Meanwhile: #X
Worldwide traffic on X is up compared with a year ago, according to data from Similarweb, with 4.3bn desktop and mobile web visits, a 3.8% rise on the same period last year. However, that number was running at 5bn before Musk's takeover.
Growth on the platform is also slowing in terms of users, with FT reporting that the number of global daily users in the second quarter of this year was 251 million – though that was still a rise of 1.6% on the same quarter in 2023
Sunday movie time
Tempted by what could be his biggest score ever, professional thief Mason joins forces with his younger brother to rob a bank. However, when the heist goes awry, the thieves find themselves trapped inside, surrounded by SWAT teams, the FBI and Interpol. Things get even more tense when Mason eventually talks to the lead negotiator -- his former lover.
Cash out(2024): staring John Travolta
previous analyses of MEGA and NextCloud have shown that even the largest providers of E2EE cloud storage are affected by cryptographic vulnerabilities and creating secure E2EE cloud storage is a harder problem than initially thought.
(Summary of the report)
http://brokencloudstorage.info
BleepingComputer reports that Sync is "fast-tracking fixes," while Seafile "promised to patch the protocol downgrade problem on a future upgrade."
The vulnerabilities range in severity: in many cases a malicious server can inject files, tamper with file data, and even gain direct access to plaintext. Remarkably, many of our attacks affect multiple providers in the same way, revealing common failure patterns in independent cryptographic designs.
the current ecosystem of E2EE cloud storage is largely broken.
Several major end-to-end encrypted cloud storage services contain cryptographic flaws that could lead to loss of confidentiality, file tampering, file injection and more, researchers from ETH Zurich said in a paper published this month.
(PDF)
protesters have held a demonstration outside the BBC headquarters in Glasgow
The protest, organised by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), aimed to call out the complicity of the media in Israel's assault on Gaza.
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign leader though back in 2023 - Scotland’s most prominent pro-Palestine activists has been arrested under counter-terrorism laws - Police arrest Mick Napier over ‘pro-Hamas’ words at Gaza rally
Extremism tracker Clara Broekaert joins Jeff to talk about dealing with the angry young white men and groups fueling threats against election workers and Democrats.
Check out this Podcast: Can Trump Election Violence Be Thwarted?
Whistle This: As former President Donald Trump tries to win a second term in next month's elections, two anonymous whistleblowers separately came forward this past week, each with a different allegation that shared a common theme: Trump’s underhanded efforts to smear his political opponents
https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/new-in-spyweek-trump-whistleblower
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones At Abortion Clinics
a new Chinese study revealed that for parents who focus on academic outcomes, the evidence is building of the effects of addictive apps on grades
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33054
Why you should give your child a dumbphone if you want them to be smarter
Attackers can downgrade Windows kernel components to bypass security features such as Driver Signature Enforcement and deploy rootkits on fully patched systems
Georgian Dream has promised voters they are still on course to join the EU, but it has also accused the opposition of helping the West to open a new front in Russia's war in Ukraine.
Election observers reported a string of violations across the country, from ballot stuffing inside polling stations to intimidation of voters outside
Georgia's ruling party leads pro-EU opposition in crucial vote - projection
I am not okay
I'm barely gettin' by
I'm losin' track of days
And losin' sleep at night
I am not okay
I'm hangin' on the rails
So if I say I'm fine
Just know I learned to hide it well
I know I can't be the only one
2nd URL done properly 😆
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/mike-solana-pirate-wires/680355/
Doesn't mean the first "article" is false or nonsense
Inside the war over Israel at Wikipedia
Behind the scenes, ideologically motivated actors are working to shape the knowledge shared on the world’s largest encyclopedia
https://jewishinsider.com/2024/06/wikipediai-israeli-palestinian-conflict-zionism-adl-encyclopedia/
I'm just letting folks know who runs PirateWires
a powerful group of editors is hijacking wikipedia, pushing pro-palestinian propaganda, erasing key facts about hamas, and reshaping the narrative around israel with alarming influence
Sidenote:
Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé, has made his Pirate Wires newsletter a must-read among the anti-woke investor class—and a window into what the most powerful people in tech really think.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/mike-solana-pirate-wires/680355/
The whole MSM freak out cause Israel are doing precise bombing on Iran - while mostly all ignored when the US doing the same thing recently is telling
Yet again "blame it all on Israel" crowd being hypocritical and picking and choosing what to freak out about
E = Mc2 - Energy Milk Coffee
Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps