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Citizen Lab says seven Russian and Belarusian-speaking independent journalists and opposition activists based in Europe were targeted with Israeli spyware Pegasus (citizenlab.ca)

In September 2023, Citizen Lab published a joint investigation with Access Now into the hacking of exiled Russian journalist Galina Timchenko with Pegasus mercenary spyware. Timchenko is the CEO and publisher of Meduza, a widely-respected Russian independent media group operating in exile. After this publication, in...

The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones (x.com)

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German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)

Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. (thehackernews.com)

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STMicroelectronics to build the world’s first fully integrated silicon carbide facility in Italy, targets to start production in 2026 (newsroom.st.com)

- New high-volume 200mm silicon carbide manufacturing facility for power devices and modules, as well as test and packaging, to be built in Catania, Italy...

Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)

Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient (phanpy.social)

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OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)

Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...

Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)

US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....

Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)

At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)

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A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)

If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different.....

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)

- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China's Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....

Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain (arstechnica.com)

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Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)

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Minimum ! (jlai.lu)

Minimum ! (jlai.lu)

The level of engagement on Reddit these days

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Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day (jumblie.com)

The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, if one of the words is 'landing' and you guessed 'land' there is no confirmation you're getting warm at all....

Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price (www.token2.ch)

Token2 is a cybersecurity company specialized in the area of multifactor authentication. Founded by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva with years of experience in the field of strong security and multifactor authentication. Token2 has invented, designed and developed various hardware and software solutions for...