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THE HACK: EUâs leaked Competitiveness Fund eyes all things digital, space
In today's edition: Simplification targets, GDPR, civil society AI letter and 28th regime.
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Google continues the industry-wide trend of jamming AI down users' throats, making it difficult or impossible to opt out, and potentially endangering the privacy of communications: www.neowin.net/guides/googl...
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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here's how to stop it
Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
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What do we need to *build* for metascience and open science?
Iâve written a âRequest for Productsâ that I think could be particularly valuable to improve science.
open.substack.com/pub/whiâŚ.
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OpenAI has hired 4 high-level engineers, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, away from rivals. Theyâre joining the scaling team, per a Slack message from Greg Brockman just now. New from me and @willknight.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/openai...
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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
The new hires are joining OpenAIâs scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
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The Trump bill repealed the 30 percent tax credit for solar and wind & provided a 2.5% tax credit for coal instead, labeling it a "critical rare earth mineral" like cobalt. You can't make this stuff up!
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Good news. @knightcolumbia.org wins their appeal to have the El Faro journalists' lawsuit against NSO Group remanded to the court for re-consideration after it was thrown out for jurisdictional reasons.
Here's our @citizenlab.ca report that kicked it all off đ
citizenlab.ca/2022/01/proj...
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Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware - The Citizen Lab
Journalists and members of civil society had their phones successfully infected with NSOâs Pegasus spyware between July 2020 - November 2021.
Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org
âWeâre pleased with todayâs decision and look forward to seeking justice on behalf of El Faro journalists in U.S. court, where the case belongs,â says @carriedecell.bsky.social. Learn more & see statement from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social's @carlosdada.bsky.social: knightcolumbia.org/content/appe...
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NEW: Shockingly bad but seemingly inevitable beats every pleasant surprise, once again. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and @laurengoode.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/grok-a...
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Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
Elon Musk's chatbot has gone on a tirade, praising Adolph Hitler and parroting antisemitic tropes.
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new from me and @gerritd.bsky.social wapo.st/4lg3pIh (gift link)
on an internal forum for Google Deepmind employees, Sergey Brin called the UN a âtransparently antisemitic organizationâ after a new UN report accused tech companies of profiting from genocide in Gaza
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. âtransparently antisemiticâ after report on tech firms and Gaza
Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations âtransparently antisemiticâ in a message on a company forum, after a U.N. report alleged Google profited from Israelâs war in Gaza.
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â° Today, CDT Europe, together with 51 experts, academics & civil society organisations, sent an open letter to the European Commission to express our concerns regarding the forthcoming Digital Simplification package, which could include revisiting the AI Act.
đđť Read the full letter on our website:
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Open Joint Letter against the Delaying and Reopening of the AI Act
CDT Europe, alongside the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), co-drafted a letter signed by 52 civil society or...
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Did you know EFF's Certbot tool has helped encrypt millions of websites? Our open source software is free to everyone, but we need your support.
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Defend Privacy and Free Speech
We're building a better web together. Donate to help out Certbot and all of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's public interest software development, activism, and legal work. Your support...
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Who, other than every civil liberties and human rights group in the country, could have predicted that these tools introduced in the name of national security would one day be turned against us? www.washingtonpost.com/naâŚ
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Gabbardâs team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trumpâs agenda
A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out âweaponization.â
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Activision has pulled a Call of Duty game after multiple reports of PC players having their computers hacked. An old insecure version of the game was reportedly uploaded to the Microsoft Store đŹ www.theverge.com/news/702âŚ.
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Activision pulls Call of Duty game after PC players are hacked
Call of Duty: Remote Code Execution
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Talked to Waymo about teensâ fearsâof driving, of awkward small talk, of social FOMOâand if self-driving cars are part of a solution
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
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The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now
Alphabetâs self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accountsâand maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.
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im gonna have to write this story like 400 more times aren't i
www.theatlantic.com/technâŚ.
www.theatlantic.com/technâŚ.
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X Is a White-Supremacist Site
Elon Musk has made one of Twitterâs most glaring problems into a core feature on X.
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Join The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writers Ross Andersen, Tom Nichols, and Missy Ryan for a conversation at the intersection of national defense, technology, and global conflict.
www.theatlantic.com/natioâŚ.
www.theatlantic.com
The Big Story: Nuclear War and the Future of National Security
Ross Andersen, Tom Nichols, and Missy Ryan join Jeffrey Goldberg for a conversation about the intersection of national defense, technology, and global conflict. Tune in for this subscriber-only event.
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The FTC should be focused on lowering the cost of these groceries and making sure data brokers donât get more people killed âŚbut instead theyâre hosting a workshop tomorrow to pick on trans youth!
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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"When 18 House Republicans wrote a letter to Speaker Johnson before the election begging him not to eviscerate the IRA, many in the climate community took it as a sign that interests would overcome ideology. But in the end, all 18 voted for a bill that does exactly what they hoped it wouldnât do."
www.publicnotice.co
The Republican budget is a climate horror
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
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"Brain data cannot become just another commodity in the digital economy. The time to act is nowâbefore peopleâs private thoughts become the next frontier of surveillance capitalism," writes Virginia Mahieu.
www.techpolicy.press
Why EU Policy Must Catch Up to the Neurotechnology Boom | TechPolicy.Press
Neurotechnology that can read and interpret brain activity is rapidly entering the mainstream market with no regulatory oversight, writes Virginia Mahieu.
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Tech can be complicated, but we've got some clear answers to frequently asked questions about the devices you use every day.
www.digitalrightsbytes.org
Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
Digital Rights Bytes
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Why is Elon Muskâs chatbot spewing anti-Semitic bile? @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social report:
bit.ly
Elon Muskâs Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
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đ¨ Just launched: Net Zero Day â a new Substack where climate risk, cybersecurity, and AI collide.
Co-writing this with @DrNewtonCampbell, and weâre cutting through the noise with weekly insights on the cascading crises no oneâs connecting fast enough.
đ open.substack.com/pub/netâŚ
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NetZeroDay | Camille Stewart Gloster | Substack
Net Zero Day is your weekly dispatch where climate risk and cybersecurity collideâdecoded through AI by Camille Stewart Gloster, a leading voice in responsible tech & cybersecurity, and Dr. Newton Cam...
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Tech advances
Email: People can send letters instantly now! (magical!)
Web: People can put up a magazine or store for the whole world to see! (useful!)
Smartphone: People can carry computers in their pocket now! (convenient!)
Generative AI: Computers can pass as people now! (*record scratch*)
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Read our advice for staying safe in demonstrations in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountab...
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âSuddenly, something you thought was a First Amendment protected activity now lands you under scrutiny of police, and suddenly that license plate reader data, which you thought was so innocuous, is a lot less innocuous.â
I got to speak to the LAist about the massive expansion of ALPRs in SoCal.
laist.com
License plate readers coming to West LA's Cheviot Hills amid privacy and immigration concerns
People living in the West L.A. community requested the cameras because of recent home burglaries and calls for more safety measures.
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