Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU's DMA
What's the collective noun for investigations on Big Tech? Because the European Union has just announced a pile of probes on gatekeepers designated under Alphabet/Google, Apple and Meta are facing the first formal non-compliance investigations under the EU's rebooted ex ante competition rulebook.
Europe's world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers
European Union lawmakers have given final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law.
Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry
Facebook profited from the decline of Australia's news organisations, but enforcing the News Media Bargaining Code will make a bad situation worse without solving the problem of who will pay for the news.
Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them
Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger
Usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0!
Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features 🎇 https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames
End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is finally launching usernames, the company announced on Tuesday.
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta
In today's online safety hearing, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg again pushed back at the idea that businesses like his should be responsible for managing
GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused Android-based operating system, has posted a series of tweets on X suggesting that Android should introduce frequent auto-reboots to make it harder for forensic software vendors to exploit firmware flaws and spy on the users.
In Brazil, Burger King says it's doling out "Hangover Whoppers," using facial recognition to determine whether you had too much to drink last night.
Fake CEO denied profiting off the alleged cryptocurrency scam.
OpenWrt One/AP-24 unveiled in celebration of OpenWrt's 20th year, offering an upstream-supported hardware solution.
In response to an Oregon Senator’s letter, Apple added a hurdle for law enforcement to access your metadata.
Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
Google tells users to not delete local Drive profile data while it investigates.
The convivial nature of bonobos is in stark contrast to chimpanzees and may shed light on the evolutionary origins of cooperation in humans
SEPA and iDEAL based donations for Europe
To our European testers, we’ve enable SEPA for 6.41.x a little while ago, after a remote configuration refresh for your device you should start seeing it for supported country codes + Euro currency. iDEAL will hopefully be enabled shortly, waiting on our provider for a few things to flip on.
I'm using combustible for now, it kinda suits my needs, simple and smooth. You can get it on izzyondroid repo or gh.
also looks like few days ago Louis Rossmann made a substantial donation to Mollyim.
new way of transmitting thoughts, through images or bots
Iris verification to confirm identity and log in
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
WhatsApp gives me:
1,2,3 - closed source app that has not been audited but you chose to believe that is backdoor free, ok then
4 - half true, whatsapp business is full of automated responses, not too many human beings there
... sorry about it, here it comes from businessinsider, yahoo, msn & bonus
1/25/2021
We'd love to have redacted sponsor Hover Zoom+ in a similar manner to how we're partnering with Dark Reader. See attached for how that partnership has come to life, but we're honestly super flexible on implementation. We'd essentially love to pay you in exchange for helping us drive users to redacted.
So wtf does this mean? Is Dark Reader hammered as of 2021?
I just logged in simply to upvote it, I'm still laughing, I feel you