China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary ( theconversation.com )
By Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County....
The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones ( x.com )
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Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research ( ipdefenseforum.com )
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Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents ( www.404media.co )
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
European elections: Putin’s Twitter bots suspected of promoting Russian sabotage in Europe in support of the German and French far-right ( inews.co.uk )
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Citizen Lab says seven Russian and Belarusian-speaking independent journalists and opposition activists based in Europe were targeted with Israeli spyware Pegasus ( citizenlab.ca )
In September 2023, Citizen Lab published a joint investigation with Access Now into the hacking of exiled Russian journalist Galina Timchenko with Pegasus mercenary spyware. Timchenko is the CEO and publisher of Meduza, a widely-respected Russian independent media group operating in exile. After this publication, in...
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation ( www.theguardian.com )
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Minimum ! ( jlai.lu )
Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day ( jumblie.com )
The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, if one of the words is 'landing' and you guessed 'land' there is no confirmation you're getting warm at all....
STMicroelectronics to build the world’s first fully integrated silicon carbide facility in Italy, targets to start production in 2026 ( newsroom.st.com )
- New high-volume 200mm silicon carbide manufacturing facility for power devices and modules, as well as test and packaging, to be built in Catania, Italy...
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network ( www.aljazeera.com )
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware ( www.theguardian.com )
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient ( phanpy.social )
Readme of the project:...
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Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder ( www.theregister.com )
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German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' ( www.hrw.org )
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China's Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
A look at search engines with their own indexes ( seirdy.one )
If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different.....
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. ( chinamediaproject.org )
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Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain ( arstechnica.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21218504...
The level of engagement on Reddit these days
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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same ( www.bbc.com )
Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price ( www.token2.ch )
Token2 is a cybersecurity company specialized in the area of multifactor authentication. Founded by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva with years of experience in the field of strong security and multifactor authentication. Token2 has invented, designed and developed various hardware and software solutions for...
The Man Who Killed Google Search ( www.wheresyoured.at )
I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing....