WTF is wrong with this country??

BBC News

Record number of illegal sewage spills in Windermere last year

Campaigners identified 140 illegal spill days into the beauty spot in 2024

#water #sewage #lake #UK

I'm looking for a #photo app (something like iCloud photos) but #self-hosted. Must be able to be hosted locally and must have an iOS app so that there is automatic sync. And not #NextCloud :) I am currently considering #immich, #photoprism and #photonix. Any poppositions? And why? #askfedi

That’s something new - #AI to fight AI

Cloudflare builds an AI to make life hell for other AIs

: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet

#cloudflare #bot

Another country on the #privacy risk list

Brussels Signal

Messaging app Signal threatens to leave France over anti-encryption demands

Meredith Whittaker, president of US messaging app Signal, has threatened to pull it out of France over a proposed law where the government has dema...

In Europe we have discussions about four-days working week, and in the same time Google co-founder Sergey Brin told employees when urging them to be in the office “at least” every weekday. In a Feb. 26 memo to employees who work on Gemini, Google's lineup of AI models and apps, viewed by the New York Times, Brin wrote, “I recommend being in the office at least every weekday, adding that that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of #productivity.”

Yahoo Finance

Google Co-Founder Says Employees Should Be In The Office "At Least" Every Weekday As Competition In The AI Arms Race Intensifies

Cancel your weekends! That seemed to be the message Google (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL)) co-founder Sergey Brin told employees when urging them to be in th...

Another week, another #Atlassian #issue :)

Users Encountering a Site Maintenance Message on APAC-Based Jira Sites

Jira Service Management's Status Page - Users Encountering a Site Maintenance Message on APAC-Based Jira Sites.

#Jira #Confluence

How is it - "Google has agreed to pay" but "rejected the allegations made against it"? Or they know they are guilty and that's the reason why they are paying, or they are paying even if they are innocent, which is not right.

BBC News

Google agrees to pay $28m in racial bias lawsuit

The tech giant confirmed it had "reached a resolution" but rejected the allegations made against it.

#google #lawsuit #dei

Finally someone said it loud.

BBC News

Net Zero by 2050 'impossible' for UK, says Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader says the target is impossible "without a serious drop in our living standards".

#netzero #UK #climate

Nice family time in East Riddlesden Hall #EastRiddlesdenHall

Changes in #alexa #privacy policy

Ars Technica

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Another service which will use #users #data to train #ai

Futurism

Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

Pinterest is the latest tech company to update its privacy policies to allow it to scrape user data for AI training.

#privacy #pinterest

Damn. From some time I have #perplexity pro and to be honest - I’m not using #DuckDuckGo search engine anymore. This sh.t is a good sh.t https://www.perplexity.ai/

So you’re saying #privatization will solve all the problems? Because I really believe some things are not about making money, but about being useful for society.

BBC News

Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?

Thames Water's lenders have submitted a new rescue plan to save the firm, but how did it end up in this state?

#water #UK #companies

Can anyone explain to me, why in Europe, in XXI century, companies are allowed to dump sewage into rivers and lakes?

BBC News

Government pledges to clean up Windermere in Lake District

Environment Secretary Steve Reed pledges "only rainwater" will enter Windermere as part of its plan.

#UK #water #sewage

WIRED

1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers

New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems—are compromised to allow ...

#opensource #android

Nice sunny day in #Nostell. Perfect to spend time with kids.

Tuta

Swedish Armed Forces: “Use Signal to defend against interception of calls & messages” | Tuta

First the US agency CISA, now the Swedish Armed Forces: Officials start to understand the importance of encryption in the face of increased tension...

#privacy #e2ee #Signal @npub1hctc...skzv

#Yorkshire afternoon walk

I really want to see this #browser in action

Ladybird

Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, backed by a non-profit.

#ladybird

It’s sad to say, but today I deleted my #tumblr account. If I will want to have #Wordpress account, I will go to Wordpress page.

TechCrunch

Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch

Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub