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Is social media fuelling political polarisation? ( theconversation.com )

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China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement ( english.kyodonews.net )

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Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register ( www.theregister.com )

Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever ( www.404media.co )

New technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS) reveals severe shortcomings, threatening user privacy and contradicting the regulation's intent, rights group says ( epicenter.works )

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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims ( arstechnica.com )

Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....

New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. ( dnyuz.com )

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Chinese authorities may have made bomb threats in the name of a dissident’s family to try and control his political activities abroad ( apnews.com )

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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app ( www.bbc.com )

"Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ ( restofworld.org )

Bing’s translation and search engine services in China censor more extensively than Chinese competitors’ services do, according to new research....

Taiwan: Beijing's information war has failed to make China's system of governance attractive to Taiwanese, but it drives polarisation and reduces people's trust in democratic institutions, poll shows ( www.journalofdemocracy.org )

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Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News ( www.bbc.co.uk )

This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77 ( www.core77.com )

Why is this still so funny to me?

Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission ( www.neowin.net )

ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses ( www.404media.co )

A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces and pictures of their drivers’ licenses, exposed a set of administrative credentials online for more than a year potentially allowing hackers to access that sensitive data, according to screenshots and data...

Cleantech has an enshittification problem ( pluralistic.net )

'ChamelGang & Friends': China-linked Cyberespionage Groups Attacking Critical Infrastructure Globally with Ransomware ( www.sentinelone.com )

Threat actors in the cyberespionage ecosystem are engaging in an increasingly disturbing trend of using ransomware as a final stage in their operations for the purposes of financial gain, disruption, distraction, misattribution, or removal of evidence....