Russia’s ‘VPN Ban’ is Live as Authorities Warn of Bad VPNs & U.S. Spying (torrentfreak.com)
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets (www.theregister.com)
Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp | WhatsApp | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Phone Push Notifications: A Double-Edged Sword for User Privacy and Law Enforcement (www.theregister.com)
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Tech Company Leaks 2FA Codes/Password Reset Links for Major Platforms (techcrunch.com)
A security breach exposed two-factor authentication (2FA) codes/password reset links for millions of users on platforms like Facebook, Google, and TikTok....
Despite Booming Economy And Record Profits Google, Amazon, Microsoft And More Lay Off Over 42,000 So Far In 2024 (finance.yahoo.com)
Despite Booming Economy And Record Profits Google, Amazon, Microsoft And More Lay Off Over 42,000 So Far In 2024::Despite a booming U.S. economy and significant advancements in the tech sector, including a robust performance by companies like Nvidia Corp. and a thriving artificial intelligence (AI) industry, tech companies have...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of non-profit AI mission | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of non-profit AI mission | TechCrunch::Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original Elon Musk sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and...
Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can’t sue, company points to cardboard box::NBC Bay Area’s Consumer team filed a report focused on faulty fridges, and then, viewers responded resoundingly about their own refrigerator problems…
Matrix in Germany: Element’s guide to digitally sovereign communication in Germany’s public sector (element.io)
Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai (techcrunch.com)
Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai::Toyota is offering some amazing deals for its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mirai. That is, if customers can find the hydrogen to power it.
Microsoft Word’s Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice? (www.nytimes.com)
Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0 (www.techradar.com)
Musk's Neuralink brain implant company cited by FDA over animal lab issues (www.reuters.com)
Musk’s Neuralink brain implant company cited by FDA over animal lab issues::U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Elon Musk’s Neuralink, less than a month after the startup said it was cleared to test its brain implants in humans,...
BT Shipping its Final Paper Phone Books to UK Customers - ISPreview UK (www.ispreview.co.uk)
GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack (arstechnica.com)
GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack::GitHub keeps removing malware-laced repositories, but thousands remain.
Nokia is replacing Huawei at Deutsche Telekom sites in Germany (www.lightreading.com)
I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine (www.racket.news)
Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat (www.nytimes.com)
Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat::The president ordered an investigation into auto technology that could track U.S. drivers, part of a broader effort to stop E.V. and other smart-car imports from China.
Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups. | CNN Business::European consumer rights groups are accusing Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of carrying out a “massive” and “illegal” operation of collecting data from hundreds of millions of its users in the...
Will the digital euro really be equivalent to cash? (blog.xot.nl)
What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)
Actor at Willy Wonka Disaster Says Even the Script Was AI-Generated (futurism.com)
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity (apnews.com)
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.