- + When a Politician Sues a Blog to Unmask Its Anonymous Commenter—Markos Moulitsas is the poll-watching founder of the political blog Daily Kos. Thursday he wrote that in 2021, future third-party presidential candida...
- + US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons—Senior Department arms control official Paul Dean on Thursday urged China and Russia to declare that artificial intelligence would never make decision...
- + Senators Want Limits On TSA Use of Facial Recognition Technology For Airport Screening—A bipartisan group of senators, led by Jeff Merkley, John Kennedy, and Roger Marshall, is advocating for limitations on the Transportation Security Ad...
- + German Police Bust Europe's 'Largest' Scam Call Center—Plumpaquatsch writes: Investigators teamed up with colleagues from the Balkans and Lebanon in raids set up by months of intense surveillance. Authorit...
- + An Open Database Leaked Submissions To Utah's 'Bathroom Bill' Snitch Form—samleecole writes: Utah set up an online form for people to accuse other citizens and public establishments of violating the state's recently-enacted ...
- + Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for mon...
- + Dropbox Says Hackers Breached Digital-Signature Product—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Dropbox said its digital-signature product, Dropbox Sign, was breached by hackers, who accessed us...
- + UnitedHealthCare CEO Says 'Maybe a Third' of US Citizens Were Affected By Recent Hack—An anonymous reader shares a report: Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it's sti...
- + 13.4 Million Kaiser Insurance Members Affected by Data Leak to Online Advertisers—Kaiser Permanente is the latest healthcare giant to report a data breach. Kaiser said 13.4 million current and former insurance members had their pati...
- + Supreme Court Declines To Block Texas Porn Restriction—The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block on free speech grounds a provision of Texas law aimed at preventing minors from accessing pornographic c...
- + Cyber Criminal Jailed For Blackmailing Therapy Patients—One of Europe's most wanted cyber criminals has been jailed for attempting to blackmail 33,000 people whose confidential therapy notes he stole. From ...
- + Major US Newspapers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft For Copyright Infringement—Eight prominent U.S. newspapers owned by investment giant Alden Global Capital are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, in a complai...
- + Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original—Jules Roscoe reports via 404 Media: Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedi...
- + Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chess Champion Garry Kasparov—Longtime Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from The Mirror: The city court in Syktyvkar, the largest city in Russia's northwestern Komi reg...
- + America's Commerce Department is Reviewing China's Use of RISC-V Chips—An anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters: The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China...
- + Bezos, Other Amazon Execs Used Signal - a Problem for FTC Investigators—Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now "accused" Amazon of using Signal, reports the Se...
- + Pegasus Spyware Used on Hundreds of People, Says Poland's Prosecutor General—An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus ...
- + A School Principal Was Framed With an AI-Generated Rant—"A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning," reports CBS News, "after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonat...
- + Boeing Accused of Retaliating Against Two Engineers in 2022—Reuters reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration "is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in ...
- + $5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations—America's Federal Trade Commission "is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers," reports the Associated Press, "as part of a settlement...
- + EyeEm Will License Users' Photos To Train AI If They Don't Delete Them—Sarah Perez reports via TechCrunch: EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankr...
- + Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement—The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 compla...
- + Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned a prior district court decision, lifting the injunction that blocked New York's law mandating...
- + IRS Free Tax Filing Pilot Saved Consumers $5.6 Million In Prep Fees—The free tax filing pilot from the IRS that rolled out in 12 states last month saved filers an estimated $5.6 million in tax preparation fees for fede...
- + Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes—Some Android-powered TVs can expose the contents of users' email inboxes if an attacker has physical access to the TV. Google initially told the offic...
- + US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip—Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (...
- + FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to restore regulations that expan...
- + Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback—The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote to restore net neutrality on Thursday in the latest volley of a yearslong game of political ping-...
- + Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights—Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced new rules for the airline industry that will require airlines to automatically give ca...
- + Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type—An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loop...
- + Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI—A lawsuit is alleging Amazon was so desperate to keep up with the competition in generative AI it was willing to breach its own copyright rules. From ...
- + How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On—General Motors (GM) has been selling data about the driving behavior of millions of people to insurance companies, leading to higher premiums for some...
- + Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo—In a huge move for the mixed reality industry, Meta announced today that it's opening the Quest's operating system to third-party companies, allowing ...
- + Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk—This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight conc...
- + Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud—The co-founder of Silicon Valley-based software testing startup HeadSpin was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and a $1 million fine, reports SF...
- + EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay'—The EU's European Data Protection Board oversees its privacy-protecting GDPR policies. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that nearly two dozen ...
- + Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage—"Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line," reports the Associated Press, knocking out 911 phone service "for emergency agenc...
- + US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years—Late Friday night the U.S. Senate "reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a key. U.S. surveillance authority," reports Axios, "shortl...
- + Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives—The U.S. House of Representatives just passed its long-delayed Ukraine aid bill. But along with it they also approved a bill banning TikTok "if its Ch...
- + Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders—An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: U.S. government officials were scrambling Friday night to prevent what they fear co...
- + Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations shoul...
- + Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit p...
- + Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email a...
- + Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme—A jury found Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Market...
- + Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist—An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of ...
- + House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties—An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from t...
- + Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office—CNBC reports that nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night in protest of the company's $1.2 billion contract providing c...
- + Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name—Pablo Escobar, the name of the late Colombian drug kingpin, can't be registered as a trademark in the European Union after judges said that approving ...
- + A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages—404 Media: An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity across servers including what v...
- + Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat—Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, has accused tech giants Google and Apple of threatening to censor content on smartphones [YouTube ...
- + SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones—The SEC has blocked third-party messaging apps and texts from employees' work phones, "bringing its own practices closer to the standards it's enforci...
- + Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California,...
- + Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side—According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's initial set of AI-related features in iOS 18 "will work entirely on device," and won't connect to cloud ...
- + Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick—Richard Currie reports via The Register: A simple misclick at a London law firm led to a surprise divorce for an unsuspecting couple. An employee at V...
- + US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like'—The United States Senate is poised to vote on legislation this week that, for the next two years at least, could dramatically expand the number of bus...
- + Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation—The Justice Department is preparing to sue Live Nation as soon as next month [non-paywalled link], an antitrust challenge that could spur major change...
- + The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Biden administration marked the close of tax season Monday by announcing it had met ...
- + Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned—Roku has made two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users following two credential stuffing attacks that compromised approximately 591,000...
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