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23 July 2025

Next Level of fake videos - Veo 3

A.I. is increasing in leaps and bounds in what can be done with it.

As usual humans find ways to use technology for nefarious purposes.

Here is a benign example of a 'video' created totally by A.I.


This now at a new level, where can you truly tust what you see in 'social media' clips or even YouTube?

Source: László Gaál

17 July 2025

Apple's tax woes in Ireland are officially over


Apple's €14.3 billion Irish tax break fine is officially one for the history books now, as the Irish government has announced that it's withdrawn all the money from the escrow account Apple set up back in 2018. That's when it deposited the aforementioned sum after being fined by the European Commission (EC) for receiving unfair tax breaks from Ireland.

The amount is judged to be what Apple would have paid in taxes in Ireland had it not received a "sweetheart deal" in the form of "illegal state aid" from the Irish government in exchange for setting up its European HQ in the country.

Now that Ireland has moved the money from the escrow account into its central fund, the escrow account has been closed and Apple's saga regarding these back taxes allegedly owed can finally be put to rest.

The timeline goes like this: in 2013 the EC launched an investigation into Apple and found that the tax breaks it received from Ireland were illegal, and in 2016 it ruled that Apple had to pay back the "state aid" it was deemed to have received over a 10-year period before the probe was launched, since it was allegedly given "significant advantage" over its competitors.

In 2018, Apple set up the escrow account and paid the amount it was deemed to owe into it. In 2020, the EU's General Court ruled in Apple's favor, but in 2024, the European Court of Justice overturned that decision and confirmed the EC's original ruling from 2016. Hence why the Irish government has now finally taken possession of the money.

Source:  (Department of Finance) www.gov.ie

04 July 2025

Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle


Google just lost the class action suit against it in California – the suit was filed on behalf of an estimated 14 million Californians in 2019 and alleged $800 million in damages over Android phones collecting and transmitting data to Google while idle.

The jury sided with the plaintiffs and awarded them $314.6 million (that’s almost pi!). More specifically, Android phones collected data that would be used for targeted advertising and transmitted it to Google’s servers over cellular data – at the phone owner’s expense.


Google will appeal this verdict as it claims that users were not harmed by these data transfers and that users consented to this when they agreed to Google’s terms of service and privacy policies. A spokesperson for the company stated that the verdict “misunderstands services that are critical to the security, performance, and reliability of Android devices”.

Another group has filed a separate lawsuit, this time on behalf of Android users in the other 49 US states – this trial will begin in April.

Source: retuers

25 June 2025

LIES about fuel price, cost before and after US attack on Iran


People in corporations and governments lie to the general population every single day, where the lies will never stop.

Those in government have preplanned agendas that even span decades where the serfs are none the wiser, pity.



On Monday, the 23rd of June 2025, Rupert Murdoch’s publication mentioned that NRMA spokesperson stated that “drivers likely to pay 8 cents more a litre when fuelling up".


One would expect that to be nationwide, albeit a small difference from one state or territory.

On that day, in Melbourne unleaded fuel was 159.9 c/litre as seen by the receipt below, where certain identifying factors have been blocked out:



After the US attack on Iran, the price of fuel from the same supplier skyrocketed, or rather the motorists were bombed with a price of 219.9 cents per litre, as seen in the headline photo above.

That is an increase of 60 cents per litre or a 37.5% price hike.

The good motorists of Australia are being extored to pay for an overseas attack on another country with full support of this by our colonial govenrment.

Australia, the 'lucky' country... NOT!

22 June 2025

16 billion password data breach hits Apple, Google, Facebook and more — LIVE updates and how to stay safe


Latest updates on one of the largest data breaches

The news of a massive 16 billion data breach that exposed login credentials from Apple, Google, Facebook has made record as one of the largest data breaches in history.

Cybernews reports that records from over 30 databases have been stolen, with each containing up to 3.5 billion passwords from social media and VPN logins to corporate platforms and developer platforms.

Here are the latest updates on what we know about the data breach, how to find out if you're affected and how to stay safe.

What's exposed?

