Links 02/03/2024: More Lawsuits Against Microsoft, Facebook Killing Hard-To-Find News
Contents
- Leftovers
- Science
- Education
- Hardware
- Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
- Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Security
- Defence/Aggression
- Transparency/Investigative Reporting
- Environment
- Finance
- AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
- Censorship/Free Speech
- Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
- Civil Rights/Policing Monopolies/Monopsonies
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Leftovers
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BDG ☛ "Opinion Fatigue" Is Setting In For Twitter, TikTok, & Instagram Creators
Dholakia grew up in an online environment that encourages users to share everything from their thoughts on politics to their takes on pop culture. But as the online landscape has grown into an all-encompassing digital town square, experiences like Dholakia’s have prompted her and other former social media power users to throw their hands up and admit “opinion fatigue.” From the depths of ’90s-era internet forums through the tweets and Tumblr screeds of the 2010s into today’s viral TikToks, opinions and their resulting discourse have been the driving force behind social media. But after 10 years of algorithmically driven feeds that give users extra incentive to comment on trending topics and reward increasingly “hot takes,” users are making the choice to opt out or otherwise radically alter how they post their thoughts online.
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TechTea ☛ Tech Tea - 2024 February Update
February has been a slow month on this website, but I haven’t been completely idle. Lets take a look at some highlights.
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Mat Duggan ☛ K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due
When you start using Kubernetes one of the first suggestions you'll get is to install a service mesh. This, of course, on top of the 900 other things you need to install. For those unaware, everything in k8s is open to everything else by default when you start and traffic isn't encrypted between services. Since encrypting traffic between services and controlling what services can talk to which requires something like a JWT and client certificates, teams aren't typically eager to take on this work even though its increasingly a requirement of any stack.
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Reason ☛ Florida Man Sentenced on Gun Charges After Shooting Down a Drone
Deputies investigated the source of the gunshots and encountered Wendell Goney, who lived nearby. Goney first denied shooting the drone but admitted to it after learning the craft was equipped with cameras. Goney claimed this was the first time he had ever shot at a drone, but he told deputies that he had been "harassed" by people flying them over his property. He said he had bought a .22 caliber rifle to put a stop to it and hadn't known that this particular drone belonged to law enforcement.
When deputies asked, Goney admitted that he was a convicted felon and therefore ineligible to own a firearm under federal law. They arrested Goney, who gave them permission to search his house and told them exactly where to find the rifle.
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Matt Fantinel ☛ Owning your stuff is pretty cool, actually
This week I re-read Steph Ango’s post about why we should prefer files over apps. The context over which it was reposted was because Notion bought Skiff, an email client, which was quickly followed by an announcement that the service is being sunset in 6 months (and its source code got moved to another repo with no warning; which made many people think it got pulled completely).
There’s a ton of things to like about this idea of using open format files for everything. It’s pretty much the most guaranteed way to make sure your data belongs to you, because it’s as close as you can get to physically owning something digital.
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Tracy Durnell ☛ IndieWeb interactions: what builds connection?
I think this is part of a larger cultural disdain for “meaningless” interactions, which is entirely disconnected from the research about connection. The idea that lightweight interactions like a thumbs up or a “love it” comment are not valuable has, I suspect, grown out of a distrust of corporate-owned social media platforms mediating, coopting, and commodifying our interactions and engagements with each other. But, start learning about relationships and community and you quickly realize that these little exchanges are the glue that bonds us together. That relationships are built on repeated interactions, and that they must be maintained through continued interactions. Not all of those can be deep debates on, say, the meaning of the squid in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea and, I dunno, how it precedes primordial Cthulan horror in the canon. Sometimes it’s sharing a chuckle at a pushmi-pullyu reference instead. (To reference one highbrow and one lowbrow ocean themed movie I liked as a kid.)
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Manuel Moreale ☛ P&B: Cassidy Williams
This is the 27th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Cassidy Williams and her blog, cassidoo.co
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New Statesman ☛ Sibelius’s symphony without sequel
Sibelius’s seclusion is often called “the silence of Järvenpää” – after the town where Ainola is located. Diary entries from his last 30 years can make for alarming reading. In 1927, he wrote, “Isolation and loneliness are driving me to despair… In order to survive, I have to have alcohol.” In 1943, he called himself a “fait accompli”, adding, “Life is soon over. Others will come and surpass me in the eyes of the world. We are fated to die forgotten.” But it wasn’t all misery. Copyright laws passed in Finland in 1927 gave him financial security and in those last three decades he did try to compose. More than once, he promised an eighth symphony to the conductor Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It never came. After Sibelius’s death, it was revealed he’d slung the score in the fire at Ainola, although some tantalising sketches do survive.
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Science
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Bruno Rodrigues ☛ Reproducible data science with Nix, part 10 -- contributing to nixpkgs
I’ve very recently started contributing to the nixpkgs repository of packages, which contains all the packages you can install from the Nix package manager. My contributions are fairly modest: I help fix R packages that need some tweaking to make them successfully build for Nix. Most of these fixes are very simple one-liners.
Most users of any free and open source tool rarely contribute to the development of this tool: I don’t think it is due to lack of skills and/or time or interest, but mostly because starting to contribute to a tool requires some knowledge that is rarely written down (even more so for an entire ecosystem). These tools and ecosystems grow organically, and if you’re not in the right spot at the right time or are not lucky enough to have kind people taking time to explain things to you, contributing might feel completely overwhelming.
