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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)

I created an app where you can share your thoughts fully anonymously and vote for the weekly "Thought of Humanity" (www.toh-social.app)

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China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor, Rights Group Says (www.hrw.org)

Global carmakers, including General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being used in their aluminum supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today....

‘Significant security loophole’ found in Google software container system (therecord.media)

The issue affected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a system used to deploy, scale and manage how applications are “containerized.” GKE — the tech giant’s implementation of the open-source Kubernetes project — is used widely in healthcare, education, retail and financial services for data processing as well as...

U.S., police used Clearview AI facial recognition in arrest of homeless man (reason.com)

Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the U.S., but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down....

[History] 1 February 1988: "Perl, a 'replacement' for awk and sed, Part01/10" (usenet.trashworldnews.com)

‘The tide has turned’: why parents are suing US social media firms after their children’s death (www.theguardian.com)

While social media firms have long faced scrutiny from Congress and civil rights organizations over their impact on young users, the new wave of lawsuits underscores how parents are increasingly leading the charge, said Jim Steyer, an attorney and founder of Common Sense media, a non-profit that advocates for children’s online...

I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy (www.theverge.com)

On Amazon, I searched for “OpenAI policy” and boy, did I get results! I’m not entirely sure what this green thing is but I’ve been assured that it will “Boost your productivity with our high-performance [product name], designed to deliver-fast results and handle demanding tasks efficiently, ensuring you stay of the...

How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse (plasticbag.org)

Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH (lists.mindrot.org)

iOS 17.3 Beta 2 is reportedly causing some iPhones to boot loop (www.ghacks.net)

Citrix faces class-action suit after 36 million users’ data exposed in Xfinity breach (www.sun-sentinel.com)

Polycentric is an Open-source distributed social network - Similar in some ways to Nostr (beehaw.org)

I’ve not done an in-depth look at this network but reading through their documentation shows it has a lot of similarity to the basics of the Nostr protocol and network. There is just not as much information available on the Polycentric site as there is already for Nostr. Nostr is also censorship resistant, with distributed...

New Huawei Phone Shows China Continues Bypassing Biden's Chip Embargoes (www.freedomsphoenix.com)

Good for them!

US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs (www.theregister.com)

Really liked this article about the monopolies in the mail industry (cfenollosa.com)

I’m sure the email I sent to an academics using proton has gone in the spam. :( too bad

How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop (www.theregister.com)

European Parliament Just Approved Fair Parts Pricing and a Ban on Parts Pairing (ifixit.com)

A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees (www.theverge.com)

Google fought to keep the Spotify numbers private during its antitrust fight with Epic, saying they could damage negotiations with other app developers who might want more generous rates. Google’s User Choice Billing program, launched in 2022, is typically described as shaving about 4 percent off Google’s Play Store...

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