Push alerts from TikTok include fake news, expired tsunami warning, other misleading info (arstechnica.com)
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users’ phones, including a false claim about Taylor Swift and a weeks-old disaster warning, intensifying fears about the spread of misinformation on the popular video-sharing platform....
Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) (designingfriction.com)
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I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’ (www.404media.co)
AI’s Impact on Black Americans (hai.stanford.edu)
Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit (www.eff.org)
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TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims (www.kqed.org)
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Digital rights group NOYB files 9 complaints against Twitter over alleged violations of EU's privacy rules (noyb.eu)
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A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors (www.theverge.com)
The Revenge of the Home Page: As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate. (www.newyorker.com)
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Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
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China: Robotaxis are worrying ride-hailing drivers, spark public safety concerns, but fleets proliferate as authorities approve testing to support economic goals (www.fastcompany.com)
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Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers (www.pcworld.com)
uBlock Origin will soon stop functioning in Chrome as Google transitions to new browser extension rules.
Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities (cybersecuritynews.com)
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U.S. regulator proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts to protect consumers and stop election misinformation by phone (www.engadget.com)
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Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining (cointelegraph.com)
Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto (www.nytimes.com)
How Chinese traders and miners get around China’s crypto ban (cointelegraph.com)
As UN targets cybercrime, privacy groups say human rights to be violated (www.business-standard.com)
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Corsair is moving away from 80 PLUS certification for PSUs, embraces Cybenetics (www.tweaktown.com)
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war (www.972mag.com)
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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
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0.0.0.0 Day - 18 Yr Old Vulnerability Let Attackers Bypass All Browser Security (cybersecuritynews.com)
It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)
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