🔖 Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen? | Engadget https://www.engadget.com/dall-e-generative-ai-tracking-data-privacy-160034656.html
🔖 DIY Collective Embeds Abortion Pill Onto Business Cards, Distributes Them At Hacker Conference | Motherboard by Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmn35/diy-collective-embeds-abortion-pill-onto-business-cards-distributes-them-at-hacker-conference
🔖 Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/researchers-unpack-unkillable-uefi-rootkit-that-survives-os-reinstalls/
🔖 Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of | The Markup https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collecting-data-from-your-car
🔖 Want to lay off workers more smoothly? There's a startup for that | Planet Money Newsletter https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/07/26/1113044764/want-to-lay-off-workers-more-smoothly-theres-a-startup-for-that
🔖 Color Blind Accessibility Manifesto | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/8/262908-color-blind-accessibility-manifesto/fulltext
🔖 Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet: Leap seconds that sync clocks with the Earth's rotation cause more problems than they're worth, say Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and two government agencies | CNET https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-giants-try-banishing-the-leap-second-to-stop-internet-crashes/
🔖 How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/
🔖 Copyright small claims court | The Indicator from Planet Money https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1110928086
🔖 Turn your Python script into a command-line application: With scaffold and click in Python, you can level up even a simple utility into a full-fledged command-line interface tool | OpenSource(dot)com https://opensource.com/article/22/7/bootstrap-python-command-line-application
🔖 Podcast Episode: Securing the Internet of Things https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/podcast-episode-securing-internet-things 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/podcast-episode-securing-internet-things
🔖 What Every Merchant Needs to Know About Friendly Fraud [customer disputes of legitimate purchases] | Visa https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2022/06/15/what-every-merchant-1655330664445.html
🔖 mpv: a free, open source, and cross-platform media player [primarily command-line driven] https://mpv.io/
🔖 Amicus brief by Michelle Wu in Publishers v. Internet Archive – “Ms. Wu is recognized by many as the originator of the legal theory underlying controlled digital lending” [PDF] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.146.0.pdf
🔖 Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It [alternatively, store deleted record data in a JSON blob in a “deleted records” table] | Brandur’s blog https://brandur.org/soft-deletion
🔖 TikTok is "unacceptable security risk" and should be removed from app stores, says FCC | Malwarebytes Labs https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc/
🔖 TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting | Ctrl blog https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html
🔖 Open Systems in the age of Library Services Platforms: Meeting expectations for interoperability and extensibility | Library Technology Guides https://librarytechnology.org/document/27160/white-paper-open-systems-in-the-age-of-library-services-platforms
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