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Education
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uni Case Western Reserve ☛ Why reading hard books is important, despite how difficult it can be
In middle school and high school, your teachers probably encouraged you to seek out primary sources, which are original accounts of a topic, as opposed to secondary sources, which are retellings or summaries of the primary sources. However, teachers often don’t acknowledge an important fact: Primary sources are really boring and hard to read. If they’re historical texts, they’ll have different writing conventions, which makes them much harder to parse. Or, if they’re from the present but are academic, they’ll use language that is uncommon outside of their field. Reading a modern account that summarizes the topic, such as a Wikipedia article, can help you understand a concept much more quickly than you would’ve by reading primary sources.
With the advent of the internet, summaries have proliferated. It used to be that if you wanted to learn something, and your professor’s curriculum wasn’t working for you, the best way to learn was to go to the library and find a book with what you wanted. But now we live in a more advanced world where challenging subjects have been summarized and popularized in YouTube videos and Wikipedia articles. Learning class material via YouTube isn’t bad by itself—I’ve certainly saved many hours by watching videos by The Efficient Engineer instead of reading my textbooks—but using YouTube as your professor won’t work forever for two reasons.
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Hardware
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India Times ☛ AI opportunity: Intel sees AI opportunity for standalone programmable chip unit
Artificial intelligence offers a growing and potentially lucrative opportunity for Intel's freshly standalone programmable chip unit, its CEO Sandra Rivera said.
Intel's programmable chip unit began operating as a standalone business at the beginning of the year, and on Thursday outlined its plans for the future and its official name: "Altera, an Intel company."
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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NYPost ☛ DoorDash, Uber Eats and other delivery apps are a health hazard: expert
When a pricey takeout dinner arrives late and cold, it’s more than just another annoyance at the end of a long day — your meal could also wind up making you sick, experts warn.
That’s because the longer prepared food sits around waiting to be collected by a tardy driver and brought to you, the less time it spends at the right temperature.
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El País ☛ The risk of depression skyrockets when ultra-processed foods exceed 30% of a person’s diet
Many of the foods that are sold at the supermarket are ultra-processed. Pastries, ready-made pizzas, many sauces, salty snacks or cold cuts are only a few examples of this type of products, whose consumption continues on the rise; just in the United States, 58% of the people’s calorie intake comes from ultra-processed foods. And, as their consumption increases all over the world, so does the concern about their health effects. This week, the medical journal BMJ published an extensive review of studies that confirms the association between a higher consumption of these foods and diseases such as diabetes, mental health disorders and early death.
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Lee Peterson ☛ I stopped listening to podcasts and this is what happened
I’ve rediscovered listening to music, I’m more balanced mood wise, I realise a lot of the tech podcasts I was listening to just sound the same and talk about the same thing and most importantly I’m finding it’s ok to have nothing going on. Instead of filling gaps with listening to others I’m just letting myself be bored and it’s just fine.
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India Times ☛ neuralink animal lab issues: Elon Musk's Neuralink cited by FDA over animal lab issues
The inspectors identified quality control lapses at the company's California animal research facility. A similar inspection at Neuralink's Texas facility did not find problems, according to agency records. Those visits took place last year from June 12-22, and represent the FDA's sole inspections of Neuralink facilities on record.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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New York Times ☛ Leap Year Blamed For Glitch at New Zealand Gas Pumps
Computers have shut down, satellite navigation devices have failed and airport conveyor belts have refused to move luggage onto planes. This year, dozens of gas stations across New Zealand malfunctioned on Thursday, with car and truck drivers reporting problems filling up in the early hours of the morning.
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India Times ☛ Google Gemini AI head goes ‘missing’ from social media
Jack Krawczyk, the Google Gemini product lead responsible for the company’s AI image generator, has abruptly withdrawn from social media platforms, including X and LinkedIn. According to a report by CNBC, this move comes in the wake of a tumultuous launch of the AI tool, which resulted in widespread criticism and online harassment.
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Thord D Hedengren ☛ Opt-out is always wrong
Selling user-generated content is the hottest thing in tech right now. It's a way for all those communities to cash in, now that ads aren't working. Companies acting like this is to be expected: If you're not paying for something, you're the product. So, when you upload a photo of your dog to Instagram, you're training Meta's AI. Makes sense.
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Bitdefender ☛ Someone is hacking 3D printers to warn owners of a security flaw
The message contains ASCII art of a worm and claims to be "harmless" - but warns of a "critical vulnerability" in the printer, posing a “significant threat”. It advises affected users to disconnect their printer from the [Internet] to avoid being hacked.
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India Times ☛ Elon Musk: US judge signals Elon Musk's X may lose case against hate speech watchdog
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer was skeptical that when the nonprofit entered the standard user contract governing all Twitter and X users, it could have foreseen that Musk would buy Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 and welcome back users it had banned for posting hateful content.
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Vox ☛ Reddit, Tumblr, Wordpress: The deals that will sell your data to train AI models
If you’ve ever posted anything on the internet, chances are that your data has already been scraped, collected, and used to train AI systems like the ones powering ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora. Generative AI is designed to succeed as a generalist, and learning to do so, OpenAI has said, requires “internet-scale” data to train on.
You probably don’t need me to tell you what happened when companies used scraped public data — often without the permission of those who created it — from news articles, books, and creative projects to teach AI tools how to, say, generate news articles, books, and creative projects.
