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Grey 50+ married man

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Evolving the Team

An update on Mastodon’s core team and organisation.

Mastodon Blog
Wereld Natuur Fonds: "Minder maaien = meer natuur 🐝
Laat je gazon deze lente en zomer wat wilder worden, en geef bijen, vlinders en wilde bloemen de ruimte. Een bloemrijk grasveld ziet er niet alleen prachtig uit - het helpt ook onze bestuivers enorm."
Gevoelige persoonsgegevens van miljoenen burgers stromen vanuit Europa naar Israël. Dat is mogelijk dankzij een besluit van de Europese Commissie. Zij laat de belangen van Israëlische techbedrijven zwaarder wegen dan het risico op massasurveillance van Europese burgers. Dat is in strijd met Europese privacywetgeving en de principes waarop de EU is gebouwd. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/europese-persoonsgegevens-belanden-in-israel-zorgen-om-surveillance
Europese persoons­gegevens belanden in Israël: zorgen om surveillance en mensen­rechten­schendingen

Gevoelige persoonsgegevens van miljoenen burgers stromen vanuit Europa naar Israël. Dat is mogelijk dankzij een besluit van de Europese Commissie. Zij laat de belangen van Israëlische techbedrijven zwaarder wegen dan het risico op massasurveillance van Europese burgers. Dat is in strijd met Europese privacywetgeving en de principes waarop de EU is gebouwd.

Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
Way to go Greyhound!

Huge respect đŸ«Ą

#opensource

As part of the "Dialogue for Cybersecurity" project, the @fsfe and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) are working together with representatives from civil society, academia, industry and government in a project on the #CRA and its implications for #FreeSoftware.

đŸ“ș Watch the recording of the first event in this series, which took place on 3 April: https://media.fsfe.org/w/f14ys5iqatZgKucz7WGPNT

Free Software and CRA - expert talk and discussion

PeerTube

Loopscale: Exploit nur zwei Wochen nach dem Start. Autsch.

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=loopscale-exploit

Loopscale hacked for $5.8 million two weeks after launch

A new Solana-based defi protocol called Loopscale, backed by Coinbase Ventures and Solana Labs, suffered a $5.8 million exploit only two weeks after its launch. The stolen funds represented 12% of the protocol's TVL. The project blamed the exploit on a bug in the protocol's pricing calculations. Although the project had been audited in February by OShield, the audit evidently did not detect the flaw.

Web3 is Going Just Great
Extremely fluffy #bliksem after taking a bath because very sticky (again)
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

Tracked by #Microsoft, but nobody takes responsibility 🎯đŸȘ

When the Austrian DPA asked Microsoft about tracking cookies in Microsoft 365, they claimed to only be a sub-processor, despite the school not being able to configure or decide on the cookies.

Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school

#MakePrivacyReality

Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school

noyb has filed two complaints against Microsoft for unlawful data processing in 365 Education

noyb.eu
I've written about how Microsoft's fix for a symlink vulnerability introduces another symlink vulnerability, where all users (including non-admins) can stop all future Windows OS security patches https://doublepulsar.com/microsofts-patch-for-cve-2025-21204-symlink-vulnerability-introduces-another-symlink-vulnerability-9ea085537741
Microsoft’s patch for CVE-2025–21204 symlink vulnerability introduces another symlink vulnerability

Microsoft recently patched CVE-2025–21204, a vuln which allows users to abuse symlinks to elevate privileges using the Windows servicing stack and the c:\inetpub folder. There’s a good write up here


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