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U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users (torrentfreak.com)

Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data (www.techradar.com)

Deloitte confirms PIA’s no-log claims, with servers running on RAM-only system for maximum privacy....

Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine (torrentfreak.com)

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Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)

Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...

Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? (arstechnica.com)

IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes (www.nextplatform.com)

Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...

Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)

US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)

ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....

Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)

School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis (arstechnica.com)

Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door (www.bbc.co.uk)

ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)

Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' (www.thecooldown.com)

Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain (abcnews.go.com)

If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)

VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces (www.microsoft.com)

Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.

South Korean military set to ban iPhones over ‘security’ concerns | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)

Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)

Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....