cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11421325

Rogue drones are targeting Britain’s military bases almost daily, leaving the UK vulnerable to growing threats from Russia and Iran, The Independent can reveal.

Some 340 security incidents involving drones were reported at or near Ministry of Defence [MoD] sites in the year to August 2026, data obtained under freedom of information laws show. In 2025, there were a total of 250 incidents recorded – double the 126 recorded the year before.

Experts warn the alarming increase reflects the government’s woeful lack of security and unreadiness to combat hostile threats at a time of intense escalation from Vladimir Putin, as well as aggression from Iran.

The MoD would not give details of who it suspected was behind the threats, but experts say hostile actors working on behalf of Moscow or Tehran were the obvious culprits. The stark figures, obtained under freedom of information laws, come as Poland warned that Putin is planning a drone attack on a Nato country.

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Former Tory defence minister and former Army captain Tobias Ellwood said the large sharp uptick in detected drone incidents in the UK showed that the British military is viewed “as a target” and said the government is “asleep” to such threats.

He added: “Here in the UK we are doing nothing about protecting our critical national infrastructure, as well as military bases, and it’s such an easy way to disrupt.

“At the moment these are just rogue drones, and they’re passive, but it’s not a huge step to then add a kinetic dimension to them to make them introduce lethality.

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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk warned on Friday that Moscow was planning hybrid strikes with drones or missiles targeting Nato countries supporting Ukraine.

“There is a real risk that drones or other types of projectiles will enter the territory of one or several countries on the eastern flank and even cause destruction,” he added.

UK chief of the defence staff, Sir Richard Knighton, cautioned earlier this year that the UK is facing the highest level of threat from Russia since the Cold War. And security minister Angela Eagle also warned of the dangers posed by Iran after the UK “identified activity linked to the IRGC involving threats to life and intimidation on UK soil”.

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in another less stupid timeline, javier milei learnt about dengism and kickstarted the argentinian century, promoving "socialismo con caracteristicas argentinas"

"viva la clase obrera, carajo!"

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1412342/companies-make-it-hard-to-access-your-personal-data-under-state-privacy-laws-cr-finds-on

Nearly every time you buy something online or sign up for a loyalty program, you leave behind personal information that can be collected, shared, and sold among companies including advertisers, retailers, and data brokers. This kind of information is sometimes used to charge consumers more for a range of products and services, from groceries to insurance to mortgages, and to target them for financial fraud and identity theft.

A growing number of state privacy laws were designed to give consumers some control over that information, including the right to see what companies know about them. But a yearlong Consumer Reports investigation found that exercising those rights can often be extremely difficult—and that many companies and data brokers appear to be falling short of their legal obligations.

Over the past year, CR worked with 84 citizen volunteers to request their personal data from 169 companies they regularly interact with and 22 data brokers. The results were concerning: Roughly 25 percent of requests to companies failed to receive a response. Among data brokers, the failure rate was 34 percent, even though some of those brokers claim to maintain data on the vast majority of U.S. households.

Source: https://www.gocomics.com/super-fun-pak-comix/2026/09/19

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75748303

A reimplementation of android auto for degoogled phones!

From 2024, but funny to read....

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we're all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11421475

Former German member of the European Parliament Reinhard Butikofer on Thursday urged the international community to counter China’s use of UN Resolution 2758 against Taiwan.

He made the comments at a conference hosted by the Taipei Representative Office in Berlin, saying that the deliberate misinterpretation of the resolution is an aspect of Beijing’s “lawfare.”

Resolution 2758, passed in 1971, states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the only legitimate representative of China at the UN, which enabled Beijing to replace the Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan’s official name, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

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Butikofer, who chaired the event, said that the essence of China’s legal warfare is to export its domestic system of rule by law as part of the global order.

The EU as a whole, including Germany, does not recognize China’s interpretation of UN Resolution 2758 as making Taiwan part of its sovereign territory, he said.

As Beijing is aggressively seeking the support of foreign countries to lend legitimacy to its claims, democracies around the world must take a stronger stance against China’s false narrative, he said.

The resolution was concerned with determining China’s representation in the UN, without making any reference to Taiwan, its legal status or representation in the UN framework, he said.

Beijing’s push to conflate its distorted version of the resolution with the so-called “one China” principle has repercussions not only for Taiwan’s representation in international organizations, but also peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, Representative to Germany Ku Jiu-Sheng (谷瑞生) said.

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I've been unsuccessful in getting the FitGirl and DODI repacks of Dark Souls Remastered to run on my CachyOS laptop. I've tried Lutris, Heroic, Faugus, and Bottles and I've tried various combinations of runtimes ranging from Proton, Wine, UWU, etc, but the best I can get is the game runs for about 30 seconds, then freezes.

The thing is, it works fine on my partner's computer. She has an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 where as I have an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong and the Lutris logs aren't very clear as to why the game is freezing. I've even installed the vulkan-intel drives.

Hi everyone!

Over the years, I’ve started having big collection of cables or dongles.

Mostly USB-C, USB-A to Micro USB, USB A to C, USB C to A, HDMI..

I was wondering how I could know their specifications as nothing is written on them. Maybe through a Linux program telling me how fast they can transfer data.

I was wondering also if there was a way to know how much power was sent to a device when these cables are used to power one. For instance, I’ve noticed that my Steam Deck battery was draining when playing games with 15TDP and being charged with an iPhone charger.

I don’t know if it’s useful, but here are my computers: Steam Deck running Steam OS, Surface Go 1 running Fedora Silverblue, MacBook Pro 2012 running PopOs.

I don’t want to buy anything to be able to measure how much data or power these cables can send😇

Thanks in advance for your help.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1412361/flock-lawsuit-calls-out-alleged-law-enforcement-misuse-of-nationwide-license-plate-readi

The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split secure and non-secure execution, and you can permanently disable debug — …read more

Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards