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8chan owner Jim Watkins defends the First Amendment before congress, could be back online within days
8chan owner Jim Watkins previously said he was keeping the site offline until his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee.
France to combine anti-piracy agency with media regulator
France is still focusing its energy on stomping out any sharing, aka piracy, taking place online by enforcing more government regulation.
Facebook and Microsoft are creating their own deepfakes
This Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) raises new questions about how these types of detection tools will be applied to memes and other types of satirical content.
China accused of keyword-based surveillance of Uighurs
Chinese hacking outfits are accused of breaking into telecommunications companies in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Kazakhstan, and Turkey
Google’s “I am not a robot” reCAPTCHA can easily be beaten by a robot
It doesn’t take a lot of time, either – 14.86 seconds in the first, and 5.27 in the second scenario.
Google and Twitter met at Facebook HQ with Homeland Security and FBI about 2020 election “disinformation”
Also discussed during the meeting were plans for better coordination of security efforts between tech giants and government agencies.
Facebook to redirect searches about vaccines to CDC and WHO information
The pop-out window also appears whenever a user visits vaccine-related Facebook groups or pages, or even when a user taps on vaccine-related hashtags on Instagram.
Jeremy Renner closes app, can’t “condone” users pretending to be OJ Simpson, Jar Jar Binks and Jeffrey Epstein
“Due to clever individuals who were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others within the app I have asked ESCAPEX, the company that runs this app to shut it down immediately.”
YouTubers popular with kids to face “significant business impact”, disabled ads, comments, and notifications
The changes are likely to be far-reaching and impact gaming channels, family vlogging channels, and other major channel categories on YouTube.
US citizens increasingly being asked by CBP to hand over social media accounts on re-entering the country
These warrantless searches have taken place 33,295 times last year alone.
Twitter disables tweeting via SMS after multiple accounts were compromised by SIM swapping
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and multiple celebrities have had their accounts hacked over the last week as a result of SIM swap attacks.
Google’s latest ecommerce search changes are anti-competitive and harm affiliate marketing, publishers say
What Google tested doing is show links to publishers, its own Google Shopping service, and a carousel of clickable images of products promoted by publishers, along with these companies’ names.