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Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says (www.propublica.org)

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Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)

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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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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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New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. (dnyuz.com)

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Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services (truthout.org)

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity (apnews.com)

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....

Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (www.nytimes.com)

I dislike linking to the NYT, but it seems to be the original source....

[Gamers Nexus] Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face (www.youtube.com)

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This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created (www.howtogeek.com)

“We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)

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AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings (arstechnica.com)

Cleantech has an enshittification problem (pluralistic.net)

Mobile games company Voodoo acquires BeReal (techcrunch.com)

Microsoft "accepts responsibility" for issues raised in report on Chinese hacking against U.S. targets as officials start to lose trust in the company's ability to secure its service (www.axios.com)

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Shop on the Temu app? Why class-action lawsuits in Canada and the U.S. have been proposed over privacy (globalnews.ca)

Temu, a popular marketplace where consumers can buy direct from factories overseas at cheap prices, is drawing concerns from lawyers and privacy experts in North America who allege the shopping app can be “invasive” for unwitting users....

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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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...

Stanford Internet Observatory rejects media reports it is shutting down, but acknowledges funding challenges (cyber.fsi.stanford.edu)