Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit (www.theguardian.com)
Archaeologists discover funeral urn depicting Maya corn god (www.newsweek.com)
An Emacs interface for the Playwright testing framework, allowing users to run and interact with Playwright tests directly from Emacs. (github.com)
Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk (avoidthehack.com)
The article provides a comprehensive overview of the risks associated with targeted ads and malvertising. It offers insights into the different ways malvertising can be carried out and how it can appear on any advertisement on any website, including popular ones. It cites examples of high-profile malvertising cases involving...
Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. (www.synfig.org)
TikTok open sources Depth Anything for robust monocular depth estimation by training on a combination of 1.5M labeled images and 62M+ unlabeled images. (depth-anything.github.io)
github.com/LiheYoung/Depth-Anything...
Protests in Russia Put Spotlight on Wartime Ethnic Grievances: The conviction of an activist in the Ural Mountains sparked one of the biggest outbreaks of social unrest since the start of the war (www.nytimes.com)
Unpaywalled link...
Old Picture of the Day: The Worst Day of My Life (web.archive.org)
Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.7 - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
How's your housing market these days? (slrpnk.net)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/dfbeedf6-3e90-4ad7-9504-dcc22a367e4a.webp
[DISC] The One Within the Villainess — Ch. 18 — The Demon King Angel (mangadex.org)
[DISC] Love Agency — Ch. 25 — Advice from a Friend (mangadex.org)
relatable dot borp (www.sopuli.xyz)
Click Here to Kill, by Brian Merchant (harpers.org)
A fascinating investigation into hitman websites on the dark web, and what would lead someone to pour thousands of dollars into such shady websites hoping to kill an ex.
A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro (www.youtube.com)
BusKill Warrant Canary #007 🕵️ (www.buskill.in)
This post contains a canary message that’s cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key...
The online hate campaign turning Indonesians against Rohingya refugees (www.theguardian.com)
Zombie Land Saga manga - pre-awakened Ai Mizuno (lemmus.org)
Companies Make it Too Easy for Thieves to Impersonate Police and Steal Our Data (www.eff.org)
Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...
This Week in Privacy #5 (blog.privacyguides.org)
Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers (www.propublica.org)
In the autumn of 2021, an 800-page report crossed the desk of Washington state lands archaeologist Sara Palmer. It came from an energy developer called Avangrid Renewables, which was proposing to build a solar facility partly on a parcel of public land managed by the state. Palmer was in charge of reviewing reports like these,...
Seoul police chief charged over deadly 2022 Halloween crush (www.dw.com)
Critically endangered woylies making a comeback in south-west Western Australian's Batalling State Forest (www.abc.net.au)
Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
[Platform Tilt] tracks technical issues in major software platforms which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser. We consider aspects like security, stability, performance, and functionality, and propose changes to create a more level playing field....
Here's what telegram's founder say about Whatsapp's privacy (graph.org)
This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?
