Google Says AI Could Break Reality ( www.404media.co )
Proton announces Docs in Proton Drive ( proton.me )
China’s plastics boom set to create another source of trade tensions as the country's petrochemicals sector keeps expanding despite weaker demand ( www.straitstimes.com )
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Russia using Kaliningrad as a base to disrupt EU satellites, report says ( www.cybersecurity-help.cz )
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Android Dialer App Recommendations?
For years I was using Drupe, but they've thoroughly enshittified. What used to be a sleek, extremely functional dialer app with a fantastic UI has become a slow, ad-filled sack of garbage with a still pretty good UI....
Highlighting journalism on Mastodon ( blog.joinmastodon.org )
It looks like it will require a manual review process for now but it could be automated down the line.
Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App ( www.404media.co )
AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings ( arstechnica.com )
don't use ladybird browser lol ( cyberpunk.lol )
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Human Rights Watch urges the European Commission to assess the impact of state-imposed forced labor in China's Xinjiang region in Electric Vehicle sector ( www.hrw.org )
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Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists ( balkaninsight.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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Is social media fuelling political polarisation? ( theconversation.com )
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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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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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New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. ( dnyuz.com )
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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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"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....
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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....
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Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
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Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever ( www.404media.co )
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Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News ( www.bbc.co.uk )
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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app ( www.bbc.com )
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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...
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