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canopic jug writes:Pavel Durov, head of the Dubai-based proprietary "app" Telegram, had been wanted by the French authorities for his lack of cooperation in monitoring and filtering the activities of the users of his "app". This is in spite of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that any weakening of end-to-end encryption disproportionately risks undermining human rights. Multiple sites are now reporting that he has been arrested on a warrant in France during a flight layover in his private jet:The Korea Times, Telegram chief Pavel Durov arrested at French airport: officials:

SomeGuy writes:Axios reports: locked up items are driving frustrated consumers to shop online more.

upstart writes:A team of archaeologists says humans may have braced the butt of their weapons against the ground in a way that would impale a charging animal:

upstart writes:Victory! Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data:

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-nasa-astronauts-space-february-nixes.html

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/feds-probe-of-hard-braking-in-cruise-robotaxi-crashes-ends-after-recall/

canopic jug writes:Ben Hawkes over at Isoceles has a review of the two OpenSSH Backdoor attempts. One, the XZ backdoor, was attempted this year in early 2024. The other, in 2002, was a matter of attempting to trojanize some distribution files.

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looorg writes:https://github.blog/news-insights/research/survey-ai-wave-grows/Githubs "AI in software development 2024 survey" is here. A compilation of wishful thinking and overly optimistic interpretations of survey data. It generates more questions then answers. Mostly the survey and the report wants to sing the praise of the AI as some kind of development savior, as it will literally improve everything and there doesn't appear to be any negative aspects associated with it at all. Or at least they don't ask about such things. The survey and the responses generates more questions then it answer. After all it doesn't really answer any questions.

upstart writes:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are "Categorically" Unconstitutional:

NotSanguine writes:The New York Times is reporting (Archive link here) on a novel lawsuit filed against Meta, using Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.From the article:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://boingboing.net/2024/08/21/after-massive-public-outcry-disney-stops-attempt-to-kill-lawsuit-after-killing-restaurant-guest.htmlSee Previous Story: Disney Seeking Dismissal of Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber

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fliptop writes:A major American auto manufacturer reportedly laid off about 1,000 of its employees on Monday, including about 600 workers based in the U.S. in a bid to streamline current operations:

looorg writes:The scraping defence. They are not scraping content for their AI models. They are just looking for statistical correlations to their models.https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-copyrighted-books-are-just-statistical-correlations-to-our-ai-models-240617/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/that-book-is-poison-even-more-victorian-covers-found-to-contain-toxic-dyes/

AnonTechie writes:An interesting article about why legalese is written the way it is:

hubie writes:The best removal rate was less than 70%, and that didn't beat manual opt-outs:

upstart writes:Customers uncertain as app remains downloadable after company's Chapter 7 filing:

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upstart writes:The researchers set 20 horses a task consisting of three stages:

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hubie writes:Scientists are exploring how fermentation in microgravity effects various brewing properties:

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owl writes:https://www.userlandia.com/home/iigs-mhz-myth

hubie writes:Blocking the company's AI overviews also blocks its web crawler:

upstart writes:Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed:

owl writes:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reverse-engineering-patent-protection-cautionary-tale-harry-strange/

A trade magazine https://www.automotivetestingtechnologyinternational.com/news/adas-cavs/mercedes-benz-granted-approval-to-test-l4-avs-in-china.html reports,

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-tool-enables-real-time-face-swapping-on-webcams-raising-fraud-concerns/

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upstart writes:Bacteria and fungi are evolving to eat plastic but their impact will likely be limited to specific applications, researchers say:

upstart writes:Please don't, actually. But do update your Shimano Di2 shifters' software to prevent a new radio-based form of cycling sabotagers:

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AnonTechie writes:The Conversation

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