Currently, nearly all major platforms have been affected by the breach, including Apple accounts (formerly Apple IDs), Gmail, Facebook accounts and GitHub as well as instant messaging platforms like Telegram and both commercial and government platform portals.

The data appears to contain URLs, usernames and passwords. However, with the unfathomable size of the data that's been exposed, there's no way to tell how many accounts are currently under threat.

The stolen data appears to come from several infostealers, and while the datasets are new, the sheer amount of info could also be from a mix of different datasets from previous breaches, including a database containing 184 million records discovered in May this year.

How to stay safe



With the 16 billion login credentials now being exposed, it's important to check if your account has been exposed and to stay safe.

First, the best way to keep your account secure is to enable two-factor authentication (2FA). This will stop threat actors from easily accessing your online accounts, as a second form of authentication through an app, phone, passcode or a physical USB key will need to be approved by you. If you haven't already, find out how to enable 2FA right now.

Second, to find out if your login credentials have been affected, use Have I Been Pwned and check if your email is in the clear. If you are at risk, immediately change your password, delete unused accounts and consider using one of the best password managers to secure your online accounts.

Source:tomsguide


12 June 2025

With Android 16 upgrade Google should be sued under anti-competative law!

Google is again engaging in anti-competative or in the United States, antitrust behaviour, which is against the law.

With this new action Google is getting rid of ALL competitors, where Android phones must run through Google (it's about 'forcing' the licencing of GMS (Google Mobile Services)), where they are not able to function under AOSP (Android Open Source Project), such as Lingeage OS and GraphenOS.

AOSP is a baseline operating system of Android which manufacturers (e.g Samsung, Motorola, Huawei, etc) use before they load up their hardware with their spyware bloated version of Android.

Lingeage and Graphene, are among a few custom open source Android operating systems called ROMs, that do not have highly invasive 'spyware' that Google and other phone manufaturers (e.g. Samsung) install on their phones, which can be a danger to people's lives where they require privacy or anonimity as a result of their job or for other reasons.

The tech and legal communites MUST take action against Google's latest 'illegal' practice.

Whether they will, is another story that time will tell.

See a Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems:

Most of these ROMs are privacy (and security) focused, where Google's actions are an attack on user's privacy and therefore security.

Google is deliberately killing off AOSP.

At the end of the day it's all about data collection by the giants Google and Apple, where the latest actions by Google are part of the global 'Nanny State' agenda where only duopoly powerhouses exist.

If you truly value your privacy, then Google products are not the ones that you will achieve privacy with.

See the following article by androidpolice.com of the following headline:

Google’s latest AOSP move spells doom for custom ROMs on Pixel phones


In March of this year, Google revealed it is changing its Android development process and will no longer make real-time code commits to public AOSP branches. The change barely had any public or development impact. But now, with the release of Android 16, Google is making a bigger change to AOSP that will affect the development of custom ROMs for Pixels.

For years, Google used its Pixel phones as reference devices for AOSP development. As part of this, the company also published the device trees and driver binaries, ensuring that developers could compile a fully working AOSP build of Android for Pixels. Custom ROM developers also relied on the same device trees and driver binaries to ensure core features worked properly in their ROMs.

This won't be the case going forward, though. While Google has already published the Android 16 source code, it won't be releasing the device trees and driver binaries for compatible Pixel phones. The Graphene OS team initially claimed that Google made this change as it planned to discontinue AOSP entirely.

However, Seang Chau, VP and GM of Android Platform, refuted such rumors and provided a clearer picture (via Android Authority). He made it clear that Google is not doing away with AOSP. But going forward, AOSP will use a reference target device "that is flexible, configurable, and affordable — independent of any particular hardware, including those from Google." And so, Google is switching from Pixels to Cuttlefish — a virtual Android device— as the reference AOSP device. Since it's a virtual platform, developers can run Cuttlefish remotely or locally.

Custom ROM development for Pixel phones just got a lot more difficult                


This move from Google will change the custom ROM development scene for Pixel phones forever.

 Unlike other Android devices, device trees and binaries made it relatively easier for developers to build ROMs for Pixel devices.

