EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register (go.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....
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (arstechnica.com)
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com)
Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say (gizmodo.com)
Quieting Discord: A new frontier in military leaks and extremism (www.navytimes.com)
Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber) - LowEndBox (lowendbox.com)
William Weber, a LowEndTalk member, was raided by Austrian police in 2012 for operating a Tor exit node that was allegedly used to distribute child pornography. While he was not arrested, many of his computers and devices were confiscated. He was later found guilty of supporting the distribution of child pornography through his...
China’s relentless e-commerce price war leaves sellers struggling to make ends meet as shopping platforms compete with ever-more aggressive policies and a domestic economy slowing down (theadvisermagazine.com)
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Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car (archive.ph)
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
Meta's CrowdTangle, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear in August as elections take place worldwide. Its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. (www.cjr.org)
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Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (www.404media.co)
Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
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AMD to acquire Finnish startup Silo AI for $665 mln to step up in AI race (www.reuters.com)
Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? (www.aljazeera.com)
Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X (www.cyber.gc.ca)
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[Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (www.npr.org)
It’s so easy to sanitize tech stories about murder weapons. Just say “Ukraine” in the title!
First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers (arstechnica.com)
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Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
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The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)
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The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
Despite Paramount Global’s corporate decision to purge MTV News’ online content (as well as that of Comedy Central, TVLand and CMT), much of the site has been resurrected on the Internet Archive, which now offers “a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published at mtv.com/news.”
Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says (www.propublica.org)
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