Hackers Leaking Taylor Swift Tickets? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Plus: Researchers uncover a new way to expose CSAM peddlers, OpenAI suffered a secret cyberattack, cryptocurrency thefts jump in 2024, and Twilio confirms hackers stole 33 million phone numbers. ⌘ Read more

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Editor’s Note- More On The Strategy of Beingness
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: A number of you have written to ask me where they can get more information on The Strategy of Beingness.

As it happens I am about to teach a two-week online course on how to use the strategy to become an agent of change fostering wellbeing. You take the course when it is convenient for you during those two weeks, and you can ask questions and I provide answers. It starts … ⌘ Read more

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New Research Links Common Foods to Higher Levels of PFAS in the Body
Edward Carver,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Our lives are being shortened, and we are being killed – the data says this literally – by corporations like 3M – that created and distributed throughout the world “forever chemicals” such as polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Why was this done? For profit of course. In my. opinion, these corporations should be fined billions of dolla … ⌘ Read more

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Trump’s Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto Aside From Writing It.
Shawn Musgrave,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Criminal Trump who is a compulsive liar, I don’t think he would tell you the truth if you asked him the time of day, denies he knows anything about Project 2025, which is the Republican election platform. You would think the media would pick this up and may a significant story about his lie i … ⌘ Read more

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The Supreme Court’s War on Regulation Is Going to Tank the Economy
Timothy Noah,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: The christofascist cabal that controls the Supreme Court has openly and deliberately skewed the laws to reduce regulatory. oversight and protect corporate profits. This article describes what may happen as a result of several decisions to eliminate regulations. Although the economic data proves it is not the case, the fascist view of t … ⌘ Read more

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Why Gen Z’s turned off by sex scenes in movies
,    -  talker research

_Stephan: There are two trends I see going on in the United States about sexual imagery and sex in movies. One is the growing AI generation of fake porn being created particularly by schoolboys about their classmates (see SR archive). The other is the growing distaste for sexual imagery in the Gen Z generation (1997-2012), as described in this survey. What I don’t see in these trends is a growing acceptance … ⌘ Read more

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Top Stories: iOS 18 Beta Features, Apple Intelligence for Vision Pro, and More
With the calendar flipping over to July, public betas of iOS 18 and related operating system updates are right around the corner, so we’re continuing to take a look at what changes and features users can expect to see.

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Other Apple news and rumors this week included several iconic devices being added to Apple’s list of “vintage” products, a … ⌘ Read more

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**I just blocked the following ASN(s) from being able to hit twtxt.net or mills.io:

16509 - AMAZON-02
32934 - FACEBOOK

Why? Because …**
I just blocked the following ASN(s) from being able to hit twtxt.net or mills.io:

16509 - AMAZON-02
32934 - FACEBOOK

Why? Because the Claude Bot web crawler from facebookexternalhit and Meta’s facebookexternalhit web crawler are both behaving badly for pages that have no cache headers. Not sure if this is malicious, an oversight, a … ⌘ Read more

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Eneez proposes bounty for XMR P2P Telegram bot
Eneez1 has proposed a bounty2 for the creation of a reliable Telegram3 bot that can facilitate peer-to-peer fiat to XMR exchanges without KYC:

Currently, Monero faces a significant challenge due to the limited availability of P2P platforms for exchanging fiat currency into XMR. People have to buy BTC and exchange it for XMR and this scares a lot of people away from Monero.

Total Bounty: 0 XMR (to date)

Anyone ca … ⌘ Read more

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Google is bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices, but not in the way you’d think
To evolve Fuchsia beyond smart home devices, Google has been working on projects such as Starnix to run unmodified Linux binaries on Fuchsia devices. In addition, since late April of this year, Google has been working on a new project called “microfuchsia” that aims to make Fuchsia bootable on existing devices via virtualization. Microfuchsia, according to Google, is a Fuch … ⌘ Read more

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Apple bows to Russian censorship once more, removes VPN apps from Russian App Store
A few weeks ago, I broke the news that Mozilla had removed several anti-censorship Firefox extensions from its store in Russia, and a few days later I also broke the news they reversed course on their decision and reinstated the extensions. Perhaps not worthy of a beauty prize, as a Dutch saying goes, but at least the turnaround time was short, and they did the right … ⌘ Read more

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Psion OPL: when we owned our devices
We talked about Psion last week, and we’re talking about Psion again this week. This time, Kian Ryan highlights a very important capability of Psion’s devices, a capability that’s entirely absent from today’s mobile devices: a built-in IDE and dedicated programming language so you can write code and build applications, including ones with a graphical user interface, right on the device. All Psion devices could run OPL, either preinstalled on the device or via … ⌘ Read more

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Alex English Thinks Social Media Ruined the Art of Comedy
Saturday Night Live writer and veteran stand-up comedian Alex English believes platforms like TikTok have changed the relationship a comic has to their audience—in the worst ways possible. ⌘ Read more

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Epic Games Lashes Out at Apple Over App Store Rejection
Fortnite creator Epic Games says Apple rejected its App Store rival for being too similar to its own—a move it deemed “arbitrary, obstructive,” and in violation of EU rules. ⌘ Read more

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Moving to an RTOS on the RP2040
I’ve been working on a bunch of small projects involving microcontrollers. Currently a lot of them are based around the Raspberry Pi Pico boards because I like the development experience of those a lot. They have a decent SDK and cheap hardware to get started and the debugger works with gdb/openocd so it just integrates in all IDEs that support that. One of my current projects is making a fancy hardware controller for a bunch of video equipment I use. The main things … ⌘ Read more

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