New Encryption Protocol to avoid surveillance capitalism from famous hacker group (gizmodo.com)
Veilid is “an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat.” Application frameworks of this sort are flexible software packages that can be iterated on and changed by infusing new code into them. Developers who want to create new...
Kickstarter Demands Proof of Humanity, Requires New Projects to Disclose AI Use (www.pushsquare.com)
Andreessen Horowitz tools to build AI girlfriend, other companion (decrypt.co)
"By pulling information out of us, like therapists, and then having perfect recall of every detail we’ve ever told it, these companion chatbots can pattern match our behavior”
Google to launch privacy tools which remove unwanted personal images (www.theguardian.com)
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Call of Duty now shows you when a cheater has been booted right in the kill feed (www.theverge.com)
Call of Duty now shows you when a cheater has been booted right in the kill feed::Activision will let everyone know when a Call of Duty cheater has been booted from a lobby. It’s the latest in a multi-year crackdown on cheaters.
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments (arstechnica.com)
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments::“Coalition of RDOF Winners” lobbies FCC but won’t reveal its full member list.
[EFF] Facebook Apparently Will Ask for Consent Before Showing Behavioral Ads to Some Users (www.eff.org)
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YouTube uses AI to summarize videos in latest test (www.theverge.com)
SEC Charges Founder of Social Media Company “IRL” with $170 Million Fraud. (www.sec.gov)
Samsung is marketing Galaxy Z Flip phones as police bodycams (www.engadget.com)
Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)
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Major Labels Block 40 Pirate Domains, Search Deindexing More Concerning. (torrentfreak.com)
Tailscale now opens for ControlD integration! (tailscale.com)
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)
How Apple’s India gamble paid off. (restofworld.org)
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare. (theconversation.com)
The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel's Military (www.wired.com)
Joby Aviation's Hydrogen eVTOL Air Taxi Finds Success in 523-Mile Test; When's its Operations? (www.techtimes.com)
Joby Aviation successfully completed a 523-mile flight test for its hydrogen-powered VTOL.
The Rise and Fall of the Cray Supercomputer (www.youtube.com)
Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots (techcrunch.com)
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models....
Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)
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0Patch promises Windows 10 support until 2030 (www.notebookcheck.net)
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Microsoft reveals even more emails to customers were accessed by Russia-based hackers (www.neowin.net)
Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that a Russia-based cybercriminal group labeled as Midnight Blizzard got access to the email accounts of its top executives in late 2023. Today, the company has confirmed that it is informing more of its customers that emails sent to those executives were seen by that hacker group....