On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)

The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare YouTube video by Benn Jordan

New feature is up:
The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare
youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY

The performance issues make it a non starter on Mac OS for me

Infrasound: What You Can't Hear CAN Hurt You YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Come hear unheard sounds and find out how they can make you feel sick and even see ghosts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr...

A screenshot of instructions from CloudFlare to verify my humanity, which include pasting the string "I am not a robot: Cloudflare Verification ID: 715021" into a Terminal window

... say what now

What the world needs right now is a hefty 'copyright tax' levied through international treaties regulating AI model providers, used to provide external scrutiny and protections for rightsholders.

Fees can be avoided if a model provider can prove e2e data ownership provenance.

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird YouTube video by Benn Jordan

New doc releases today!

- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound

- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs

- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap

youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

but if i do the same thing with programming, people tell me i should get a life bsky.app/profile/roxx...

bsky.app/profile/iceb...

Apple stores which devices/users install which apps. They have the device IDs. US government could obtain a list of people who installed the app if a court authorized it. Not clear what they mean by having to storing device IDs. Those IDs aren't accessible to Android apps.

Are you trying to imply that the iOS version provides 100% anonymity? I'm quite sure that it doesn't.

Hearing Impairments Are REALLY Profitable. 🫤 YouTube video by Benn Jordan

I got my hearing professionally tested 3 times and 2 of them wrongly diagnosed me with hearing loss to sell me an expensive hearing aid.

This video is about how hearing loss and tinnitus treatment have become impossible to navigate due to a wide range of chicanery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9w...

7 Concerning Levels Of Acoustic Spying Techniques YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Come on in. Premiering now.
✅ ambisonics
✅ invisible lasers
✅ ToF three-dimensional viewing
✅ vibration solving
✅ laser acid

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEC6...

The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Let's celebrate YouTube's launch of an AI music feature with a video about how to potentially destroy it. youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

OCC Notifies Congress of Incident Involving Email System The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today notified Congress of a major information security incident, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act.

It is NOT GREAT(TM) to hear that threat actors were in OCC's network and reading emails for almost two years (timeline from paywalled Bloomberg article citing a memo from OCC to Congress).

It's even worse that OCC needed MSFT to notify them of the incident.
occ.gov/news-issuanc...

Making :visited more private  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers How Chrome now prevents privacy leaks that use visited links.

Chrome is finally getting :visited link partitioning

I'm very happy to announce our new Cohere+Reload: Re-enabling High-Resolution Cache Attacks on AMD SEV-SNP was accepted at DIMVA 2025!

In it @snee.la, @gruss.cc and I investigate AMD's ciphertext coherence mechanism and show even low resolution leakage can go a long way.
Paper preview: cr.giner.cc

OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans on 'PRC-produced' models | TechCrunch In a proposal, OpenAI describes DeepSeek as 'state-controlled,' and recommends banning models from it and other PRC-affiliated operations.

My contempt for anyone involved with this drivel knows few limits. Conflating issues and fear mongering because a Chinese company dared to publish an actual open model:

techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/o...

And trying to talk about copyright after training in Libgen.

Hypocrisy, lies, grifting :-(

ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Here’s last night’s story about ICE detention facilities, who’s in them, who runs them, what it’s like inside them, and also some facts about one very important basket. You may think baskets can’t be important, but you’d be wrong. So, so wrong. youtu.be/5Hpgu7wSUQQ

You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Let's go! Premiering now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtr...

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance

I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

Flights to Reagan National Airport in D.C. received false collision alerts while landing The FAA said that several flight crews inbound to the Reagan National Airport reported onboard alerts when no other aircraft were nearby.

On March 1, several aircraft on approach to Reagan National Airport (DCA) got phantom TCAS RAs ("collision alerts"), with no aircraft visible. www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-airp...

location.hash is empty string for "URL Fragment Text Directives" type links, yet feature itself is not implemented · Issue #37041 · brave/brave-browser Description Navigation to "URL Fragment Text Directives" seems to not be implemented in Brave yet making locaction.hash = "" still happens in Brave. This causes problems with polyfilling this funct...

Brave will stop breaking scroll-to-text links soon!

Finally, Safari supports my blog's dynamic favicons, powered by Emoji Favicon Toolkit!

Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal - Dhole Moments Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…

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I just added an honorable mention about Servo to my 'choosing a browser' blog post. I've also substantially revised the part about Firefox in the security section.

Feel free to share your feedback!

Highly-reconfigured Chrome is also acceptable if you're okay with occasionally being lied to by your browser vendor to get you to enable newly added anti-features

I'm currently still using Chrome because I'm too lazy to switch and Brave breaks scroll-to-text links

tl;dr install Brave until Ladybird browser is ready to replace it