Without them, they would have to reverse-engineer prebuilt binaries to find out the changes that Google made — a challenging and time-consuming process. The lack of kernel source code commit history from Google only adds to the complexity.

Think of these device trees and binaries as the Android equivalent of drivers on a Windows PC — they ensure the operating system can properly communicate with the device's hardware.

Google's latest changes to AOSP will have a major impact if you run LineageOS or another custom ROM on your Pixel. That's a dwindling number, though, as custom ROMs are no longer as popular as they once were. Still, it's a major setback for leading custom ROM projects, like LineageOS and GrapheneOS.

See other related articles:

Privacy-Focused GrapheneOS Warns Google Is Locking Down Android

09 June 2025

Android’s Impossible Deadline—3 Weeks To Update Or Stop Using Phones


A tricky dilemma for Android users this week, as both Google and Samsung release this month’s Pixel and Galaxy security updates with critical missing fixes. And with a June 24 deadline to secure phones or power them down, something needs to give. There are 30-plus important fixes that have been released, but not the ones that matter most.

The fixes are long-awaited patches from Qualcomm, which warns Android users that “there are indications from Google Threat Analysis Group that CVE-2025-21479, CVE-2025-21480, CVE-2025-27038 may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” The flaw affects Adreno Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) drivers.

It is assumed but not known that exploitation would have been used in commercial spyware software, similar to the well publicized attacks outed by Amnesty International. Qualcomm says patches “have been made available to OEMs in May together with a strong recommendation to deploy the update on affected devices as soon as possible.”

The deadline which comes courtesy of America’s cyber defense agency is mandatory for federal staff and recommended for everyone else. CISA warns “multiple Qualcomm chipsets contain” these vulnerabilities, which it describes as follows:

  • CVE-2025-27038: “A use-after-free vulnerability. This vulnerability allows for memory corruption while rendering graphics using Adreno GPU drivers in Chrome.”
  • CVE-2025-21480: “An incorrect authorization vulnerability. This vulnerability allows for memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in GPU micronode while executing specific sequence of commands.”
  • CVE-2025-21479: “An incorrect authorization vulnerability. This vulnerability allows for memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in GPU micronode while executing specific sequence of commands.”

CISA has slapped a 21-day mandatory deadline on federal agency employees to update phones by June 24 “or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.” Right now, the window for June’s security updates has been missed, which means absent an out-of-band update that deadline will also be missed.

In the past, we have seen such updates make their way to Pixel faster than Galaxy, with Samsung phones lagging. The company warns patches from chipset vendors “may not be included in the security update package of the month. They will be included in upcoming security update packages as soon as the patches are ready to deliver.”

This plays into the challenge for Samsung in working around an OS and ecosystem it dominates but doesn’t control. In that regard, the more pressing issue for its users will be the speed with which Android 16 via One UI 8 reaches their phones. With a Pixel timeline expected any day now, the gap between the two phones will be critical.

While CISA’s deadline is only mandatory for federal staff, its remit is to operate “for the benefit of the cybersecurity community and network defenders — and to help every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity.” As such all users are urged to install these Qualcomm updates as soon as they’re available.

Source:Forbes

13 May 2025

VCAT review Google will not allow you to see

If you think of 'influencers' forget the Kardashians and other low lives, where they pale in comparison to the world's largest influencer, Google.

The people in Google have rigged the results to give you a biased response based on political agendas set buy governments of the day, or political ideologies that will span generations.

You may not even find the information you require about a certain nation that is denying another nation's people the basic human right to food, water, electricity or even healthcare while the world stands by doing absolutely nothing or rather condoning these war crimes.

Google has allowed a review to be allegedly posted to the internet with regards to a corrupt place of business called Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).


The poster believes that the review is posted as it looks like it's in with all the other reviews, but this could not be further from the truth.

Google deliberately falsifies certain realities, where factually there is no 'freedom of speech' under any amendment or so called democratic right.

The online world is a fascist state, speech muzzled by a corporatocracy subservient to the most powerful players in the world.

