Technology

cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/7875329

Investigation by investigative journalism outlet IStories (EN version by OCCRP) shows that Telegram uses a single, FSB-linked company as their infrastructure provider globally.

Telegram's MTProto protocol also requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages.

Combined, these two choices by Telegram make it into a surveillance tool.

I am quoted in the IStories story. I also did packet captures, and I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details on my blog.

Packet captures and MTProto deobfuscation library I wrote linked therein so that others can retrace my steps and check my work.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31030561

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(That nobody asked for)

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• The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps.
• Openings enable gradual reading of entire privilege memory contents of shared processor (CPU).
• All Intel processors from the last 6 years are affected, from PCs to servers in data centres.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28700613

From their own internal metrics, tech giants have long known what independent research now continuously validates: that the content that is most likely to go viral is that which induces strong feelings such as outrage and disgust, regardless of its underlying veracity. Moreover, they also know that such content is heavily engaged with and most profitable. Far from acting against false, harmful content, they placed profits above its staggering—and damaging—social impact to implicitly encourage it while downplaying the massive costs.

Social media titans embrace essentially the same hypocrisy the tobacco industry embodied when they feigned concern over harm reduction while covertly pushing their product ever more aggressively. With the reelection of Trump, our tech giants now no longer even pretend to care.

Engagement is their business model, and doubt about the harms they cause is their product. Tobacco executives, and their bought-off scientists, once proclaimed uncertainty over links between cigarettes and lung cancer. Zuckerberg has likewise testified to Congress, “The existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health, ” even while studies find self-harm, eating disorder and misogynistic material spreads on these platform unimpeded. This equivocation echoes protestations of tobacco companies that there was no causal evidence of smoking harms, even as incontrovertible evidence to the contrary rapidly amassed.

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Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options

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One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/18992

Die geringe Nachfrage ist ein primärer Grund, warum Sony wie viele andere Hersteller keine 8K-TVs mehr bringen wird. (8K, Sony)

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5948

Since January 2024, Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in Wikipedia’s bandwidth usage. However, this enormous increase is not due to human users suddenly reading Wikipedia articles or watching videos but to AI crawlers that automatically scrape content to train AI models. This creates new challenges for the foundation. The sudden increase in traffic […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 17:28 Categories: Infrastructure, AI, AI crawlers, Artificial Intelligence, bandwidth, content scraping, Wikimedia, Wikipedia

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• A jetlagged Troy Hunt accidentally clicked a link and logged into an account only to realise he had been phished.
• Despite reacting quickly, attackers were able to export a mailing list for Hunt’s personal blog.
• Hunt has detailed the attack and warned his subscribers in a timely fashion.