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ECP NetHappenings RIP Privacy AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone Anywhere

RIP Privacy — AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone, Anywhere.

A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street.

No government database. No police system. Just public data and off-the-shelf AI.

You look at someone and in seconds, their name, LinkedIn, and background appear before your eyes.

The scariest part? You can’t really stop it.

You can ban it, regulate it, add blinking red lights… but once tech like this exists, someone will always find a way to use it.

To me, this marks a turning point.

We’ve officially blurred the line between seeing people and knowing them.

Between being in public and being exposed.

So here’s the question:
When every face becomes a dataset, how do we protect the meaning of being human?
~ Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet

#AI #Privacy #Ethics #Technology #Innovation #Data

TAX BILLIONAIRES

America @GunnelsWarren
If Bernie’s Social Security bill was enacted in 2021, Musk would have paid $2.9 billion more in taxes, Social Security would’ve been solvent for 75 years, benefits would’ve increased by $2,400 & 93% of Americans would have paid Zero more in taxes. The only one “entitled” is Musk.

TREASON

Trump, Witkoff, Kushner literally selling our foreign policy to enrich themselves personally in broad daylight.N Since 2016, Qatar has spent $250 million to influence the US government.
Now they’re getting a training facility in Idaho and defense commitments from the US military.
Despite espousing “America First,” Trump has put the interests of foreign oligarchs ahead of our own. Trump is giving Hamas terrorists a base in Idaho. Qatar funds and trains terrorists. Why are Americans okay with this?

When a “president” hates other American presidents, hates the American free press, hates American law and hates American freedoms, yet LOVES a dictator who attacked and continues to attack America, it’s time to get a new president.
IMPEACH. THE. TRAITOR.

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#TECHNOLOGY

Bitcoin Core Devs Indicate Security Bugs Within Bitcoin Network
Bitcoin devs debunk the myth that the Bitcoin blockchain is invulnerable. According to them, Bitcoin has security issues, but the system for informing the community about them is lacking. Find out what changes they propose at site: https://coinspaidmedia.com/news/bitcoin-developers-reveal-bitcoin-vulnerabilities/

Linux updates improve Raspberry Pi performance and efficiency
Small improvements make the tiny single-board computer run better
https://www.techspot.com/news/103677-new-linux-patches-improve-raspberry-pi-performance-efficiency.html
Single-board computers (SBC) developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation are designed for low-energy projects and affordable custom computing devices, but there is always room for improvement on the software side. The Linux kernel, used by most Raspberry Pi-compatible operating systems including the official Raspberry Pi OS, was recently updated with two patches designed to enhance functionality.

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/04/authy-got-hacked-and-33-million-user-phone-numbers-were-stolen

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems.

Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech

But what about fax machines?
Per a Reuters report on Wednesday, Japan’s government “eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems.” The report notes that by mid-June, Japan’s Digital Agency (a body set up during the COVID-19 pandemic and aimed at updating government technology) had “scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle recycling.” That suggests that there’s up to one government use that could still turn to floppy disks, though more details weren’t available.

A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans
A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election, a BBC investigation can reveal.
A former Florida police officer who relocated to Moscow is one of the key figures behind it.
The following would have been a bombshell report – if it were true.

Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over ICE’s fake university
Teja Ravi said in a lawsuit that he spent $12,500 in tuition for what he thought was a Michigan university. It was a fake school set up by ICE, and he never was repaid, he said. The fictional University of Farmington, part of an undercover operation, came to light publicly in 2019 when eight people were indicted in Michigan on counts of visa fraud and “harboring aliens for profit.”

A Norwegian citizen has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to spy for China
https://apnews.com/article/norway-china-spying-arrest-a965800c5a97d41abad2d0d5442dedf7

#Christian #Nationalism

A New Documentary Goes Behind the Scenes of Christian Nationalism
“Bad Faith” traces the origins of January 6 back to the Moral Majority of the 1980s.
The new documentary Bad Faith, directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones, begins with footage familiar to many Americans: an army of insurrectionists adorned in stars, stripes, and military gear storming the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. It was a watershed moment that left many Americans wondering how we got here. Bad Faith seeks to help answer that question by looking at a crucial reason why American democracy ended up at a precipice: the rise of Christian nationalism. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/bad-faith-christian-nationalism-documentary/