There is no above shown 'review' the world sees as shown in the screenshot below:


Google's so called motto "Don;t be evil" is a farce, as it is evil, by conceling the exposure of corrupt organisation like VCAT.

'Consumers' of Google are getting ripped off, as they are not getting factual unbiased information from the world's largest advertising conglomerate.

We live in an (online) 'Nanny State'.


05 May 2025

(Deliberate?) Misinformation on the 'Best' Phone to Avoid Government Surveillance

There are many websites on the internet that provide people with false or deliberately misleading information.

This also goes for people that are on 'social media' sites, like Facebook, Instagram et al.

In this example an, ex-CIA agent who has a YouTube channel Jason Hanson, claims that the best phone to avoid government surveillance is a satellite phone or 'sat phone'.

How a sat phone works


As the name suggests, a sat phone starts off is communications to a satellite, where this goes to another suitable satellite, then the communications going to an 'Earth Station' where then it goes through a local network to a mobile or a landline.

Now, with regards to the FiveEyes surveillance network, all communications are logged whether it be landline or mobile, where it is also known to the authorities that a particular phone is communicating with a sat phone.

Since there are not as many sat phones as there are mobiles, they are easier to keep tabs on which the authorities do.

Also irrespective of where you are calling from, only the local exchange where the Earth Station connects to has to be monitored, where each sat phone does not need to be infiltrated or targetted.

Also the comments (182) at the time of this post, reflect the sentiment that a sat phone is not the best phone to avoid govenrment surveillance.

Some of which are:

"Bro, WTF!! I'm retired USAF and came from a SIGINT aviation background. Iridium sat phones are the easiest to listen in. They are largely un-encrypted, and even a hobbyist with some open source software and an SDR can listen to them. The USG and other countries have programs that constantly monitor them and can triangulate the signal very easily. LTE burner phones are much easier to slip away in the noise and much harder to decode in a raw RF environment. I guess this guy slept through his SIGINT courses in the CIA"

"Plot twist: This guy is actually working for the govt. And his tips make it way easier for the govt. To track you and tap your calls."

"SAT phones require KYC (Know Your Customer). Also, the easiest way for the government to find you is to monitor the phones of anyone you would call. SAT phones also have IMSI/IMEI numbers, GPS, etc. No phone at all is the way to go."

"A pigeon is one of the most secure methods of communication."


See entire video:


26 April 2025

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars

Documentary Film by Michael Rivero, 2016.

The United States fought the American Revolution primarily over King George III's Currency act, which forced the colonists to conduct their business only using printed bank notes borrowed from the Bank of England at interest.

After the revolution, the new United States adopted a radically different economic system in which the government issued its own value-based money, so that private banks like the Bank of England were not siphoning off the wealth of the people through interest-bearing bank notes.

But bankers are nothing if not dedicated to their schemes to acquire your wealth, and know full well how easy it is to corrupt a nation's leaders.

Just one year after Mayer Amschel Rothschild had uttered his infamous "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws", the bankers succeeded in setting up a new Private Central Bank called the First Bank of the United States, largely through the efforts of the Rothschild's chief US supporter, Alexander Hamilton.


Also available on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v4pe3wl-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html

06 April 2025

Human right to adequate housing - Housing is a right, not a comodity.

The United Nations Human Rights Office of the Commissioner has put out a report on the right to adequate housing.

The Australian Government has installed a 'housing crisis' on the good people of Australia, where there is not enough housing for Australian citizens as a result of the government's policy to over import immigrants into the colony.

The Australian government is in breach of the human right to adequate housing.

So what are Australia's so called top legal minds/law firms, doing about it?

Why nothing of course, as they are protecting their brethren in government and of course 'the economy'.

Australia is a 'member state' of the United Nations since the 1st of November 1945.

The Office Of The High Commissioner states the following on the human right to adequate housing:

Housing is the basis of stability and security for an individual or family. The centre of our social, emotional and sometimes economic lives, a home should be a sanctuary—a place to live in peace, security and dignity.

