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Yet another victim of “the little websites don’t matter in pursuit of our goals to crush anonymity and foreign platforms” German flashlight forum TLF (taschenlampen-forum.de) will be taken offline permanently on September 16 byu/bob_mcbob inflashlight Link

Looks like America finally has the possibility for a federal GRANITE act, which would allow them to fine Ofcom for attempting to throw its weight around in the USA: Michael Rulli, a Republican congressman, wants to stop American courts from enforcing fines

According to recent polling, the British public have deep reservations about their government’s access to their private conversations. https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-06-CDT-SS-UK-encryption-polling-brief-final.pdf

Wow, France: France’s Constitutional Council found that the ?

If you’re a Pratchett (or: Mary Shelley) reader you’ll know the most dangerous people are those clever enough to uncork some tremendous power — a monster, dragon, civic unrest — yet hubristic enough to believe they can also control that power; thus comes…

This, attached below, is an inevitability.

WRITE ONCE, RUN FOREVER

The only people who should be allowed to buy Meta AI Glasses are visually impaired or blind; Facial Recognition & Live AI scene analysis is *only* moral if it would help you because you can’t see.

It is interesting from a sociological perspective that some people will go to great lengths to explain how big 1+ billion is in the context of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg having too much money, yet will consider similar numbers to be trivial in the matter

train your own teeny-tiny name-generating LLM in just 3 pages of python http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

[Ofcom] wants, it seems, pre-emptive powers to block access to sites operating anywhere in the world, should they be deemed harmful to people in the UK.

Nowadays we do billions of guesses per second on modern laptops, not even particularly high-end ones; so when this person gets one token every four seconds for a 2.8 TRILLION parameter LLM, using AN OLD MACBOOK PRO, to me it suggests that local LLMs will…

The linked blog is a compost heap of age verification dogma, but that means that the comedy occasionally writes itself.

The I4C takedown order that requires GitHub to delete Bitchat’s code repositories not only rests on shaky law — it bans a piece of software because of what it might one day be used to do.

I can’t decide whether to go with: *OPEN SOURCE IS COMMUNISM* …or the South Park inspired: *THEY TOOK OUR WEIGHTS!

Sigh. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-huggingface

The opinion downplays the encryption angle; it mentions encryption only twice, as if it’s an afterthought.

The “right to repair” folk will be upset, but here’s a further thought: If “water resistance” is legitimate grounds to sidestep “right to repair”, perhaps “hacker & abuse resistance” can be valid grounds to sidestep “interoperability”?

For certain politicians, anything other than individual action and social unrest: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?

Too bloody right “it can be overridden” – this is arrantly “flying a kite” to see if/how hard it fails rather than to commit to failure: From next spring, Britain’s oldest children will be urged to refrain from using certain apps with a midnight to 6am bl…

Oh dear.

“there is a heatwave due, give her a number one, please”

Excuse the bits of markup which I can’t be bothered to remove right now, I think you can take away the gist of most of the advice that is being given: Try to minimise Binface Claim that this is an establishment stitch-up Do your best to motivate construct…

“Strange?”

I keep reading criticisms of LLMs as mere “autocomplete engines”, excellent at predicting what people will say next, framing this as systemic weakness.

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The first reaction of any government to increased freedoms for people to communicate: panic and then attempt to control it The notice cites provisions of India’s Information Technology Act and the country’s technology rules governing intermediary due dili…

“UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea… … “Experts say trying to extract the last barrels of domestic oil and gas would have no impact on people’s energy bills and very little…

There is a famous dictum in warfare, attributed as a summary of the strategy of either/both Napoleon or Sun-Tzu: “If your enemy is making a mistake, do not stop them.”

“Gosh, who would ever have thought such a thing?”

Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them.

Start arresting the teens and then see what happens: Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’ | Social media ban | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/27/au…

“I don’t really understand how to regulate VPNs, because it became clear to everyone fairly quickly that this is an extremely complex system and that banning or switching off VPNs is simply impossible” [he said] “If you try to shut everything down, the en…

Digital Sovereignty has exactly the same problem that Cybersecurity has / always has had: it is an abstract concept which has been co-opted by the state, the state having mistaken it for a political and administrative goal that it is in their gift to crea…

OMG.

Oh look!

This has always been the deal proposed by the grifters to the government of the day: *UK positions digital standards as strategic infrastructure through 2030* https://www.biometricupdate.com/202606/uk-positions-digital-standards-as-strategic-infrastructur…

The social media ban has been launched with the presumption that our children, having been thrown off of the internet, have got somewhere else to land.

White House further calls for an end to SQL injection. https://www.wired.com/story/the-white-house-wants-anthropic-to-block-all-jailbreaks-that-may-not-be-possible/

What could possibly go wrong?

Instead of sending you to the official Google Play Store, these malicious sites push you to download the app directly, a process known as sideloading.

The truth is not as clear cut as you have seen, is probably wrong (especially in real-world practise) and for explanation I’d recommend you read the following paper by noted security expert & cryptographer, Professor Steve Bellovin: https://www.cs.columbi…

“Journalists: it’s your job to be more curious than this.

Nice index of where we are and who says what: https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/06/15/tracker-osa-expansion/

“Reform wants enforcers to stop schools promoting diversity” “To ensure democratic accountability, political appointments will be appointed from Westminster into public bodies with a mandate to enforce bans on DEI at a ground level,” he said. https://scho…

This is tragic, PLEASE listen to the whole thing: Mumsnet’s Justine Roberts and Labour MP Emily Darlington share their opposing views on the ban.

The SocialMediaBan will fail, the only question being how long before it does.

Sorry guys, but I’m a parent and it’s my job to give my child a childhood, and whatever it turns out to be it won’t be a “state idealised” childhood.