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The Register UK ☛ US to investigate national security threat from Chinese cars
Concerned over the chance that Chinese-made cars could pose a future threat to national security, Biden's administration is proposing plans to probe potential threats posed by "connected" vehicles made in the Middle Kingdom.
In a statement this morning, the US President said the fact that most modern automobiles are "like smartphones on wheels" meant cars made in China and sold in the US could collect sensitive data, transmit it overseas and even be remotely accessed or disabled.
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404 Media ☛ Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money
A workers rights group for Mechanical Turk workers says that at least dozens of MTurk workers have been suddenly locked out of the Amazon-owned microlabor platform, suggesting a widespread issue that is denying these people the ability to work and in some cases denying them access to money they have already made on the platform.
I learned about the workers being locked out of their accounts from Turkoptican, a group that advocates for Mechanical Turk workers, or Turkers, which is currently raising money for a mutual aid fund to support them financially.
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India Times ☛ Elon Musk: Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for breach of contract
The lawsuit said Altman, along with OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman, originally approached Musk to make an open source, non-profit company that would develop artificial intelligence technology for the "benefit of humanity".
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New York Times ☛ SEC Is Investigating OpenAI Over Its Board’s Actions
The Securities and Exchange Commission began an inquiry into OpenAI soon after the company’s board of directors unexpectedly removed Sam Altman, its chief executive, at the end of last year, three people familiar with the inquiry said.
The regulator has sent official requests to OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT online chatbot, seeking information about the situation. It is unclear whether the S.E.C. is investigating Mr. Altman’s behavior, the board’s decision to oust him or both.
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The Register UK ☛ Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia
Meta has killed its Facebook news service in the United States and Australia.
A late Thursday post revealed the move, which The Social Network™ justified on grounds that it had already snuffed the tab it dedicated to news in the UK, France and Germany, audiences for the service dropped 80 percent last year, and "news makes up less than three percent of what people around the world see in their Facebook feed, and is a small part of the Facebook experience for the vast majority of people."
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Gizmodo ☛ Facebook Killing Hard-To-Find News Tab Because It Says Users Don't Care About News
Facebook plans to “deprecate” its News tab for users in the United States and Australia by April, according to an announcement published Thursday night. What does that mean? As best we can tell, it means Facebook doesn’t want anyone to use the platform for news anymore and will be killing its dedicated News tab.
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Tim Bray ☛ Money Bubble
The Larger Bubble · Put in the simplest way: Things have been too good for too long in InvestorWorld: low interest, high profits, the unending rocket rise of the Big-Tech sector, now with AI afterburners. Wile E. Coyote hasn’t actually run off the edge of the cliff yet, but there are just way more ways for things to go wrong than right in the immediate future.
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Graham Cluley ☛ Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms
If you’ve spent the last umpteen years pouring blood, sweat, and tears into creating content for your Tumblr or WordPress.com blog, chances are that you would appreciate some payback all of your hard work.
Instead, though, Automattic (the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress.com) is going to monetise it – selling access to the information you have publicly posted to selected AI companies.
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The Register UK ☛ Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for its content
The Overflow API is designed to act as a knowledge database to help developers build more accurate and helpful code-generation models. Google announced it was using the service to access relevant information from Stack Overflow via the API and integrate the data with its latest Gemini models, and for its cloud storage console.
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The Register UK ☛ Musk sues OpenAI, claiming there's nothing 'open' about it
Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has launched a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a breach of contract in its move away from open technology and its original mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.
In a complaint [PDF] filed in the Superior Court of California yesterday, Musk's legal team claims OpenAI has breached its contracts, engaged in unfair business practices, and failed in its fiduciary duty.
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Wired ☛ Here Come the AI Worms
As generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work. Startups and tech companies are building AI agents and ecosystems on top of the systems that can complete boring chores for you: think automatically making calendar bookings and potentially buying products. But as the tools are given more freedom, it also increases the potential ways they can be attacked.
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Quartz ☛ Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying it puts profit over humanity
Musk cofounded OpenAI with Altman in 2015, but left in 2018 over a conflict of interest with the company’s development. The lawsuit claims a breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices. Musk is asking that OpenAI be ordered to open its research and technology to the public — and upping the stakes by requesting Altman give up money from those alleged illegal practices. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Axios ☛ Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over breach of contract
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit Thursday against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they have abandoned the company's founding agreement to pursue AI research for the good of humanity rather than profit.
Why it matters: This latest twist in a long feud between the two influential figures comes as a generative AI revolution kicked off by OpenAI's ChatGPT is sweeping through the world — and many of the technology's creators continue to warn of its perils.
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Video game industry layoffs are a collision of trends
Thousands of video game industry workers are out of work following a series of mass layoffs at game developers and publishers over the past three months.
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EuroGamer ☛ Crash Team Rumble support ends after nine months, as developer splits with Activision
Crash Team Rumble will have no further content updates after 4th March, less than nine months after its launch.
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Week in Views - Apple impatience, Unity mismanagement and Sony surprises
The games industry moves quickly and while stories may come and go there are some that we just can't let go of…
So, to give those particularly thorny topics a further going over we've created a weekly digest where the members of the PocketGamer.biz team share their thoughts and go that little bit deeper on some of the more interesting things that have happened in mobile gaming in the past week.
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Game-News24 ☛ Gaming Giant Might Outsource Localization and QA to Sega of America Layoffs
The gaming industry has become the latest to experience a wave of misfortunes. According to reports, Electronic Arts cut five percent of its workforce. Microsoft has cutting 1,900 jobs at Activision, Xbox and Zenima. Sony has cut its global PlayStation division by eight percent, or about 900 staff members.
