ROCK AND STONE BABY (sh.itjust.works)
Help tell the Senate: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help Kids (act.eff.org)
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the...
Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe (arstechnica.com)
Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe::Parents told the high school “believed” the deepfake nudes were deleted.
Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)
Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.
Feels (lemmy.zip)
U.S. officials privately warn Israel to show restraint in retaliating against Hamas (www.nbcnews.com)
In meetings in Israel, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin conveyed to Israeli leaders that it’s important to observe international rules of warfare....
US accuses Google of illegal methods to push up ad prices (www.reuters.com)
Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide (arstechnica.com)
Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide::Report reveals details about Amazon’s secret algorithm redacted in FTC complaint.
Trump FCC Pick Nathan Simington Wants You To Think Net Neutrality Is A Secret Cabal By Big Tech To ‘Censor Conservatives’ (www.techdirt.com)
Five European countries boycott UEFA football tournament over Russian participation (euromaidanpress.com)
Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results (www.searchenginejournal.com)
Google is coming under scrutiny after people discovered transcripts of conversations with its AI chatbot are being indexed in search results....
Drake’s upset (sh.itjust.works)
The official Lord of the Rings special effects studio is making a cozy hobbit game (www.pcgamer.com)
95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report (petapixel.com)
🎂 The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary [TorrentFreak] (torrentfreak.com)
The Pirate Bay celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Founded in 2003 by a collective of hackers and activists, the small Swedish BitTorrent tracker grew to become a global icon for online piracy. The rebellious torrent site has a turbulent history and clashed with law enforcement authorities on multiple occasions. Despite these...
Lula says Putin will not be arrested at Brazil G20 meeting (www.aljazeera.com)
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not be arrested in Brazil if he attends the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year....
Whishper: a complete transcription suite. (github.com)
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Bolsonaro Wanted to Breach Brazil’s Voting System, Hacker Testifies (www.thedailybeast.com)
China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD (www.dw.com)
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet (www.bbc.com)
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus....
The Pentagon unveils $1.3 billion for Ukraine, bringing total new U.S. aid this week to $2.3 billion. (www.nytimes.com)
Police close road for 31 hours after sex doll mistaken for dead body dumped in woods (www.independent.co.uk)
Police closed off a road for two days to investigate a report of a dead body dumped in woods - only to find out it was a discarded sex doll....
Republican Jim Jordan's bid for speaker falling short in US House (www.reuters.com)
With voting underway, at least nine Republicans had cast ballots against his bid, likely leaving him short of the 217 votes he would need to win the job. More rounds of voting are expected if he does not prevail on the first vote....
Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)
Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....