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Episode 160: Greg

Greg Linares (AKA Laughing Mantis) joins us to tell us about how he became the youngest hacker to be arrested in Arizona.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/160

Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product.

If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit?

(Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/30/ai-is-no-longer-optional-microsoft-admits-ai-doesnt-help-at-work/

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration. Learn how you can take part ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
EU will spend over $500 million to recruit researchers and scientists.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/europe-launches-program-to-lure-scientists-away-from-the-us/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

oh shit oh fuck oh god we made alchemy real with the power of science https://phys.org/news/2025-05-alice-conversion-gold-large-hadron.html

Piss off a tech bro, speedrun any%:

Coding is not the hard part of making software. People are the hard part of making software.

Therefore, computer science is a humanities study.

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/ lol

Another incredibly talented and dedicated #solarpunk #artist, Karl Schulschenk, has just joined the #storySeedLibrary !

https://storyseedlibrary.org/authors/karl-schulschenk/

His works are available under #creativeCommons BY-NC-ND 4.0!

#art #illustration #climate #futurism #HopePunk

Starting with version 2025.2, our Android app builds are reproducible. This means you can verify that the app you download and install is built from the open source code we publish.

Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/reproducible-builds-verify-our-android-app-builds-bit-for-bit

@GossiTheDog

Oh man, I'd forgotten all about that.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-clocks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/

This meeting could have been a podcast 🎧 .

It's been 2 years since I made a #Linux desktop environment Tier List (I was waiting for a stable Cosmic release...), so I felt it was time to get this thing out, because things have moved quite a bit in terms of how desktops work, and how I feel about them.

So, here's my ranking, and why I ranked each desktop as high, or as low as I did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zElqTXugBc8

Hey Fediverse friends 👋

We're happy to help make the web a little more connected and open.

With our ActivityPub plugin you can connect your Discourse community to Mastodon and the wider Fediverse

Check out all the details in our latest blog post:
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/04/discourse-and-the-fediverse/

My young-ish student care team, yesterday, said in no uncertain terms that LLMs are destroying their students' ability to experience and think and learn.

This is quite something, from a group that, even a year ago, believed that LLMs would do more good than harm.

I spoze I could pull a triumphant "I fucking told you", but I just find it so incredibly sad.

Framasoft has released version 1 of the video-streaming @peertube mobile app, allowing multiple account connections, playlist management, comments, and subscriptions. It includes two-factor authentication and plans for more features and enhancements.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/peertube-mobile-app-reaches-v1-and-brings-multi-account-logins-playlist-management-and-more/

The US Embassy asked the Stockholm’s planning office to end DEI programs because they need to obtain a planning permit and cannot ask them for the permit if they support „DEI”

Can we please change the timelines?

If you wanna help me make #Anubis happen, please look into pitching in on GitHub Sponsors or Patreon:

https://github.com/sponsors/Xe
https://patreon.com/cadey

Might end up buying a Pixel 9A to make sure that Anubis keeps working on GrapheneOS.

Redteamers: I'd love to hear your thoughts on this post, which details how Microsoft Copilot for SharePoint can be a post-exploit attacker's best friend. How realistic is this threat? Is the onus on Microsoft or on organizations using Sharepoint to take precautions? cc: @PTP

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/exploiting-copilot-ai-for-sharepoint/

so this is the state of the art huh, I see