Welcome to Cyber Fix, your dopamine-infused tech news update.
My name is Gabriel, here to help get other information junkies up to speed with important tech news. Stay tuned for a light-hearted exploration of hostile cyberspace and what we can do about it.
Stories
Platform Peril
- Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities
- Since 2018, Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses/phone numbers of criminals to authorities.
- Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
- My Thoughts on the WordPress Drama
- Rokfin: What Is Going On? A Sale? Closing?
- Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
Solutions Roundup
- Time to take back the Internet
- AntennaPod is participating in Hacktoberfest 2024 – Join us!
- How to keep communicating when your internet is disrupted
- This Month in Ladybird September 2024
- Redot Game Engine
The Fine Details:
- Modern society has a super complicated relationship with privacy
- Digital ID: The Foundation for Technocracy
- FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control
- YouTube Doesn’t Want You to Use a Media Server at Home
- Tornado Cash: Code Not Speech, Non-Custodial MSBs, Knowledge Not Required
Cyberwar
- Microsoft ‘Buys’ Nuclear Power Plant to Run AI – and it’s Showing Us the Future
- ISPs ‘Betrayed’ Over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, The Reckoning Will Be Invisible
- Dutch Police Hacked, 63,000 Officers’ Details Exposed
- The Cyber Resilience Act, an Accidental European Alien Torts Statute?
- U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
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Honorable Mentions
These are items that didn’t quite make it into the final episode, but noteworthy in their own right.
- Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
- That doomsday critical Linux bug: It’s CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices
- You’re probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE
- NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
- Digital ID Isn’t for Everybody, and That’s Okay
- We Need Internet! Running a 3,000 ft Fiber Optic Cable
- LaTeX Boilerplates
- anytime - the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy
- The Internet and Engaged Citizenship
- Gender-based digital transnational repression as a global authoritarian practice
- Threat Actor Claims to Have Breached High-Profile Israeli Institutions
- CrowdStrike executive testifies on global outage (Starts ~30mins in)
- Insights from a Child Safety Online Symposium: Bridging Research and Policy
- The TENET Media Disaster
- TekSavavvy Quarterly Transparency Report
