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Thousands of hacked Asus routers are under control of suspected China-state hackers
So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.
arstechnica.com/security/2025/

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I believe Google here. I saw the posts being referenced this week and thought they smelled off, so didn't boost or comment. "Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI. Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training."

theverge.com/news/826902/gmail

Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google is pushing back on posts claiming it has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, telling The Verge that it does not train Gmail content for training Gemini.

Veritasium recently posted a great video about jet engine material science, icymi. It's a real eye opener. I had no clue about the science, engineering, and production of a jet engine turbine blade. Crazy technology!

youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM

#AvGeek #Plane #Engineering

Why don’t jet engines melt?
Why don’t jet engines melt?

To my friends: Heads up, the is about to make bad patents untouchable and is inviting your (the public) comments by Dec 2. Sounds to me like you might want to provide feedback. The has some very good examples of why this is bad and how you can take action by commenting: eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/pate

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file public comments opposing these rules this week. The USPTO is moving quickly, and staying silent will only help those who profit from abusive patents.

Since when is "the European way" giving into intense pressure? No European I've ever met. "Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws. The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure"

theverge.com/news/823750/europ

I see how the scaling back is a measured response to the pressure and the good stuff is still there, but be careful. Don't water down strong protection for citizens. If you do, the rest of us will struggle even more to achieve anything close.

P.s. Good call on the central browser control for cookies so hopefully we can get rid of the ridiculous cookie pop-up configuration dialog.

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

The Department of National Defence will be doing drone detection tests around Kent and Sparks Streets in Ottawa between 24 and 28 November. This involves flying drones.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anti
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Le Ministère de la Défense nationale effectuera des essais de détection de drones autour des rues Kent et Sparks à Ottawa entre le 24 et 28 novembre. Ceci implique le vol de drones.

canada.ca/fr/ministere-defense

#Ottawa #DND #MDN

Downtown Ottawa will be abuzz with drones next week as DND tests detection tech | CBC News
Downtown Ottawa will be abuzz with drones next week as DND tests detection tech | CBC News
The Department of National Defence has invited a group of tech companies to test their drone detection skills near Kent and Sparks streets from Nov. 24-28.

The world is a lot right now. But we all gotta fight for love. Because the path of hate is so simple, so easy, so seductive.. black vs. white.. us vs. them.. you're either on our team, or you are our sworn enemy.. whereas the path of love is far, far more complicated and difficult.

But love is the only survivable path.

Hating someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It’s only a matter of time before that hatred eats you -- and everyone else around you -- from within.

Choose love. Come with us if you want to truly live. 💛

RE: mastodon.social/@noybeu/115547

I am not European, so I am jealous you have . , don't screw that up by diluting such strong laws. Stand by it and stand up for it.

Law enforcement authorities from 9 countries have taken down 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infolstealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet malware operations in the latest phase of Operation Endgame, an international action targeting cybercrime.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Police disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium malware operations
Police disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium malware operations
Law enforcement authorities from 9 countries have taken down 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infolstealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet malware operations in the latest phase of Operation Endgame, an international action targeting cybercrime.

New, from me: Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List

For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare responded by redacting Aisuru domain names from their top websites list. The chief executive at Cloudflare says Aisuru’s overlords are using the botnet to boost their malicious domain rankings, while simultaneously attacking the company’s domain name system (DNS) service.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cl

A screenshot of radar.cloudflare.com/domains, showing The #1 and #3 positions in this chart are Aisuru botnet controllers with their full domain names redacted. the rest of the top domains are what you would expect: microsoft.com, google.com, amazon.com, etc..