I had read some news from Brasil recently and have a question about what's going on in Brasil. I mean that sick proposal that operating systems has to provide some means to "check user age" or something. this sounds so weird to me that I cannot even imagine the illiterate people that invented that BS:
and how this weird demand can co-exist with free software, privacy and so on. they say the weird law enacts on 17th of March and companies and users may undergo serious fines for "breaking the law" if operating systems/software don't comply. do Brasilian users of GNU/Linux have to do anything about this or something?
LOL on this sentence about Amazon data centers being hit by Iranian drones.
"They also have physical security, but those measures, including security guards, fences, video surveillance and alarm systems, are designed to keep out intruders rather than defend against missile attacks."
So the mysterious manufacturer GOS was working with was Motorola, not OnePlus as early speculations suggested. This is good news, Motorola is owned by Lenovo and makes cool phones!
Reminder that Graphene OS is still based on AOSP and therefore, IMHO, eventually doomed to succumb to Google's shenanigans. However, for now and for the foreseeable future, that's the best we can have.
#UN Secretary-General #AntónioGuterres, meanwhile, condemned the strikes on #Iran & the Islamic Republic’s retaliation.
“The use of force by the #UnitedStates & #Israel against Iran, & the subsequent retaliation by Iran across the region, undermine international peace & #security,” Guterres said in a statement. He also called for an immediate ceasefire & for all parties to return to the negotiating table.
Trump's decision stopped short of #threats issued by #Hegseth & the #Pentagon, including that it could invoke the Defense Production Act to require Anthropic's compliance. The Pentagon had also said it considered designating #Anthropic a #SupplyChain risk, a step previously only used against businesses tied to foreign adversaries.
But #Trump vowed further action if Anthropic did not cooperate with the phaseout.
For some days now I've seen a sustained attempt by #cybercriminals to exploit misconfigured / insecure #VOIP phone systems to make multiple #telephone calls to the #French#Embassy in #London (+44 20 7073 1000).
They are not getting anywhere on two systems I run as the #security software knocks back the INVITE attempts along with all the other various #blighters , but this traffic stands out as all the attempts are to this number - it doesn't look like the perps are searching for an open trunk to misuse for spam calls or even reselling minutes on other peoples systems, but a deliberate attempt to overwhelm the switchboard at the Embassy.
Not sure if I should report this somewhere, or its presumably already been noticed by #NCSC and #DGSE ?
SENTRY is a center funded by the Department of Homeland Security to protect soft targets across the country, like mom-and-pop grocery stores, sports arenas, schools and places of worship. There are two major events this summer that we were actively working on: the 2026 World Cup final in New Jersey and America 250, the nation’s 250th birthday celebration.
Our funding termination occurred last April. I was devastated.