Reuters writes that US military personnel are being targeted using location data that is collected and sold on mobile users. The story cites a recent letter from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) noting that U.S. Central Command had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28167310-department-of-defense-letter-to-ron-wyden/

For more on how mobile ad data is being collected and used to profile people, check out The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data (Oct. 2024)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

I’m at my friends pageant and sister showed up with a sword. The world needs to know. Go Anuja!

AI did not create the maintainer burden problem in open source. It accelerated it.

The cost of creating the first version of a contribution is dropping fast. But review, verification, security impact, long-term maintenance, and ownership are still human work.

That asymmetry is where open source is starting to feel the pressure.

I wrote about it here:

https://frenck.dev/open-source-was-not-ready-for-ai-speed-contributions

Get this man a wambulance. The POTUS is having such a hissy fit over multiple musical artists bowing out of invitations to celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary on July 4 that he's now saying all the performances should be canceled and we should have a big MAGA rally on the mall featuring him blathering on w/ his usual lies and hate.

Rather than respond to the artists' complaint that he'd politicized and personalized what should be a cause for national unity, he doubled down.

"So I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime...and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate 'Artists.'"

"Trump said he was ordering aides to assess "the feasibility of doing an AMERICA IS BACK Rally" on the mall, where he would deliver a speech "rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!"

Oh well, just another venerated tradition, destination and celebration in my hometown garishly marred by the president's unquenchable thirst for attention and power.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-calls-replacing-us-250th-002946144.html

You gave a stranger with no soul and no skin in the game the keys to everything you own.

The new Ad Blocker: high performance but subscription fees are in scritches