California legislature agrees to upload driver’s licenses to national database
Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawless threats from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the California legislature has agreed to fund and revise state law to authorize the upload of information about all driver’s licenses and ID cards issued by the state to the private SPEXS national ID […]
Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
A bill is pending in the Michigan Legislature that would set rules on when and for what reason an employer could contact an employee outside of a normal work schedule. Senate Bill 948, which was introduced by Sen. Erika Geiss, D-Taylor, has been referred to the Labor Committee. The bill is also known as the […]
EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented “double-attack” on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digital civil rights in Europe, former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. An unprecedented and outrageous double-attack by European Parliament […]
Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they’re spreading fast
”You can’t get a breath of fresh air … without us knowing.” bluestork/Shutterstock Thanks to the rise of AI, a new kind of surveillance camera has rapidly proliferated across the United States. Typically referred to as automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, they’re most often mounted along roadways, where they log the movements of cars […]
EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools
Citations & Data: Warning Open-TYNDP is under active development and is not yet feature-complete. The current development status and the general Limitations are important to understand before using the model. This repository introduces the open model dataset of the Open-TYNDP research and innovation project, which is a collaboration between Open Energy Transition (OET) and the […]
Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?
Greece’s long economic nightmare may be over on paper, but for millions of households the recovery remains elusive. New data from the European Central Bank show that the average net wealth of Greek households has climbed to €117,936, a rise of 23% from the lows reached after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered another bout of […]
The curious case of the disappearing Polish S
Marcin Wichary 2 February 2015 / 1,800 words Originally published in Medium Engineering One keyboard bug three decades in the making A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at Medium: “I just started an article in Polish. I can type in every letter, except Ś. When I press the key for Ś, the letter just doesn’t appear. […]
The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition
Ascending Order For integer subscripts, the natural numeric order: 0, 1, 2, 3, … For strings, the ASCII collating sequence. Caret The ^ character (ASCII 94). Prefixes global variable names. Current Device The I/O device to which READ and WRITE are directed. Identified by $IO. Changed by USE. D Attribute An integer (0, 1, 10, […]
A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: keep node_modules/ searchable for implementation checks, but never read or send .env, .env.*, .pem, id_, […]
Kids act would require age checks to get online
Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, combined with a collection of other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and […]