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Frederic Jacobs
@FredericJacobs
Cryptographic & Security Engineering at Apple. Previously: helped start Signal, early Bellingcat contributor. Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social
Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭fredericjacobs.comJoined December 2008

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Venice🇮🇹 used to have the highest levels of air pollution from cruise ships in Europe... until a ban in 2021 caused it to drop to 41st place on the list 👏 Imagine what the rest of Europe’s coasts could look like with similar measures across EU ports.
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And the #AI Act is adopted! Glad to see so many ideas from in the final version, including the #OECD definition and an ambitious approach to regulatory sandboxes. On to trilogues ➡️
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The #AI Act was just voted & adopted by @Europarl_EN! ✅ This is a landmark first step towards the development of AI according to our democratic values. As @EP_Industry Rapporteur, proud to see the balance we have achieved between risk & innovation. The work continues. 💪
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Le même jour: - publication d’un dessin parfait de dans sur les décisions insensées du Conseil fédéral en matière de mobilité; - l’information selon laquelle le succès des trains de nuit en 2023 est énorme 👏🏻Il👏🏻faut👏🏻investir👏🏻massivement👏🏻dans👏🏻le👏🏻train👏🏻
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Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain. You can run but you can’t hide. Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25. Our teams will be ready for enforcement.
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You rock and ! Each time I hear from you, you bring science and medicine to another level. Now, you enable a paralyzed patient to use his brainpower to control his walking. I hope this will be widely available soon
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Amazon has abandoned one of its main climate commitments. Amazon's "Shipment Zero" pledge to make half of all shipments net-zero carbon by 2030 recently disappeared from its website... replaced by a little link to an update that says "we’ve decided to eliminate it."
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The year is 2024, Tesla Cybertrucks get a "Charlottesville autopilot" mode to run over protesters at the inauguration of Ron DeSantis.
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Self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk will have a formal role in the presidential announcement of Ron DeSantis, who has launched an aggressive crackdown on free speech in Florida K-12 schools, universities, and private businesses
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Feels surreal - and I are featured in Quanta Magazine today for our work on perfectly secure steganography (shout-out to our collaborators , and ) 😳
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Cryptography conceals the content of a message. Steganography conceals the fact that a secret exists at all. Human-generated media cannot hide messages with perfect security. A new proof shows that AI-generated media can. @StephenOrnes reports: quantamagazine.org/secret-message
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Sich vorbereiten heißt am Ende aber auch, bald etwas Konkretes zu tun. Bislang wird die europäische #Solarindustrie dafür bestraft, hier zu produzieren: wir zahlen weiterhin Zölle auf nicht-EU Komponenten, asiatische Importe von Solarmodulen sind zollfrei.
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A very good start. The first tender of the EU Energy Platform saw strong interest from both demand and supply side. Thanks to Task Force colleagues who have worked hard to make this happen with 🇪🇺🌱
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🆕 We've attracted > 13.4 bcm of gas in the 1st joint gas purchasing tender. Nothing short of a success. The @EU_Commission has played its role as aggregator and matchmaker. Now it's for the respective parties to conclude their agreements. 👉 ec.europa.eu/commission/pre
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Huge milestone at the European Parliament today! Despite structural issues with the risk based approach, the AI Act can be a win for human rights. The Parliament must enter trilogues with the strongest possible position to protect the rights of all people accessnow.org/press-release/
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In an enormous win for human rights, the @EP_SingleMarket & @EP_Justice committees have voted in favour of key amendments to improve the AI Act Key gaps remain, but this is big progress Here's our press release: accessnow.org/press-release/
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🚀‼️Commissioned by ESA, #Clearspace1 is the world's first mission to remove an existing piece of #SpaceDebris from orbit. It will demonstrate the technologies needed for debris removal, and is a first step to establishing a new and sustainable commercial sector in space.🛰️🗑️💙
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📣 Exciting news for the first active debris removal mission! ClearSpace just signed a contract with @Arianespace for the launch of its servicer spacecraft #ClearSpace1 with the European launcher Vega C. Watch video: loom.ly/Phq3fpY Read more: loom.ly/5ieHoNs
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Vu de l'étranger Tribune de J-F. Bayart, professeur en Suisse. La France est bel et bien en train de rejoindre le camp des démocraties illibérales. Emmanuel Macron vit dans une réalité parallèle et joue avec le feu.
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Social media posts claim to show demonstrations against Ukraine and NATO in Paris, Brussels, The Hague and beyond. Internal documents from Russian intelligence services, obtained by Le Monde and its partners, show that they were staged by Russia.
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What browser extensions is everyone using to block Twitter Blue accounts? I've been just blocking DOM elements with 1blocker, but am looking for something more flexible to allowlist some accounts and that would be less fragile than DOM filtering rules.
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