China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement (english.kyodonews.net)
- China implemented new regulations on Monday under its toughened counterespionage law, which enables authorities to inspect smartphones, personal computers and other electronic devices, raising fears among expatriates and foreign businesspeople about possible arbitrary enforcement....
YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash (www.wired.com)
A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness & Stilla premiered “HarbuDarbu” on YouTube. The military hype song celebrates Israeli forces waging war in Gaza and has drawn over 25 million views; its critics have termed the song a violent and hateful...
Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs (www.theverge.com)
Proton Docs is a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word, offering similar features and layout....
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)
The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity...
Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app (www.theverge.com)
Hackers of Indonesian government apologize and give key (www.theregister.com)
“Citizens of Indonesia, we apologize for the fact that it affected everyone,” the team wrote in a statement shared by Singapore-based dark web intelligence outfit Stealth Mole....
Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.com)
Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next (arstechnica.com)
But just as Glaze’s userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze’s protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. In a paper published on Arxiv.org without peer review, the Zurich...
Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)
Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.
People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are (gizmodo.com)
Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results (www.wired.com)
We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop (nadim.computer)
Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)
AI-powered network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories targeting the US election, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
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World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage (www.ess-news.com)
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Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years (gizmodo.com)
Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R (www.tweaktown.com)
China’s plastics boom set to create another source of trade tensions as the country's petrochemicals sector keeps expanding despite weaker demand (www.straitstimes.com)
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World’s first grid-scale, semi-solid-state energy storage project goes online - Energy Storage (www.ess-news.com)
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Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler (www.tomshardware.com)
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OpenAI seeks NYT source material for copyright defense (stackdiary.com)
OpenAI, which is co-defendant with Microsoft, is seeking an informal discovery conference to compel the Times to produce documents demonstrating the originality and ownership of the copyrighted works in question. According to OpenAI’s court filing, the information is critical to their defense against claims of copyright...
FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days (www.theregister.com)
Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....