AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
: Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordinglyConnor Jones (The Register)
China moves to crack down on tour operators over ‘forced shopping’ practices
China is taking action against tour operators who force travellers to shop at designated stores.
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China moves to crack down on tour operators over ‘forced shopping’ practices
China is taking action against tour operators who force travellers to shop at designated stores. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Australia’s beef exports to the US surge despite Trump tariffs
Exports of chilled and frozen beef to the US jumped 23 per cent from June 2024.
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Australia’s beef exports to the US surge despite Trump tariffs
Exports of chilled and frozen beef to the US jumped 23 per cent from June 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Russia responsible for MH17 downing, international law violations in Ukraine, Europe's human rights court rules
The ruling also found Russia responsible for the deadly downing of Flight MH17, a Malaysian airliner shot down by Russian proxy forces in Ukraine in July 2014.
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In historic feat, Ukraine's 3rd Brigade captures Russian troops using only drones and robots, military says
The operation took place in Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern Ukraine, where the brigade deployed first-person view (FPV) drones and kamikaze ground robotic platforms to attack Russian fortifications, the brigade said in a statement.
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Russia Found Responsible for MH17, War Crimes, by European Court of Human Rights
This is the first time an international court has found Russia guilty in the MH17 case, the Associated Press reported.
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Brazil will respond to Trump's 50% tariff with 'reciprocity,' says da Silva
President Donald Trump said the United States will impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil.
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N. Korean defector to file lawsuits in S. Korea against Kim Jong-un over human rights crimes
A North Korean defector in South Korea plans to file a lawsuit and a criminal complaint against North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un over human rights violations this week, a civic group said Wednesday.
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N. Korean defector to file lawsuits in S. Korea against Kim Jong-un over human rights crimes
A North Korean defector in South Korea plans to file a lawsuit and a criminal complaint against North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un over human rights violations this week, a civic group said Wednesday. T...Yonhap (The Korea Times)
Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules
It was "horrible", "stressful" and "isolating" those affected tell BBC News.
Japan breaks world internet speed record with 1.02 petabits/s data transfer over 1,808.1 km
Japanese researchers have successfully transmitted a 1.02 petabits (1.02 x 10^6 GB) per second of data over a distance of Japan internet
Medicaid Middleman Ships Jobs, Tech to India Despite State Rules
The largest Medicaid claims processor has built a network of at least 1,800 engineers and analysts in India, rapidly increasing hiring in recent months, even though many of its state contracts require work to be done in the US unless waivers are issued.
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Medicaid Middleman Ships Jobs, Tech to India Despite State Rules
The largest Medicaid claims processor has built a network of at least 1,800 engineers and analysts in India, rapidly increasing hiring in recent months, even though many of its state contracts require work to be done in the US unless waivers are issu…John Holland (news.bloomberglaw.com)
TikToker Creates Fake 'Alligator Alcatraz' Tour Company That Redirects MAGA Supporters to Migrant Aid Resources
A TikToker created a website touting fake tours of the Trump administration's new "Alligator Alcatraz," which redirects visitors to resources for migrant aid.
AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand
Spiking demand is sending energy bills skyrocketing, while the governor threatens to pull the state from the grid.
Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs
Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff noted AI has been so useful that Microsoft was able to save more than $500 million last year in its call center alone.
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Microsoft’s chief commercial officer Judson Althoff noted AI has been so useful that Microsoft was able to save more than $500 million last year in its call center alone.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
US | EPA proposes rollback on rules limiting carbon and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants
The proposed rollback of emissions regulations is part of the Trump administration's efforts to repeal rules that aim to address climate change.
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NASA reportedly set to lose 2,000 senior staff members as Trump looks to slash agency’s budget
The agency saw layoffs in March and is losing nearly a quarter of its budget
UK government’s deal with Google ‘dangerously naive’, say campaigners
Company to provide free technology and ‘upskill’ civil servants but concerns raised over UK data being held on US servers
YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows
YouTube's creator liaison said the change is a "minor" update to YouTube's longstanding policies.
Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security
Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'
"We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."
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White House Fears Elon Musk Is Still Pulling the Strings at DOGE
Though Trump and Musk are on the outs, workers with longstanding ties to the Tesla billionaire remain embedded in the government.
Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
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US | Judge Slaps Down FCC Rule That Would've Made It Easy to Cancel Your Subscriptions
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How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
No, really, those are the magic words
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
: No, really, those are the magic wordsJessica Lyons (The Register)
The End of the Internet As We Know It
Perplexity's Comet wants to kill the click. OpenAI is poised to follow. Google Chrome might be next on the chopping block.
Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.Mikael Thalen (Straight Arrow News)
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Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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US | 'Guilty of Genocide': Protesters Condemn Trump-Netanyahu Meeting and Ethnic Cleansing Push
At the White House, Trump and Netanyahu once again discussed plans to forcibly remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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As Gaza Starves, Remember Writers Who Opposed UNRWA
These individuals have written opinion pieces calling for UNRWA to be defunded or dismantled
Nvidia briefly touched $4 trillion market cap for first time
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors bet on the tech giant that's building the hardware for the generative AI boom.
Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
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Fair Trade Campaigners Call for World to Stand Up to Trump 'Economic Warfare' and Tariff 'Bullying'
U.S. President Donald Trump sparks global trade tensions with threats of tariffs against BRICS nations, angering China and frustrating allies.
