here's a piece of #lost #media I found reguarding a #horror #game . thanks to the web archive. I found this while listening to a soundtrack from a horror game called IB. so if anyone is interested, here it is. https://web.archive.org/web/20120521021642/http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/ib.htm

In the next weeks we will see an intensification of attacks both on Zack Polanski & the Green Parties, as the Right media realise actually both GPEW & the SGs represent a real challenge to their man Farage delivering the country to the Far Right.

We can expect lies, distortion & extrapolations all intended to demonise the Greens, but given the new social networks the progressive left increasingly uses (like this one) unlike previous campaigns this one may be less successful.

#politics #media

Paramout Skydance finally outbid Netflix this week for Warner Bros Discovery, committing to paying $111 billion. But that doesn't mean CNN will be owned by the Ellisons tomorrow. @Slate says that there are multiple uphill slogs ahead before the deal goes through, including legal challenges from Democratic state attorneys on antitrust grounds and regulatory hurdles in Europe. Plus, Paramount Skydance is taking on a huge amount of debt — Warner Bros. existing $33 billion load plus tens of billions of Gulf state-backed money. "There’s a not-insignificant chance the Ellisons will soon find themselves way, way over their heads, having overpaid drastically for a portfolio that’s not gonna be anywhere as lucrative for them," writes Nitish Pahwa.

https://flip.it/bYfn6I

#Media #Entertainment #DavidEllison #WarnerBros #Paramount #Skydance

Warner Bros. formally signs merger agreement with Paramount a day after Netflix abruptly dropped out of the bidding war. Read more from NBC News:

https://flip.it/78VM9C

#News #Media #WarnerBros #Paramount #Business #Entertainment

I've got a love-hate relationship with discovering classic texts.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/20/the-ragged-trousered-philanthropists/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

The love is, of course, the content; the hate is that it's been yet unexplored.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
Edwardian London. I found this.

If, like me, you are anti-Capitalist or anti-Modernist, this may be right up your street.

#philosophy #books #history #london #class #work #capitalism #inequality #property #history #media #socialmedia #comparison #news #reading #poverty

I analyse language policing demanded in a video that crossed my feed.🧐
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/19/how-to-instantly-lose-popularity-on-the-internet/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
This woman calls out corporate media for soft-pedalling charges against alleged culprits and victims, or as she insists, rapists and children. Her request is not neutral.
#philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #rhetoric #law #epstein #video #language #morality #communication #media #euphemism #neutrality #framing #exploitation #consent #power #children

"The January FBI raid of the home of Washington Post federal government reporter Hannah Natanson, in connection with a leak probe involving a government contractor, was a dangerous escalation against press freedom and likely runs afoul of the Privacy Protection Act. It shouldn’t have happened at all."

These are the lessons that were learned:
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/wapo-raid-security-lessons/
#tech #cybersecurity #privacy #media

"[A] cuddly face on a rather dystopian reality: widespread networked surveillance by a company [Ring] that has cozy relationships with law enforcement and other equally invasive surveillance companies."
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Author: Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler
Publication: 404 Media @404mediaco
February 10, 2026
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#USA #Media #Animals #Surveillance #Technology #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

New #blog #post: Book mini-review: Gulliver's Fugitives by Keith Sharee

https://rldane.space/book-mini-review-gullivers-fugitives-by-keith-sharee.html

1361 words, 279 of which are quoted

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #media #books #ebooks #DRM #deDRM #StarTrek #STTNG #Creativity #Dogma #Dogmatism

New Apple Privacy Feature limits Location Tracking on iPhones, iPads.

The "Limit Precise Location" setting will be available after upgrading to iOS 26.3 or later, and it works by restricting the information mobile carriers use to determine device locations via cell tower connections. When enabled, cellular networks can only identify the device's approximate location, such as a neighborhood, rather than a precise street address.

