difficult problem and spending multiple days just sitting with it to overcome it.

      a) All the time. b) Never. c) Somewhere in between.

      If your answer is (a) or (b), this post isn't for you. But if, like me, your response is (c), you might get something out of this, if only the feeling that you aren't alone.

      First, a disclaimer: this post has no answers, not even suggestions. It is simply a way to vent something I've been feeling for the last few months.

    • Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Part 2 - Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It

      This article is the second in a two-part series on AI disclosures in scholarly publishing. In Part 1, I argued that despite widespread AI use by researchers, author disclosure remains the exception rather than the norm. I explored why current disclosure guidelines are failing and why fear, ambiguity, and burden are driving AI use underground rather than making it transparent. In this follow-up, I turn to the more challenging question: what publishers should do about it.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • Dark Reading ☛ Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools

      ReliaQuest Threat Research published research today detailing how attackers lured multiple users into running a Windows screensaver file, which installs a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, giving the attacker interactive remote control over the target's operating system.

    • Cyble Inc ☛ Ransomware Attacks Have Soared 30% In Recent Months

      Ransomware groups claimed 2,018 attacks in the last three months of 2025, averaging just under 673 a month to end a record-setting year. The elevated attack levels continued in January 2026, as the threat groups claimed 679 ransomware victims.

    • Dark Reading ☛ Ransomware Gang Goes Full 'Godfather' With Cartel

      Member groups are free to operate independently while also having access to DragonForce's considerable resources and services, which include petabytes of storage, 24/7 server monitoring, professional file analysis and decryption services, and even help conducting dry runs and test attacks.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • GreyCoder ☛ Best Seedbox Providers With Truly Anonymous Accounts 2026 - GreyCoder

      It does not mean perfect anonymity—but it’s far better than paying with your Visa and real home address.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Register UK ☛ Estonia tests Euro alternatives amid Microsoft rollout

    RIT has so far moved about 8,500 of 25,000 government workstations to its cloud computing service and plans to increase this to 15,000 over the next two years. The higher-security defense, interior (home), and foreign ministries will continue to use alternatives.

  • Cyble Inc ☛ French Lawmakers Back Social Media Ban For Children

    “Our children’s brains are not for sale — neither to American platforms nor to Chinese networks. Their dreams must not be dictated by algorithms.”

  • Cyble Inc ☛ Spain Ban Social Media Platforms For Children Under 16

    Spain is preparing to take one of the strongest steps yet in Europe’s growing push to regulate the digital world for young people. Spain will ban social media platforms for children under the age of 16, a move Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez framed as necessary to protect minors from what he called the “digital Wild West.” This, Spain ban social media platforms, is not just another policy announcement.

    The Spain ban social media decision reflects a wider global shift: governments are finally admitting that social media has become too powerful, too unregulated, and too harmful for children to navigate alone.

  • Robert Reich ☛ Reining in ICE

    Over the last few weeks I’ve discussed several important conditions: agents must not undertake warrantless searches; use racial profiling; pick up suspected undocumented people from schools, hospitals, courts, or places of worship; or carry lethal weapons.

    Today I want to add an increasingly important condition:

    Failure to obey any court order will immediately terminate all funding for ICE or the Border Patrol.

  • Paul Krugman ☛ American Democracy Will Not Die in Darkness

    But it turns out that predictions of creeping authoritarianism both underestimated and overestimated MAGA. Almost everyone, myself included, underestimated how far MAGA would go in engaging in open violence and abuse of power against those it considers enemies. On the other hand, we overestimated the movement’s impulse control, its ability to mask its tyrannical goals until its power was fully consolidated.

  • ADF ☛ Islamic State Expands Funding in Mozambique

    ISM has developed significant new sources of income through kidnapping for ransom, extortion, and by taking over artisanal and small-scale mining operations in the Cabo Delgado province. Kidnappings for ransom by insurgents quadrupled in 2025, accounting for about 10% of all ISM activity throughout the year, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) monitoring organization.

  • Futurism ☛ Democracy Itself Is Falling Apart, Harvard Professor Warns

    In an interview with the media industry publication Status, Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky made the case that the Trump administration’s assault on democratic norms has now become extreme, even by the standards of right-wing dictators.

    “This is a new dimension,” Levitsky told Status. “In democracies, journalists don’t get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested.”

  • Status News LLC ☛ ‘This Is a New Dimension’

    By Friday evening, both Lemon and Fort had been released with orders to return for future court hearings. But the extraordinary arrests of two journalists for their coverage of a protest marked a profound and dangerous escalation of Donald Trump's assault on the press, who he has denounced as the "enemy of the people," exiled from official briefings in favor of chosen propagandists, and filed outrageous lawsuits to silence.

    As news organizations, press freedom groups, and constitutional experts denounced the arrests as a brazen First Amendment violation, authoritarian experts viewed them as unmistakable evidence that Trump had entered a new, more dangerous phase.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Neo Smart ☛ Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

    There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really are, forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence, and the complete ineptitude that resulted in most of the latest batch being corrupted thanks to incorrectly converted Quoted-Printable encoding artifacts, it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking. But the most damning evidence has all been thoroughly redacted… hasn’t it? Well, maybe not.

