Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money (www.theguardian.com)
Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions as part of its migration import option (debugpointnews.com)
In a major update towards cross-browser compatibility, Firefox users are set to enjoy the benefits of importing Chrome extensions (note this is really part of the data import/migration from an existing Chrome browser installed, just for extensions that are already supported, and not installing from the Chrome web store), thanks...
[News] If You Have These 6 Personality Traits, You're More Vulnerable to Phishing Scams (www.makeuseof.com)
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Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA (www.theregister.com)
A non-profit called the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has been formed by Oracle, SUSE, CIQ, and other organizations that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS rebuilds....
Don't expect quick fixes in 'red-teaming' of AI models. Security was an afterthought (apnews.com)
Current AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in their training as data scientists amassed breathtakingly complex collections of images and text. They are prone to racial and cultural biases, and easily manipulated.
AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed (www.phoronix.com)
AMD-SB-7005 “Return Address Security Bulletin” outlines this new speculative side channel attack affecting recent EPYC and Ryzen processors....
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
What Does The Norwegian Meta Behavioral Ads Ban Really Mean? (www.searchenginejournal.com)
The order on July 14 by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a country-wide three-month ban on personalized and behavioral ad targeting against Meta, starting August 2023. This means advertisers may see higher costs and lower relevance....
X is suing a nonprofit group in US federal court over reports that hate speech has flourished at the platform formerly known as Twitter (techxplore.com)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation (www.technologyreview.com)
The Coming War on General Computation [2011] (en.wikisource.org)
Transcription of a talk given by Cory Doctrow in 2011
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (www.404media.co)
EU to charge Apple under Digital Markets Act, impose a fine of up to $50 million per day - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens (www.theguardian.com)
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
The truly shocking thing to me is that any voters believe the ISP’s arguments and are … I guess fine with a portion of their monthly bills being earmarked for litigation to make their consumer experience ever worse....
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? (www.eff.org)
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding (arstechnica.com)
The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)
2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