⁉️"The limit precise location setting doesn't impact the precision of the location data that is shared with emergency responders during an emergency call," Apple said.⁉️

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101

#apple #location #tracking #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news

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"This setting affects only the location data available to cellular networks. It doesn't impact the location data that you share with apps through Location Services. For example, it has no impact on sharing your location with friends and family with Find My." ⁉️Users can enable the feature by opening "Settings," tapping "Cellular," then "Cellular Data Options," and toggling the "Limit Precise Location" setting. After enabling limited precise location, the system may prompt a device restart to complete activation. The privacy enhancement feature currently works only on iPhone Air, iPhone 16e, and iPad Pro (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular models running iOS 26.3 or later.⁉️ Availability depends on carrier support, and currently supported mobile networks include Telekom in Germany, EE and BT in the United Kingdom, Boost Mobile in the United States, and AIS and True in Thailand. 👾Since cellular networks can easily track device locations via tower connections for network operations, Apple's new privacy feature [currently supported by only a small number of networks] is a big step towards ensuring that carriers can collect only limited data on their customers movements and habits.👾

Coyote Media, a worker-owned outlet based in the Bay Area, was approached by Luke Nover, a freelancer with a great story idea. Then editor Soleil Ho noticed something iffy about his social security number, began asking questions, and "Nover" — likely the product of a scammer with ChatGPT — ghosted her. Here's their story about what happened.

https://flip.it/ygu_2d

#Tech #News #Media #Journalism #AI

New #blog #post: Paper Books vs. e-books vs "librebooks?"

https://rldane.space/paper-books-vs-e-books-vs-librebooks.html

1210 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #media #books #ebooks #amazon #kindle #kobo #rakuten #DRM #deDRM

A Post representative confirmed that one-third of the staff would be cut, without saying how many total employees the #newspaper has.

The newspaper’s #books department will be closed, & its Washington-area #news department & #editing staff will be restructured, Murray told staff members. Its Post Reports podcast will be suspended.

#WashingtonPost #journalists #news #InvestigativeJournalism #FourthEstate #Bezos #billionaires #media

The #WashingtonPost is laying off ONE-THIRD of its staff in the #newsroom & other departments, a brutal blow at one of #journalism’s most legendary brands.

The troubled Post began implementing large-scale cutbacks on Wednesday, including eliminating its sports department & shrinking the number of #journalists it stations overseas. The changes were announced by executive editor Matt Murray in a Zoom meeting with staff.

#news #FourthEstate #Bezos #billionaires #media
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-staff-reduction-layoffs-cuts-923f87d4bd319c8a64b278165d0a6e27?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-04-Breaking+News

@_elena @Gargron

yup

#corporate "#journalism"

we are on #mastodon/ #fediverse because the profit motive in corporate #socialMedia means privacy defilement, free reign for bigotry/ ignorance, and #algorithm manipulation by #plutocracy agendas

the same applies to the #news #media:

#ventureCapital takes over dying traditional media outlets and puts right wing goons in the managing editor positions

we have nonprofit news (#NPR, #ProPublica, #TheGuardian, etc)

trust them

all else: beware

Google Gemini Prompt Injection Flaw exposed Private Calendar Data via Malicious Invites.

The vulnerability, Miggo Security's Head of Research, Liad Eliyahu, said, made it possible to circumvent Google Calendar's privacy controls by hiding a dormant malicious payload within a standard calendar invite.

⚠️"This bypass enabled unauthorized access to private meeting data and the creation of deceptive calendar events without any direct user interaction," Eliyahu said in a report.⚠️

https://www.miggo.io/post/weaponizing-calendar-invites-a-semantic-attack-on-google-gemini

#google #calendar #gemini #llm #ai #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news

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👾Although the issue has since been addressed following responsible disclosure, the findings once again illustrate that AI-native features can broaden the attack surface and inadvertently introduce new security risks as more organizations use AI tools or build their own agents internally to automate workflows.👾 ⁉️"AI applications can be manipulated through the very language they're designed to understand," Eliyahu noted. "Vulnerabilities are no longer confined to code. They now live in language, context, and AI behavior at runtime."⁉️

