Mastodawn

Incredible. “US has subpoenaed all tech companies to hand over all messages with EU officials that enforce the DSA” https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-probes-eu-bureaucrats-hiding-efforts-censor-american-speech

Chairman Jordan Probes EU Bureaucrats Hiding Efforts to Censor American Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to ten technology companies—including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Reddit, Rumble, TikTok, and xAI—reiterating that the Committee's document subpoenas require the companies to produce communications with foreign censors, including the European Commission and European Union (

House Judiciary Committee Republicans

Raf Guns Feb 23

Ivo 🇪🇺Feb 21

“I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.

So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy.

Then I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s”

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

Raf Guns Feb 8

Michael Kennedy Feb 8

Just launched a new open source project.

Tallyman: A command-line tool that gives you a real picture of your codebase - not just raw line counts, but where your effort actually lives. It groups results into meaningful categories like Code, Design, Docs, Specs, and Data.

https://github.com/mikeckennedy/tallyman

GitHub - mikeckennedy/tallyman: A command-line tool that summarizes the size of a codebase by language, showing lines of code with and without comments and blank lines.

A command-line tool that summarizes the size of a codebase by language, showing lines of code with and without comments and blank lines. - mikeckennedy/tallyman

GitHub

Raf Guns Feb 6

Charlie Stross Feb 1

Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

Raf Guns Feb 5

Ludo Waltman Feb 5

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach

https://doi.org/10.64000/vfezq-pea87

Together with @andrebrasil I just published this blog post about @crossref DOI registration practices for @MetaROR.

While our focus is on the MetaROR platform operated by @RoRInstitute and @aimos, the issues we discuss are of relevance for Publish-Review-Curate infrastructures more in general.

@cwts @ASAPbio

Raf Guns Feb 1

Jeroen Bosman Jan 31

2 weeks ago an Australian researcher published (https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04061-w) a commitment to half his paper production (ironically in Nature, the flagship journal of a publisher that thrives on volume, metrics and publication addiction, but OK, this is where relevant audience is ;-). I do like his commitment, but still he's doing not doing himself justice and the real motivation is unclear. The reasoning is a bit to straightforward. Let's unpack. 1/n

Raf Guns Jan 31

Shafik Yaghmour Jan 30

This is a damning article from the Wikipedia editors on GenAI articles written for Wikipedia: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/

#ai

Raf Guns Jan 28

hauschke Jan 28

I see the future of paper mills, and its name is Prism.

This will greatly accelerate the slopification of science.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/1131793/openais-latest-product-lets-you-vibe-code-science/

#ChatGPT #Prism #AISlop

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science

Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.

MIT Technology Review

Raf Guns Jan 26

Grickle Jan 25

Secrets. #grickledoodle #hemanandthemastersoftheuniverse #skeleton #closet #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Raf Guns Jan 23

mhoye Jan 23

Bitlocker is backdoored. (edit: Or, at least, if you accept Microsoft's recommended practices for key handling, you are backdooring yourself.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Forbes

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