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Meta Drops Third-Party Fact-Checking for X-Style Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
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janvier 7, 2025
Meta Drops Third-Party Fact-Checking for X-Style Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Mark Zuckerberg timed the shift to a political weather change. The product question is who writes the note and how far a false claim travels before one attaches.
Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Walked Into U.S. Treasury Workstations Through a Stolen BeyondTrust Remote Support Key
Hacker News
décembre 30, 2024
Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Walked Into U.S. Treasury Workstations Through a Stolen BeyondTrust Remote Support Key
Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust key let a China-linked actor reach Departmental Offices machines and unclassified files. OFAC later named Yin Kecheng.
U.S. Charges Curitiba Hacker Junior Barros De Oliveira With Extorting $3.2 Million in Bitcoin After a 300,000-Record Breach
Hacker News
décembre 26, 2024
U.S. Charges Curitiba Hacker Junior Barros De Oliveira With Extorting $3.2 Million in Bitcoin After a 300,000-Record Breach
A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil, with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records stolen from a Brazilian subsidiary of…
Axon Draft One Writes Police Report Narratives From Body-Cam Audio as California Forces Agencies to Keep the First AI Draft
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août 26, 2024
Axon Draft One Writes Police Report Narratives From Body-Cam Audio as California Forces Agencies to Keep the First AI Draft
Draft One turns body-worn camera audio into a first-person incident narrative. Officers still sign the report. California's SB 524 and an Axon December 2025 setting now push departments to retain…
Dutch Regulator’s 290 Million Euro Uber GDPR Fine Still Sits on Appeal After an 825 Million Follow-On Penalty
International News
août 26, 2024
Dutch Regulator’s 290 Million Euro Uber GDPR Fine Still Sits on Appeal After an 825 Million Follow-On Penalty
The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens fined Uber 290 million euros on August 26, 2024, for sending EEA driver data to the United States without Article 44 safeguards. Uber appealed. On August 17,…
France Lifts Pavel Durov Travel Ban as Telegram Founder Still Faces Twelve French Counts and a Russian Warrant
Crime News
août 25, 2024
France Lifts Pavel Durov Travel Ban as Telegram Founder Still Faces Twelve French Counts and a Russian Warrant
Pavel Durov was arrested at Le Bourget on August 24, 2024, and indicted four days later on 12 counts tied to crimes on Telegram. France lifted the travel ban in…
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
International News
août 20, 2024
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
Tomorrow.Bio, Alcor, and the Cryonics Institute store legally dead patients in liquid nitrogen for six-figure fees. No human has been revived. Organ vitrification research is advancing. Whole-body revival is not.
Iraqi and Australian Engineers Train AI to Flag Disease From a Tongue Photo With 96 Percent Test Accuracy
Health News
août 13, 2024
Iraqi and Australian Engineers Train AI to Flag Disease From a Tongue Photo With 96 Percent Test Accuracy
A University of South Australia and Middle Technical University model matched tongue color to diagnosed illness in 58 of 60 hospital cases. A 2025 web app now tests shape and…
Hangzhou AI Engineer Zheng Jiajia Staged a Symbolic Wedding With Robot Yingying After Family Pressure to Marry
International News
mai 9, 2024
Hangzhou AI Engineer Zheng Jiajia Staged a Symbolic Wedding With Robot Yingying After Family Pressure to Marry
Zheng Jiajia built robot Yingying in late 2016 and held a Hangzhou ceremony around March 2017. The union had no legal force. Companion apps later drew tens of millions of…
FAA Investigates Boeing 787 Dreamliner After Workers Marked Wing Bonding Inspections Complete Without Doing the Work
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mai 6, 2024
FAA Investigates Boeing 787 Dreamliner After Workers Marked Wing Bonding Inspections Complete Without Doing the Work
On May 6, 2024, the FAA opened a 787 probe after Boeing said North Charleston workers recorded wing-to-fuselage bonding checks as finished when the tests were never performed.