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Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own. (themarkup.org)

World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest, most inclusive union | 500+ employees have organized across multiple departments, creating the first wall-to-wall union of its kind at the studio (www.theverge.com)

More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of employees across every department, including designers, engineers, artists, producers, and...

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. (trufflesecurity.com)

North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on US hospitals. (www.voanews.com)

VOA investigates accused Russian hacker at center of Ukraine cyber plot. (www.voanews.com)

Apple AI Released a 7B Open-Source Language Model Trained on 2.5T Tokens on Open Datasets. (www.marktechpost.com)

Major Labels Block 40 Pirate Domains, Search Deindexing More Concerning. (torrentfreak.com)

Tailscale now opens for ControlD integration! (tailscale.com)

Sudan’s plea to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Please don’t shut off our internet. (www.analystnews.org)

Zen - a clean and simple text editor in your browser (zen.unit.ms)

Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month (alternativeto.net)

Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)

cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/2082

Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor (theintercept.com)

The “IT For IDF” conference in Rishon LeZion, just south of Tel Aviv, brought together tech firms from across the world to support the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and beyond....

Anime music piracy website closes after industry goes to court (asia.nikkei.com)

CrowdStrike says over 97% of Windows sensors back online (www.reuters.com)

Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems. (www.technologyreview.com)

[Reuters->Bloomberg] Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos [Charles Gorrivan | July 23 2024 | Bloomberg] (www.reuters.com)

Edit: replaced Reuters article with Bloomberg article...

Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024 (thehackernews.com)

See also: …googleblog.com/…/sustaining-digital-certificate-…

A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back. (www.npr.org)

Why Mexico’s delivery workers are ditching food for packages. (restofworld.org)

Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood (blog.codingconfessions.com)

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan and US NGO with MgBot Malware (thehackernews.com)

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Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome (www.campaignlive.com)

In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.”...

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