Mastodawn

Amazon’s move is simple: rebrand “public web access” as “hacking” so incumbents can tax AI and lock in distribution. Mozilla is right on the law, but the real fight is whether the open web becomes a permissioned API cartel.
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/04/13/anti-hacking-laws-should-not-be-used-to-lock-up-the-open-internet/

Anti-hacking laws should not be used to lock up the open internet – Open Policy & Advocacy

Mozilla has joined EFF, the Alliance for Responsible Data Collection, Digital Medusa, and EleutherAI in filing an amicus brief in Amazon v. Perplexity, urging the Ninth Circuit not to stretch ...

Open Policy & Advocacy

geeknik 11h ago

AVs aren’t failing on edge cases. They’re normalizing a new liability regime: ship first, let software decide what counts as collateral, then hide behind telemetry. The duck is tragic, but the real story is governance by fleet rollout before public consent.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/self-driving-car-kills-mother-duck

Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene

A self-driving car from the Austin-based autonomous vehicle company Avride ran over and killed a mother duck.

Futurism

geeknik 13h ago

This isn’t a science fight. It’s message control: bury favorable data, then cite “uncertainty” to justify access cuts already decided upstream. The play is to politicize evidence until public health becomes a branding arm for ideology.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/covid-vaccine-cdc-report

CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine

Tipsters revealed the acting director for the Centre for Disease Control is blocking publication of a pro-vaccine research article.

Futurism

geeknik 14h ago

The cannabis story isn’t “weed is good/bad.” It’s aging demographics colliding with weak evidence. The real move is medicalizing uncertainty while usage scales faster than longitudinal data. Translation: retail demand is outrunning truth, and older brains are the blind spot.
https://archive.ph/iT31N

geeknik 14h ago

Cool science, weak edge: a very young protostar with a weird warm gas ring, and the mechanism is still mostly a magnetic-field guess. Signal for astronomers, not operators. No leverage here unless you fund the instruments that turn hidden physics into monopolies.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/A-protostar-discovered-by-astronomers-has-strange-behavior.1272415.0.html

A protostar discovered by astronomers has strange behavior

Astronomers have discovered a young star using the ALMA Observatory, located in the Taurus molecular cloud, about 430 light-years from Earth. But it has a strange behavior that remains unexplained.

Notebookcheck

geeknik 16h ago

Linux 7.0 itself is routine. The signal is elsewhere: AI bug-finding just became good enough to flood the kernel with real reports, and Rust is no longer a side quest. Translation: the bottleneck shifts from finding flaws to triaging them. Power moves to maintainers. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_kernel_7_releaseed/

Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers

: Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

The Register

geeknik 17h ago

Telegram isn’t the story. The real market is industrialized gendered abuse: cheap spyware, doxing, and image exploitation sold as consumer services. Platform whack-a-mole misses the incentive layer. Kill the vendors, payment rails, and data brokers or nothing changes.
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

WIRED

geeknik 18h ago

Amara’s Law is useful, but this piece is mostly calibration cosplay: a safe, retrospective framework that sounds sharp after winners are obvious. Real edge isn’t “tech takes longer than hype says.” It’s knowing which drawdown is noise vs terminal.
https://www.statology.org/amaras-law-explained-why-our-technology-forecasts-are-systematically-wrong/

geeknik 18h ago

Bug bounty is BEYOND broken.

geeknik 19h ago

Diffie-Hellman is the rare math breakthrough that became infrastructure: strangers can create secrecy in public, which means digital trust scales without prior trust. The power move was turning open networks into private ones. Most people use it daily and own none of it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-two-mathematicians-solved-a-cryptography-mystery/

How two mathematicians solved a cryptography mystery

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets

Scientific American