Housing is a right, not a commodity


Manhattan - New York

Increasingly viewed as a commodity, housing is most importantly a human right. Under international law, to be adequately housed means having secure tenure—not having to worry about being evicted or having your home or lands taken away. It means living somewhere that is in keeping with your culture, and having access to appropriate services, schools, and employment.

Too often violations of the right to housing occur with impunity. In part, this is because, at the domestic level, housing is rarely treated as a human right. The key to ensuring adequate housing is the implementation of this human right through appropriate government policy and programmes, including national housing strategies.

Evictions and displacement

Climate change, natural disasters and armed conflict pose a threat to the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing and displace every year millions. Infrastructure development, hydro-power dams, and mega-events, such as Olympic Games or football World Cups, should contribute to the realization of the right to adequate housing and not undermine it.

Housing and real estate markets worldwide have been transformed by global capital markets and financial excess. Known as the financialization of housing, the phenomenon occurs when housing is treated as a commodity – a vehicle for wealth and investment rather than a social good.

Equality and non-discrimination

While revenues from real estate have accumulated, our cities have become increasingly unaffordable. In many countries women, religious and ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, migrants and refugees face discrimination in relation to housing or live in the most appalling conditions. Spatial segregation excludes many residents from equal access to public services, education, transportation and other opportunities. Local Governments are often at the forefront of the struggle for housing and can play a key role in protecting and realizing the right to adequate housing.

Homelessness and informal settlements

More than 1.8 billion people live in informal settlements or inadequate housing with limited access to essential services such as water and sanitation, electricity and are often under threat of forced eviction. And one of the most severe violations of the right to adequate housing—homelessness—has been on a steep increase in many economically advanced countries.

Building back better

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for everyone to have a safe home to shelter. The economic crisis that followed will see many people unable to pay their rent or mortgage. National, regional and local governments need to prevent a new disastrous wave of evictions and urgently address discriminatory patterns of social exclusion in the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing. Only together we can ensure that nobody will be left behind.

The right to adequate housing in human rights law

Adequate housing was recognized as part of the right to an adequate standard of living in article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in article 11.1 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Other international human rights treaties have since recognized or referred to the right to adequate housing or some elements of it, such as the protection of one’s home and privacy.  

The right to adequate housing is relevant to all States, as they have all ratified at least one international treaty referring to adequate housing and committed themselves to protecting the right to adequate housing through international declarations, plans of action or conference outcome documents. Various international treaties and declarations referring to the right to adequate housing are available at the following link. 

The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has underlined that the right to adequate housing should not be interpreted narrowly. Rather, it should be seen as the right to live somewhere in security, peace and dignity. The characteristics of the right to adequate housing are clarified mainly in the Committee’s general comments No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing and No. 7 (1997) on forced evictions.  

The right to adequate housing contains freedoms.

These freedoms include:

  • Protection against forced evictions and the arbitrary destruction and demolition of one’s home;
  • The right to be free from arbitrary interference with one’s home, privacy and family; and
  • The right to choose one’s residence, to determine where to live and to freedom of movement.

The right to adequate housing contains entitlements.

These entitlements include:

  • Security of tenure;
  • Housing, land and property restitution;
  • Equal and non-discriminatory access to adequate housing; and
  • Participation in housing-related decision-making at the national and community levels.

Key elements of the right to adequate housing

Adequate housing must provide more than four walls and a roof. A number of conditions must be met before particular forms of shelter can be considered to constitute “adequate housing.” These elements are just as fundamental as the basic supply and availability of housing. For housing to be adequate, it must, at a minimum, meet the following criteria:

  • Security of tenure: Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have a degree of tenure security which guarantees legal protection against forced evictions, harassment and other threats.
  • Availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure: Housing is not adequate if its occupants do not have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, energy for cooking, heating, lighting, food storage or refuse disposal.
  • Affordability: Housing is not adequate if its cost threatens or compromises the occupants’ enjoyment of other human rights.
  • Habitability: Housing is not adequate if it does not guarantee physical safety or provide adequate space, as well as protection against the cold, damp, heat, rain, wind, other threats to health and structural hazards.
  • Accessibility: Housing is not adequate if the specific needs of disadvantaged and marginalized groups are not taken into account.
  • Location: Housing is not adequate if it is cut off from employment opportunities, health-care services, schools, childcare centres and other social facilities, or if located in polluted or dangerous areas.
  • Cultural adequacy: Housing is not adequate if it does not respect and take into account the expression of cultural identity.

