Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-government-proposals-would-allow-it-to-mass-surveil-all-users-of-an-internet-service-within-specific-timeframe

"The UK government has presented draft amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) – otherwise known as “Snoopers Charter,” a highly controversial piece of legislation allowing for wide-scale spying by intelligence agencies.

The plan now is to specify that the authorities have the right to carry out mass surveillance of an internet service within a specific timeframe – and do so “dragnet-style,” by spying on all users of that service during a given time."

"One of the things that came out of the plan being publicly presented by the UK’s king last Tuesday was that there was an idea to introduce the power of veto if and when privately-owned (mostly US) social platforms decide to usher in some “privacy-friendly” features.

Some reports mention that one of the proposed provisions would mean that should globally operating tech/social media companies decide to increase security of their products (the implication here is not difficult to make – it highly likely refers to encryption), they would have to have the UK spying community’s “blessing” first."

#privacy

I don't know who needs this, but here's some python cheat sheets::

terms that contain interactions of w^+- vector gauge bosons with members of lepton family. fermions involved expanded into + and - energy modes from such we get, for example, the term for the decay of w^+ vector bosons into an outgoing neutrino and outgoing positron, the anti-particle of electron

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, years ahead of forecasts

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3241453/china-launches-worlds-fastest-internet-12-terabit-second-link-years-ahead-forecasts

Hello science friends! Can anyone point me towards some resources that I could use learn how to do a de novo genome assembly from long reads (@nanopore)? Mammalian species, no reference genome exists. An equally exciting and daunting task.... Please share #neuroscience #genomics

#UKSupremeCourt is unanimous that the #Rwanda scheme is unlawful because Rwanda cannot currently be trusted not to return asylum seekers to a country where their life or freedom will be threatened (non-refoulement).

It is also clear that this is based on international treaties including the 1967 Refugee Convention, the 1984 Torture Convention, the ICCPR, the ECHR , as well as several pieces of domestic law including but not limited to the HRA.

#LawFedi #UKPolitics

https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2023-0093-etc-judgment.pdf

Deepfake fraud attempts are up 3000% in 2023 — here’s why - Deepfake fraud attempts have increased by a whopping 31 times in 2023 — a  3,000% ... - https://thenextweb.com/news/deepfake-fraud-rise-amid-cheap-generative-ai-boom #startupsandtechnology #dataandsecurity #deeptech #insider

It was a little foggy, so I went out to take some photos. This, the Steel Bridge in Portland, OR.

#photography #pdx #bridges #blackandwhite

Your Daily Cheese Update: still yummy

Rust in Linux: Where we are and where we're going next https://www.zdnet.com/article/rust-in-linux-where-we-are-and-where-were-going-next/ by @sjvn

Live from Linux Plumbers, the latest on #Rust in #Linux.

Oh dear, I’ve done it again… Bookshop UK have gone out of stock on Trans Britain so here’s a most excellent alternative. Queer Lit are a fast growing LGBT+ specialist bookseller, based in Manchester and with an excellent mail order service. Their current stock of Trans Britain is individually signed by me. So if you want to read almost two dozen people’s account of modern trans history edited by me this is where to go. https://www.queerlit.co.uk/collections/non-fiction/products/trans-britain-our-journey-from-the-shadows?_pos=2&_sid=be10dc27a&_ss=r

Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany with only 43.9% of the vote.

But because the anti-Hitler forces were divided, Hitler won.

Hitler then made himself dictator and abolished free elections.

US army overturns 1917 convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged with mutiny | US military | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/14/us-army-buffalo-soldiers-mutiny-1917-overturned-jim-crow

> Officials announced ceremony honoring the #BuffaloSoldiers, 19 of whom were executed, to atone for #JimCrow-era #racism

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Spectacular journalism emerges from a major leak of documents showing Cyprus as a haven for shady wealth -- lately including Putin's pet oligarchs.

It's another blockbuster organized by International Consortium for Investigative Journalism, which "assembled a team of more than 270 journalists from 54 countries and one territory and provided access to the leaked records."

https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cyprus-russia-eu-secrecy-tax-haven/

The course website for the spring EMBO DL4MIA course launched today and registration is therefore now open!!! https://meetings.embo.org/event/24-deep-learning-mia
The goal of the course is to familiarize life science researchers with state-of-the-art DL techniques for microscopy image analysis! 🧐 👍 🧑‍🎓

This is your periodic reminder that chemical regulations are the result of learning about "externalities". We learn that substances are persistent, poisonous, noxious or have some other effect that we don't like and we impose regulations. To simply roll them back without thinking will complicate things for UK companies ("no island is an island") and increase health and environmental problems later. But short-termism always wins with this government. #Reach https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/14/uk-to-loosen-post-brexit-chemical-regulations-further