New security risk unlocked, eSIMs edition, and especially the kind you pick up prepping for an international trip. The article goes hard on the China angle, and for sure: who knew Irish eSIM brand Holafly would connect to networks owned by state-owned enterprise China Mobile? The installer runs from their servers, and wherever the phone is, it even has a public IP address in China.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/travel-esims-secretly-route-traffic-over-chinese-and-undisclosed-networks-study-619659

EDIT: I originally wrote that Holafly was a subsidiary of China Mobile, which is not what the paper states.

if you understand this, you can refer to yourself as »old«.

as someone wrote in the comments to this screenshot on reddit, if you were just 4 month before the video was posted, you can now legally drink alcohol in the US.

Officially announcing Death By Scrolling, of course Mastodon followers have known about it for months. It's the privilege of being on Mastodon.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/deathbyscrolling5/

„Für die "Zu-Verschenken-Kisten" werden demnach Bußgelder zwischen 300 bis 1.500 Euro fällig.“

Wo kommen wir hin, wenn die Leute ihre Sachen in Berlin einfach verschenken?!

Neuer Bußgeld-Katalog: Verschenke-Kisten am Berliner Straßenrand können teuer werden
https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/08/berlin-bussgeld-katalog-verschenke-kisten.html