Jurgis Kirsakmens

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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

What is the reason even trying?
What are rules?
We are writing them for who?
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized

How companies are gaming the chatbot internet

The Atlantic
2024: every app comes with 1GB Electron container
2027: every app comes with >4GB on-device model + 1GB Electron container
Claude: what about 1GB Electron container + 10GB virtual machine?
SSD makers:
Does new macOS runs new Foundation models while in virtual machine? Last year it didn't.

4/4 ⚠️ We've already seen the consequences of EU lawmakers playing with fire when the negotiations on the ‘interim ePrivacy derogation’, also known as 'Chat Control 1.0', fell apart in April 2026.

Although there were attempts to blame the EU Parliament, a closer look shows that the Commission and the Council refused to engage in good faith. Read our analysis here ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vote-not-to-protect-children-online/

Did the EU Parliament really vote not to protect children online? - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

In April 2026, negotiations on the ‘interim ePrivacy derogation’ fell apart, with several stakeholders claiming that the European Parliament stopped the EU from protecting children.

European Digital Rights (EDRi)
And this, kids, is why we don't connect our smart TVs, fridges and washing machines to Internet.
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

Include Security Research Blog
So no option to slow down animations in Device Hub simulators?
Dissapoint.
#WWDC26
Don't like the new #LiquidAss either.
#WWDC26
What's New in UIKit in iOS 27 - Kyle Howells https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/whats-new-in-uikit-ios-27
What's New in UIKit in iOS 27

A tour of the new UIKit APIs in iOS 27 — TextKit 2 tables, scene accessories, Liquid Glass bar minimization, menus, and more — found by diffing the SDK headers.

Kyle Howells Blog