Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.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....
Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe (novayagazeta.eu)
Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app (www.theverge.com)
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.
My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)
Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R (www.tweaktown.com)
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...
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...
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....
The FTC is investigating PC manufacturers who scare you away from your right to repair (www.theverge.com)
384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)
Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say (arstechnica.com)
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 launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)
Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (www.theverge.com)
Japan's government finally moves on from floppy disks (www.xda-developers.com)
Best Crypto Youtube channels (coinfomania.com)
Crypto YouTube channels are invaluable resources for learning about the assets. They help you learn different aspects of crypto coins, ranging from fundamentals to market insights and technical stuff. The best part is that this educational content is available for free.
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
Threads hits 175 million users after a year (www.theverge.com)
AI Is Rewriting Meme History (www.wired.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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Russia using Kaliningrad as a base to disrupt EU satellites, report says (www.cybersecurity-help.cz)
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