China is restricting export of drones that can be used for military purposes and some drone features (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38508922
As Its CPU Scandal Deepens, Intel Plans to Cut Thousands of Jobs (gizmodo.com)
Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)
SEC Charges Founder of Social Media Company “IRL” with $170 Million Fraud. (www.sec.gov)
Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
Non-paywall link: 12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/…/679302/
Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs (www.wsj.com)
Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes (www.wired.com)
Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)
Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”
KOSA passes Senate | ACLU: This bill would not keep kids safe, but instead threaten young people’s privacy, limit minors’ access to vital resources, and silence important online conversations for all (arstechnica.com)
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) easily passed the Senate today despite critics’ concerns that the bill may risk creating more harm than good for kids and perhaps censor speech for online users of all ages if it’s signed into law....
Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer (arstechnica.com)
Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards (arstechnica.com)
Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform....
Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen (arstechnica.com)
Meta “programmed it to simply not answer questions,” but it did anyway.
Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion in facial recognition case (www.texastribune.org)
Meta had been using facial recognition software on photos uploaded to Facebook without Texans’ consent.
Samsung is marketing Galaxy Z Flip phones as police bodycams (www.engadget.com)
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)
Archive.
Can a church exist exclusively on the internet? (restofworld.org)
Archive.
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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