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Alhaythum Sep 5, 2025

A Matt with a Dog Sep 5, 2025

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Interesting. As a regular user of #Firefox on my home #Linux desktop, I am concerned about the push to build more and more features into the web browser. Keep fighting the good fight to maintain Firefox as a fast, reliable and secure browser that values privacy, and push back against unnecessary default #AI features. If people want these features they will be happy to opt-in, rather than being forced to find out how to disable them.

Alhaythum Sep 5, 2025

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Zecharias Zelalem Jun 4, 2024

2. Weeks ago, Human Rights Watch published a 218 page report into ethnic cleansing of Sudan's Masalit & other non Arab peoples, by the Rapid Support Forces in West Darfur. According to HRW, the UAE backed rebel group has murdered thousands in a campaign "which would indicate that genocide has been &/or is being committed there."

RSF commander General Hemedti is also implicated in atrocities in the earlier genocide in Darfur back in 2004.

Literally: no justice, no peace.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/09/sudan-ethnic-cleansing-west-darfur

Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan’s West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees.

Human Rights Watch

Alhaythum Feb 11, 2025

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: #Meta emails unsealed

The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
#Meta #AI
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

Ars Technica

Alhaythum Dec 10, 2024

#ApplePay’s first competitor on the iPhone has arrived in Norway / #Vipps, a mobile payment app, is the first third-party app to offer tap-to-pay on iOS.

Vipps is the first service to take advantage of a new, more open iOS ecosystem thanks to #EU regulations.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317198/apple-pay-iphone-nfc-payment-vipps-norway

Apple Pay’s first competitor on the iPhone has arrived in Norway

A mobile payment app called Vipps is the first to offer tap to pay on an iPhone outside of Apple Pay — all thanks to scrutiny from EU regulators.

The Verge

Alhaythum Dec 9, 2024

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Zecharias Zelalem Jun 4, 2024

1. Newly published (yesterday) 120+ page report by the DC based New Lines Institute thinktank (which oversees @newlinesmag btw) determined that Ethiopian & Eritrean forces carried out a genocide of the Tigrayan minority from 2020-2022. Authored by over a dozen legal experts, the report is the first independent probe to confirm that genocidal acts were carried out during Ethiopia's civil war. It's long sought recognition for horrendous suffering in Ethiopia's Tigray region
https://newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-international-order/genocide-in-tigray-serious-breaches-of-international-law-in-the-tigray-conflict-ethiopia-and-paths-to-accountability-2/

Genocide in Tigray: Serious breaches of international law in the Tigray conflict, Ethiopia, and paths to accountability - New Lines Institute

Ethiopia’s war in Tigray left more than 400,000 soldiers and as many as 300,000 civilians dead. This report outlines a reasonable basis to believe that the Tigrayans were victims of genocide and calls for a full investigation and accountability for the suffering created.

New Lines Institute

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Alhaythum Jun 22, 2024

#TollBit, a startup aiming to broker paid licensing deals between publishers and #AI companies, found several #AI companies are acting in this way and informed certain large publishers in a Friday letter, which was reported earlier by #Reuters.

Alhaythum Jun 22, 2024

#OpenAI and #Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents #bots #scraping online content

The world's top two #AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned.

#OpenAI and #Anthropic have been found to be either ignoring or circumventing an established web rule, called (robots.txt), that prevents automated scraping of websites.

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt

OpenAI, Anthropic ignore rule that prevents bots scraping web content

OpenAI and Anthropic have said publicly they respect robots.txt. But they are among the biggest tech companies ignoring the rule, BI has learned.

Business Insider

Alhaythum Mar 28, 2024

A new phishing kit is targeting #Gmail and #Microsoft email & it can even bypass #2FA

#Tycoon #2FA evaded security analysts, while allowing threat actors to bypass #2FA, according to #Sekoia, who reported the Phishing-as-a-Service #PhaaS tool.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-new-phishing-kit-is-targeting-gmail-and-microsoft-email-accounts-and-it-can-even-bypass-2fa

A new phishing kit is targeting Gmail and Microsoft email accounts — and it can even bypass 2FA

Two-factor authentication isn't what it used to be

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Alhaythum Mar 22, 2024

#Windows 11, #Tesla, and #Ubuntu Linux hacked at #Pwn2Own #Vancouver

On the first day of #Pwn2Own #Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 #zero-day #vulnerabilities in #Windows 11, #Tesla, #Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-11-tesla-and-ubuntu-linux-hacked-at-pwn2own-vancouver/

Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver

On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.

BleepingComputer

Alhaythum Mar 21, 2024

Unpatchable #vulnerability in #Apple #chip leaks secret encryption keys

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.

Ars Technica