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Epstein, Bannon, 4chan, Trump, Russia -- a cauldron of boiling evil.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Considering 4chan’s continuing fight for influence in the fedi, you really should read this.

There is a reckoning coming that’s right around the corner and the fedi is going to have to make a choice in what it’s about.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Epstein and Bannon thought they were running a global conspiracy to burn down global democracy and replace it with a network of fascist states. Maybe they were really doing it, maybe they were just kidding themselves. https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Considering 4chan’s continuing fight for influence in the fedi, you really should read this.

There is a reckoning coming that’s right around the corner and the fedi is going to have to make a choice in what it’s about.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Considering 4chan’s continuing fight for influence in the fedi, you really should read this.

There is a reckoning coming that’s right around the corner and the fedi is going to have to make a choice in what it’s about.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Epstein, Bannon, 4chan, Trump, Russia -- a cauldron of boiling evil.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/

A century of hair samples showed a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations, proving the 1970s leaded gas ban worked. “We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

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#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

https://flip.it/sslA6i

#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

https://flip.it/sslA6i

#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.

https://flip.it/sslA6i

#Science #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/ #science

Counting down to RFK Jr. demanding the return of leaded gas. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/

Banning lead in gas worked: The proof is in our hair https://phys.org/news/2026-02-gas-proof-hair.html

#health #PublicHealth #environment #pollution #gas #lead

@parismarx shares some useful info about his journey off US dependence. I've also been going through a similar journey, it feels a little bit of a leap into the unknown but it really helps hearing about others experiences. https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

Getting off US tech: a guide https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

https://www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/

Microsoft is reviewing its Copilot+ integrations, and is saying internally that Microsoft Recall has failed.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

Windows Central: You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

#windows #AI #copilot

Microsoft is reviewing its Copilot+ integrations, and is saying internally that Microsoft Recall has failed.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload | Windows Central https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

Microsoft is reviewing its Copilot+ integrations, and is saying internally that Microsoft Recall has failed.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

Microsoft is reviewing its Copilot+ integrations, and is saying internally that Microsoft Recall has failed.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

Microsoft is reviewing its Copilot+ integrations, and is saying internally that Microsoft Recall has failed.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

Windows Central: You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

#windows #AI #copilot

it seems #Microsoft might have seen the #ai bubble writing on the wall

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

Windows Central: You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall

#windows #AI #copilot

The Macalope, as always, on point. https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html

Can't recall if this has happened before — we've both been talking about Apple for a long time, and I _think_ this isn't the first — but yay, mentioned by the Macalope! https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html

The Macalope, as always, on point. https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html

The Macalope, as always, on point. https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html

The Macalope, as always, on point. https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html

Great blog which makes again clear, everybody should leave Whatsapp and move to safer alternatives like Signal.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/
#whatsapp #signal #security #privacy

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but sever…

#sn, twit

Great blog which makes again clear for me, why everybody should leave Whatsapp and move to safer alternatives like Signal. Although it can also be interpreted as a defense of Whatsapp.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/
#whatsapp #signal #security #privacy

A few things about this article on the claims WhatsApp's E2EE is fake:

The most important thing to keep in mind here is that Meta’s encryption happens on the client application, the one you run on your phone. If the claims in this lawsuit are true, then Meta would have to alter the WhatsApp application so that plaintext (unencrypted) data would be uploaded from your app’s message database to some infrastructure at Meta, or else the keys would

They would not have to be sent as plaintext. They would be sent encrypted with some key that Meta owns.

The other simple way of doing this is to intentionally weaken the key generation function. If you are generating a key with 128 bits of entropy, you can start with a 96-bit secret shared between the server and the client. Then you add 32 bits of random number and feed the result through some cryptographic hash function. You end up with a key that, to an outside observer, is one of 2128 possible values. But to the server operator, it is one of 232 possible values and so takes a few seconds of CPU time to recover. And there are ways of doing this that look a lot like an honest mistake. Telegram has a thing in their protocol for the server to provide part of the entropy seed, which they claim is intended to provide additional defence for devices with weak entropy sources and critics argue is for exactly this kind of attack. Putting the same kind of entropy seed into an out-of-band request to another Meta service that WhatsApp uses would be quite feasible.

And there are ways of hiding this kind of thing from various forms of forensic analysis, such as dynamically patching the random number generator from another thread when some trigger is applied. It's not impossible to find, it's just really hard, and someone would have to be looking for the right thing.

There's also WhatsApp Web. This runs something in the web browser that talks to your phone and uses end-to-end encryption with a key exchanged by a QR code shown in the browser. Signal does not implement a feature like this because designing it in such a way that it's verifiably (by the user) secure is almost impossible.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

#cybersecurity #infosec #privacy #security #signal #whatsapp

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

finally some sanity? https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/

Millions of books died so Claude could live https://www.theverge.com/podcast/872998/anthropic-claude-books-netflix-theaters-vergecast #SmartHome #Streaming #Vergecast #Podcasts #Netflix #Tech #AI

Millions of books died so Claude could live https://thever.ge/HZGe #SmartHome #Streaming #Vergecast #Podcasts #Netflix #Tech #AI

Millions of books died so Claude could live https://www.theverge.com/podcast/872998/anthropic-claude-books-netflix-theaters-vergecast

Millions of books died so Claude could live https://www.theverge.com/podcast/872998/anthropic-claude-books-netflix-theaters-vergecast

Millions of books died so Claude could live
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/872998/anthropic-claude-books-netflix-theaters-vergecast

Millions of books died so Claude could live

On The Vergecast: data-hungry AI models, Netflix movie theaters, and smart buttons.

LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined WBUR’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/03/inside-the-ai-surveillance-state

LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined WBUR’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/03/inside-the-ai-surveillance-state

LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined WBUR’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/03/inside-the-ai-surveillance-state

was honored to go on OnPoint today to talk about AI-powered surveillance: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Inside the AI surveillance sta...

LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined WBUR’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/03/inside-the-ai-surveillance-state

Last week I sat down with @adactio for a spontaneous chat that quickly turned into a deep dive into something we both care a lot about: events, community, and why we keep putting ourselves through the joy and pain of running events. Surely we also spoke about his upcoming Web Day Out event in Brighton and what that is all about. https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/podcast-jeremy-keith-003

Last week I sat down with @adactio for a spontaneous chat that quickly turned into a deep dive into something we both care a lot about: events, community, and why we keep putting ourselves through the joy and pain of running events. Surely we also spoke about his upcoming Web Day Out event in Brighton and what that is all about. https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/podcast-jeremy-keith-003

Last week I sat down with @adactio for a spontaneous chat that quickly turned into a deep dive into something we both care a lot about: events, community, and why we keep putting ourselves through the joy and pain of running events. Surely we also spoke about his upcoming Web Day Out event in Brighton and what that is all about. https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/podcast-jeremy-keith-003

Last week I sat down with @adactio for a spontaneous chat that quickly turned into a deep dive into something we both care a lot about: events, community, and why we keep putting ourselves through the joy and pain of running events. Surely we also spoke about his upcoming Web Day Out event in Brighton and what that is all about. https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/podcast-jeremy-keith-003