Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

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Flannel Donut Studio Café - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark

Portland is one of the greatest stop-motion animation cities in the world—but most of that work happens behind closed doors. The Flannel Donut Studio Café is a working studio, café, event & screening ...

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Earlier this year, during Iran's internet blackout, I couldn't reach my own family. My messages weren't being blocked, there was simply nothing on the other end to deliver them to. So I did the only thing I know how to do. I rage-coded. That project is MoaV - Mother of All VPNs - and today I'm sharing its 1.9 release. → Server: https://github.com/MotherofallVPNs/moav → Client: https://github.com/MotherofallVPNs/moav-client → https://moav.sh MoaV is a self-hostable, multi-protocol anti-censorship server. One command, a small VPS, you have 16+ circumvention protocols running. Here's what shipped since v1.8.5: 🛡️ Harder to detect. wstunnel now wraps WireGuard in real TLS. DNS tunneling. 🔐 Reliability. TLS certificates automatic renewal. Fixed an entire class of update bugs. 📡 Network tuning, built in. 🖥️ A native client. takes a single bundle, probes every endpoint e2e, and load-balances with a dashboard. 🧪 Full CI E2E testing. #InternetFreedom #OpenSource

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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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Portland Hacker Foundation

PDXHF collects tax-deductible donations and funds microgrants for the Portland hacker community.

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FBI warns against using Chinese mobile apps due to privacy risks

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Americans against using foreign-developed mobile applications, particularly those created by Chinese developers.

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Keyed nonces are not just a way to add stronger in-protocol support for privacy solutions. They are also a potential first foray into a new state scaling strategy for Ethereum: create new types of storage that are more optimized for handling categories of use cases that we care about, with restrictions on their use that make them usable at extreme scale while preserving the protocol's decentralization. Let's zoom in on this case (in-protocol nullifiers). Let's say we get to 2000 TPS of privacy-preserving transactions onchain, for eight years. Then we get 2^11 tx/sec * 2^25 sec/year * 2^3 years = 2^39 [ie. 500 billion] nullifiers stored onchain (the challenge with nullifiers is that they are fundamentally not possible to prune). It's actually far easier to keep Ethereum decentralized if we have 500 billion nullifiers onchain in a dedicated nullifier store, than if we just let them grow in the current state. The reason is that the more restrictive structure of nullifiers (only used to check validity, and we can require the nullifier ID to be explicitly specified in the tx) enables more decentralized ways of handling them. This includes: * Sharding: each node (incl builders) can hold a small percentage of nullifiers, and make sure to have a connection to an honest peer in each other shard * Bloom filters: see this somewhat wacky idea here for reducing the VOPS requirement for nullifiers to ~8 bits per nullifier: https://docs.fileverse.io/d/020001fc0012#k=UT7Btd6tyqHgOj47t-TX06F8D6OpcpM_2PKdf7s4tGE Both techniques are not possible to use for dynamically accessible state. And so builders would have to download the full 16 TB to become viable (not just optimal, viable!), and privacy protocol users would not be able to use FOCIL without providing a Merkle branch proving that their nullifier is unspent, and there would be very few nodes capable of providing such a branch... Zooming back out, the moral of the story is that fully dynamic state is much harder to handle at extreme scale (tens to hundreds of TB) than state that is more controlled and restricted in how it can be used. And so if we can move the majority of usage into these more specialized forms of state (which we can make much cheaper in terms of gas), then we can keep Ethereum decentralized, and highly scalable, and keep the fully dynamic state available for applications (eg. defi) that really need its full functionality.

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The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

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