Shark has not acknowledged the vulnerability let alone patched the exploit. If you have a Shark robot vacuum disconnect it from the internet until a patch is available.

A woman recently took to social media after discovering that her Audi rental car's dashboard contained a camera recording her every move. It also gave verbal reminders...

Proton denied all 47 requests for user data this year, making it 458 rejected since 2019, not a single one fulfilled.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1266507/your-period-data-should-be-private-we-recommend-using-euki

I have a theory that as AI gets better and better at mimicking humans, the only way to differentiate humans from bots, is to identify the human. This may not even be a conscious development from the company.

For example, Google's Recaptcha might be a big black box of AI models, that gets data about the user and spits out "human" or "bot". These AI models already get a ton of data about the user, like mouse movements, scrolling behavior, and keyboard strokes (afaik Recaptcha tracks all of this, and Cloudflare will soon). What if at some point, Google realizes that the AI has evolved to identify users, tying them to long-standing Google accounts or government IDs, because it's the most effective way to distinguish them from bots?

Google is already releasing the captcha that requires a Google-approved phone. That is also a privacy dead-end. But I wonder if Recaptcha and Cloudflare's new Precursor captcha, are already deanonymizing people.

And even open source projects and websites are starting to adopt Anubis, and complaining about AI contributions and slop. It seems like even the open source world is crawling towards human verification. The future of privacy does not look bright.

In a notice to customers and suppliers, the organization said it had exhausted every available option before seeking insolvency protection. Managing director Johannes Zenglein described the filing as "one of the most difficult steps in our company's 37-year history." "The cyberattack of March 29, 2026, however, impacted our company to an extent that we could not fully compensate for despite our best efforts," Zenglein wrote. "The consequences resulted in a production outage of nearly six weeks and significant financial strain. These effects ultimately impacted our financial situation so severely that filing for insolvency became necessary."

Wow.

ZEGO did not disclose what kind of attack it suffered, whether ransomware was involved, who was behind it, or whether customer or employee data was compromised.

Wait a minute... ಠಿ⁠_⁠ಠ

Discord's new (now temporarily halted) policies are dangerous to so, so many users and creators, queer and many others.

EDIT: We have at least one user claiming that EAC and BattlEye can NOT see what programs are running on your computer via proton on Linux.

EDIT 2: According to brucethemoose@lemmy.world with comment https://lemmy.world/comment/24738141

"Yes and no.

If you run task manager or something in Proton? It just shows Proton processes:
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But all linux process, and tons of information about them, are readable in the /proc directory. They’re just files, accessible to the program.

Try ls /proc yourself.

There’s nothing stopping anti cheat from checking that, if it’s configured to do it.

Which is pretty dang convincing to me.

If I have a good understanding, the Symlinks that Proton uses allow the games to view nearly your entire drive and see what software is running? Because Proton is explicitly NOT a virtual machine and merely a translation layer for Windows applications to run on Linux?

The reason I like to ask is because this is the general consensus, that Proton applications are not secure, but when searching online it doesn't explicitly state anywhere if the games with EAC or BattlEye are capable of spying on Linux users. So I'm looking for confirmation on this.

The European Parliament has failed to stop platforms from scanning private messages for child abuse material until 2028 after a motion to reject the rules fell short of the 361 votes required.

The EU’s Chat Control message-scanning regime will continue despite the fact that most lawmakers who cast a ballot want the rules gone.

Former MEP and Pirate Party privacy campaigner Patrick Breyer, revealed that during the recent European Parliament vote, 314 members voted against the EU’s chat control rules while 276 backed it.

There were 17 abstentions, and because rejecting the measure needed an absolute majority of the full chamber rather than a simple majority of those present, the 314 opposing votes were not enough.

A separate amendment to limit message scanning to suspects flagged by courts also drew more support than opposition, 322 to 255, and similarly the majority lost.

Due to the outcome of the vote, “Chat Control 1.0,” which was temporarily paused after EU institutions could not agree to extend it, will now be revived[...]