Some ex-DOJ officials who worked for Trump fear the Supreme Court just made it easy for him to use the DOJ to attack foes “It sets him up to do the things he has said, to investigate people and send them to jail,” said one ex-official.
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/trump-doj-officials-supreme-court-made-easy-trump-attack-enemies-rcna160144

#HEALTH

Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of rare form of blindness
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/health/ozempic-wegovy-blindness-rare-risk/index.html

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ECP NetHappenings News 11-26-23

Vote Blue, the Republican leader has incurable psychopathologies

10 years ago SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act.
“Things have changed dramatically,” wrote John Roberts in Shelby County v Holder. But in the last 3 years alone, 33 states have enacted 109 new laws restricting voting access.

Conservative judges have come for what’s left of the Voting Rights Act
If a recent appellate court decision stands, it will eviscerate the ability of minority voters to vindicate their right to vote.

MICK JAGGER IS 80
JOE BIDEN IS 81
BOTH are FIT FOR PURPOSE
OLD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

Biden has 81 years behind him and
Trump has 91 felony charges ahead of him.

The United States produced 13.2 million barrels of crude oil per day in October and November 2023, breaking an all-time record of 13.1 million per day set in February and March of 2020, just before the Covid pandemic hit.  Yes, Joe Biden just broke Donald Trump’s record of daily domestic crude oil production, which is now higher than it was pre-Covid. When Biden took office it was 11 million barrels a day.

Wooomp Wooomp Derek Chauvin, officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder, was stabbed in prison

An Oratorio About Shanghai’s Jews Opens in China at a Difficult Time
“Émigré,” about Jews who fled Nazi Germany, debuts amid U.S.-China tensions and cultural rifts over the Israel-Hamas war. It comes to New York in February.

“How this tiny Christian college is driving the right’s nationwide war against public schools ***
Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge” by Kathryn Joyce, 3/15/22

A Texas oilman who bought a tropical island pension fund and insurer in 2006 now stands accused of draining its assets. Leaked #CyprusConfidential documents show accounting giant PwC’s Cyprus arm played a role in the company’s mysterious financial moves.

Jewish family fled hometown after Mike Johnson warned of ‘enemy’ to the gospel: report

University of Spoiled Children bans professor from campus for reminding protesters that “Hamas are murderers. That’s all they are. Every one should be killed, and I hope they all are killed.”

BITCOIN

In bit more than 8 years, block reward will be 0.7 BTC. Currently is 6.25 BTC You think you’re too late to buy BTC? Well in 8 years block reward will be only 0.7 BTC. Now its still great time to start DCA. Next 8 years will be brutal on a positive side. Currently there are 900 new bitcoins a day from miners,in 8 years it will be just 100 bitcoins a day. In 5 months there will be 450 btc a day.

U.S. Bill Proposes Outlawing Government Use of China-Made Blockchains and Tether’s USDT
Government officials would no longer be able to use networks developed by China that power crypto transactions, according to a new bipartisan bill.

GENDER

Man paints apartment building rainbow colors to get back at anti-gay neighbor

How Nazi Germany Persecuted Transgender People

Gays are better dads, the Pope’s lunch with trans women, & a fishing trip to remember The week’s most popular positive news stories.

Vatican cardinal pushes back after POPE FIRES HIM  in scandal

5 FUNNIEST Kids That Called 911

Karl Marx’s sister Onya invented the starting pistol.

How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return. It’s a simple bargain: The rich get huge tax breaks by donating art, property and company shares to benefit the public. But some donors collect millions while offering little or no public access.

SCIENCE

Some worry that the first FDA-approved at-home test for STIs could make things worse

New Treatment for COVID-Induced Smell Loss

Scientists find new bat coronavirus proving COVID-19 wasn’t created in labs
A study conducted between 2016 and 2017 in China found that nine bat species carried 58 bat coronaviruses

Scientists Uncover Potentially Serious Side Effect of Common Cancer Drug

Peeling back the lid on canned seafood
“The gold bar was us trying… and I think we managed, to elevate the sardine to its highest level,” says Quaresma.

TECH

Just found out about LibreWolf.
From initial information, looking quite interesting. Firefox is one of the few “big” market browsers that hasn’t conceded to Chromium engine, which already makes it less of a potential threat vector (many script kiddies prefer to target most popular software first). On top of that, this is a security-focused custom variant of FF with built-in uBlock Origin. Looks promising. https://librewolf.net #InfoSec

USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide
LitterDrifter’s means of self-propagation are simple. So why is it spreading so widely?

MUSK CORRUPTION

‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros
Oddly enough, while their schemes are certainly more outlandish, on an individual basis today’s tech billionaires are not any wealthier than their early 20th-century counterparts. Adjusted for inflation, John Rockefeller’s fortune of $336bn and Andrew Carnegie’s $309bn exceed Musk’s $231bn, Bezos’s $165bn and Gates’s $114bn.

Elon Musk’s newest defamation lawsuit highlights X’s toxicity
Elon Musk isn’t just bad on free speech. He’s also obliterating meaningful speech.

China Says US Destroyer Entered Its Territorial Waters Without Permission According to a post on the official WeChat account of the Chinese People Liberation Army’s Southern Theatre Command, the Chinese military deployed its naval and air forces to “track, monitor and warn away” the vessel. It went on to say that the incident “proves that the United States is an out-and-out ‘security risk creator’ in the South China Sea.”

Grandma
It is time for me to set the record straight.
You have to keep in mind my age (75), I’m a grandma, I live in a red state (indiana), and I missed Woodstock.
Last year during the holidays, I mentioned I was giving my kids edibles for Christmas. I didn’t realize until past the time to clarify, how that was taken.
Folks, I made COOKIES, CANDY, and BREAD for my kids.
I since then have learned the alternate meaning for edibles.
It was food. Just food.
Alrighty then. #EdiblesCanBeFood

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ECP NetHappenings News Headlines 9-13-23

Sue the F’ckers into bankruptcy

ALL FIVE NEW YORK CITY EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS filed a shareholder lawsuit Wednesday against Fox Corporation for breach of fiduciary duty. The complaint alleges that the board knew that Fox News’ promotion of political falsehoods created defamation risk. NYC funds own more than $27 million worth of Fox shares.
“NYC Pension Funds Sue Fox for Neglect Over Election Lies”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-pension-funds-sue-fox-news-for-neglect-over-election-lies

#HEALTH

#StaySafe #VaccinesWork
The CDC recommends the new #COVID19 vaccine booster for everyone 6 months and up.
Two immunologists answer some common questions, like the right time to get your shot and what’s known about protection for the latest subvariants.

#SECURITY

CEO calls for more unemployment to give companies upper hand over workers.

When The Rich Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
The capitalist who just told the world that capitalism requires hurting workers
https://spore.social/@joshuaphilll/111058128671464015

Yesterday, at a “property summit,” millionaire property developer Tim Gurner was caught on camera saying something extremely revealing. Well, he wasn’t caught. He sat on stage talking into a microphone. He said that since the start of the pandemic there has been a shift towards more worker empowerment, and even arrogance. And he wants bosses and governments to end that, expeditiously. In fact he thinks, “We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy.”

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

*******@******on.social/111058044768300977″>@Go*******@******on.social
“A far-right figure who is involved in a secretive invitation-only fraternal organization, whose founder has spoken of being at war with the US government, is also part-owner of an ammunition company that has contracts with the federal government and law enforcement, the Guardian can reveal.” Nathaniel Fischer – a venture capitalist, former Claremont Institute fellow and president of the Dallas lodge of the secretive Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) – is also part-owner of Texas-based ammunition manufacturer S1 Armory, which trades as Stand 1 Armory.

Breakup these Monopolies
Get Rid of these LEECHES

Tech giants hold huge sway in matters of war, life and death. That should concern us all

CEOs of Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir and X. The guest list also includes Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, and Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, along with leading officials from the entertainment industry, civil rights groups and labor organizations.
Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are meeting in Washington to discuss future AI regulations
Musk was seated at the opposite end of the room from Zuckerberg, in what is likely the first time that the two men have shared a room since they began challenging each other to a cage fight months ago.

