Wired – “A glitch in Slack makes it possible to accidentally send your entire DM history with one person to other coworkers. Ask me how I know. So, here’s a nightmare scenario: You open your work Slack on your phone so you can DM with a few colleagues. You talk with this group regularly, but… Continue Reading
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The Protesters’ Guide to Smartphone Security
Privacy Guides: “For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance. The perennial question when it comes… Continue Reading
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
404 Media – “A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be… Continue Reading
DOGE gets an extreme makeover
Musk Watch: The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was established on Monday by Trump, with Musk receiving a White House email address and office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The executive order states that DOGE will replace the US Digital Service, an official part of the Executive Office of the President. By… Continue Reading
AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes
Schneier on Security: “Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death. Over the… Continue Reading
Case Western Reserve University School of Law to require legal AI education certification
Above the Law – “Case Western Reserve University School of Law becomes first law school in the U.S. to require legal AI education certification for all first-year law students – Case Western Reserve University School of Law will become the first in the nation to require all first-year law students to earn a certification in… Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
ProPublica: “The man tapped by President Donald Trump to be second-in-command of the federal agency that protects the public from environmental dangers is a lawyer who has represented companies accused of harming people and the environment through pollution. David Fotouhi, a partner in the global law firm Gibson Dunn, played a key part in rolling… Continue Reading
Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders
OPM Memorandum to Heads and Acting Heads of All Agencies, January 21, 2025. – Pursuant to its authority under 5 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing… Continue Reading
LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI
BBC: “A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. It alleges that in August last year, the world’s largest professional social networking website “quietly” introduced a privacy setting, automatically opting users in to a… Continue Reading
10 Tips for Prosperity and Pleasure in 2025
10 Tips for Prosperity and Pleasure in 2025 – Jerry Lawson suggests 10 ways to work effectively, safely and incorporate innovation and AI into your practices. Continue Reading
webcurios
“This website is the home of Web Curios, a blognewslettertypething which has existed in various forms in various places online since about 2010 (it also exists as a bot on Bluesky, for anyone who, inexplicably, doesn’t want to read 10k words about ‘stuff on the internet’ in one go each week). First published on the… Continue Reading
4 Cybersecurity Misconceptions to Leave Behind in 2025
The New Stack: “Most people know that cyberthreats lurk around every corner. Be it an opportunistic lone criminal or a hacker with the power of a nation-state behind them, it can feel like the world and its dog want to access your private data. Beyond this, though, how well do people grasp the threat? According… Continue Reading
