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Author Archives: Robin Edgar
Swiss vote places right to use cash in country’s constitution – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — The right to use Swiss franc banknotes and coins will be enshrined in Switzerland’s constitution after voters on Sunday backed a measure designed to safeguard the use of cash in society. Official results revealed that 73.4 percent of … Continue reading
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Samsung promises 120 games will be playable via its glasses-free 3D monitor tech by the end of the year
Samsung just announced that 120 games will be playable via its Odyssey 3D Hub platform by the end of the year. This is the platform that provides content for glasses-free 3D monitors like recent Odyssey displays. The company made this … Continue reading
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Indonesia also announces a social media ban for anyone under 16
Not having learned the lessons of age verification problems, Indonesia now thinks it can spy on it’s population by making them register for services. Following in the footsteps of Australia, Indonesia will be the latest country to limit social media … Continue reading
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Outlook.com spends week refusing emails from ISPs not outlook.com
Microsoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules. The problem affects certain IP addresses, whose emails are rejected due to falling foul of reputation rules or appearing … Continue reading
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Your Friends Might Be Sharing Your Number With ChatGPT
Not much you can do though. Once some idiot friend of you has uploaded your number it’s there and it’s not going away. Just a bit like if family members take a DNA test and don’t realise they have also … Continue reading
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Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says
Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been … Continue reading
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Bloated Windows 11 Notepad flaw let files download and execute silently via Markdown links
Why on earth modify Notepad to do anything else than open a file and allow you to edit it? The bloatware now means it’s not only slower but insecure and a threat to your PC. Source: Windows 11 Notepad flaw … Continue reading
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TikTok’s First US-Exclusive Feature Is a Local Feed That Wants Your Location Data | Lifehacker
This article is incredibly apologetic to TikTok and tries to frame the way in which TikTok is grabbing your location data without your consent as a good thing somehow. It does however give a good indication of how the TikTok … Continue reading
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Copyright litigation over Anne Frank’s writings likely to impact the fate of VPNs in the EU – Walled Culture
Source: Copyright litigation over Anne Frank’s writings likely to impact the fate of VPNs in the EU – Walled Culture
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Neither Android Nor IOS: DIY Smartphone Runs On ESP32!
You may or may not be reading this on a smartphone, but odds are that even if you aren’t, you own one. Well, possess one, anyway — it’s debatable if the locked-down, one-way relationships we have with our addiction slabs … Continue reading
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Australia will consider requiring app stores to block AI services without age verification
Australia’s government may take a strict stance on ensuring younger users cannot access AI chatbots. Reuters reports that Australian regulators may require app storefronts to block AI services that do not implement age verification for restricting mature content by March … Continue reading
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Laser printed hydrogel implant could transform bone repair
Today’s implants are commonly made from the patient’s own bone, called autografts, or from metal and ceramic materials. Autografts require an additional operation to collect the bone tissue, which increases recovery time and surgical risk. Metal implants can also create … Continue reading
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15.8M medical records stolen from French health ministry • The Register
Around 15.8 million administrative files were stolen after attackers breached a software supplier to France’s health ministry. The supplier, Cegedim Santé, confirmed the data was compromised in late 2025. Approximately 165,000 of these files contained notes penned by doctors, which … Continue reading
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Hacked Tehran Traffic Cameras Fed Israeli Intelligence Before Strike On Khamenei
An anonymous reader shares a CTech article with the caption: “A brilliantly executed operation.” From the report: Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran. According to … Continue reading
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Data aggregators are selling personal Chatbot data
Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent. Lee S Dryburgh, an expert in AI … Continue reading
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Meta’s AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators
Users of Meta’s AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive financial information with moderators outside of the bloc, according to a report from Sweden’s Svenska Dagbladetreleased last week. Employees in Kenya doing AI “annotation” … Continue reading
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A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now In the Hands of Foreign Spies, Criminals
Security researchers say a highly sophisticated iPhone exploitation toolkit dubbed “Coruna,” which possibly originated from a U.S. government contractor, has spread from suspected Russian espionage operations to crypto-stealing criminal campaigns. Apple has patched the exploited vulnerabilities in newer iOS versions, … Continue reading
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EU Tangled Github alternative closes $4.5M round
Source: Building Europe’s native code infrastructure: Tangled closes $4.5M round – Tech.eu
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After California, now Colorado Lawmakers Now Push for Age Verification at the Operating System
Well, I will just repeat what I said about California (A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup) – NB people on this LinkedIn post were not … Continue reading
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Airsnitch WiFi attack: Stay away from public WiFi (unless you have a VPN you trust) and don’t let anyone onto your guest WiFi unless it’s isolated via VLAN!
New research shows that behaviors that occur at the very lowest levels of the network stack make encryption—in any form, not just those that have been broken in the past—incapable of providing client isolation, an encryption-enabled protection promised by all … Continue reading
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ShinyHunters leaked the full 6.5m customer Odido dataset – including data that should have been deleted years ago
This data breach should not have been so large. Yes, it’s good that Odido stood up to ransomware actors and did not pay the ransom. No, they should have deleted most of that data years and years ago as per … Continue reading
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Norway’s Consumer Council Calls for Right to Repair and Antitrust Enforcement – and Mocks ‘Enshittification’
The Norwegian Consumer Council, a government funded organization advocating for consumer’s rights, released a report on the trend of “enshittification” in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways consumers for consumers to resist. But they’ve also dramatized the problem with … Continue reading
Perplexity Announces ‘Computer,’ an AI Agent That Assigns Work To Other AI Agent (or OpenClaw clone)
So this is basically an agentic coordinator (which the correct technical term is an orchestrator). The agents are like microservices, or little programs designed to do a specific job – usually by interacting with a tool (eg a weather API). … Continue reading
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How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU | Techdirt
Source: How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU | Techdirt
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Freedom of speech? Open University deletes “ancient Palestine” references under Israeli lobby pressure despite historical accuracy
The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For years, we were told the danger came from the left: oversensitive students, censorious activists, … Continue reading
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