Throw these products to the curb. They do not remotely give a shit about you. You are their product. Meta Considers Timed Face Recognition Launch to Exploit Distracted Society Meta's own document treats the civil liberties backlash not as a reason to reconsider, but as a calendar event to schedule around.

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Meta Considers Timed Face Recognition Launch to Exploit Distracted Society

Meta's own document treats the civil liberties backlash not as a reason to reconsider, but as a calendar event to schedule around.

It is about internet access and control. Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks The party could ask Germans to show their papers before they can post a tweet.

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Germany's CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks

The party could ask Germans to show their papers before they can post a tweet.

Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App The bill would require parental permission or ID checks to open the calculator app that came with your phone.

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Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App

The bill would require parental permission or ID checks to open the calculator app that came with your phone.

Don't think for a second this is just in the EU. Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen Defend Expanded Speech Controls The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe's most ambitious censorship regime.

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Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen Defend Expanded Speech Controls

The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe's most ambitious censorship regime.

As a software architect I have been hearing for years that the cloud allows always up or close to it sites and services. Further that it allows unlimited horizontal scaling. However even YouTube, with free except internal charges Google Cloud, can't manage to stay available for nearly a million users today. So what is the real story. And when a cloud provider like AWS goes down it can take down everything running on it. That horizontal scaling? Dunno. Most SaaS software including that from AWS directly throttles the hell out of users with no smooth handling of greater demand.

As a software architect I have been hearing for years that the cloud allows always up or close to it sites and services. Further that it allows unlimited horizontal scaling. However even YouTube, with free except internal charges Google Cloud, can't manage to stay available for nearly a million users today. So what is the real story. And when a cloud provider like AWS goes down it can take down everything running on it. That horizontal scaling? Dunno. Most SaaS software including that from AWS directly throttles the hell out of users with no smooth handling of greater demand.

And another complete horseshit headline.. Top fund manager warns most software firms won't survive AI A fund manager whose portfolio has outperformed 99% of competitors is sounding the alarm on software stocks, warning that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to the industry and that only a handful of companies will survive the coming disruption. "We think application software faces an existential threat from AI," said Nick Evans, whose $12 billion global technology fund at Polar Capital beat 99% of peers over the past year and 97% over five years, in comments reported by Bloomberg on Sunday.

Another day, more rank stupidity in headlines. We are orders of magnitude away from sufficient dependable qubits to be a credible threat to BTC or most encryption. People are just making up "reasonable" worry scenarios without checking the relevant facts at all. Bitcoin community divided over quantum threat Bitcoin faces mounting pressure to adopt post-quantum cryptography, yet the cryptocurrency's decentralized developer community remains sharply divided over how urgently the network must prepare for quantum computing threats. The debate has intensified as institutional investors increasingly flag quantum risk in regulatory filings, while developers argue over whether the danger lies years or decades away.

Then he will be impeached. That would be direct arbitrary election interference. His "voter id" requires birth certificates or more. Relatively few have them. ============================================================ Trump says he will seek to require voter ID for midterms regardless of Congress Trump vows to mandate voter ID for the 2026 midterms via executive order amid stalled legislation and claims of election fraud, with 85% public support cited. On Feb. 13, 2026, President Donald Trump said he would seek national voter-ID requirements for the November midterms regardless of Congress and will shortly issue an executive order laying out the legal reasons. Amid opposition from House Democrats, Trump posted to Truth Social that he will push for voter-ID laws for the 2026 midterms, despite legislative delays. Reporting notes President Donald Trump did not clarify the legal basis for nationwide voter ID rules while backing proof-of-citizenship requirements and limits on mail-in ballots. Under the Constitution, state and local officials run elections, complicating a federal mandate as President Trump declared he would bypass Congress to require voter ID for the November midterm elections. With narrow Republican majorities and typical midterm losses for incumbent presidents' parties, similar House-passed bills have repeatedly died in the Senate.