Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency (www.wired.com)
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Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection & Proof of Their Scam (www.youtube.com)
I canceled Amazon Prime last month given that I’ve lost all trust in getting a functioning version of whatever I’ve ordered. This is some next-level shit.
Iranian-backed militants are openly trading weapons on Elon Musk’s platform X, including assault rifles, handguns and grenade launchers (www.thetimes.com)
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Elon Musk’s lawyers quietly subpoena public interest groups: The billionaire’s legal war over lost X advertisers takes a “really cynical” turn (www.motherjones.com)
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Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (inews.co.uk)
Pro-Trump activists are earning cash from spreading conspiracy theories about Kamala Harris on Elon Musk‘s X platform, an i investigation has found....
CEO of Telegram messaging app arrested in France, say French media (www.voanews.com)
Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement (boingboing.net)
Indonesia introduced measures to fight cheap online imports from China as Chinese e-commerce platforms hurt local firms (restofworld.org)
- There is growing resentment across Southeast Asia against Chinese e-commerce firms.__...
Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste. (restofworld.org)
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”...
My little macgyver meshtastic node ^^
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Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. (www.theverge.com)
Will Google’s Monopoly Be Vanquished? (prospect.org)
In many ways, we’re right back to where we were during the last major monopolization case against Microsoft in the late 1990s. From the time Microsoft first lost in 2000 to when it struck a settlement in 2001, legal challenges, tech lobbying, and the turnover of presidential administrations into more tech-friendly hands all...
Where to find empty vapes? I want to harvest a battery
Any ideas?
China-Nexus Threat Group ‘Velvet Ant’ Leverages a Zero-Day to Deploy Malware on Cisco Nexus Switches, Cyber Security Firm Sygnia Says (www.sygnia.co)
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Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans (restofworld.org)
The Olympic game field for disinformation - Chinese-language rumors about the 2024 Paris Olympics (tfc-taiwan.org.tw)
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Ryzen 3000 fix for 'Sinkclose' vulnerability arrives tomorrow — AMD reverses course and will patch Ryzen 3000 after all [Updated] (www.tomshardware.com)
DCS Uses False Privacy Claim to Silence Another Reviewer: @WillProwse (www.youtube.com)
This is a battery manufacturer with shoddy QC and that overstates Amp-hour ratings....
Massive Cyber Attack On AWS Targets 230 Million Unique Cloud Environments (cybersecuritynews.com)
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Against all odds, an asteroid mining company (AstroForge) appears to be making headway (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday the co-founders announced that they have successfully raised $40 million in Series A funding and shared plans for their next two missions. AstroForge has now raised a total of $55 million to date....
Shein Is Suing Temu For Copyright Infringement (www.404media.co)
This is hilarious!
[Gamers Nexus] HW News - AMD 5500X3D, Steam OS on ROG Ally, RTX 4070 VRAM Downgrade, AMD Vulnerability (www.youtube.com)
AM4 is still alive somehow XD!
Don’t Shield Foreign Spyware Company from Human Rights Accountability in U.S. Court, Rights Group Says (www.eff.org)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting a group of journalists in their lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO Group. In our amicus brief backing the plaintiffs’ appeal, we argued that victims of human rights abuses enabled by powerful...
Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” (17 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli (www.democracynow.org)
Dana Mattioli speaks about her new book, The Everything War, which examines how Amazon came to dominate the U.S. economy through its “scorched-earth” tactics....