  • Graham Cluley ☛ Smashing Security podcast #453: The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well

    Sloppy redaction leads to explosive claims, and difficult reputational consequences for cybersecurity vendors, and we learn how trust – once cracked – can be almost impossible to fully restore.

• Environment

  • CS Monitor ☛ As tech companies race to build data centers, communities are pushing back

    It’s a fight flaring across the country, in red and blue states, from Oklahoma to Indiana to Pennsylvania, pitting big tech companies and their partners against local activists up in arms about the environmental and community impacts of data centers, as well as potential disruptions from the artificial intelligence technology they make possible. Power-hungry data centers are also being blamed for rising electricity prices. That issue was central to November’s gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, the latter of which has the largest concentration of data centers in the country.

  • The Register UK ☛ US Army seeks autonomous bio, chemical cleanup bots

    The Army recently published a Request For Information on Autonomous Decontamination Systems (ADS) to see what might be out there in the existing commercial market to help its Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) troops more easily clean up contaminated vehicles, infrastructure, and terrain.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Interesting Engineering ☛ Waste heat to be turned into electricity with thermoelectric material

      Researchers from Japan have made a new system that can convert waste heat into electricity. The new candidate, the mixed-semimetal MoSi2, can be used to develop efficient thermoelectric devices.

  • Overpopulation

    • Crooked Timber ☛ Occasional reason to be cheerful: Babies

      Okay, that’s the technological side. What about the political / social aspect?

      Well, it turns out that keeping babies alive is a very popular policy. So much so that even truly corrupt and extractive regimes, overseeing unpleasantly patriarchal societies, will usually invest some resources in maternal and infant health. Like, the infant mortality rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Currently about 1/10 of what it was when the Islamic Republic was founded back in 1979.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Crooked Timber ☛ A modest proposal for the use of AI

    The argument? Higher management takes decisions on the basis of aggregated data that provide only an indirect, text- or number-based account of the reality on the ground. So issues like bodily experiences, a sense of a place or personal connections to other people – the lived, daily practice of the actual work and its meaning from the first-person perspective – don’t come up. (Yes, I know, managers do “deep dives” and hold “dialogue sessions” and all that kind of stuff, but is it really the same?) Moreover, higher management often has to make decisions across many different types of units, so it’s a genuine question of how to bring those different perspectives together – unless you hold deliberations with people from these different units, but that’s not what “higher management” usually looks like.

  • Chris Enns ☛ Everything is Awful And Why Isn't Anybody Doing Anything About It?

    After getting the kids to school, walking the dog, prepping some rice for supper, and warming up my coffee (again), I opened the old RSS reader to see Dave Rupert , LLC. had written up a nice antidote to the doom brain I was spiralling in: [...]

  • The New Stack ☛ The 'weird' things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust

    That said, on Sunday at FOSDEM 2026 here in Brussels, Alexey Milovidov, co-founder and CTO of ClickHouse was very precise about what interested him: not hype, but what Rust can concretely do for ClickHouse during this talk “Clickhouse’s C++ and Rust Journey.” In fact, he explicitly pushed back on the hype, even calling it one of Rust’s negative aspects amid the Rust-heavy interest — that I would argue was merited — at FOSDEM this week.

  • The Indiana Capital Chronicle ☛ Ranked choice voting works for the Heisman, can work for Indiana too

    That’s why the Heisman decided using a form of ranked choice voting. The 930 sportswriters and former winners name their top three candidates in order. In a race where two strong candidates from the same school might divide the vote, or a close battle like the 2009 contest between Alabama’s Mark Ingram, Stanford’s Toby Gerhart and Texas quarterback Colt McCoy – second- and third-place votes can make the difference and ensure the candidate with the most overall support wins.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Court House News ☛ Idaho teacher sues over banned ‘everyone is welcome’ poster

    Inama is represented by attorneys Elijah Watkins and Aaron Bell of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, as well as local attorneys Latonia Keith and McKay Cunningham. She seeks a declaration that the statute violates constitutional protections, injunctive relief preventing its enforcement against Inama, and damages for violations of her rights.

  • The Georgia Recorder ☛ Georgia librarians could face criminal charges for ‘harmful materials’

    Senate Bill 74, sponsored by Sylvania Republican Sen. Max Burns, changes an exemption in state law dealing with the distribution of harmful materials to minors.

    Today, the state exempts public and school or university libraries from the ban on distributing obscene media to people under 18. If Burns’ bill becomes law, one would only be exempt if they were not aware of the harmful material, had previously suggested the material be challenged as obscene or had suggested to have the materials moved to an area of the library not accessible to minors.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Techdirt ☛ Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats

    Let’s be clear: billionaires like Jeff Bezos don’t want a functioning press. They want the lazy simulacrum of a functional press that caters to their ideology (more for me, less for you) and protects their interests. As with Larry Ellison’s acquisition of CBS and TikTok, and Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, it’s best to view this as a global project to defang accountability for the planet’s richest, shittiest people and corporations.

    Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron didn’t really mince words about what this means for a once-functional newspaper that, at this point, probably can’t be salvaged: [...]

