GitHub - NullPxl/banrays: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras. Ray-BANNED Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras. Ray-BANNED - NullPxl/banrays

Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

Oh, it's on a DVD? 😢

Where are you watching that?

To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.

Apple nuking a customer's account over a bad gift card is a warning for everyone One long-time Apple customer was left with no recourse after a bad gift card triggered a full account and device lock-out.

Absolute horror story of a long-time Apple customer who was locked out of their devices and account with no recourse after redeeming a suspected bad gift card. hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Gift card scams are on the rise & increasingly difficult to spot, and can have devastating consequences.

Damn it. 💔

Nooooooo 💔

That's incredible. I would do it in a heartbeat if I was able to.

Those textile rooms were deafening. They make you wear ear defenders now. ☹️

A different time, bonus.. free carbon paper.

The theme song is different in every single episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood #film #cinema YouTube video by Treehouse Detective

This is really cute and also way cool!

Projection

This happened to me as a kid and it was awesome. Apparently I wouldn't stop laughing

Monsters. I have no words.

Walks like a cult...

Triple blep

Tens of thousands gather for London anti-immigration rally and counter protest Tens of thousands of anti-immigration protesters marched in London Saturday at a rally organised by far-right figure Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, popularly known as Tommy Robinson. The "Unite the Kingdom" march will face off against a rival "Stand Up to Racism" counter protest.

Tens of thousands gather for London anti-immigration rally and counter protest

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to inc...

Alternatives include CC Signals, a new Creative Commons License "for the age of AI", due to launch in alpha in November.
creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/i...

The Collective Rights Organization for the AI-first Internet The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together millions of online publishers and creators to protect their rights and negotiate for fair compensation from AI companies. Join the RSL Collective to receive royalties every time AI companies use your content. Join for Free Featured Supporters: Reddit, Yahoo, People Inc, Internet Brands, Ziff Davis, Medium, WikiHow.

The new RSL Collective lets publishers add code to a site's robots.txt file to require AI companies to pay royalties or add attribution to license the content.
It will be interesting to see if the AI companies honor it. It should help that big publishers have signed on.
rslcollective.org

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.

Federal agencies are sharing data even when they’re not supposed to, EFF’s @cooperq.com told @kqednews.kqed.org. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE… it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further dragnet surveillance.” www.kqed.org/news/120556...

They've run out of things to train the AIs on.

That was immediately what came to mind.

Turquoise tile with a square white outline anchored with open and closed quotation marks. Within is a quote which reads, "We are excited to work with the Internet Archive and other CARTA institutions committed to preserving significant web-based contemporary art resources for generations to come." Signed Marie Chant, Museum of Glass.

🧵 So much of today’s art world lives online—artist sites, digital exhibits, small galleries. CARTA is a collaboration of 40+ museums & libraries with #InternetArchive to save the web we built before it disappears.

Learn more on our blog ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/10/c...

#communitywebs

Gorgeous ❤️

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling YouTube video by Garys Economics

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling

youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4

Big yikes!
Not only ignored, but verified!

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...

New from 404 Media: this company turns dashcams into 'virtual CCTV cameras'. Then hackers got in. Hacker accessed terabytes of users recordings. Includes a user driving to CIA entrance; others at U.S. military bases. Big tech also buying images from the cameras

www.404media.co/this-company...

Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target's browser for NSFW content, then takes simultaneous screenshots and webcam photos of the victim.

NEW: A newly uncovered "infostealer" malware has the notable and "gross," as @selenalarson.bsky.social put it, feature of taking screenshots and webcam photos of a person after it automatically detects them looking at porn. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/steale...

Idle — The Wealth Race Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!

We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work

Yeah I watched that this morning. It's wild. Apparently, there was an earlier, separate incident involving a TV too?