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Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)

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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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Is social media fuelling political polarisation? (theconversation.com)

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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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Chinese authorities may have made bomb threats in the name of a dissident’s family to try and control his political activities abroad (apnews.com)

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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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Taiwan: Beijing's information war has failed to make China's system of governance attractive to Taiwanese, but it drives polarisation and reduces people's trust in democratic institutions, poll shows (www.journalofdemocracy.org)

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"Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ (restofworld.org)

Bing’s translation and search engine services in China censor more extensively than Chinese competitors’ services do, according to new research....

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)

Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....

Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever (www.404media.co)

Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app (www.bbc.com)

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...

Cleantech has an enshittification problem (pluralistic.net)

'ChamelGang & Friends': China-linked Cyberespionage Groups Attacking Critical Infrastructure Globally with Ransomware (www.sentinelone.com)

Threat actors in the cyberespionage ecosystem are engaging in an increasingly disturbing trend of using ransomware as a final stage in their operations for the purposes of financial gain, disruption, distraction, misattribution, or removal of evidence....

Chinese hackers deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in global espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (thehackernews.com)

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