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Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
xz-style Attacks Continue to Target Open-Source Maintainers (soylentnews.org)
Open Source maintainers and developers have been warned about the continued wave of attacks aimed at project maintainers similar to those recently targeting the Linux xz data compression library, XZ Utils [linuxsecurity.com].
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly (tech.slashdot.org)
Women Who Code (WWC), a U.S.-based organization of 360,000 people supporting women who work in the tech sector, is shutting down due to a lack of funding.
New best friend for life! (lemmy.world)
UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones (www.bbc.com)
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students (www.theregister.com)
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.
Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)
Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...
Russia, Iran turning Israel and Ukraine into ‘battlefield laboratories,’ experts say (thehill.com)
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday....
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
…replacing the previously hydraulic version....
Nigeria & Romania Ranked Among Top Cybercrime Havens (www.darkreading.com)
A survey of cybercrime experts assessing the top cybercrime-producing nations results in some expected leaders — Russia, Ukraine, and China — but also some surprises.
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
The company’s team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it’s plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be...
Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants (www.wired.com)
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins (www.theregister.com)
VPN by Google One is shutting down for good (www.androidauthority.com)
The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft (news.slashdot.org)
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Russian soldiers who quit Putin’s war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge (apnews.com)
The Associated Press spoke with five officers and one soldier who deserted the Russian military. All have criminal cases against them in Russia, where they face 10 years or more in prison. Each is waiting for a welcome from the West that has never arrived. Instead, all but one live in hiding.
Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry (time.com)
Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows....
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
Beyoncé Becomes First Black Woman to Nab Number One Country Album With 'Cowboy Carter' (www.rollingstone.com)