Computer Scientist and Physicist
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🏙️ Banner: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Website: nunesgh.com
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Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software ( pplware.sapo.pt )
Google has criticized the European Union’s intentions to achieve digital sovereignty through open-source software. The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness. According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs ...
‘Do you think you’re the devil himself?’: highlights from the bizarre, newly released Bannon-Epstein interview ( www.theguardian.com )
US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals ( www.theguardian.com )
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Old But Gold: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind ( www.forbes.com )
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Old But Gold: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind ( www.forbes.com )
Under pressure from Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to monetize WhatsApp, he pushed back as Facebook questioned the encryption he'd helped build and laid the groundwork to show targeted ads and facilitate commercial messaging. Acton also walked away from Facebook a year before his final tranche of stock grants vested. "It ...
Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claims Meta staffers could access sensitive user data ( www.theregister.com )
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Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claims Meta staffers could access sensitive user data ( www.theregister.com )
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Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows ( www.theverge.com )
PewDiePie on Privacy: Don't call it privacy! ( youtube.com )
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PewDiePie on Privacy: Don't call it privacy! ( youtube.com )
PewDiePie on Privacy: Don't call it privacy! ...
PewDiePie on Enshittification: It's about Big Tech in general! ( youtube.com )
PewDiePie on Enshittification: It's about Big Tech in general! ...
WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices ( www.theguardian.com )
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WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices ( www.theguardian.com )
Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to ‘lack of transparency in how it protects user data’
Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok
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AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) ( www.youtube.com )
WhatsApp to get channel subscriptions, promoted channels, and ads in Status ( about.fb.com )
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WhatsApp to get channel subscriptions, promoted channels, and ads in Status ( about.fb.com )
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Elon Musk’s reputation must be beyond rehabilitation ( www.disconnect.blog )
In Musk’s quest for smaller government, DOGE has gutted an already under resourced federal public service, cutting about 260,000 employees from a workforce of 2.3 million. The cuts went so deep the Trump administration is reportedly bringing people back in departments across the government as key services like weather ...
What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.
xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts ( www.ft.com )
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Elon Musk says Doge didn’t cut HIV programs. But it threw a ‘miracle drug’ into chaos. ( www.theguardian.com )
[...] The disruptions have caused new HIV infections to surge in recent months and threaten to derail plans to eradicate the virus as a public health threat by 2030. ...
What do you use for listening to podcasts?
I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection. ...
Proton left Mastodon... ( lemmy.ml )
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Proton left Mastodon...
Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.