Traduction réalisée par Nicolas Haeringer de « The rise of end times fascism », un article de Naomi Klein et Astra Taylor paru dans The Guardian le 13 avril 2025.
North Korean operatives seeking and gaining technical jobs with foreign companies kept CrowdStrike busy, accounting for almost one incident response case or investigation per day in the past year, the company said in its annual threat hunting report released Monday.
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you know? It’s turned out to be exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster that everyone with half a brain predicted it would be.
Let’s start with the most obvious sign that this law is working exactly as poorly as critics warned: VPN usage in the UK has absolutely exploded. Proton VPN reported an 1,800% spike in UK sign-ups. Five of the top ten free apps on Apple’s App Store in the UK are VPNs. When your “child safety” law’s primary achievement is teaching kids how to use VPNs to circumvent it, maybe you’ve missed the mark just a tad.
But the real kicker is what content is now being gatekept behind invasive age verification systems. Users in the UK now need to submit a selfie or government ID to access:
Reddit communities about stopping drinking and smoking, periods, craft beers, and sexual assault support, not to mention documentation of war
Spotify for music videos tagged as 18+
War footage and protest videos on X
Wikipedia is threatening to limit access in the UK (while actively challenging the law)A Framework For Lovers of Pure PHP
The Ashley Book of Knots est une encyclopédie de nœuds publiée pour la première fois en 1944 par Clifford Warren Ashley. C'est le résultat de plus de onze ans de travail : le livre contient environ 7 000 dessins, 3 854 entrées décrivant près de 3 800 nœuds. Chaque entrée comporte des instructions pour effectuer le nœud, son usage, ainsi qu'un historique. Les nœuds sont classés par type et par usage.
Top-like interface for container metrics
ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers:
Kopia is a fast and secure open-source backup/restore tool that allows you to create encrypted snapshots of your data and save the snapshots to remote or cloud storage of your choice, to network-attached storage or server, or locally on your machine. Kopia does not 'image' your whole machine. Rather, Kopia allows you to backup/restore any and all files/directories that you deem are important or critical.
rclone like with encryption
Generative AI and LLM technologies have shown great potential in recent years, and for this reason, an increasing number of applications are starting to integrate them for multiple purposes. These applications are becoming increasingly complex, adopting approaches that involve multiple specialized agents, each focused on one or more tasks, interacting with one another and using external tools to access information, perform operations, or carry out tasks that LLMs are not capable of handling directly (e.g., mathematical computations).
On June 25, Google released Gemini CLI, an AI agent that helps developers explore and write code using Google Gemini, directly from their command line.
On June 27, Tracebit reported a vulnerability to Google VDP which meant Gemini CLI in its default configuration could silently execute arbitrary malicious code on a user's machine when run in the context of untrusted code. Crucially, this can be achieved in such a way as to obscure this from the victim of the attack.
This discovery was ultimately classified by Google VDP as a P1 / S1 issue and fixed in v0.1.14 released July 25 with agreed disclosure date July 28.
In a bold prediction that’s making waves across the tech world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested that smartphones could soon be obsolete, replaced by an entirely new kind of technology. Forget everything you know about handheld devices—Gates envisions a future where electronic tattoos become the new norm.
In this accelerating collapse – where #climatechaos spirals and #neoliberalism guts the very idea of society – we urgently need to confront a painful truth: it’s simple, the #nastyfew are a parasite class. And that this class feeds on the very foundations of well-being, survival, and joy that the majority of the global population desperately needs. They are the ones who keep the engines of destruction humming, not out of necessity, but out of greed and fear of irrelevance. These people and their institutions flourish precisely because most of us are lost in the distractions of #mainstreaming and false hopes of reform.
Because only in activism – in tension, in movement, in shared resistance – can we build anything real #KISS
