"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it."

https://browsergate.eu/

One of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromised

The Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain attacks ever

💥 https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/axios-compromised

#javascript #axios #webdev #npm #js #dev #compression #softwareattribution #web #webdev #successful #attack #plaincryptojs #malware

🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED!

Initial analysis by @echo_pbreyer : https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out (Corbin Davenport/How-To Geek)

https://www.howtogeek.com/githubs-copilot-will-use-you-as-ai-training-data-but-you-can-opt-out/
http://www.techmeme.com/260325/p43#a260325p43

We weren’t able to find the right match in the previous round, so we’ve refined this role. We’re now looking for engineers with strong experience building JavaScript and Python libraries, and working in the open. Localization/i18n experience is a big plus.

Fully remote, ideally in Europe, but open to East Coast. Note that Mozilla can only hire in a few EU countries (NL, FI, SE, BE, UK, FR, DE, ES, PL).

More info here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/7746474/

#hiring #localization

Researchers at the non-profit org called Pregnancy Justice report that in the last two years authorities have arrested at least 412 women for suffering miscarriages due to bans on abortion.

The same people championing abortion bans and prosecution of American women for miscarriages also claim bombing Iran liberates Iranian women.

Make no mistake: Whether in the USA or Iran, they were never about liberating women—but about controlling them with force and violence.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC