From futurism.com
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
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A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.
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20h ago
From fediversereport.com
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PeerTube has a new update for their mobile app, the Mastodon team is growing, and more. The News The Links That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not […]
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on Tue, 6PM
From eff.org
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When your local police department buys one piece of surveillance equipment, you can easily expect that the company that sold it will try to upsell them on additional tools and upgrades. Axon has been adding AI to its repertoire, and it now features a whole “AI Era” bundle plan. One recent offering...
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on Tue, 4PM
From wan-ifra.org
Media outlets worldwide join call for AI companies to help protect news integrity
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Thousands of public and private news media worldwide have joined an initiative by the European Broadcasting Union and WAN-IFRA calling on AI developers to help ensure that Artificial Intelligence is safe, reliable and beneficial for the news ecosystem and the public.
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23h ago
From techpolicy.press
From Incels to Mercenaries: When Online Hate Becomes Real-World Violence | TechPolicy.Press
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The internet functions as a nauseating funhouse mirror to hate, normalizing violence towards women and vulnerable populations, writes Ceren Fitoz.
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23h ago
From theregister.com
India signals it will let Starlink in if it censors, spies
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: Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity
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on Fri, 3PM
From theguardian.com
Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted several UK websites
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Group that calls itself NoName057(16) appears to have had limited success disrupting council and other websites
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on Thu, 6PM
From berthub.eu
Cloud Overview - Bert Hubert's writings
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Over the past few years I’ve written a lot about the cloud, and what it means for Europe. Here I want to pull the various articles together into a coherent story. Note, nothing what follows is in any way novel or original. While the facts presented in the articles are pretty inconvenient and in...
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on Thu, 4PM
From gizmodo.com
With Its Destruction of Government Data Silos, DOGE Is Building a 'Surveillance Weapon'
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There's a reason the government's vast trove of data is compartmentalized.
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on Wed, 11PM
From bleepingcomputer.com
Police takes down six DDoS-for-hire services, arrests admins
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Polish authorities have detained four suspects linked to six DDoS-for-hire platforms, believed to have facilitated thousands of attacks targeting schools, government services, businesses, and gaming platforms worldwide since 2022.
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on Wed, 11AM
From theregister.com
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear
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: Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz
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on Wed, 9AM
From micahflee.com
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Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs from its customers. In this post I give a high level overview of how the TeleMessage fake Signal app, called TM SGNL, works and why it's
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on Wed, 5AM
From theregister.com
NSO Group must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp spy case
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: Don't f&#k with Zuck
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on Wed, 1AM
Reflecting on Our First Year: The Social Web Foundation’s 2024 Annual Report
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We launched in September 2024 with a bold mission: to foster an open, decentralized, and user-centric social web. In just the few short months that remained in 2024, we made meaningful progress. Ou…
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on Tue, 10PM
From techcrunch.com
NSO Group must pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for spyware campaign | TechCrunch
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The five-year legal battle between the Meta-owned company and the most notorious spyware maker in the world ends with a huge win for WhatsApp.
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on Tue, 9PM
From 404media.co
Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation
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404 Media reported on Sunday a hacker had got users' messages and group chats from TeleMessage. Now Senator Ron Wyden is demanding an investigation.
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on Tue, 6PM
From kyivindependent.com
Poland faces 'unprecedented' Russian interference ahead of presidential election, minister says
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Poland will hold presidential elections on May 18, with a potential runoff on June 1, as the country faces key debates over social policy, migration, and national security that could shape its political trajectory.
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on Tue, 11AM
From techcrunch.com
US DoJ wants Google to sell two of its ad products | TechCrunch
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The U.S. Department of Justice is proposing that Google sell two of its advertising products to restore competition in the ad tech space, according to a
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on Tue, 10AM
From theregister.com
Schneier warns that AI loses integrity due to corporate bias
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RSAC: Can we turn to govt, academic models instead?
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on Tue, 8AM
From kyivindependent.com
Book on Soviet dissidents wins Pulitzer Prize
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"To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" by Benjamin Nathans, which covers dissent in the Soviet Union and Russia today, won a Pulitzer Prize on May 5.
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on Tue, 5AM
From theregister.com
TeleMessage probes 'hack' of Signal clone used by Feds
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: No, really? That's a shocking surprise
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From macrumors.com
Apple Faces Developer Lawsuit After Defying App Store Injunction
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Apple is being sued by developers unhappy with the company's "willful violation" of the anti-steering injunction the court ordered as...
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on Tue, 1AM
From techcrunch.com
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 | TechCrunch
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees." The rule, set to take The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a FAQ document clarifying its rule hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals.
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on Mon, 9PM
From csmonitor.com
Origins of Ukraine’s drone creativity
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In a military milestone, a Ukrainian drone downed a Russian war jet. The source of the country’s culture of tech innovation is now a model.
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on Mon, 9PM
From theguardian.com
OpenAI reverses course and says non-profit arm will retain control of firm
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CEO, Sam Altman, says decision to backtrack was made ‘after hearing from civic leaders’ and state attorneys general
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on Mon, 7PM
From 404media.co
GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked
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Hackers say they have obtained what they say are passenger lists for GlobalX flights from January to this month. The data appears to include people who have been deported.
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on Mon, 5PM
From nodebb.org
What would cross-posting between instances look like in ActivityPub?
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Following up on this question I asked back in late March, I wanted to continue thinking about how one would handle cross-posting between categories/communiti...
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on Mon, 5PM
From 404media.co
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
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TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
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on Mon, 3AM
From theregister.com
Sam Altman's World brings biometric eyeball scans to US
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: El Reg checks out shop in SF
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on Mon, 3AM
From theregister.com
RSAC wrap: AI and China everywhere
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RSAC: With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too
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on Mon, 1AM
From unicornriot.ninja
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Mike Waltz had a rough Thursday. A photographer caught him using a Signal-like interface to view chats on his phone. TeleMessage copies messages using a forked version of Signal. We found more details about this Israeli app tech.
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on Sun, 1AM
Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - The Document Foundation Blog
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Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open...
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on Apr 30
From forbes.com
200 Million X User Records Released — 2.8 Billion Twitter IDs Leaked
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More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to X users have been posted on a popular hacker forum. What you need to know.
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on Apr 1