Consequently, Sega of America isn’t the only one who plans to make retirements from Irvine. More specifically, 61 workers who are working on fixed-term contracts will be dropped from the QA and localization department.
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Security
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Privacy/Surveillance
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Data Breaches ☛ Message to the Congress on Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern
Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order that expands the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019 (Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain), and further addressed with additional measures in Executive Order 14034 of June 9, 2021 (Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries).
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Consumer Reports ☛ These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway.
On a recent Thursday afternoon, a Consumer Reports journalist received an email containing a grainy image of herself waving at a doorbell camera she’d set up at her back door.
If the message came from a complete stranger, it would have been alarming. Instead, it was sent by Steve Blair, a CR privacy and security test engineer who had hacked into the doorbell from 2,923 miles away.
Blair had pulled similar images from connected doorbells at other CR employees’ homes and from a device in our Yonkers, N.Y., testing lab. While we expected him to gain access to these devices, it was still a bit shocking to see photos of the journalist’s deck and backyard. After all, video doorbells are supposed to help you keep an eye on strangers at the door, not let other people watch you.
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Consumer Reports ☛ Video Doorbells Sold By Big Retailers Have Major Security Flaws - Consumer Reports
Blair was able to capture those images because he and fellow test engineer David Della Rocca had found serious security flaws in this doorbell, along with others sold under different brands but apparently made by the same manufacturer. The doorbells also lack a visible ID issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that’s required by the agency’s regulations, making them illegal to distribute in the U.S.
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RFA ☛ China's secrets law could mean new risks linked to 'work secrets'
China's latest piece of security legislation will have a further chilling effect on foreign investment and the economy by creating a new category of confidential information called 'work secrets,' analysts said in recent commentaries and interviews with RFA Mandarin.
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday signed an executive order that will see the Law on Safeguarding State Secrets take effect from May 1, after the law was revised and adopted by the National People's Congress Standing Committee on Feb. 27.
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The Register UK ☛ Investigators seek push notification metadata in 130 cases
More than 130 petitions seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington Post investigation – a finding that underscores the lack of privacy protection available to users of mobile devices.
The poor state of mobile device privacy has provided US state and federal investigators with valuable information in criminal investigations involving suspected terrorism, child sexual abuse, drugs, and fraud – even when suspects have tried to hide their communications using encrypted messaging.
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Confidentiality
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NVISO Labs ☛ Covert TLS n-day backdoors: SparkCockpit & SparkTar
In early 2024, Ivanti’s Pulse Secure appliances suffered from wide-spread exploitation through the then reported vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 & CVE-2024-21887. Amongst the many victims, a critical-sector organization triggered their NVISO incident-response retainer to support their internal security teams in the investigation of the observed compromise of their Ivanti appliance. This report documents two at-the-time undetected covert TLS-based backdoors which were identified by NVISO during this investigation: SparkCockpit & SparkTar. Both backdoors employ selective interception of TLS communication towards the legitimate Ivanti server applications. Through this technique, the attackers have managed to avoid detection by most (if not all) network-based security solutions.
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Defence/Aggression
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The Atlantic ☛ TikTok Is Basically Just Broadcast TV Now
Culturally, the platform has been trending more toward the mainstream for quite some time now. But this shift has become even more pronounced during the fight between the company and the world’s biggest music label. TikTok and Universal Music Group have been in the process of renegotiating their expired rights contract, which allowed TikTok to license UMG’s songs for use in videos. As talks dragged on, TikTok first silenced the songs—meaning they wouldn’t play in existing TikTok videos and couldn’t be used for new ones—and now has begun the process of deleting the UMG library entirely.
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Deutsche Welle ☛ Fridays for Future in Germany has a new strategy
Recently, however, FFF hasn't been very visible in Germany.
And yet Germany seems to offer particularly promising prospects for the movement and politicians have been mostly supportive. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a chat with Thunberg. Luisa Neubauer, the most prominent face of FFF in Germany, has been a regular on TV talk shows for years. And since the Greens joined the governing coalition in Berlin in December 2021, the movement has had a natural ally in the federal government.
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Digital Music News ☛ UMPG Pens Update As TikTok Licensing Dispute Intensifies
Late last month, it emerged that the TikTok-Universal Music licensing showdown was expanding to the publishing side. Now, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has penned a new statement on the subject, recognizing that the situation “might be uncomfortable at the moment” for its songwriters.
UMPG just recently put out the approximately 300-word comments, having provided an initial update on the TikTok dispute at the time of the underlying agreement’s January expiration. As noted, the impasse’s mass-muting reached compositions earlier this week – making a number of works, among them an array of popular K-pop projects, unavailable on the app.
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Wired ☛ The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal
The UK is not the only country that is using GPS tracking devices as an alternative to immigration detention centers. Last year, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency also announced it would start tracking migrants using GPS ankle tags and specially designed smartwatches.
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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Insight Hungary ☛ Hungary tried to shield Russian oligarchs from EU sanctions
Hungary has been lobbying to exempt three Russian oligarchs from upcoming EU sanctions, investigative outlet Vsquare reports. This bold move by Budapest has cast a shadow over the impending passage of the next sanctions package at a crucial meeting of EU foreign ministers.
