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We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists 2025-02-19 at 21:45 By Thomas Claburn STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models Feature  On Saturday at the Silverstone Cafe in San Francisco, a smattering of activists gathered to discuss plans to stop […]

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South Korea Halts DeepSeek AI Downloads Over Privacy Issues

South Korea Halts DeepSeek AI Downloads Over Privacy Issues 2025-02-19 at 20:53 View original post at Safety Detectives South Korea has halted downloads of DeepSeek’s AI-powered chatbot while it conducts a review of the Chinese startup’s privacy practices. The country’s privacy watchdog (called Personal Information Protection Commission or PIPC) announced this week it’s temporarily paused

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Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad

Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad 2025-02-19 at 20:51 By Brandon Vigliarolo Black Escalade motorcade sold separately – of course Need to turn heads and burn cash while out on the town? A new app lets you hire armed bodyguards to escort you around

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Windows to Lose Location History Feature in Upcoming Update

Windows to Lose Location History Feature in Upcoming Update 2025-02-19 at 20:46 View original post at Safety Detectives Microsoft has announced the removal of the Location History feature from Windows — the data will no longer be stored locally, and the setting will be removed from Windows 10 and 11. “We are deprecating and removing

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X in talks to raise money at $44B valuation — same price Elon Musk paid to buy Twitter: report

X in talks to raise money at $44B valuation — same price Elon Musk paid to buy Twitter: report 2025-02-19 at 20:22 By Thomas Barrabi The possible move would mark the first time that Musk has raised money for X since he took the company private after the acquisition. This article is an excerpt from

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Hackers Exploit Signal’s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes

Hackers Exploit Signal’s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes 2025-02-19 at 20:03 By Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. “The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts

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Judge Halts DOGE’s Breach of Treasury Records

Judge Halts DOGE’s Breach of Treasury Records 2025-02-19 at 19:39 View original post at vpnMentor Federal judge Paul Engelmayer has issued a preliminary injunction to prevent Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing and using sensitive financial data belonging to millions of Americans. The court order mandated DOGE to destroy any obtained data.

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Trump Media, Rumble sue controversial Brazil judge who feuded with Elon Musk

Trump Media, Rumble sue controversial Brazil judge who feuded with Elon Musk 2025-02-19 at 18:31 By Reuters Moraes has issued many rulings blocking social media accounts as he spearheaded a crusade against perceived attacks on democracy and the political use of disinformation in Brazil. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

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Microsoft researchers promise entire game worlds made from AI slop

Microsoft researchers promise entire game worlds made from AI slop 2025-02-19 at 18:16 By Lindsay Clark WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma’am? Researchers have produced a generative AI tool they say can create a three-dimensional game world to help developers design and tweak gameplay.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites

Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites 2025-02-19 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson Because 4G notspots aren’t much good to anyone Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to open a research hub this summer to test and validate the integration of orbital services with terrestrial cellphone networks.… This article is an excerpt

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Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered

Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered 2025-02-19 at 16:34 By Richard Speed Microsoft suggests a move to the cloud Microsoft has issued administrators a 60-day warning – driver synchronization using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) will be deprecated.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market

Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market 2025-02-19 at 15:18 By Connor Jones 15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz Typically shoppers can expect to find tie-dye t-shirts, broken lamps and old disco records at flea markets, now it seems storage drives filled with huge volumes of

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76% of security leaders plan to increase their security budgets in 2025

76% of security leaders plan to increase their security budgets in 2025 2025-02-19 at 15:17 By A CDG report found that 92% of IT professionals stated they had some degree of confidence in their ability to meet compliance requirements. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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