Chrome extension maker tells of pressure to sell out (www.theregister.com)
Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend (arstechnica.com)
Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend::US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.
The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project (www.bbc.com)
The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project::One day in Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another.
Google, Meta, TikTok defeat Austria’s plan to combat hate speech (arstechnica.com)
Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs (techcrunch.com)
‘Let Me Tell Them Goodbye Before They Get Killed’: How eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families – The Markup (themarkup.org)
A huge number of companies still think they're missing out on AI | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control (www.wired.co.uk)
Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control::New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing—and the world’s biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes.
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive (www.washingtonpost.com)
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive::undefined
Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough? (www.eff.org)
We believe PDD is a Dying Fraudulent Company and its Shopping App TEMU is Cleverly Hidden Spyware that Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S. National Interests (grizzlyreports.com)
FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime (apnews.com)
FBI and European partners seize major malware network in blow to global cybercrime::U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks.
After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine - Here's looking at Euclid (www.theregister.com)
After fears that Europe’s space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine - Here’s looking at Euclid::Here’s looking at Euclid
WhatsApp backups on Android will soon count toward your Google Account storage (9to5google.com)
Threads finally lets you delete your account separately from Instagram (www.theverge.com)
Threads finally lets you delete your account separately from Instagram::Meta is rolling out a new feature that will let you delete your Threads account separately from Instagram. You can access the feature from a new “Delete or Deactivate” setting.
Here's a breakdown of the cost of an EV battery (www.arenaev.com)
YouTube Wants to Stop Sending Kids Down the Rabbit Hole of Eating Disorder Videos. (finance.yahoo.com)
YouTube Wants to Stop Sending Kids Down the Rabbit Hole of Eating Disorder Videos.::YouTube announced a new effort to curb its own recommendation algorithms to protect teenagers from the rabbit hole of videos that could inspire eating disorders, body image problems, violence, and other problems. The new initiative comes amidst a...
AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action (apnews.com)
Spotify threatens Uruguay pullout over equitable remuneration plans (musically.com)
Microsoft reportedly pitched Apple on buying Bing to no avail (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft reportedly pitched Apple on buying Bing to no avail::Apple and Microsoft met in 2020 about the possibility of a Bing acquisition, according to a new report. But the talks never went anywhere beyond the exploratory stage.
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog (blogs.microsoft.com)
Today we take the next step to unify these capabilities into a single experience we call Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion. Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the web, your work data and what you are doing in the moment on your PC to provide better assistance – with your privacy and...
Unearthed touchscreen iMac G3 prototype evokes a very different era of Apple | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Splashdown! NASA's Crew-6 returns after six months at the International Space Station (www.npr.org)
Splashdown! NASA’s Crew-6 returns after six months at the International Space Station::undefined
NASA awards startup $850,000 to develop space debris capture bag | NASA awarded space logistics startup TransAstra a contract to develop an inflatable capture bag capable of transporting orbital de... (interestingengineering.com)
NASA awards startup $850,000 to develop space debris capture bag | NASA awarded space logistics startup TransAstra a contract to develop an inflatable capture bag capable of transporting orbital de…::undefined