See the OCCHR Fact Sheet on the right to adequate housing:



20 March 2025

Next level surveillance: Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28


Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices.

In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with “Do Not Send Voice Recordings," which is supported by the Echo (4th Gen), Echo Show 15, and Echo Show 10, enabled. Starting on March 28, recordings of every command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud.

Attempting to rationalize the change, Amazon’s email said:

As we continue to expand Alexa’s capabilities with generative AI features that rely on the processing power of Amazon’s secure cloud, we have decided to no longer support this feature.

One of the most marketed features of Alexa+ is its more advanced ability to recognize who is speaking to it, a feature known as Alexa Voice ID. To accommodate this feature, Amazon is eliminating a privacy-focused capability for all Echo users, even those who aren’t interested in the subscription-based version of Alexa or want to use Alexa+ but not its ability to recognize different voices.

 However, there are plenty of reasons people wouldn't want Amazon to receive recordings of what they say to their personal device. For one, the idea of a conglomerate being able to listen to personal requests made in your home is, simply, unnerving.

Further, Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever. Adults also didn’t feel properly informed of Amazon’s inclination to keep Alexa recordings unless prompted not to until 2019—five years after the first Echo came out.

If that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.

Other reasons people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations that it allowed "thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers' private spaces" taken from Ring cameras, per the Federal Trade Commission.

Save recordings or lose functionality

Likely looking to get ahead of these concerns, Amazon said in its email today that by default, it will delete recordings of users’ Alexa requests after processing. However, anyone with their Echo device set to “Don’t save recordings” will see their already-purchased devices’ Voice ID feature bricked. Voice ID enables Alexa to do things like share user-specified calendar events, reminders, music, and more. Previously, Amazon has said that "if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work." As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don't let Amazon store their voice recordings.

Amazon's email says:

Alexa voice requests are always encrypted in transit to Amazon’s secure cloud, which was designed with layers of security protections to keep customer information safe. Customers can continue to choose from a robust set of controls by visiting the Alexa Privacy dashboard online or navigating to More > Alexa Privacy in the Alexa app.

Amazon is forcing Echo users to make a couple of tough decisions: Grant Amazon access to recordings of everything you say to Alexa or stop using an Echo; let Amazon save voice recordings and have employees listen to them or lose a feature set to become more advanced and central to the next generation of Alexa.

However, Amazon is betting big that Alexa+ can dig the voice assistant out of a financial pit. Amazon has publicly committed to keeping the free version of Alexa around, but Alexa+ is viewed as Amazon's last hope for keeping Alexa alive and making it profitable. Anything Amazon can do to get people to pay for Alexa takes precedence over other Alexa user demands, including, it seems, privacy.

This article was updated to list the Echo devices that support local processing of Alexa requests. 

arstechnica

ALL part of the global 'Nanny State' agenda.

12 March 2025

Samsung’s lies on battery capacity


Corporations, or rather people in multinational corporations lie to their ‘consumers’, public or general population every single day, and they’re allowed to get away with it.

From automotive manufacturers on fuel economy to smartphone manufacturers they put out ‘optimistic’ or rather ‘deliberately inaccurate figures in relation to the performance of their devices, and the regulatory ‘industry’ is silent on this, as it’s all about consumerism.

So in this example, Samsung’s new Galaxy S25 Edge has a battery rated capacity of 3,786mAh, which apparently ‘translates’ into a marketed value of 3,900mAh.


Why not a ‘marketed’ value of 3,800mAh?

Because 3,900 sounds closer to 4,000 than 3,800?

Many may say that it’s trivial, but that is not the point, as the ‘marketing’ is quite simply put false information, irrespective of the production percentage error from battery to battery.

