The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck ( www.404media.co )
NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks ( www.swissinfo.ch )
Swedish authorities say Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining NATO earlier this year....
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
Concurrency models of Rust and Golang ( kerkour.com )
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws ( www.engadget.com )
Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news ( m.gsmarena.com )
YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes ( www.youtube.com )
Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS ( news.itsfoss.com )
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AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent ( arstechnica.com )
Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms ( www.nytimes.com )
I dislike linking to the NYT, but it seems to be the original source....
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) ( www.spacebar.news )
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers ( www.wired.com )
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) ( samcurry.net )
IMF suggests tax on AI's CO2 emissions, but not AI itself • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
Tencent ponders banning AI vids hosted by ‘virtual humans’ • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources ( www.newsguardtech.com )
NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....
US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel ( www.theverge.com )
[May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors ( frame.work )
Just sharing in case anybody has been waiting for an update from framework
Why does Asia scan to pay when the rest of the world taps? • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use ( www.theguardian.com )
Revelation of emails to Imperial College scientists comes amid growing concerns about security risk posed by academic tie-ups with China...
'Crucial for deterring Russian aggression’: New campaign seeks to block TikTok in Ukraine ( meduza.io )
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ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself ( www.techradar.com )
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled: U.S. Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now the institution is pulling the plug ( www.platformer.news )
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Router scan
Today I scanned my router with routersploit. The scan ended and showed one vulnerability: eseries_themoon_rce....
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia ( www.theregister.com )
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
