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Lifehacker – “There are all kinds of reasons to not have an Instagram account, from a general aversion to social media all the way to a dislike of Meta in particular. But there’s also often information on Instagram that you can’t find anywhere else—a nearby shop might list their alternative hours on the site. Instagram …
TechCrunch: “Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it’s launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they’re looking for. Users can access the new setting by …
MakeUseOf: “Short URLs are handy for cleaning up long links, but they also hide the true destination. If you want to avoid malware or a phishing scam, blindly clicking that link isn’t your best bet—there are better and safer options! Why Short URLs Are a Security Nightmare -The biggest problem with short URLs is simple: …
How to Geek: “How safe is this URL? That’s the question you should be asking before clicking on random links. A friend of mine on X shared how she learned this lesson the hard way after getting locked out of her Snapchat account. Don’t make the same mistake. Here are seven of the best free …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 19, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
Government Executive: “President Trump created another new category of federal employee on Thursday evening, issuing an executive order to expand the number of political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation and will serve in policy-making or policy-advocating roles. While presidents can already tap an uncapped number of appointees to serve in Schedule C positions, …
Wired – no paywall – “The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation…According to the sources familiar with the incident, investigators suspected the hackers had breached the Justice Department server directly, possibly by exploiting a vulnerability in the SolarWinds software. …
The Atlantic – Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law. “In recent Supreme Court terms, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have issued defiant dissents that push back against a seemingly endless cascade of conservative opinions. The three tend to take somewhat different …
The INK – Anand Giridharadas: “Six months. It may not be long enough to grow a baby or build a house or land a liquor license, but it is enough time to break a country. To disembowel its institutions, to lay waste to its ideals, to darken its spirit, to make it crueler and harder …
The Indicator: “Over the past two years, websites that use AI to turn any photo into a nude have been targeted by platform moderation, legal action, and regulation. While some AI nudifiers have been shut down, the ecosystem as a whole had adapted and proven remarkably resilient. Just last week, a Save the Children survey …
404 Media – “ICE officers are able to point their smartphone’s camera at a person and near instantaneously run their face against a bank of 200 million images, then pull up their name, date of birth, nationality, unique identifiers such as their “alien” number, and whether an immigration judge has determined they should be deported …
The Atlas of Surveillance – Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research. “Explore 12,810 datapoints in the U.S. collected by hundreds of researchers. Last updated 7/15/25. TOGGLE the Legend to reveal how technology is spreading. ZOOM into any region to see the technologies in detail. If an area has no markers, it …