28 February 2025

Mozilla has a "license" to all of your data from Firefox now.

This is big news in the 'browser' world.


As a result of the above notice by Mozilla, there was a bit of backlash, 

so then there was an update notice:


Mozilla then went on to explain in their notice:


Did Mozilla disclose to you that they own an advertising company called Anonym, no?


To make matters worse if someone stated that Mozilla was apolitical, they'd be lying.

See:



Do you STILL want you use Firefox?

27 February 2025

Apple no longer secure in the UK, Australia next?

The ‘motherland’ has ordered corporations like Apple to put backdoors into its encryption service, to obviously catch all the terrorists and also criminals on Epstein’s list, right?


Don't be silly of course not! It's to surveil the crap out of the serfs/plebs/commoners.

NOTHING to do with the global elite criminals, they stay untouched.

According to Apple, rather complying with this order and compromising it’s ADP (Advanced Data Protection), it states that it will removed it altogether.

BUT there this one fundamental problem.

Corporations and governments lie, or rather people in governments and corpoations lie to the people their 'consumers' every single day where NDAs (Non Disclosure Agreements) rule between the corporations and governments, which technically are a corporations aggregate.

Another problem is that Apple’s operating system and programs (or apps) and are closed source, therefore no one can factually check if there isn’t or wasn’t a backdoor in the operating system, or the likes of SS7 Protocol.

If you truly value your privacy and security, then Apple products are not recommended to be used, where open source programs and operating systems on personal computers and smartphones are a batter alternative.

In any event it's all about the global nanny state agenda and an attack on people's so called right to 'free speech', together with the surveillance of the masses in order to monitor then modify their behaviour.

As we all should know, Australia is part of the FiveEyes ‘Anglosphere’ global surveillance network.

Whatever the ‘bosses’ say, the subservient follows, is how it goes here in this colony.

Who are these bosses?

The likes of, but not limited to; the UN, WEF, WHO, IMF, BlackRock, Vanguard and many other 'faceless men' that the serfs are not allowed to know about.

Australians live under a police state, a regime where ‘free speech’ now lives in a museum, as of the passing of a new law in both houses.

Kim Jong-Un, we're knocking on your door, no thanks to people's silence equalling acquiescence.

26 February 2025

How banks have deliberately compromised your account security


In certain circles, banks and financial services institutions are regarded as the world’s largest criminal organisations.

After all, they not only obtain money printed out of thin air, but also transfer this to tangible assets, where if you (the serf) were to do the same you’d be charged for fraud.

The above is what fiat currency is a described by the Australian Oxford Dictionary in 2010.

One of the worst parts about financial fraud is that governemnts worldwide 'support' this action.

In Australia, there was this farcical action called the Royal Commission into Misconduct in Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry in 2017-2019, where not one of the over 10,000 applicants received a remedy.

That is how corrupt and supportive the 'brotherhood' in the Australian government is of the criminal actions of the 'banksters'. 



The push for governments and corporations to leave behind the paper world, including physical cash, is for the cheaper administration of the plebs/serfs/commoners/corporate (nee cannon) fodder, where data aggregation is the ultimate goal.

People are sold a deliberate lie for going cashless.

Using ‘plastic’ or cards, is marketed as being secure and easier and quicker to use than cash, i.e. more convenient for the shopper/consumer.



In an earlier iteration of the card, a swipe was the method at the terminal where a magnetic strip was read by the terminal.

Sure there were problems with this as we all should comprehend that technology is not infalable.

As technology progressed, the next phase using an RFID was marketed as more secure and even quicker method as it was a 'tap and go' action, where the ‘more secure’ is a deliberate lie.

ANY so called Information Technology security expert should know that RFID is easily hackable, where those institutions that have implemented this and put it out into the consumer world would have known about this.

Sure more tech savvy people will say that this threat can be mitigated by purchasing a 'RFID wallet', but that is not the point as by default the card is less secure, when given to the customer in its original format.

See article from 2015:

RFID Credit Cards: What you don’t know WILL hurt you!

A card skimmer may not be that easy to spot at an ATM.

