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they just wrote a paragraph about evil being easy, convenient and providing value, how the evilness of others legitimizes their own, how the inability to achieve absolute moral pur…

Social Media companies have actively and intentionally tried to make their products more addicting... now they have to face the very obvious consequences of that decision.

on desktop i had to click on the small black area between two pictures before scrolling with left/right arrows became possible ... very bad UX

The citizens of the USA need to modernize their concept of privacy. Defining it over private/public spaces comes from a time when mass surveillance was technologically unfeasible. …

So your think that AI systems that pose a significant risk to basic human rights at scale, should not be subject to oversight and regulation, because that would be anti-human?

According to the "Huawei cyber security evaluation centre" (HCSEC) oversight boards annual report to the national security adviser of the United Kingdom (note: HCSEC was a joint la…

this is not a new issue: airbus has been the victim of corporate espionage supposedly by boeing with aid by the nsa in a well documented case in november 2011, and they are not the…

typographic attacks against vision-language models are still a thing with more recent models like GPT4-V: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00626

the 24% increase has nothing to do with car size over time in europa. Table 2 in the paper lists which cars where compared, and that 24% numbers is an average from comparing models…

"relatively clean" means 85% of PM2.5 is from non-exhaust sources, and 15% is from exhaust after catalytic conversion. In New York EV and ICE are pretty much on par when it comes t…

While that is the most common use case for CLAs, it is normally done by contributors granting a very permissive, but not exclusive, license to a legal entity like a company or foun…

has anyone tried the PoC for CVE-2025-12198 from that chinese site on a version more recent than rusty? It wants a signup with a mainland china phone number, and i only have a taiw…

Consultation documents and published feedback: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... The documents link the DMA page on the EC website: https://digital-ma…

i only cited it as a side note for the upper bound. the more conservative estimate of the scientific service of the Bundestag still shows that your claim of zero subsidies is made …

> For example in Germany, nuclear production was never subsidized at all. Except financing research and development, guaranteeing loans to reduce default risk and interest rates, c…

i have not checked every service affected in Nepal, but i would assume most of them require a user account, which includes agreeing to a contract that establishes a b2c relation. S…

The EU is not a single mind, it is many party democracy. Yes there are forces in it that have been pushing for "lawful interception" for some time now. And they have always failed …

Having direct business to consumer relations with the people of a country is doing business in that country, even if the multinational corporation claims otherwise

there is a difference between "russian" and "russian speaking" that is quite important to many eastern europeans that do not wish to be part of some kreml lead lingua-nation.

a rich and fascinating history. If i may recommend a wikipedia article: "Cabinet Noir", which includes: "by the 1700s, cryptanalysis was becoming industrialized"

Read the USAs "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" of 1994, it may change your mind. An FBI document from 2021 foiad by the property of the people org shows the FBI …

Little known fact: GDPR replaced the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) from 1995 which itself replaced the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic …

Transferring data to non-eu countries is not by itself a violation, if there are provisions in place to ensure that the basic human rights concerning data privacy of european citiz…