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A bug on the dark side of the Moon

2026/04/08 07:30:03 BST

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is one of the most scrutinised codebases in history … We found a bug in it that had been missed for fifty-seven years: a resource lock in the gyro control code that leaks on an error path, silently disabling the guidance platform’s ability to realign. https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/

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The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Media

2026/04/06 20:23:37 BST

Trial lawyers are poised to accomplish in courtrooms nationwide what politicians have thus far failed to write into statute. The effects of this effort — undertaken without the deliberation of the nation’s representative bodies — are likely to rival those of even the most sweeping laws. https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-trial-lawyers-come-for-online-free-speech

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New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption | Schneier on Security

2026/04/06 20:19:41 BST

Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/new-mexicos-meta-ruling-and-encryption.html

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Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone

2026/04/03 09:19:31 BST

What could possibly go wrong?

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Australian eSafety: “It is a ‘dark pattern’ to permit people to 1/ amend mistakes 2/ be in control of information about themselves 3/ be obliged to validate abuse reports”

2026/04/01 21:12:25 BST

Clearly the perspective which the Australian eSafety Commissioner brings to the table is “users are untrustworthy scum and must be whipped into control” – basically like MPs, then. Also: “false negatives” are not a thing and never occur; if an AI declares you to be likely “too young” it cannot possibly be a technological problem.

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The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ

2026/03/28 07:02:58 GMT

Excellent piece: The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to human rights, and that the tools created for that purpose can easily become instruments of broader control over speech once governments acquire them.

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The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

2026/03/27 19:23:28 GMT

Read this: Declaring the target to be “design features” — such as infinite scroll or notifications — instead of speech doesn’t change things. The First Amendment isn’t fooled by synonyms, and what these lawsuits target is, inescapably, speech. Some allegations are aimed at content hosted by platforms that some perceive as harmful. And the ways

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‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’

2026/03/27 14:56:16 GMT

There are a bunch of “must read” Threads on Bluesky today, which to me indicate that people crowing about a “safer internet for children” due to the Meta lawsuits, are actually making things worse for everybody, including kids. I can’t embed entire threads so please click-through and read up & down + links: you should

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‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY

2026/03/27 09:06:11 GMT

…under the “design liability” theory, implementing encryption becomes evidence of negligence, because a small number of bad actors also use encrypted communications […] encryption itself harms no one. Like infinite scroll and autoplay, it is inert without the choices of bad actors — choices made by people, not by the platform’s design. “Everyone Cheering The

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[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion

2026/03/26 18:18:03 GMT

The European Parliament has thus formally concluded the legislative process . The Digital Society Association and many individuals had previously contacted the Members of Parliament, appealing to them to end this indiscriminate mass surveillance More: https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2026/03/pressemitteilung-chatkontrolle-1-0-endet/

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MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICO

2026/03/26 13:50:01 GMT

“perhaps there’s a different approach they could try taking, other than surveilling everybody’s messages?” https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-rejects-child-sexual-abuse-bill-blocking-tech-firms-scanning-meta-google/

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