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The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data (www.confiant.com)

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1680837...

You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberish (www.theregister.com)

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[ESET Research] MoustachedBouncer: Espionage against foreign diplomats in Belarus, probably collaborating with the Belarus government, by tricking Windows OS (www.welivesecurity.com)

News article: techcrunch.com/…/belarus-hackers-target-foreign-d…...

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)

[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)

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Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)

[Corp Blog] AnonAddy has rebranded as addy.io (addy.io)

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[Corp Blog] Twitter Blue to X Phishing Breakout – Gridinsoft Blogs (gridinsoft.com)

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SQLedge - SQLite read replica of a Postgres primary DB (news.ycombinator.com)

SQLedge uses Postgres logical replication to stream the changes in a source Postgres database to a SQLite database that can run on the edge. SQLedge serves reads from its local SQLite database, and forwards writes to the upstream Postgres server that it’s replicating from....

Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit (neuters.de)

Opinion | Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office (wapo.st)

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A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? (www.theguardian.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/hguLn...

Open discussion among MIT professors about "The Impact of ChatGPT" (2023) [22min] (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3650559...

😡Just learned that blocking a caller on android doesn't block their voicemails😡

How fucking stupid is that? Sorry, but not having a good morning. This is like when I found out you can’t set the number of rings either. Sometimes I just want to smash all my tech and go back to rocks, sticks, and leaves.

Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)

The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...

Are there foundations similar to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but with more international focus? (www.eff.org)

I’m a member of the EFF, and its activities are great, but understandably have slightly more focus on USA-related matters. I say “but” just because I don’t live in the USA....

Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)

In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

Early adopters in Mexico lend their eyes to global biometric project (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/486175 (!aistuff)...

Rollback Linux Mint Cinnamon Spices to earlier version?

The latest update to Cinnamenu has completed messed up the display of my menu. I never did figure out how to rollback cinnamon spices to an earlier version, could someone please help me with this? Little things like this drive me crazy.

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on (www.theverge.com)

YouTube is changing the homepage experience for users who have their watch history turned off. They will now see an almost blank homepage with just a search bar and buttons for Shorts, Subscriptions and Library. This is intended to make it clear that personalized recommendations rely on watch history data. The new design aims to...

YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions (support.google.com)

On the flip side, this also means users have the option to have a cleaner, less cluttered interface....

Researchers strengthen defenses against denial-of-service attack (techxplore.com)

1,000% increase in dark web threat actors targeting macOS (www.accenture.com)

Based on research across established dark web forums, threat actors are targeting macOS, with exploits trading for millions of dollars

USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld (www.macworld.com)

We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and...