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Temu faces massive fine as EU launches probe
The European Commission has started a formal investigation against Temu over concerns the Chinese shopping giant violated the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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Apple removes another VPN service from Russian App Store
Apple has again yielded to Russian censorship demands, removing the independent Amnezia VPN from its App Store in Russia under claims of “illegal” content.
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Meta wants US government to use its AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is working on the adoption of Llama, its AI model, across the US government. The model is open source, and that might explain the interest.
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Steam now requires game devs to disclose kernel-level anti-cheats
Valve, the company behind the games and software distribution platform Steam, has introduced a change requiring developers to disclose if their games use kernel-level anti-cheat systems.
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Russia fines Google something like a ‘zillion’ dollars for blocking YouTube accounts
A Moscow judge fines Google ‘2 undecillion rubles’ for blocking Russian TV YouTube accounts – an amount with so many zeros, you’d have to be a scholar mathematician to even calculate it.
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Musk predicts 'more robots than people' by 2040 in latest interview. Here's what else he said, from AI to Zed.
Elon Musk talks robots, starships, and the future of AI during a virtual guest appearance at the 8th Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, which kicked off on Tuesday in Riyadh. We listened to the entire interview, so you don't have to. Here's the breakdown.
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Social media more like a funhouse mirror distorting reality, researchers say
Researchers at New York University have – unsurprisingly – concluded that social media isn’t an accurate reflection of society. It’s more like a funhouse mirror distorted by a small but vocal minority of users. Algorithms do their part, too.
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Three individuals face charges as police dismantle Redline and Meta infostealers
In a major cybercrime breakthrough, a Dutch-led international operation dismantled one of the largest global malware platforms. Authorities continue investigations into the cybercriminals who were behind notorious infostealers. ESET released an online scanner to check for this malware.
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Fitness app Strava betrays location of Biden, Trump, and other leaders
Sometimes, the schedules of Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, and other world leaders are public – and sometimes they’re not. But Strava, a fitness app used by their bodyguards, makes it easy to track them anyway, a French newspaper Le Monde has found.
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CrowdStrike vs Delta: outage blame game to play out in court
It’s dueling lawsuits between CrowdStrike and Delta as the cybersecurity firm – whose faulty patch led to a worldwide outage of Microsoft Windows-run systems this summer – decides to counter the airline carrier’s own legal action, both filed on Friday.
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Russia puts REvil hackers behind bars. Yes, you heard it right
A Russian court has sentenced four cybercriminals from the notorious REvil ransomware gang to four to six years in prison.
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Welcome aboard: flying taxis coming our way after important FAA ruling
It took around eight decades, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially recognized a new category of aircraft, an electric vehicle capable of taking off and landing vertically – a flying taxi.
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Can social media be blamed for deteriorating mental health?
A grieving mother from Florida has blamed a chatbot for the death of her teenage son. This is just one of many stories that demonstrate the dangers associated with digital platforms and suicide in young people.
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Robots could fill in for absent students in schools, UK groups propose
Robots could be used to boost school attendance in the UK, allowing students to join classes remotely from a “safe space,” according to a proposed strategy.
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WSJ bombshell: Musk in regular contact with Putin since 2022
US tech mogul Elon Musk has allegedly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, a new report by The Wall Street Journal claims.
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Internet Archive is back online, but for how long?
After a long battle with hackers who launched a DDoS attack and breached the Internet Archive’s systems, the archive is finally back online, at least for now.
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From bad to infamous: UnitedHealth says hack impacted 100M Americans
The devastating ransomware attack on UnitedHealth Group’s (UHG) subsidiary Change Healthcare has impacted nearly a third of the US population, making the attack the largest known US healthcare breach.
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LinkedIn fined €310 million for violating EU privacy rules
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has ruled that LinkedIn unlawfully handled user data, imposing three administrative fines totalling €310 million ($335 million).
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Pinterest accused of secretly tracking their users
Pinterest, a popular platform for creating visual mood boards, profits off users' private data without consent, digital rights watchdog claims.
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Nipple-pinching parody of Harris and Walz get thumbs up from Meta’s Oversight Board
Meta’s Oversight Board on Wednesday announced that a “Dumb and Dumber” parody meme posted on Facebook depicting US Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz twisting each other's privates should be allowed to stay on the social media site.
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