Want to stop law enforcement abuse of journalists and the First Amendment at the recent protests?

Here are five things you can do to help.

https://freedom.press/issues/journalists-are-being-attacked-at-protests-again-heres-how-you-can-help/

Another organism found to be navigating by the stars that could be confused by both #skyglow and #satellites.

To the extent that other moth species might also be using stars as navigation guides, and to the extent that some of those species pollinate our food crops, #DarkSkies are more important than ever.

https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-moth-seen-navigating-by-the-stars-in-scientific-first

#Animals #Insects #Pollinators #LightPollution

For the first time, I actually read an AI summary from a web search I made. I've avoided them until now, but my eyes glanced and took in the gist before I could blink.

It was on a topic I am a certified consultant in; I was just refreshing my memory. And it answered that the product worked in the way the customer wanted it to rather than the way I thought it did, and cited documentation and support forum links as the sources for that answer.

I checked them. It was wrong.

God I fucking hate this bullshit.

In 9 days new bills arrive for the servers, media storage and emails send

At this moment I am still a massive 660 euros short for this month (estimate) and that worries me a loot.. 😟

If you can and would like to help me out in paying these bills you can so via:

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn

Boosts are also much appreciated❤️ 

This week, a woman was wrongly accused of shoplifting and asked to leave 2 UK retail stores after being flagged by facial recognition technology (FRT).

This is yet another example of the use of FRT in retail spaces having serious consequences on people’s lives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr510p7kymo

What warped the minds of serial killers? Lead pollution, a new book argues.

Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and others terrorized the Pacific Northwest. "Murderland" asks what role polluters played.
#lead #arsenic #mercury #pollution #crime #crimewave
https://grist.org/culture/murderland-caroline-fraser-serial-killers-pacific-northwest-lead-pollution/

Update 2: As far as I can tell, the servers that caused the leak belonged to the DOJ in Montana. We reached them in two ways:

• Through this post we got contact to the vendor of the software. With the Serial# (in the extraction reports) they could identify whom to call.
• A friend had a contact in one of the affected police department and they reached out to the DOJ.

Thanks to this community I was also able to get a contact within the FBI. Furthermore some media contacted me and a lot of Mastodon users provided me with additional contacts.

Event though I contacted the AG in Monatana and one PD, no one has reached out to me from the DOJ side.

Update 1: Leak is closed. Will write more tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who helped.

Phone forensics

Usually law enforcement is very secretive about them analyzing the phones of suspects.

But a forensic lab in #montana is extremely transparent about it. They put the dump of every phone on a public share. Everyone with Internet access can access those dumps.

While I am usually a proponent of government transparency, this takes it a bit too far even for my taste.

Every phone dump is one directory and some case names can be easily connected to crime & death headline news in the U.S.

So for one case I am pretty sure, that I can even say which Sheriff is responsible for that one of the investigations.

I sent that Sheriff an email, i sent him a text message and I even spoke on his voicebox. I even sent him the extraction report from Graykey.

It is really frustrating that I get no response at all. The leak is still open.

The security researcher that found the leak also tried some contacts but had as little success as I do.

I personally believe that this leaks even constitutes a federal crime. Some cases have names ending on CSAM. The security researcher stayed away from any of those and I did not access the files on that server at all.

So does anybody know someone within the #fbi that would give a shit about that. I am getting very tired.

#graykey #cellebrite #forensics

Trump Family’s New Business Partner Is India’s Richest Man

Trump's latest financial disclosure report included $10 million “development fee” from Reliance 4IR Realty Development, a unit of company controlled by Mukesh Ambani, licensing the Trump name in Mumbai

#Trump

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-familys-new-business-partner-is-indias-richest-man-6846bcfe?st=tmNjxa&reflink=article_copyURL_share