  • The Dissenter ☛ FBI Spied On Reporter Prior To Raiding Their Home

    On January 14, the FBI seized Natanson’s work laptop, personal laptop, iPhone, a terabyte hard drive, and Garmin running watch. The search warrants indicated that the raid was connected to an Espionage Act prosecution against Pentagon contractor Aurelio Perez-Lugones, one of Natanson’s alleged sources who had contacted her via the Signal messaging app.

  • Semafor Inc ☛ Post cuts ripple through US journalism industry

    The Washington Post’s decision to slash a third of its staff prompted an outcry in Washington and around the world. The cuts, which included axing its sports reporters and gutting its foreign desks, renewed calls among some media figures for owner Jeff Bezos to consider selling the storied newspaper.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Washington Post to cut one-third of all staff

    “Nearly all” news departments are being affected, executive editor Matt Murray told staff (read his full memo below). The New York Times reported more than 300 out of about 800 journalists in the newsroom are being laid off.

    The title is closing its sports and books departments and vastly cutting back the number of correspondents it has posted outside the US including in the Middle East and Ukraine.

  • Advance Local Media LLC ☛ First Amendment offers limited protection for newsgathering, expert says

    The legal foundation of American journalism contains a fundamental tension that Hermes emphasized repeatedly. In the landmark 1972 case of Branzburg v. Hayes, the U.S. Supreme Court established that “the First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the public generally.” This principle means that being a journalist does not confer a legal right to enter private property, access government records, or attend events closed to ordinary citizens.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • EFF ☛ Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution

    Unfortunately, there is a gaping hole in the rule of law: when a federal agent violates the U.S. Constitution, it is increasingly difficult to sue them for damages. For these reasons, EFF supports new statutes to fill this hole, including California S.B. 747.

  • California State University Northridge ☛ ‘They’re dancing on dead bodies:’ Iran’s [Internet] blackout nears 4 weeks – Daily Sundial

    As a result of Iranian civilians protesting against Iran’s current regime, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian government has cut off all [Internet] access since Jan. 8.

    The protests call for an overthrow of the government and come after what protesters say is a long history of oppression and violence from the regime. As of lately, however, both the protests and the government’s violent response to them have reached an unprecedented magnitude.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ The Minneapolis Strategy for Fighting ICE Is Worth Studying

    In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.

  • FAIR ☛ At NYT, Pretending You Don’t Know Makes You a Real Reporter

    The New York Times is addicted to bothsidesing. Even when you have examples on video of people being shot down on the street by federal agents, the paper has to pretend there’s a valid case for justifying murder: on the one hand, on the other.

  • Jason Becker ☛ Just the conditions of his confinement

    But I think the focus should be on the petitioners– the folks who were detained who had no criminal records and were ordered released by the courts. After hearing of Ms. Le’s account of countless email and overwhelm, Kira Kelley of the Climate Defense Project does not reply with compassion for the government. It might almost be natural, as you read Ms. Lee’s responses, to find her sympathetic– I sure did. But Ms. Kelley pulls the focus away from the “harrowing” experience of sending pleading emails to a government that will not comply with the law to the people who are harmed.

  • Techdirt ☛ ICE Is A Paramilitary Force, And Those Don’t End Well

    As a government professor who studies policing and state security forces, I believe it’s clear that ICE meets many but not all of the most salient definitions. It’s worth exploring what those are and how the administration’s use of ICE compares with the ways paramilitaries have been deployed in other countries.

    The term paramilitary is commonly used in two ways. The first refers to highly militarized police forces, which are an official part of a nation’s security forces. They typically have access to military-grade weaponry and equipment, are highly centralized with a hierarchical command structure, and deploy in large formed units to carry out domestic policing.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Education IT, tech employees lose union protections

    The Education Department’s workers union is pushing back after more than 100 technology-related employees lost their collective bargaining protections last month under an executive order citing national security and cybersecurity risks tied to their roles.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • RIPE ☛ Internet Coordination in Times of War

    Periods of armed conflict often lead to renewed scrutiny of how the Internet functions and of the organisations involved in its coordination. In such moments, simplified or incorrect narratives that can frame technical coordination roles as political choices, or assign responsibilities to coordination bodies that fall outside their mandate, can quickly develop and gain traction. In these circumstances, it is imperative that trust in Internet coordination is sustained through consistent stewardship of a clearly defined role and predictable, transparent action.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Howard Oakley ☛ What happens in early kernel boot on Apple silicon?

    Secure Boot on an Apple silicon Mac is unlike anything you’ve seen in the past, sequences that start from the Boot ROM, and progress through two levels of ‘firmware’ before even loading the kernel. This article tries to explain its main stages up to the point that OpenDirectory is started, about 10 seconds after pressing the Power button.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • Torrent Freak ☛ NVIDIA: Contact With Anna's Archive Doesn't Prove Copyright Infringement

    NVIDIA has asked a federal court to dismiss an expanded copyright lawsuit, arguing that authors failed to prove their books were actually used to train AI models. The chip giant says merely contacting Anna's Archive doesn't constitute infringement and challenges virtually every new claim in the amended complaint.