...because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law...

...VPNs might protect you against garden-variety criminals, but the intentional commingling of origin/destination points by VPNs could turn purely domestic communications into “foreign” communications the NSA can legally intercept (and the FBI, somewhat less-legally can dip into at will)...

Certainly the NSA isn’t concerned about “incidental collection.” It’s never been too concerned about its consistent “incidental” collection of US persons’ communications and data in the past and this isn’t going to budge the needle, especially since it means the NSA would have to do more work to filter out domestic communications and the FBI would be less than thrilled with any efforts made to deny it access to communications it doesn’t have the legal right to obtain on its own.

Since the government won’t do this, it’s up to the general public, starting with everyone sharing the contents of this letter with others. VPNs can still offer considerable security benefits. But everyone needs to know that domestic surveillance is one of the possible side effects of utilizing this tech.

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon "side quests" and focus on its core business.

The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a "low hundreds of millions of dollars" deal, according to a person with knowledge of the terms.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VfGEx

As part of ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented. All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular.

Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66483588

Minister of "Justice" Akın Gürlek, in a statement he made in Diyarbakır regarding the issue, said the following: “Our negotiations with social media platforms have been completed. Our requests for identity-based login to social media have been accepted. ID verification will begin within approximately 3 months.”

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most technically complex instruments humanity has ever built. It sits at the L2 Lagrange point, roughly 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, and peers into the universe in infrared light with a precision previously impossible. The onboard computer running all of this is a BAE Systems RAD750, a radiation-hardened processor based on the PowerPC 750 architecture. It has a maximum clock speed of 200 MHz. It is, for all practical purposes, a chip designed at the turn of the millennium.

That is not an accident or a cost-cutting measure. The RAD750 had flown on more than 150 spacecraft before TWST launched. It was proven, space-qualified, and trusted. NASA, as an institution, does not change what is working. The Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers both run the same chip. For missions that cost billions and cannot be repaired, conservatism is rational.

But conservatism has limits. Future mission requirements, covering autonomous planetary landing, real-time AI-driven science processing, and multi-node distributed sensor networks on the lunar surface, cannot be met by a 200 MHz single-core processor. The computational gap between what NASA is flying today and what it needs to fly tomorrow is not incremental. It is, by NASA’s own figures, a factor of at least 100.

That is the problem NASA set out to solve in 2022. The solution reached for was a 12-core RISC-V SoC built around processor IP from SiFive. The chip, now formally branded by Microchip Technology as the PIC64-HPSC, sits at the center of NASA’s High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) program. It is also running behind its published schedule as of early 2026.

• Similar to RAM (DRAM) prices for system memory, SSDs are now plotting an actually worse price increase trajectory by time vs spot price, and we expect contract prices will trail
• Currently, data centers and "AI" are driving the demand for SSDs to be deployed in server solutions worldwide, which reduces consumer demand
• Some SSD NAND suppliers are reducing their production capacity despite high demand

When will they ever learn?

A mysterious data center company has drawn the ire of local residents in Ohio. They voice concerns about the impact on their water supply, noise pollution, and rising energy costs — and criticize the secrecy around the 600-acre project. The shadowy developer, a Delaware-registered LLC, appears to be a front for one of the largest tech companies on earth: Meta.

Hacker News.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888662

MEPs have sharply criticized the plan. “Our fear is that the implementation of our laws and standards will be called into question by American companies,” criticizes Green MEP Sergey Lagodinsky, for example. “If this is confirmed, it would be nothing less than a capitulation to the pressure and intimidation tactics of the Trump administration.” The EU Commission repeatedly emphasizes that it does not want to change its regulations due to US pressure. However, some of the recently proposed changes in digital legislation, particularly to the AI Act and the General Data Protection Regulation, primarily benefit US companies that are already dominant in the market.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888435

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. 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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

According to the white paper, solving the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem may require roughly 1,200 logical qubits and under 500,000 physical qubits, with attack times measured in minutes on sufficiently advanced systems.

About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working.