The oligarchs were identified as Viatcheslav Kantor, Alisher Usmanov, and Dmitry Mazepin. According to VSquare's newsletter, the Orbán government has been actively working to secure these individuals' removal from the sanctions list for over a year. This relentless pursuit has now honed in on Kantor, Usmanov, and Mazepin as the focal points of Hungary's campaign.
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The Local DK ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Ukrainians in Denmark: Eight out of ten in jobs after fleeing war
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Counter Punch ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Poland torn between farmer protests and support for Ukraine
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Ukraine war: How to speed up ammunition production
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Scholz, Marking Ukraine Invasion Anniversary, Calls for Stronger Europe
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Ukraine's Defences Under Strain as War Enters Its Third Year
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Ukraine's Top Diplomat Tells Skeptics at the UN That His Country 'Will Win the War'
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] U.S. Senate Leader Schumer, in Ukraine, Urges House Speaker to Help Pass Aid Bill
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NL Times ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] The Netherlands to sign ten-year security agreement with Ukraine
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Dutch Election Winner Wilders Willing to Consider More Ukraine Aid
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Germany Still Discussing Supplying Long-Range Weapons to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Italy and Canada Sign Security Deals With Ukraine
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] France is struggling to pay for Ukraine aid as budget stretched
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Ukraine: Report reveals war’s long-term impact which will be felt ‘for generations’
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NL Times ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Wilders against outgoing Dutch Cabinet’s 10-year Ukraine security deal
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CBC ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Ukrainian family finds safety and success in Calgary with colourful perogy business
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] The War in Ukraine, as Seen From Space
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] UK to Help Replenish Ukraine's Artillery Reserves With $311 Million Package
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Pope Francis Urges Diplomatic Solution to Ukraine War on Anniversary of Invasion
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Ukraine Expects $11.8 Billion in US Economic Aid in 2024, Prime Minister Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Delays in Promised Western Military Aid to Ukraine Are Costing Lives, the Defense Minister Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Ukraine's Top General, Defence Minister Visit Posts Near Front Line
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Ukraine Tripled Weapons Production Last Year, Minister Says
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's Press Conference
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TruthOut ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Peace Activists and Policy Experts Call for Talks as War on Ukraine Turns Two
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Scholz defends refusal to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Ukraine updates: Kyiv's troops pull out of eastern village
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Ukraine updates: Macron seeks to revitalize European aid
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International Business Times ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Six Charts That Show How US Spent $75b In Ukraine Aid; Zelensky Still Waiting On $61b Aid Package
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International Business Times ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Ukrainian Children Appeal to UN Security Council, Plead for Support after Losing Loved Ones in War
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Dutch to Give 100 Million Euros to Czech Initiative to Buy Ammunition for Ukraine
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] France's Macron Says Sending Troops to Ukraine Cannot Be Ruled Out
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Ukraine: Germany's Baerbock cuts short visit to Mykolaiv
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Ukraine updates: 31,000 Ukrainian troops killed in war
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The Local SE ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Pro-Ukraine rallies across Europe on war anniversary
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Biden Is Summoning Congressional Leaders to the White House to Talk Ukraine and Government Funding
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-25 [Older] Paris Conference to Belie 'Doom and Gloom' on Ukraine, Elysee Says
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TruthOut ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Getting Ukraine’s History Right Is Crucial for Anti-Imperialist Politics
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NL Times ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Concerns for Ukrainian refugees as main Utrecht facility closes; Human trafficking risk
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy in Albania to drum up support
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The Age AU ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Europe, US, NATO shoot down Macron’s suggestion of ground troops for Ukraine
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Copenhagen Post ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Danish PM fields NATO criticism: “Of course Ukraine aid counts as defence spend”
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NL Times ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Dutch military chief: All options open in Ukraine even if NATO won’t yet send troops
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NL Times ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] First reception for Ukrainian refugees in Utrecht closes temporarily; No beds available
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] European leaders wary after Macron's Ukraine troop comments
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] German mission to train Ukrainians forges ahead
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Macron raises prospect of sending Western troops to Ukraine
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Polish farmers march to protest Ukrainian imports, EU policy
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Ukraine: Deep divisions among central European nations
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Ukraine updates: Putin marks Crimea takeover anniversary
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The Local SE ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Swedish PM: Sending ground troops to Ukraine is 'not on the cards'
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NL Times ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Video: Three hurt in fire at hotel housing Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands
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Transparency/Investigative Reporting
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The Register UK ☛ US Air National Guardsman Teixeira to plead guilty to leaks
According to a motion filed [PDF] on Thursday, Teixeira has requested a Rule 11 hearing — a court proceeding to discuss a change of plea — on March 4. The plea agreement remains sealed as of Friday, so it's unclear to what charges Teixeira will plead guilty.
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Computers Are Bad ☛ 2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood
Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the ShotSpotter name.
ShotSpotter has attracted a lot of press and plenty of criticism for the gunfire detection service they provide to many law enforcement agencies in the US. The system involves installing acoustic sensors throughout a city, which use some sort of signature matching to detect gunfire and then use time of flight to determine the likely source.
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Environment
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Deutsche Welle ☛ Fridays for Future in Germany has a new strategy
Recently, however, FFF hasn't been very visible in Germany.
