China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System | The government said the proposal would protect online privacy. Critics said it could further concentrate government control over the internet. (www.nytimes.com)
Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say (techcrunch.com)
In a new academic paper, researchers from the Belgian university KU Leuven detailed their findings when they analyzed 15 popular dating apps. Of those, Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge and Hily all had the same vulnerability that could have helped a malicious user to identify the near-exact location of another user, according...
The Olympics has moved on from Mario and Sonic (www.theverge.com)
TL;DR: to NFTs and eSports
How Adobe’s bet on non-exploitative AI is paying off (archive.is)
The company says it’s proof that quality AI models don’t have to include controversial copyrighted content. Adobe trained Firefly on content that had an explicit license allowing AI training, which means the bulk of the training data comes from Adobe’s library of stock photos, says Greenfield. The company offers creators...
US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules (techcrunch.com)
A federal district court in New York has ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border....
'Zeus' Hacker Group Strikes Israeli Olympic Athletes in Data Leak (www.darkreading.com)
The sensitive data of several Israeli athletes in the Paris Olympic Games was published on Telegram in an alleged doxing attack on Friday....
Filipinos want the country’s biggest YouTube star to be their next president. (restofworld.org)
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Can a church exist exclusively on the internet? (restofworld.org)
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Homeland Security Testing Signal-Jamming Robot Dogs (www.hngn.com)
Ghost Robotics has supplied several branches of government with its 4-legged robots. The Department of Homeland Security plans to use signal-jamming robot dogs to carry out raids.
Twitch completes its TikTok makeover with new app update (www.theverge.com)
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FBI and privacy hawks clash over encryption after Trump assassination attempt (www.msn.com)
The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It (www.eff.org)
Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years (arstechnica.com)
The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe (www.wired.com)
The AI Search War Has Begun (www.theatlantic.com)
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Covid-era whiz kid is back, and he brought a Friend — a wearable, always listening, $99 AI companion (www.geekwire.com)
This isn’t a joke, though it almost seems like one. It uses Llama 3.1, and supposedly the conversation data stays on the device and gets forgotten over time (through what the founder calls a rolling “context window”)....
Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle lawsuit alleging it illegally captured users’ faces (therecord.media)
UK antitrust body probes Google's ties with AI rival Anthropic | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' artificial intelligence — at least for now (www.kob.com)
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Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit (www.eff.org)
Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube (arstechnica.com)
If you’ve watched any Olympics coverage this week, you’ve likely been confronted with an ad for Google’s Gemini AI called “Dear Sydney.” In it, a proud father seeks help writing a letter on behalf of his daughter, who is an aspiring runner and superfan of world-record-holding hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone....
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription (arstechnica.com)
YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users (www.ghacks.net)
Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi....
Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox (arstechnica.com)
Losing access to Authy leads to another reckoning with Google's security model.