F #ELON he is a traitor

  1. “Leaders Ignored Warning Signs That Musk Would Help Putin“
  2. Elon Musk, SpaceX Probes Demanded by Elizabeth Warren After Ukraine Revelations Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leader
  3. Musk “may have jeopardized data privacy and security” at X, DOJ says
  4. Elon Musk on X: “@TheRabbitHole84 There seems to be an innate need for religion. Many atheists simply adopt another belief system (eg wokeness) that is essentially a religion.” / X
  5. Elon Musk Frantically Moved Twitter Servers Himself, Eventually Realized His Mistake “In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake.” Musk’s wildly unconventional management style and, ultimately, his flair for extraordinary and sometimes self-destructive hubris. Instead of waiting for an orderly process to be put together, though, Musk decided to hastily move the servers with a motley crew consisting of himself, his cousins, a smattering of Tesla and SpaceX staff, and a moving company whose staff wanted to be paid in cash. Musk was so impatient that at one point he shimmied himself under a server floor and used a pen knife to open up an electrical cabinet in order to unplug the server.
  6. Watchdog accuses X again of not moderating hate speech
  7. Elon Musk Says He Has to Sue Jewish Anti-Hate Group to Prove He’s Not Antisemitic “Oh the irony!”
  8. Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous
    “Living in the world we live in, in which Elon runs this company and it is a private business under his control, we are living off his good graces.”
  9. “The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars“
  10. Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders
  11. It Turns Out Facebook Also Owns a Trademark to “X,” Specifically for Social Media “There’s a 100 percent chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody.”
  12. “There seems to be an innate need for religion. Many atheists simply adopt another belief system (eg wokeness) that is essentially a religion.” ~ Elon Musk
  13. VLADIMIR PUTIN DECLARES HIS LOVE FOR ELON MUSK
    VLAD AND ELON 4-EVA.
  14. What Russia Got by Scaring Elon Musk
    The billionaire isn’t the only one who’s been frightened into holding back help for Ukraine.
  15. The PRC is infiltrating social media to sway popular opinion. Time to avoid getting news and info from mainstream media, including Facebook and Twitter/X.
    Meta: Pro-Chinese influence operation was the largest in history
    Meta researchers said the operation relied on thousands of accounts to spread pro-Chinese messages and attack critics of Beijing. Meta said on Tuesday that the company has taken down what officials at the firm describe as the largest ever “cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” which featured thousands of accounts pushing pro-Chinese messages across Facebook, Instagram and other online platforms.
  16. Book reveals Elon Musk‘s secret deal with Jack DorseyWere Dorsey to ever need money, Musk would buy back his Twitter shares at the original takeover price of $54.20 per share. In other words, $22 billion became Dorsey’s valuation floor. Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter-Killer. https://blueskyweb.xyz/
    Grimes reveals that Musk took a photo of her while she was having a C-section for their baby X Æ A-Xii and circulated it without her consent. The former couple have a third child named Techno Machanicus.  Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink, bore Musk’s twins in 2021 after Musk wanted to be her sperm donor so that “the kids would be genetically his.”

Terry Kanefield  – I’ll try again to respond to this politico piece:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/trump-doj-assist-biden-impeachment-probe-00115393

– First, some background.
The House issued a subpoena to Donald Trump in 2019 in as part of the first Impeachment inquiry.
Trump and his advisors made up a rule: The committee could not subpoena him without a full house vote.
Pelosi said that was nonsense. No full house vote was needed before the committee could issue subpoenas.
Pelosi, of course, was right. . .

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TECHNOLOGY

Alert: New Kubernetes Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Attacks on Windows Endpoints
Three interrelated high-severity security flaws discovered in Kubernetes could be exploited to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges on Windows endpoints within a cluster.
The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, and CVE-2023-3955, carry CVSS scores of 8.8 and impact all Kubernetes environments with Windows nodes. Fixes for the vulnerabilities were released on August 23, 2023, following responsible disclosure by Akamai on July 13, 2023.

JFC it works, this is not a joke
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+WINDOWS+L opens up Linkedin your default browser

#MONEY

Interesting Read Charles Schwab’s 2023 Modern Wealth Survey. Jun 16, 2023
Americans consider a net worth of at least $2.2Million to be rich.
Don’t despair if you’re not there. Survey responders say having a fulfilling personal life is what is most important. Americans feel that having time is more important than having money.