They're not banning children from accessing online services, they're banning anyone who hasn't passed age verification using a specific company (or worked around it)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Mad story but nice that two of London's most fabulous street parked cars are in the videos. A derelict looking Morris Minor 1000 Convertible and a similarly derelict Bentley S2 that's EV converted. Photos in comments.

Waymo test car keeps waking up London cul-de-sac residents

US firm Waymo apologises after a car kept getting stuck up a cul-de-sac letting off sirens at night.

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True story. I'll miss them when they're gone. Visible from several running routes, including a couple over in The Kingdom.

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot · 2mo ago

I move that these curious and monumental wind turbine parts are the most successful public artwork in Edinburgh in many a year.

If you're a financial supporter, you can email them (donate@wikimedia.org) and let them know what you think of this. I've done so and asked how I can cancel my recurring donation. I try hard not to financially support organisations that don't value what I value.

jenny (phire)@phirephoenix.com · 2mo ago

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Anyone who's lived or worked with me for any length of time has had the Arkell v Pressdram response from me. Usually in response to a question asked too early in the morning.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It is, today, the 55th anniversary of that gift to satire James Arkell, whose solicitors wrote to Private Eye on this day in 1971, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. You may know the story, but I put it to you that you cannot hear it enough. We begin with that initial letter... 🧵

Just off a call with a vendor. They were looking for candour, asking for my view on a couple of sensitive things. The guy had the Meta glasses on. I didn't feel able to ask him to take them off, so I made a joke about them and he immediately took them off. The call was with a cybersecurity vendor.

#weirdcarbs is that a PT Cruiser convertible being filled up in the lead image?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4mo ago

Lower gasoline prices have been Donald Trump’s calling card for in his second term, but the war in Iran flipped that card over as oil prices jumped

I have zero time for any notion of what Scotland is or could be or should be that doesn't have plenty space for this.

AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an AI-driven suite to *harvest* clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification. And then spew it all out to attackers during some easily preventable data breach.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 5mo ago

AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an AI-driven suite to automate clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification (Matt Day/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

At the very least one has to wonder if Palantir will stop using Anthropic!

I didn't know gold bars have different logos stamped on, like ecstacy pills. And I didn't know that both eccies and gold bars used Mitsubishi stamps.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

Osaka’s water pipes are some of the oldest in Japan. An anonymous donation of $3.6 million worth of gold to fix the pipes illustrates mounting frustration with the city's aging water system.

Yep this is the real threat and it is so hard to shift research thinking on it. Attacking OT ineffectively is generally high cost low reward. But attacking it effectively is an information challenge more than a hacking one. Local documentation is shit and discovery is hard. Processes are complex

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15770248... I personally put over 100k on a silver 1998 Ka. I would probably do it again. LEZ compliant, too.

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This app, Nearby Glasses, has one purpose: to warn you about so-called smart glasses nearby. No details are collected about the phone or it's user. No telemetry, no ads and no other nuisances. False positives are to be expected, use with caution.

Yves Jeanrenaud@yjeanrenaud.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

The memes and jokes today are off the charts.

Lucy @crapolatombola.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Prisoner cell block HRH.

"Remember, I was always Mummy's favourite" "Lol, she's dead, m8"

FACTCHECK: Centrica's Chris O'Shea got blanket coverage for claiming electricity will cost more in 2030 than in energy crisis (Chris Stark: "he's wrong on this") I asked Centrica for evidence – they didn’t reply (Bills in crisis were >2x today, before huge govt subsidies) 1/4

After the @smithandsniff.bsky.social live show last night I did, of course, check the car park. The Alpines/Avantime parking group was fab. Shout out to whoever brought out an NSX in Glasgow in February.

This is a good read. If Google can make the fake image, it should be able to spot the fake in all its products.

Kai Biermann@kaibiermann.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Let me put that in perspective: 2.2 million people looked at an AI-altered photo of a dead man, checked the tattoo analysis from a stranger on X, and hit the heart button. We have, as a civilization, optimized for this." #epstein #ai #fake www.digitaldigging.org/p/google-mak...

Don't wait until you're jammed up, put Lockdown Mode on if you have the feature available.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

I expected this was going to sail through with perfunctory scrutiny, really chuffed about this. It's a well positioned site, build something for actual people there!

EdinburghMinute.com@edinburghminute.com · 6mo ago

BREAKING NEWS: Edinburgh councillors have thrown out plans for a ‘green’ data centre at South Gyle. There was cross-party agreement in refusing the plan, with concerns about ‘how it affects the climate emergency’ and ‘how emissions could be minimised’. edinburghminute.com

I had this when I was a kid and thought that it was basically a schematic and I was going to be able to build a robot using it. I remember checking the RS Components catalogue but it had no robot parts section.

Comics Covers@comicscovers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I did not have "Green party voters most likely to support military action over Greenland" on my bingo card.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 7mo ago

If the US seized Greenland by force, Reform UK and Tory voters tend to think Europe's response should be diplomatic only, while Labour and Lib Dems tend to favour economic retaliation Greens are split between diplomacy, economic and military reactions yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Y'know that scene in Weird Science where Gary and Wyatt are cutting up porn mags and the Littlewoods catalogue underwear to scan into their sex bot machine? I wonder if Elon is operating the scissors himself or doing QA on the porn?

The Independent@the-independent.com · 7mo ago

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"The US has never had a rival like China: its equal or more in technology, trade and military power." Bronwen Maddox on the challenge posed to the US by China's rise to power. Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/4pHKSpH

Tories and Reform starting to look like that brief period where there were two competing line ups of the Sugarbabes operating at the same time.

No doubt Zahawi a big name for Reform & helps with momentum. But his resignation was on what the public see as a clear ‘one rule for them’ type scandal they hate - so a risk this, more than previous switches, could blunt Reform’s appeal as ‘different to usual political class’.

A fantastically versatile image. Replace Michael Martin with your local council/councillor/MP/supermarket and email it to them. (credit and luvs to @infiniteguff.com)

Fergus@infiniteguff.com · 7mo ago

Micheal Martin