Hacker Breaches Scam Call Center, Warns Victims They've Been Scammed (www.404media.co)
ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)
ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....
Electricity grids creak as AI demands soar (www.bbc.com)
Here is the study: Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?...
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (mullvad.net)
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been...
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)
archive.is link needed
Chinese, Iranian, and Russian cyberattacks against water utilities across the U.S. becoming more frequent and more severe, officials say (fortune.com)
- Attacks against water provider’s websites aren’t new, but now attackers are increasingly targeting utilities’ operations...
Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says (www.bbc.com)
BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to Chinese forced labour, a US congressional report has said....
A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members (wedistribute.org)
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Archived link...
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence (www.theguardian.com)
- Adverts containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups***- Adverts contained known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as “let’s burn this vermin” and “Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned”***- One advert called for the execution of an...
Need tech support (android bullshit) (resolved)
So, I want to add some files to a hidden directory, the only issue is I can’t see the directory....
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25166889
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
lmao imagine that
Minister suggests Canada is considering tariffs on Chinese EVs following U.S. move (www.cbc.ca)
Canada’s industry minister says Ottawa is “considering all measures” after the U.S. announced it would be hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other related goods....
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says (theconversation.com)
By Tinglong Dai, Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University...
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.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’....
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
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'Hong Kongization?’ - Chinese cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against Taiwan surge, security agency says (www.taipeitimes.com)
Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) official Ko Cheng-heng said that Beijing’s campaign against Taiwan would spark a strong backlash from democracies around the world....
Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
I’ve never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be “no,” although I’m not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless...
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