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Fair Trade Campaigners Call for World to Stand Up to Trump 'Economic Warfare' and Tariff 'Bullying'
"We don't want an emperor, we are sovereign countries," said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Satirical 'Mamdani Times' Takes Aim at NYT's 'Desperate' Coverage of Mayoral Candidate
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“The Deception Game”: Trump Is Scrambling to Make a Gaza Deal on Israel’s Terms
Hamas accused the U.S. and Israel of waging a campaign of disinformation about ceasefire progress and insists it will not retreat from its “red lines."
Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.
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I flashed a $10 orbic to take to local protests.
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
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in reply to egrets • • •At the moment, about all you can do is let others know and submit the log to EFF so they can better understand how these stingrays are being used.
Or I guess if you're feeling froggy; look around for a van/trailer with suspicious antenna(s).
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •Well I see a problem there. It doesn’t specify the cause of the danger or the reason the person is in danger in the first place.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I assume it's the same as the Internet (or more specifically HTTP): It wasn't designed with security in mind.
Unlike HTTP, for some reason it wasn't included in a new specification, though. My guess is that's because of the more centralized nature of cellular networks. The barrier for entry is a lot higher as well so there are few but big players who have little incentive to improve over the bare minimum.
IIRC encryption was initially proposed to be part of 5G but got shot down in the process.
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in reply to einkorn • • •Wait, 5G isn't encrypted? I think it does have some protections still. I mean, not that it would matter to me, they only use NR-NSA in my country so it isn't even full 5G with all its advantages.
At the risk of sounding like an AI-generated ad, I use an app called Privacy Cell on Fdroid, that confirmed there is no true 5G anywhere in my country. I just wish there was a way to differentiate between the two versions of 5G natively, kinda like 4G-LTE showing up as LTE instead of just 4G.
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in reply to theshatterstone54 • • •Encrypted data channels can still be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Like when you connect to an unknown host with SSH, and the client pops up a big warning.
In this case, ICE or whomever sets up a "valid" cell tower that your phone connects to, and they (law enforcement) route your packets onto the rest of the Internet. They can decrypt the 5G data, and see all of the IP headers. They can't necessarily read the TLS traffic, such as https. But most important of all, they can log all of the IMEIs that connect, which effectively gives them a database of all of the protestors.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I believe it's because they assume it's not necessary because it was until now
places) wireless band allocation before you could deploy anything
... so I imagine there was no authentication because there was no practical threat beside few "fun" examples in CCC or DEF Con.
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in reply to utopiah • • •The use of Stingray by US law enforcement has been challenged on grounds that the law enforcement agencies have no spectrum license. Those challenges seem not to have found success.
On the other hand, prisons in the US have been stopped from operating cell phone jammers on prison grounds, on the same complaint of no spectrum license.
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in reply to plz1 • • •I don't know the specific methods, but 3G, 4G and 5G do authenticate bidirectionaly, just 2G doesn't, partially why Android now has "Disable 2G" toggle.
Also probably why they said they can downgrade you to 2G to intercept communication.
What's happening here is probably similar to anyone being able to send Wi-Fi deauthentification frame to your device to disconnect you. Unless you're using WPA3.
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •At protests you should not bring your smartphone but instead rely on anonymous drvices such as Meshtastic.
If you want to bring your smartphone to a protest, set Airplane mode and communicate with others through Bluetooth or WiFi networks using Briar or Bitchat
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in reply to Maeve • • •Not at the same scale as mobile traffic
Bluetooth by definition doesn’t go much past 10-20 meters
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in reply to tired_n_bored • • •It's amazing how many times I saw this knowledge being spread, together with thousands of umbrellas and hard hats during the Hong Kong riots from day one with "Hong Kong, add oil" as their first slogan combined with very mild mannered arguments (we don't know if it could lead to more serious things) against the extradition law which was supposed to affect maybe half a dozen people per decade, all serious criminals. A law almost every country has on earth that the US used against the daughter of the owner of one of the largest companies in the world, for the flimsiest of reasons, in contrast to the walled-off-to-arrest-one-particular-teen-girl-axe-murderer-to-be-shipped-to-Taiwan-law Hong Kong tried to implement.
How many people have been affected by the Alien Enemies Act again?
And how did the ~~The protests were call "No kings" remember that? Remember that it was called NO KINGS "Unbiased. Straight. Facts" SAN? Do you remember that? No? Okay, well...~~ "anti-ICE" ~~it is~~ protests go?
Because apart from the shocker that you were being surveilled, I think the protests needed a little bit less "Zero demands, not one more" chants and a little more 'We demand and protest until we win and get what we want' kind of thing.
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in reply to tired_n_bored • • •Meshtastic with 3 jumps would be stretching for actual communication. Plus Bluetooth is even worse for security. Direct connection might be a better way to use the device.
I've had meshtastic for about 2 ish years now and its still being worked on.
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in reply to mesa • • •What is unsafe about cell communication is that there is virtually no way to prevent being tracked. Bluetooth is not necessarily more secure but has several advantages:
1) Its Mac address can be easily changed. With a fake Mac address it's more difficult to track someone down, albeit it needs some "technical skills" (going in the developer settings)
2) With these apps communication is encrypted by default unlike cell tower communication
3) The range is limited. If police listens over Bluetooth they'll be able to track less people down
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in reply to fattyfoods • • •This is exactly why I was railing against some of the earlier protests which featured politicians openly asking protestors to take out their phones and send texts to opt-in for fundraisers. Besides all the obvious bullshit, it put those protestors who didn't know better at serious risk.
Thankfully, I haven't seen too much of that at the protests I've been to recently, but this is a good reminder that we have to keep educating people to leave their phone at home.
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