Hard Pass

We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.

Federal law requires noncitizens to carry proof of their lawful status.

The idea is to set people up for a 2nd arrest, and deportation alongside that.

For those that don't know: the movie Iron Lung was directed by Markiplier and he's married. He was screwing his wife throughout filming of the movie.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43533515

When will we simply accept that it's a bubble and move on, instead of pouring a relentless amount of resources into it.

archive article: https://archive.is/P2YQo

Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

Name: The accidental hacker.

Age: It doesn’t matter how old Sammy Azdoufal is. What he did is what’s important here, and what he did is very much of the age.

And what did Azdoufal do? He hooked up his DJI Romo vacuum cleaner to his PS5 controller.

Why? Because, he told the New York-based tech news publication the Verge, it sounded fun.

OK, each to their own. And how did he do this? He used an AI coding assistant, Claude Code, to reverse-engineer how the home robot vacuum communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers …

Whoa, you’re losing me. I’m losing myself too, to be honest. Look, Azdoufal is a software engineer, he’s the head of AI strategy at a holiday rental company, he knows how to do this stuff. But what’s interesting is what happened next …

What happened next? Presumably he lay on the sofa, directing his vacuum cleaner with his joystick – which does actually sound fun, even if it slightly negates the whole point of a robot. He found that not only could he control his own robot, but that he had gained access to data from other robot vacuum cleaners.

What kind of data? Live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps from nearly 7,000 devices across 24 countries.

Potential executive order would enlist banks in the White House’s illegal-immigration crackdown

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In January, FinCEN issued an order requiring banks and money transmitters in two Minnesota counties to file information about overseas transactions greater than $3,000, far lower than the normal $10,000 threshold for flagging cash transactions. Banks already think the $10,000 limit should be raised and have struggled to comply with the Minnesota order, according to some people familiar with their efforts.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7760707

"Death to Germany because they say their reason for existing is to support 'Israel'^[Not a joke, they call this "Staatsräson".]? That's genocidal against Germans."

Sorry, but I don't care about your colonizer fragility.