And yet Germany seems to offer particularly promising prospects for the movement and politicians have been mostly supportive. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a chat with Thunberg. Luisa Neubauer, the most prominent face of FFF in Germany, has been a regular on TV talk shows for years. And since the Greens joined the governing coalition in Berlin in December 2021, the movement has had a natural ally in the federal government.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft drags feet on proposed Atlanta campus that would generate 15,000 jobs -- now the city wants answers
It isn’t all about (missing) jobs, as Atlanta has a particular reliance on property taxes from commercial real estate owners and an unfortunately high office vacancy rate compared with other states. According to Bloomberg’s report, about 19% of Atlanta city tax revenue comes from commercial property. However, it is simultaneously suffering from some of the highest office vacancy rates in the country. New offices, however, fare much better than older properties in terms of vacancy rates, so developers are still happy to keep building.
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[Repeat] The Atlantic ☛ AI Is Taking Water From the Desert
I’d traveled out to Arizona to see it for myself. The Goodyear site stretched along the road farther than my eyes could see. A black fence and tufts of desert plants lined its perimeter. I began to walk its length, clutching my phone and two bottles of water. According to city documents, Microsoft bought 279 acres for this location. For now, the plot holds two finished buildings, thick and squat, with vents and pipes visible along their sides. A third building is under construction, and seven more are on the way. Each will be decked out with rows of servers and computers that must be kept below a certain temperature. The complex has been designated partly for OpenAI’s use, according to a person familiar with the plan. (Both Microsoft and OpenAI declined to comment on this assertion.) And Microsoft plans to absorb its excess heat with a steady flow of air and, as needed, evaporated drinking water. Use of the latter is projected to reach more than 50 million gallons every year.
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Energy/Transportation
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Deutsche Welle ☛ Apple pulls the plug on its self-driving e-car project
Traditional car manufacturers in Europe, Asia and the US face a number of problems, some of them of their own making. To make matters worse, the creeping concern that tech companies could crowd legacy firms out of the personal mobility market looms over manufacturers like the figurative sword of Damocles. This threat materialized when Google parent Alphabet and Apple announced their self-driving car endeavors, Waymo and Project Titan.
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Wired ☛ Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet
The decision by the California Public Utilities Commission will likely prove controversial. It comes over the protest of local governments and agencies, including the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, the city of South San Francisco, and the County of San Mateo. All argued that local government and citizens should have more input and oversight over the expanded autonomous taxi service.
But California laws allow state regulators, not local ones, to make decisions about where and how self-driving vehicles can operate in the state—a fact that the CPUC cited in today’s decision.
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Quartz ☛ EV startup Fisker lays off staff and warns it may not survive
Electric vehicle startup Fisker is warning investors that there is “substantial doubt” it will have enough cash to make it through 2024.
To survive 2024, the company told investors Thursday it would begin streamlining its operations, starting with layoffs affecting 15% of its workforce. As of September 2023, Fisker had more than 1,300 employees, so almost 200 people may lose their jobs.
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Hindustan Times ☛ Judge holds veteran journalist Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to divulge source - Hindustan Times
A federal judge held veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt on Thursday for refusing to divulge her source for a series of stories during her time at Fox News about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington imposed a fine of $800 dollars per day until Herridge complies, but the fine will not go into effect immediately to give her time to appeal.
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The Verge ☛ Fisker warns it’s running out of cash and may not make it through 2024
Fisker said that there is “substantial doubt” that it will have enough money to make it through the year, the company said in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. As such, it’s embarked on a cost-cutting spree, laying off 15 percent of employees, while casting around for more investment. Fisker said it’s “in discussions with an existing noteholder about potentially making an additional investment in the company.”
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Licensing / Legal
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The Drone Girl ☛ Does the FAA know when I fly my drone?
In short, it’s unlikely that the FAA knows you’re flying your drone in most cases — unless you opt-in to telling the FAA through Remote ID
Now, all the information below is all in regards to your standard, small hobby drone flight in non-controlled airspace (e.g. most parks not located near airports, lakes, etc).
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Wildlife/Nature
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The Hindu ☛ Wild elephant spotted on outskirts of Belagavi in Karnataka
There was excitement among morning walkers in west Belagavi on March 1 when they saw a wild elephant moving slowly, stopping to eat grass by the roadside.
Someone called forest officials. The local police and forest officials stopped vehicles on roads, to ensure that the elephant did not face any hindrance. Commuters stopped at a distance and watched the majestic animal move.
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Omicron Limited ☛ Asian elephants mourn, bury their dead calves: Study
Researchers identified five calf burials conducted by the giant mammals in the north of India's Bengal region in 2022 and 2023, according to the study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa this week.
They found in each case that a herd carried the deceased calf by the trunk and legs before burying it in the earth with its legs facing upward.
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Overpopulation
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The Hindu ☛ KAU’s elephant alert system raises hope for safety on forest fringes
An alert system against elephant intrusion into human habitats developed by Kerala Agricultural University offers hope as increased man-elephant conflicts on forest fringes are taking a toll on human lives.
The system, which uses artificial intelligence, was developed by K. Gopakumar, Head of the Department of Forest Resource Management, KAU’s College of Forestry, just before the COVID-19 outbreak in collaboration with scientists of Government Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara, and the Integrated Rural Technology Centre, Mundur.
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Finance
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Greece ☛ What Greeks buy on the web
Two out of three internet users in Greece made online purchases in 2023, with the penetration rate of e-commerce remaining steadily at high levels despite the full reopening of physical stores.
