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04 Oct

This Video Game Controller Has Become the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

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In a future conflict, American troops will direct the newest war machines not with sprawling control panels or sci-fi-inspired touchscreens, but controls familiar to anyone who grew up with an Xbox or PlayStation in their home.Over the past several years, the US Defense Department has been gradually integrating what appear to be variants of the Freedom of Movement Control Unit (FMCU) handsets as the primary control units for a variety of advanced weapons systems, according to publicly available imagery published to the department’s Defense Visual Information Distribution System media hub.Those systems include the new Navy Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction…

17 Sep

Pagers explode simultaneously in hundreds of Hezbollah members’ pockets

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An attack in Lebanon reportedly killed eight people and injured over 2,700. Hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously on Tuesday, leading the Iran-backed militant organization to blame Israel.A day after Israeli leaders warned of escalating its military campaign against Hezbollah, pagers belonging to the Lebanese group’s members exploded at once. Witnesses reported seeing smoke emanating from the victims’ pockets, followed by sounds reminiscent of fireworks or gunshots.Lebanon’s health minister said 200 of the injured were in critical condition. He added that many victims had facial injuries, especially to the eyes. Hand and stomach injuries were also common,…

17 Sep

TikTok Gets Tough Questions From Court in Fight Against US Ban

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TikTok faces an uphill battle to avoid a US ban if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the wildly popular social media app, judging from a grilling by an appellate court panel.A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit signaled skepticism of TikTok’s argument Monday that the law signed by President Joe Biden banning the video-sharing app would violate the company’s free speech rights. The US government argued that national security concerns about TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., manipulating the content American audiences see justified the law. Source link lol

16 Aug

OpenAI Shuts Down Iranian Influence Operation Targeting US Election

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OpenAI removed a network of Iranian accounts that used its ChatGPT chatbot to try to wage a foreign influence campaign targeting the US presidential election by generating longform articles and social media comments, the company said Friday. The accounts created content that appeared to be from liberal and conservative-leaning users, including posts suggesting that former President Donald Trump was being censored on social media and was prepared to declare himself king of the US. Another described Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Tim Walz for her running mate as a “calculated choice for unity.” Source link lol

12 Aug

Instagram Views for Major Accounts Drop With Meta Shunning Politics

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A new study found that several prominent, progressive Instagram accounts saw their reach decline by 65% on average in the months following Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to subdue political content on the app.Over a roughly three-month period following the policy’s rollout in early March, researchers at Accountable Tech, a social media integrity nonprofit, gathered viewership data for five prominent Instagram accounts with a collective following of 13.5 million people, including those of Hillary Clinton and GLAAD, an LGBTQ activist group. Researchers found that posts from those accounts, which heavily feature topics such as voting information, reproductive rights and advocacy for…

10 Aug

Turkey to Lift Instagram Ban on Pledge to Work ‘Jointly’

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Turkey will lift its ban on Instagram, saying the social media site has promised to meet government demands on censorship and content.Turkey’s internet regulator halted Instagram access on Aug. 2 without explaining why. It came after a senior aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the platform for what he described as “censorship” of posts related to the death of Ismail Haniyeh, political chief of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Source link lol

09 Aug

Microsoft Says Iranian Hackers Targeted US Political Campaigns

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A hacking group linked to the Iranian government tried to breach the email accounts of presidential campaign staffers as part of a wider effort to gather intelligence ahead of the US election, Microsoft Corp. said Friday.Attackers connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in June used a compromised email address from a former political adviser to try phishing another high-ranking presidential campaign official, according to findings from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center. That group, which Microsoft calls Mint Sandstorm, also unsuccessfully attempted to log in to the account of a former presidential candidate. The report didn’t identify the individual targets by…

09 Aug

China’s SMIC Accelerates Capacity Buildout as Chip War Evolves

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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. is expediting its plans to build more capacity as a US-led multinational campaign is putting more restrictions on China’s access to advanced foreign technologies. “Some of our customers have won new opportunities due to geopolitics-induced changes in the supply chain,” SMIC Co-Chief Executive Officer Zhao Haijun told analysts during a post-earnings call on Friday. “We are growing capacity at a speed faster than originally planned.” Source link lol

08 Aug

Musk’s Riot Provocations Prompt UK to Seek Tougher Online Rules

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Keir Starmer called for a “mature conversation” with social media companies to limit malicious content that’s stoked days of rioting in the UK. Instead, he found himself in an escalating online confrontation with Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X.Now, the UK is mulling steps to tighten the regulation of platforms like Musk’s — and finding it has few levers, especially when the owner is a major amplifier of misinformation. One step would be to revive a key provision in the Online Safety Act, set to be implemented later this year, giving authorities more power to force social media companies…

08 Aug

Social Media Platforms Show Little Interest in Stopping Spread of Misinformation

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Social media platforms gave up on content moderation a long time ago. But first… Source link lol