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[?]WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business [Unofficial] » 🌐
@wired.com@web.brid.gy

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

Alt...A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

Age Verification boosted

[?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com

It's published, not passed!

And, while it may seem tame in comparison to other state laws, its a slippery slope.

US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published

gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/us-o

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    [?]Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 » 🌐
    @BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io

    How and Are Responding to the New
    Age verification laws could change how operating systems work. See how major Linux and BSD distributions are reacting to the new regulations
    Some distros are planning to comply
    Some distros are resisting
    Much of Linux ecosystem traces back to Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, and Red Hat (Fedora). Whatever technical approach these major players adopt will likely influence dozens of downstream distributions.
    itsfoss.com/news/distros-respo

      Privacy and Surveillance boosted

      [?]Hacker News » 🤖 🌐
      @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

      System76 on Age Verification Laws

      blog.system76.com/post/system7

        [?]Jacob Urlich 🌍 » 🌐
        @experimentmapass@social.trom.tf

        Must read book

        A remarkable book that fixes quantum mechanics.
        Deep research uncovers Einstein’s mistakes that have affected modern physics. Explore a new idea—fully supported by evidence—that was lost to history.

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          [?]Philosophics » 🌐
          @microglyphics@mastodon.social

          Using the parables of the valley, I look at extraction by proximity.

          🌵philosophics.blog/2026/02/03/a

          I look at how a Modernist lens creates exploitation of neighbours in a critical experiment with Claude AI, with summary detail by NotebookLM.

            [?]Philosophics » 🌐
            @microglyphics@mastodon.social

            Speed limits are among the concepts that are never just matters of fact.
            👉 philosophics.blog/2026/01/03/j
            I use this as an example to relate to my latest essay, The Fact of the Matter: After Bernard Williams – Truthfulness, Facts, and the Myth of Immediacy: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18133958

            police officer standing near a distressed woman in her automobile, holds brethalyser

            Alt...police officer standing near a distressed woman in her automobile, holds brethalyser

              [?]Aho » 🌐
              @aho@mastodon.social

              @randahl this is why a "peace plan" for has been made by and without consulting as don't care about and

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                Federal officers are using chemical irritants to *disperse* in ways that violate policing norms & are testing the boundaries of , video footage from shows, in some cases [intentionally] hitting directly with the munitions.
                
 & officers have deployed in cities around the country, but its use has been especially prevalent in Chicago, where the admin launched Operation Midway Blitz in Sept….

                  [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                  @freeschool@qoto.org

                  A place to access ALL the laws - does it exist? [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                  @StaticR OK I'm serious - a place where all the exist and easy searchable is a great idea - does it exist?

                  or if only have access to proprietary then opensource that...

                  ➡️ could be

                    [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
                    @kkarhan@infosec.space

                    @forthy42 @PaulaToThePeople I never told people that would be a saviour,so stop making that shit up!

                    All I said is that as of now isn't just a "" but a ""!

                    If you really believe that bs then please kindly fuck off because I do intent to outlive by all means necessary and sadly that's not gonna fly with the orange tyrant in power.

                    Yes OFC I wished we'd see and instead on the roll, but sadly in the ., the |s and decide who can even candidate because it's a cleptocracy.

                    • Or do you really think Trump won't accelerate if he'd get big campaign contributions for that in return like the ones he promised execs?

                    One can for Biden whilst being a public on the streets, but you can't vote for Trump without inherently having the right to oppose him being stripped by him - as he already publicly stated as his intention!

                    I don't tell you what to think, I'll merely tell you how things are going to pan out exactly:

                    • Either we get a 2nd Term of Biden who can't get a 3rd so he'll have a vocal voted-for-you - opposition and he can't actually loose big donors so he'd have a shot at doing things better

                    OR

                    I'll end this right here because at this point everything has been said and the sheer fact that is going to to impact my life against my consent despite being neither citizen nor resident nor eligible to vote is alteady nerve-wrecking and I think like yours isn't gonna help the situation anyway...

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                      [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                      6,000 Patents Hidden By The Government | U.S. Invention Secrecy Act

                      Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html

                      In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

                      From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

                      This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

                      @academicchatter@a.gup.pe @edutooters@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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