Following global trends, Greeks not only purchase goods and services now, but also use the internet for buying and selling from other people, mainly used items or short-term rental services. However, when it comes to goods purchases, what is steadily gaining ground is ordering prepared food online, with competition being particularly intense between ordering and delivery platforms.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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Gizmodo ☛ The FBI Is Using Push Notifications to Catch Sexual Predators
The Post did a little digging into court records and found evidence of at least 130 search warrants filed by the feds for push notification data in cases spanning 14 states. In those cases, FBI officials asked tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook to fork over data related to a suspect’s mobile notifications, then used the data to implicate the suspect in criminal behavior linked to a particular app, even though many of those apps were supposedly anonymous communication platforms, like Wickr.
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Michael West Media ☛ Facebook refuses to renew Australian news deals
Facebook’s parent company Meta and the Australian government are at loggerheads again after the tech giant announced it would not renew commercial deals with Australian news publishers.
The US company also revealed it planned to remove a dedicated news section from the social media site in Australia and the US next year when the current deals expire.
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[Repeat] Quartz ☛ Microsoft should develop Atlanta land or give it back, mayor says
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is putting pressure on Microsoft to fulfill its plans to bring 15,000 new jobs to the city or return 90 acres of land that have sat empty since the tech giant bought the property in 2021.
That could prove difficult for Microsoft as the tech industry, including Microsoft, is grappling with widespread layoffs to start 2024. But the company doesn’t seem ready to let go of this parcel of land just yet.
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The Register UK ☛ Electronic Arts frags 5% of staff 'to grow fandom'
It's been a bad week to work in the video game industry. First Sony closed its London studio and cut staff, and now Electronic Arts is letting workers go.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson announced the layoffs in a letter to employees yesterday, telling them the publisher would be cutting around five percent of staff. Based on its 2023 annual report to the US Securities and Exchange commission, EA had approximately 13,400 employees, meaning around 670 jobs would be eliminated.
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India Times ☛ Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts to lay off 5% of workforce, reduce office space
Electronic Arts will reduce 5% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan that also includes a reduction in real estate, the company said on Wednesday, as the video game industry struggles to grow amid high interest rates.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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The Conversation ☛ In 2024, we’ll truly find out how robust our democracies are to online disinformation campaigns
Research has shown that for some topics, such as politics and civil rights, all figures across the political spectrum are often both attacked and supported, in an attempt to cause confusion and to obfuscate who and what can be believed.
This practice often goes hand-in-hand with something called “zone flooding”, where the information environment is deliberately overloaded with any and all information, just to confuse people. The aim of these broad disinformation campaigns is to make it difficult for people to believe any information, leading to a disengaged and potentially uninformed electorate.
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India Times ☛ Google collaborates with fact checkers to weed out misinformation in elections
In a blog post, Google said as part of its commitment to enable the news ecosystem to combat misinformation, it will support Shakti, India Election Fact-Checking Collective, a consortium of news publishers and fact checkers in India, working together to aid the early detection of online misinformation, including deepfakes.
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Censorship/Free Speech
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Meduza ☛ Metal fencing installed between subway station and church for Navalny’s funeral, mobile internet issues reported nearby
Mediazona’s correspondent also reported issues with mobile [Internet] service in the vicinity of the church: there is a delay of several minutes when sending messages in Telegram, and the Yandex.Maps app is not working.
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India Times ☛ Meta subscriptions: EU queries Meta about ad-free subscriptions, 'shadow-banning'
Brussels also demanded Meta "provide information related to the practice of so-called shadow banning and the launch of Threads", a spin-off of the Instagram photo app.
Individuals, including politicians, and groups claim that some media platforms practice shadow banning -- actively limiting the reach of certain viewpoints, including conservative opinions.
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[Repeat] RFA ☛ Vietnam police detain YouTube activist on anti-state charges
Hanoi authorities arrested the creator of two popular YouTube channels on Thursday on anti-state charges under Article 117, Vietnam’s vaguely written law that human rights organizations say is used to silence dissent.
Nguyen Chi Tuyen will be detained while an investigation is conducted into the charge of “disseminating information, materials, items and publications against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” Hanoi’s Security Investigation Agency said in a statement.
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ME Forum ☛ Mark Durie on Islam's Crisis of Apostasy
According to Durie, we in the West are "hamstrung intellectually because we don't understand faith," which is "very profound in the way it shapes people." Because Muslims in the West are perceived as an "oppressed minority," discussing the deficiencies of Islamic revivalism is considered politically incorrect or even Islamophobic. "[P]eople get shut down because of the things they say about the differences between religions," said Durie. It's ironic that "a religion that proclaims supremacy and dominance over others should be treated as a disadvantaged group that needs to be empowered."
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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Scheerpost ☛ US Refuses to Assure UK Judges That Assange Won’t Be Executed If He’s Extradited
Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) says, “No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed.” Assange could not have been reasonably expected to know that he could be prosecuted for publishing in the public interest, because no publisher had ever been prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing in the public interest before.
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CPJ ☛ Why extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to US would be cataclysmic for press freedom
The Australian founder of the website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been fighting extradition to the U.S. from the U.K. since 2019 on charges that could strike a blow to press freedom globally.
Here is CPJ’s briefing on the legal battle to extradite Assange, the charges he would face in the U.S., and why his prosecution is worrying for journalists in the U.S. and internationally.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Quartz ☛ Wendy’s surge pricing is burned by Burger King, Chili's, and more
Then came a flurry of media attention centered on a single comment made by CEO Kirk Tanner during Wendy’s earnings call with investors. “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling,” he said.
The key word was dynamic pricing — seemingly a euphemism for surge pricing, a tactic employed by companies such as Uber, in which prices rise during times of peak demand. Notably, the comment didn’t get picked up by many news outlets until two weeks after Tanner’s remarks.