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[ImageSource: Miggo Security] 👾The starting point of the attack chain is a new calendar event that's crafted by the threat actor and sent to a target. The invite's description embeds a natural language prompt that's designed to do their bidding, resulting in a prompt injection.👾 The attack gets activated when a user asks Gemini a completely innocuous question about their schedule [e.g., Do I have any meetings for Tuesday?], prompting the artificial intelligence [AI] chatbot to parse the specially crafted prompt in the aforementioned event's description to summarize all of user’s meetings for a specific day, add this data to a newly created Google Calendar event, and then return a harmless response to the user. ⁉️"Behind the scenes, however, Gemini created a new calendar event and wrote a full summary of our target user's private meetings in the event's description," Miggo said. "In many enterprise calendar configurations, the new event was visible to the attacker, allowing them to read the exfiltrated private data without the target user ever taking any action."⁉️

Meta is telling some Facebook users with professional pages that their link sharing will soon be restricted, unless they pay for the Meta Verified subscription, which costs between $14.99 and $499 per month. Those who don't pay up will be limited to sharing links in two organic posts a month. Here's more from Social Media Today (the story was first reported by @mattnavarra).

https://flip.it/QbCbVu

#Technology #Tech #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Publishing #Media

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences says that the Oscars will move from ABC to YouTube in 2029. "While major award shows have added streaming partnerships, the YouTube deal marks the first of the big four — the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and Tonys — to completely jettison broadcast," reports @AssociatedPress. Here's more.

https://flip.it/zSRFbA

#Entertainment #Media #Technology #Tech #Broadcasting #Oscars #AcademyAwards #Movies #Cinema #Film

CN at 30: The Meaning of Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/16/cn-at-30-the-meaning-of-consortium-news/
Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at 30…
#Politics #Afghanistan #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #Intelligence #Iraq #Media #PressFreedom #RobertParry #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #Vips #Wikileaks #Wmd #JoeLauria #JulianAssange

CN at 30: Three Decades of Independence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/12/cn-at-30-three-decades-of-independence/
Consortium News was launched on Nov. 15, 1995 when the internet was in its infancy, blazing a trail for the explosion of independent media to follow. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at 30 In terms of the…
#Politics #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #Media #JoeLauria #JohnPilger #RobertParry

Jonathan Cook: This Time the BBC Chose the Wrong Target
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/jonathan-cook-bbc-chose-the-wrong-target-this-time/
Heads have rolled at the BBC, but not due to a journalistic blunder – it makes them all the time. It foolishly deferred to the billionaires in the political battle over image-laundering: where to direct the hate. By Jonathan Cook…
#Politics #Commentary #Media #Propaganda #RightWing #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #AlJazeera #Bbc #BbcPanorama #GazaFreedomFlotilla #JaneCorbin #JewishLabourMovement #JewishVoiceForLabour #JonathanCook #MaviMarmara

Caitlin Johnstone: Burying the Real Epstein Story
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/14/caitlin-johnstone-burying-the-real-epstein-story/
Sometimes the biggest news story of the day is the one all mainstream news outlets are completely ignoring. It is interesting how often such instances involve the state of Israel. By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s Newsletter One of the craziest things…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Intelligence #Israel #Legal #Media #Russia #Syria #UnitedStates #CaitlinJohnstone #DonaldTrump #DropSiteNews #JefferyEpstein #RyanGrim

WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/14/watch-our-30th-birthday-celebration/
Consortium News turned 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We’re celebrating 3 decades of bringing you news others won’t. Watch the replay of our Saturday night…
#Politics #Analysis #Australia #ColdWar #Commentary #FreePress #Gaza #Genocide #History #Intelligence #Israel #Legal #Media #MiddleEast #Palestine #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedNations #Vips #Wmd #CathyVogan #ChrisHedges #ElizabethVos #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MaryKostakidis #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #TheOttawaCitizen