Here’s a link to the enquiry on AI and data centres in Australia. Specifically looking at regulatory frameworks and potential impacts. Anyone can submit a response. I figured there’d be plenty of people here with valuable points to make.

#Auspol #AI #DataCentres #Democracy
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/AIdatacentres48P?link_id=2&can_id=14fe88d65c69783eb5c465e94107f937&source=email-wa-police-are-introducing-live-facial-surveillance-cameras-into-communities&email_referrer=email_3296447&email_subject=urgent-opportunity-to-resist-data-centres&&

a CVE dispute. What a great system.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/24/a-cve-dispute/

Not a moment too soon! 😅 GitHub Actions checkout now blocks risky pull_request_target checkouts by default to help prevent pwn request supply chain attacks.

https://socket.dev/blog/github-actions-checkout-blocks-pull-request-target-checkouts

What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement.

I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had small forums, nobody missed Reddit back then. Federation is a big plus, not a requirement.

It's the same with websites or IRC for me. I know people use Discord, but I still stick to IRC even if there are only about a hundred of us left. I know people use AI now and website visitors are dropping, but who cares? I still keep doing it for those who like to read.

I don't need the whole world involved for this to feel worthwhile. It's mine, I own it, and I host it for as long as I breathe. After that, it won't matter to me anymore, but I hope other admins keep things running the way I did.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

We’re so easy to mislead when we don’t know what the words mean.

#average #earnings #AusPol

ATO tax data shows that when politicians talk about 'average Australians', they’re not talking about most Australians | The Point https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260619-ato-tax-data-shows-that-when-politicians-talk-about-average-australians-theyre-not-talking-about-most-australians

We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.

https://github.com/flathub-infra/documentation/commit/992f57b30de98ddbd5e80959e9672998c83c8c97

I've had some reservations about it, so the wording before that commit was relatively milder. I know it's an unpopular opinion on the Fediverse, but I do think LLMs are inevitable, and the reality is that you can expect less organically grown code as time goes on. I believe it can be a useful tool in and outside FOSS; I hoped we will see a larger number of apps where authors made some effort beyond prompting an agent. Meanwhile, the number of unpleasant interactions I've had with entitled submitters acting as if they were bestowing their brilliant software upon us idiots who are rejecting it went through the roof in the last month. I'm tired.

As always, we are not applying this retroactively, so any vibecoded apps which were already published will remain available.

New by me: I analyzed the websites of America's top companies (aka Fortune 100) and found dozens of companies don't have any easy way to report security flaws to them.

Of the companies that _do_ have vulnerability disclosure policies, half don't actually pay for bug reports.

I break down the data in my new article: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

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