But when it did, it caught fire.
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Jacobin Magazine ☛ Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
The only thing harder than winning a union election against a megacorporation is winning a first contract. So it’s not surprising that countless skeptics suggested that Starbucks workers wouldn’t be able to muster enough power to force management to the table. Thankfully, Starbucks baristas and organizers ignored their critics. And this week, it paid off.
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RFA ☛ Lao house church reopens after being attacked
On Feb. 4, a mob of residents and village authorities tore down the house where Chrsitians in Kaleum Vangke village in Savannakhet province’s Xonboury district had gathered for worship. The attackers also burned Bibles.
Many churches and Christians in Laos have been assaulted despite a national law protecting the free exercise of faith.
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India Times ☛ google: US judge says Google must face some advertisers' antitrust claims, dismisses others
Alphabet's Google must face advertisers' proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday.
But U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed some other antitrust claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers.
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India Times ☛ web apps: Apple reverses decision to disable home screen web apps in EU
Apple has reversed a decision to block web apps in the European Union that bypass its 30% App Store fees by selling subscriptions directly through their websites, the company said on Friday, after the move invited scrutiny from regulators.
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The Register UK ☛ Apple reverses decision to remove Home Screen web apps in EU
Apple has reversed its decision to limit the functionality of Home Screen web apps in Europe following an outcry from the developer community and the prospect of further investigation.
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CoryDoctorow ☛ Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly
That's what the model predicted, but it's not what happened in the real world. In the real world, Amazon was able use its access to the capital markets to embark on scorched-earth predatory pricing campaigns. When diapers.com refused to sell out to Amazon, the company casually committed $100m to selling diapers below cost. Diapers.com went bust, Amazon bought it for pennies on the dollar and shut it down: [...]
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Quartz ☛ Apple backtracks on removing iPhone web apps after EU scrutiny
Apple said it is making the change to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to make market competition in the EU more balanced by preventing large companies from misusing their market power.
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India Times ☛ google play store: Google starts delisting Indian apps for non-compliance with Play Store norms
Murugavel Janakiraman, founder and MD of Matrimony.com, which operates portals including BharatMatrimony said that Google took down five to six of its apps on Friday. People Group founder and CEO Anupam Mittal also said that the company's app Shaadi.com was de-listed from the Play Store.
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Patents
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Axios ☛ Patent applications from Chinese inventors pass U.S. for first time
For the first time, the number of international patents filed from inventors in China has surpassed applications from the U.S., according to a new report.
Why it matters: Patent data is a key indicator of science and technology prowess — and the economic and national security strength that come with it.
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Trademarks
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Techdirt ☛ Virtual School Company Appeals Trademark Loss In Which Judge Called Them A ‘Trademark Bully’
Usually when you hear the term “trademark bully” tossed around, it’s done so either by members of the media, such as us here at Techdirt, or by defense attorneys making a point before the court. In the case of The Florida Virtual School, however, that moniker was given to the company by the judge that ruled against it in a trademark dispute with another company that offers virtual schooling.
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Copyrights
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The Hill ☛ Additional news organizations suing OpenAI for copyright infringement
Three more organizations are following The New York Times’s footsteps in suing Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, for copyright infringement.
Online media outlets Raw Story and Alternet and The Intercept filed separate lawsuits alleging the removal of the author’s name and other copyright violations while the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was trained.
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Torrent Freak ☛ Piracy Moghul Aniwatch Rebrands to HiAnime
The massively popular anime pirate site Aniwatch has a new name. The site, which was known as Zoro.to just a year ago, just rebranded to HiAnime. The site's staff doesn't explain the latest brand switch but a recent 'dynamic+' site blocking order in India may have factored into their decision. With well over 100 million monthly visits globally, there is a lot at stake.
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Torrent Freak ☛ Russia's 'VPN Ban' is Live as Authorities Warn of Bad VPNs & U.S. Spying
The latest stage of Russia's crackdown on VPNs and similar technologies went live a few hours ago. Contrary to some reports, today's changes don't amount to a total ban on VPNs. Use of state approved VPNs, which do everything except the useful stuff, remain legal. The new law criminalizes the promotion of VPNs for site-blocking circumvention. But Russia also wants citizen's to stay safe, warning that VPNs in the U.S. are prone to government spying.
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Technology and Free Software
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Internet/Gemini
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hello! :) first post!
i've been exploring the smallweb recently, from smallfish to spacehey (if that counts as part of it?) and it's quite great! i much prefer distancing myself from the coreweb. i've deleted tiktok, reddit, facebook, etc! i'm reading more as well as educating myself on topics of interest such as sociology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neurology!
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Programming
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primes and otherwise
the triangle that seed 15 made isn't a Sierpiński triangle. derp me. they look pretty close.
the one I made has a seam down the center... and other things. anyway. still neat.
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I was thinking about the number 3301 and figured it was probably a prime number in reverse too, you know, 1033, because that seems like a property the cicada nerds would nerd over. I checked and it is prime in reverse. calculated the first handful by hand so I could see if it was on oeis.org. It is.
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The speed of Microsoft's BASIC floating point routines
I was curious about how fast Microsoft's BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) floating point [1] routines were. This is easy enough to test, now that I can time assembly code inside the assembler [2]. The code calculates -2π^3/3! using Color BASIC routines, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)-754 single precision and double precision.
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.