Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
EU to charge Apple under Digital Markets Act, impose a fine of up to $50 million per day - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Mobile games company Voodoo acquires BeReal (techcrunch.com)
[Gamers Nexus] Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face (www.youtube.com)
oh shit!...
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns (arstechnica.com)
"So the cop was tracking random people off social media using this incredibly invasive technology, on a pretty regular basis."...
He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies (www.npr.org)
Company he works at eternos.life
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship....
False promise of biometrics: Digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost while making fortunes for tech vendors, investigations finds (www.lighthousereports.com)
Some of the world’s poorest countries have been investing heavily in digital ID systems which it is claimed will deliver democratic and development dividends. Africa has been at the forefront of this push supported by the World Bank, UN agencies and the international community. Some of Africa’s most fragile states have been...
US lawmakers grill Microsoft president over China ties, hacks (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal emails by hacking the firm....
How Data-Fueled Neurotargeting Could Kill Democracy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Left unchecked, the technique, which weaponizes emotional data for political gain, could erode the foundations of a fair and informed society....
SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon (fosstodon.org)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/14579120...
Microsoft "accepts responsibility" for issues raised in report on Chinese hacking against U.S. targets as officials start to lose trust in the company's ability to secure its service (www.axios.com)
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[Gamers Nexus] "Is AMD (Radeon) Actually Screwed?" ft. Steve of Hardware Unboxed (www.youtube.com)
The Steves converge…
This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created (www.howtogeek.com)
Why data is being stored in glass and holograms (www.bbc.com)
In a former wallpaper factory in Chiswick, west London, a start-up firm has been developing a long-term storage system that uses lasers to burn tiny holograms into a light-sensitive polymer....
Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory (electrek.co)
Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming (electrek.co)
A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon (arxiv.org)
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BusKill Warrant Canary for 2024 H2 🕵️ (www.buskill.in)
This post contains a canary message that’s cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key...
Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee (sherwood.news)
“…For Nvidia, after this latest run-up took it north of the $3T milestone, the company is being valued at more than $100M for each of its 29,600 employees (per its filing that counted up to the end of Jan 2024)....
[Gamers Nexus] HW News - NVIDIA Antitrust Investigation, AMD GPUs Hurting, be quiet! Light Base Case (www.youtube.com)
The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)
China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says (arstechnica.com)
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....