Stylized 3D illustration for an early-2000s article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about a mobile phone virus. This was before smartphones were introduced. 🙂
It’s a start, but it does nothing to protect victims of domestic violence or people who’ve opted out but whose information is on the computers of people who’ve opted in.
MS Recall begs the question, “Who does this serve?”
New York lawmakers are making a final push to regulate children’s social media feeds in an attempt to curb addiction. Critics of the bill are concerned that this would undermine users’ privacy and First Amendment rights. #SocialMedia#schools#NewYork#children#safety#FirstAmendment
Stylized 3D illustration for a 2001 article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about the Code Red worm, which was the first large-scale, mixed-threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks.
Block Suggest, a new feature coming to Pixelfed that allows you to suggest to mutual followers to block a specific account when you block them.
Imagine a Mute, Block and Block & Suggest Button
The recipients will get a special notification that explains the suggested you block them with optional context and on the web ui and official app, you will be able to block or ignore with one tap!
DC #ElectionWorkers have been fielding angry calls & emails for over a month from people who oppose allowing #noncitizen residents to #vote in local #elections, leaving the head of the DC Board of Elections concerned about #safety at the polls in Tues’s primary.
“I am definitely nervous,” said Monica Evans, BOE exec dir. “The environment around elections has felt more unsafe.”
In one vm…, a caller yells: “Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote? This is the nation’s capital. You are traitors, traitors to our country.”
Evans said that employees have been encouraged to cover up any DC BOE paraphernalia they may be wearing or holding while outside the office in case someone who opposes #noncitizen voting directs their opinion toward a staffer. DC police spox said in a stmnt that officers would be near polling locations “ensuring #safety for voters” #democracy
"As the numbers of rocket launches and commercial aircraft flights increase, the probability of a catastrophic collision between an aircraft and reentering space debris is also growing. ... From a broad economic perspective, space companies are externalizing some of their risks and costs and imposing them on the aviation industry."
GPT-4o, OpenAI's latest language model that has just been made freely available, has major safety flaws, an investigation by Radio-Canada's disinformation-busting unit, Décrypteurs, has uncovered.
9 things you need to know about the inside story of how 3M allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic.
Tip of the day: Our Earth is struck by lightning eight million times per day and the power of a single strike can shut down electricity for a house, a neighborhood, or more. But there are also other potential causes of power outages, outages that can lead to data loss. Here’s one way to try and minimize potential losses of your data. #safety#tipofthedayhttps://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20220503-protecting-data-ups
At 17 plants, violations of the territory’s #WaterQuality standards & #WorkplaceSafety standards ranged from chlorine management or testing issues to inadequate staff training.
5 #Nunavut communities had no certified plant operators at the time of their inspections; three others are under public health orders to fix issues.