"Brain time of young Europeans is not a currency for social media": TikTok commits to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards programme from the EU to comply with the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
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New Musk lawsuit against OpenAI claims Altman ‘betrayed’ him • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Maybe they’ll take each other out.
Exclusive: See The Ways Shady T-Mobile Stores Treat Customers And Employees (tmo.report)
Europe must end its quantum technology research with China over security and military risks of collaboration, researcher says (www.merics.org)
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Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract (www.niemanlab.org)
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)
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[Asianometry] The Big Data Center Water Problem (www.youtube.com)
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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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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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.”
China’s plastics boom set to create another source of trade tensions as the country's petrochemicals sector keeps expanding despite weaker demand (www.straitstimes.com)
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ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses (www.404media.co)
A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces and pictures of their drivers’ licenses, exposed a set of administrative credentials online for more than a year potentially allowing hackers to access that sensitive data, according to screenshots and data...
Stanford Internet Observatory rejects media reports it is shutting down, but acknowledges funding challenges (cyber.fsi.stanford.edu)
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NHS England confirm patient data stolen in cyber attack - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
European Commission sends preliminary findings to Apple and opens additional non-compliance investigation against Apple under the Digital Markets Act (ec.europa.eu)
China-backed hackers stepping up attacks on Taiwan, cybersecurity firm says (www.aljazeera.com)
Hacking group RedJuliett compromised two dozen organisations in Taiwan and elsewhere, report says....
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck (www.404media.co)
Tencent ponders banning AI vids hosted by ‘virtual humans’ • The Register (www.theregister.com)
IMF suggests tax on AI's CO2 emissions, but not AI itself • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use (www.theguardian.com)
Revelation of emails to Imperial College scientists comes amid growing concerns about security risk posed by academic tie-ups with China...
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....
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....
China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary (theconversation.com)
By Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County....
[Gamers Nexus] Intel Fights Back | Arc Battlemage, Xe2 GPUs, & Changing Hyper-Threading (www.youtube.com)
