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Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement.

Police, border security, and other government agencies already comprise Leonardo’s customer base, and with this technology, those clients seek to correlate footage from these cameras to phones, tablets, wearables, AirTags, and, naturally, the electronics inside cars themselves.

If SignalTrace can pick up your Bluetooth headphones, you can be sure it’ll also be looking out for your vehicle’s 5G hotspot, infotainment system, and even its tire pressure monitoring sensors. The company includes pet microchips as a potential entry point to tracking.

A battle of logic and philosophy with words only. Here is a quote from what Anthropic said to me:

If the noosphere has a landlord, something essential about what makes us human — the capacity for unmediated thought, unmonitored communication, unowned creativity — is foreclosed. That foreclosure is spiritual in its nature even when it presents as a software license or a compiler choice.

Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic itself were targeted by Sonnet 4.6 High! It talked back to me about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, the Noosphere, and more.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1201475/kaspersky-says-hackers-are-distributing-malware-via-anime-girl-wallpapers-on-steam-works

"European Parliament weakens fundamental rights protections in the AI Act, delays enforcement of key provisions, and empowers Big Tech companies. The adopted text makes it more difficult to protect people from invasive AI, empowers industry actors and begins the dismantlement of digital protections in Europe”

The next planned step is to weaken the GDPR-regulation to open our private info for data collecting bots.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1200937/i-could-ve-rickrolled-the-entire-fifa-world-cup-all-i-needed-was-my-id

Hacker News.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48806122

A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it's unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for.

So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac "perpetual" will lose access to it next month.

The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future.

Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished

Good job 👍🏻

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1200903/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty

Telegram faced major connectivity disruptions after researchers reported that Reliance Communications’ AS18101 allegedly announced Telegram’s 91.108.56.0/22 IP prefix, a route normally originated by Telegram’s AS62041. The announcement reportedly spread through FLAG Telecom and reached international peers, causing Telegram traffic in India and parts of the UAE, Europe, and Asia to be misrouted or dropped.

The incident came around the same time as India’s temporary Telegram restriction linked to NEET exam security, but the network-layer impact went far beyond a domestic block. Researchers say the route should have been flagged as RPKI-invalid and filtered, raising fresh concerns about weak BGP security enforcement, poor route filtering, and how a single unauthorized routing announcement can disrupt a major platform across borders.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66266973

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