Technology

I’ve been trying to figure out a solution for managing photos and videos from iPhones and this tiny thing might just be the ticket. I’ll let you know how it goes

Adrian Basar did not want to become a distant-water fisherman. With 22-hour workdays and pay of around 450 dollars per month, it’s not the most glamorous—or fulfilling, or generally safe—job.

But for 10 months out of the year, when he’s out at sea, Basar can’t talk to his siblings, or anyone in his family, because he’s not allowed to use the Wi-Fi on the ship.

“I think the companies that don’t want to put Wi-Fi on their ships pray for things not to be revealed,” Basar said. “There are many companies that don’t want Wi-Fi.”

A coalition between a self-organized Indonesian fishers’ union, a Taiwanese human rights group and multiple global labor organizations is trying to change that.

The “Wi-Fi Now for Fishers’ Rights” campaign, which has been organizing since 2023, wants to make Wi-Fi access a standard in the industry, both to help improve working conditions through union organizing and to allow the workers to have contact with other human beings for more than two months per year.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26993394

At the beginning of the year, a spate of very similar mails appeared in my spam-box. Although originating from different addresses (and sent to different recipients), they all appeared to be the opener for the same romance scam campaign.

Romance fraud is increasingly common and campaigns can extort large sums from victims, who are often quite vulnerable and lonely.

If you found this page because you think that you might be being targeted, speak to Crimestoppers or Action Fraud.

When stories of romance fraud hit the news, we often hear that the victim had become extremely attached to the scammer, but very little on how they got engineered into that position.

At it's heart, romance fraud relies on social engineering and I was curious to see what techniques were actually being used. I'm no particular stranger to scam baiting, so I decided to masquerade as a mark and see how the campaign was run (as well as what, if anything, I could engineer out of the fraudster).

The emails that I'd received were all associated with one persona: "Aidana", who claimed to be a dentist in Kazakhstan.

This post analyses the scammers approach, systems and material, sharing some of what I was able to learn over the course of a few weeks of back and forth.

A Tesla influencer randomly caught his odometer double-counting mileage on video. Wild.

Other third-party Bluesky apps, which make up the larger open social web known as the ATmosphere, don’t have to follow these same rules. At least, not for now.

https://archive.ph/rc2sX

RealPage and the landlords (collectively “defendants”) allegedly agreed to set rents for multifamily housing properties statewide based on RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software and to exchange sensitive, non-public information to align their prices and avoid competition that would otherwise keep rent prices down.

engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes.

On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google’s advertising product, Google Ads, that likely included protected health information. Google may have used this data to conduct focused ad campaigns back to those individual members.

Blue Shield severed the connection between Google Analytics and Google Ads on its websites in January 2024.

What information was involved

• Insurance plan name, type and group number;
• city;
• zip code;
• gender;
• family size;
• Blue Shield assigned identifiers for members’ online accounts;
• medical claim service date and service provider, patient name, and patient financial responsibility;
• “Find a Doctor” search criteria and results (location, plan name and type, provider name and type).

In an unexpected and deeply concerning move, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun issuing Requests for Evidence (RFEs) in H-1B and employment-based immigrant petitions that ask the petitioner for biometric data and detailed residential histories.

This sudden and unprecedented procedural shift has triggered alarms throughout the immigration law community, with attorneys warning that these new RFEs not only deviate from longstanding procedures, but that they also are indicative of a deeper transformation in the role and behavior of USCIS under the Trump administration. The move does come on the heels of an aggressive expansion of AI into high-risk areas of federal surveillance and enforcement that lacks oversight, transparency, and accountability, as Biometric Update reported this week.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28611045

gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs

In the same week the UK Prime Minister said shoplifting has ‘wreaked havoc’ on neighbourhoods for years, the first UK supermarket announced a trial of facial recognition technology (FRT). With the government’s focus on prevention and shoplifting stories continuing to make the front pages, it was probably inevitable. But this is uncharted territory for the big high street retailers who will need to tick off a few essentials before heading to the checkout.

Google Translated from Japanese source.

Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data. Therefore, the Commission has fined Apple and Meta with €500 million and €200 million respectively.