Huawei sues chip maker MediaTek for patent infringement (www.gizmochina.com)
Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract (www.niemanlab.org)
A Critical Reading list on Tech && (Politics × Society × Ethics) (github.com)
Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows (www.404media.co)
Security researchers criticize Microsoft over handling of bug reports (www.zerodayinitiative.com)
Edit for an addition: If you are interested in the technical details of this bug, you can read about it here....
Meta tells court it won’t sue over Facebook feed-killing tool—yet (arstechnica.com)
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Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/889819...
Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)
‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.com)
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Open Letter: "The European Union must keep funding free software" (nextgraph.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/859623...
Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
Swedish digital forensic group Qurium shows how Russia is using European companies for propaganda (www.qurium.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/836852...
Dont know about you but i pray for open source to save us (youtu.be)
[Asianometry] The Big Data Center Water Problem (www.youtube.com)
What are your favorite browser extensions?
Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything....
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/536301...
Investigation platform Bellingcat warns of ‘censorship’ on X after research on Russian attack on children's hospital in Kyiv is labeled spam (therecord.media)
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China: Tech giant Baidu’s mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate after a vehicle ran into a pedestrian in Wuhan last Sunday (www.sixthtone.com)
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'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.com)
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....