The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)
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Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)
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China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement (english.kyodonews.net)
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New technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS) reveals severe shortcomings, threatening user privacy and contradicting the regulation's intent, rights group says (epicenter.works)
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New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. (dnyuz.com)
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Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services (truthout.org)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity (apnews.com)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
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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How to efficiently remove duplicate photos across multiple Google Photos accounts?
I have a number of Google Photos accounts that I believe I had backed up my iPhone to over the years. However, I hadn’t deleted the backed up photos from my iPhone each time, so there are many duplicates across the multiple Google Photos accounts....
“We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)
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AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings (arstechnica.com)
Cleantech has an enshittification problem (pluralistic.net)
TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch' (www.bbc.com)
TikTok says it offered the US government the power to shut the platform down in an attempt to address lawmakers’ data protection and national security concerns....
[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)