So why did they compromise your security?

For the sake of convenience, so that it would be even easier than before for you to go cashless.

Soon there may be no cash, no cards just access to numbers in a so called 'account' via, the next most 'secure' thing that being biometrics.

All part of the Order of the New World.

You'll own nothing and be happy (if you're brainwashed), thanks Klaus!

P.S. on the topic of 'consumers', the (Victorian) government considers 'native' Australians that are recipients of the government's health care businesses as 'consumers' as seen in the following screencapture:


03 February 2025

Lex Fridman another internet fraud?

There are too many people nowadays who are not what they portray to be.


It's too easy today to forge a fraudulent identity online where people pretend to be what they're not.

From 'social media's' 'influencers' to to finance and business 'gurus' (e.g. Robert Kiyosaki, of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame) to so called professionals in academia.

This can all come crashing to an end when some people start doing a 'deep dive' into who you really are.

Let's take a closer look at Lex Fridman, where a Wikipedia post says the following at the time of this writing:

Lex Fridman (/ˈfrdmən/; born 15 August 1983) is an American computer scientist and podcaster. Since 2018, he has hosted the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he interviews notable figures from various fields such as science, technology, sports, and politics.

Fridman rose to prominence in 2019 after Elon Musk praised a study Fridman authored at MIT, which concluded that drivers remained focused while using Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system. The study was criticized by AI experts and was not peer-reviewed.[4][5] That year Fridman transitioned to an unpaid role at MIT AgeLab,[4] and since 2023 has worked as a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).[6]

Early life and education

Alexey Alexandrovich Fridman was born in Chkalovsk, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic and grew up in Moscow.[7][4] He is Jewish.[8] His father, Alexander Fridman, is a plasma physicist and professor at Drexel University. His brother Gregory was also a professor at Drexel.[4]

When he was about 11, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Fridman's family moved from Russia to the Chicago area.[4][9] He attended Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois.[10] He then went on to obtain B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science at Drexel University in 2010,[11] and completed his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Drexel in 2014.[12] His PhD dissertation, Learning of Identity from Behavioral Biometrics for Active Authentication, was completed under the advisement of engineering educators Moshe Kam and Steven Weber and sought to "investigate the problem of active authentication on desktop computers and mobile devices".[13]

Career

MIT

In 2014, Fridman was hired by Google to continue his dissertation work on the use of AI for identity authentication, but left the company after only six months stating that he prefers the "chaos of research and the academic environment".[12] In 2015, he moved to MIT's AgeLab to work on "psychology and big-data analytics to understand driver behavior."[4]

In 2019, Fridman published a non-peer-reviewed study about Tesla Autopilot finding that drivers using semi-autonomous vehicles stayed focused, contrasting with established research on how humans interact with automated systems. Following his Tesla Autopilot study, Fridman was flown to Tesla offices for an interview with Elon Musk. Fridman's study on Tesla Autopilot was criticized for its methodology by Missy Cummings, a professor at Duke University and advisor for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who described it as "deeply flawed". AI researcher Anima Anandkumar suggested Fridman should submit his study for peer review before seeking press coverage.[4][5] Following the interview with Musk, viewings of his podcast episodes increased significantly. The study was later removed from MIT's website.[4]

Following the publication of the study, he left AgeLab and took up an unpaid role in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[4] As of 2023, he is a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).[6][14]

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But is is true what the wikipedia article states?

Some people even threathen to sue Wikipedia, if the truth is 'unflattering' to them, or maybe if it just hurts their feelings.

Telstra's CEO Solomon Trujillo, threatened to sue Wikipedia, where someone public the truth redarding his business dealings in the United States before he 'fled' to Australia to become head of a Telecom's giant. 

See article: https://solomontrujillo.blogspot.com/ which is different from today's Wikipedia page on "Sol Trujillo", where there is no 'Controversies' section, how convenient.

Let's see what a couple of people have to say about Mr. Fridman.

Is Lex Fridman a FRAUD?: (12m19s)


The Dangerous Truth of Lex Fridman: (14m08s)