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Reddit signs content licensing deal with AI company ahead of IPO, Bloomberg reports (www.reuters.com)

DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses (arstechnica.com)

DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses::Feds once again fix up compromised retail routers under court order.

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests (mashable.com)

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests::undefined

AMC to Pay $8 Million for Alleged Violation of Video Privacy Law Through Use of Tracking Technologies, Including Meta Pixel, X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology (arstechnica.com)

According to subscribers suing, AMC allegedly installed tracking technologies—including the Meta Pixel, the X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology—on its website, allowing their personally identifying information to be connected with their viewing history....

HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges (www.theregister.com)

HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges::Reg metrics show Enrique Lores is worth a lot of ink

Closing the Data Broker Loophole - Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections. (www.brennancenter.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/closing-data-broker-loophole

Russian forces now using Musk’s Starlink on Ukraine front line (arstechnica.com)

AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)

ExpressVPN bug leaks DNS requests for Windows users with split tunneling: (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Bug:...

US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare (www.theregister.com)

Real-time, AI monitoring at work: Major brands are snooping on employee conversations (www.techspot.com)

The FTC isn’t happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs (www.polygon.com)

The FTC isn’t happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs::The Federal Trade Commission is still looking to reverse Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Now, it’s telling on Microsoft after massive layoffs.

Security researcher charged with defrauding Apple out of more than $2.5 million, company thanks him two weeks later (www.techspot.com)

The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns (www.theregister.com)

'Yellowstone' star Lainey Wilson testifies AI using her voice was 'gut punch': 'It is a personal violation' (www.foxnews.com)

‘Yellowstone’ star Lainey Wilson testifies AI using her voice was ‘gut punch’: ‘It is a personal violation’::Lainey Wilson spoke in front of the House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Friday asking for artists to have a “choice” when it comes to AI platforms using musicians’ voices.

TU/e coordinates EU project to push next-generation private and secure online payments (www.tue.nl)

A new online payment system that is socially, ecologically, and fiscally responsible, to make finance easy for common people. That’s the aim of the Next Generation Internet pilot named NGI TALER. This project, coordinated by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is operated by a consortium of eleven partners from...

Google seemingly embraces AI dogfooding with gutso — cancels huge contract which could see thousands of quality rater jobs terminated and change SEO forever (www.techradar.com)

Chinese hackers are determined to 'wreak havoc' on US critical infrastructure, FBI director warns (apnews.com)

Chinese hackers are determined to ‘wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure, FBI director warns::FBI Director Chris Wray has told House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting critical infrastructure inside the United States, including water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation...

Tik Tok responds to Universal Music Group's statement: "TikTok has been able to reach 'artist-first' agreements with every other label and publisher." (www.bandwagon.asia)

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant (www.wired.com)

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant::US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.

Tech companies are slashing thousands of jobs as they pivot toward AI (www.cbsnews.com)

Tech companies are slashing thousands of jobs as they pivot toward AI::Technology companies are axing jobs as they pile deeper into artificial intelligence, with one expert calling it a “sobering signal.”

Ventoy 1.0.97 Released (github.com)

Ventoy is an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the drive over and over, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them and boot from it....

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