Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security — Mozilla (last-chance-for-eidas.org)
Are you smarter than a scammer? Take this quiz. (wapo.st)
Take this quiz to find out if you can spot what’s real and what’s fake...
Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications (www.phoronix.com)
iPhone Photo Rejected from Photo Contest for Suspected AI Use (www.theguardian.com)
Always love when self agrandized authorities act like idiots. Feels like the box wine wins wine competition article....
Let the Platforms Burn (doctorow.medium.com)
The Whimsical Web: "a curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun" (whimsical.club)
Facebook owner Meta faces EU ban on targeted advertising (www.reuters.com)
Amazon adds AI-generated review summaries so you don’t have to read the comments (www.theverge.com)
It’s been there for a while and the article is also a bit older, but I only recently saw this.
Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 mln price tag (www.reuters.com)
Bad software destroyed my doctor’s memory (www.theregister.com)
Meta tells news publishers to talk to the hand (arstechnica.com)
“Now that we’ve killed your industry, it’s time to move on.”...
Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money (www.theguardian.com)
So Much for ‘Learn to Code’ (web.archive.org)
Atlantic Paywall link
I Made My Own Computer | Let's See How It Works (www.youtube.com)
Pretty cool video to give you a bit of an understanding how computers work.
Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing (brave.com)
Early adopters in Mexico lend their eyes to global biometric project (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/486175 (!aistuff)...
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know (samrome58.substack.com)
Google decides to delete any account that has two years of inactivity. See how they decide to go about it.
'Brazil is the Country of WhatsApp,' Says President of the App (www1.folha.uol.com.br)
The rest of the article (not translated) is an interview with Cathcart....
Android adware apps on Google Play amass two million installs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google adds tracking to Google docs documents? (fosstodon.org)
Title says it all. Somewhat interesting if true. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.
Ransomware Hackers Steal Millions From Vegas Casinos (odysee.com)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3473050...