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    Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

    Also, some developments in tech for antiblocking measures are not due to desire to overload sites, it's due to some groups of users from some countries wanting access but denied directly (due to site wanting to play political games) or (in somecases) without using VPN due to their situations...
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    Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

    I thought this was arleady mostly solved with search engines and older not-search-engine bots (like skype's urlcheckers or preview generators). Like: IndexNow-like protocols like...
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    Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

    One of ways: ads in 'allowed' apps.
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    Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

    Define 'phone'. Is Nokia 3310 ok? Is Huawei-android based phone ok?(with Chinese spyware but without much of pre-installed USA spyware) Is Russian AuroraOS-based phone ok?(with possible Chinese baseband-level spyware, Russian OS level spyware, Mostly-Russian app-level spyware) Is Pixel with...
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    New Broadcom sales plan may be “insignificant” in deterring VMware migrations

    Proxmox VE (+Proxmox Backup Server if you need backups. Veeam also said they will support Proxmox). Proxmox likes reliable hardware (it CAN run on total garabage if necessary but quality would suffer), it also have issues with medium-sized clusters (20 nodes are ok, 20-32 - will works likely...
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    “Nightmare” Zipcar outage is a warning against complete app dependency

    Many Russian(!) carsharing services do handle such issues. (Short version - if it's only car doesn't have connectivity - Bluetooth usually could be used. You could open car NO matter that. You could close car but you have to knew specific actions for car and carsharing company(they are...
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    Russian court sentences kingpin of Hydra drug marketplace to life in prison

    Hydra also worked in Russia. With Russian citiziens as customers. Russian authorities didn't like it (As any at least semi-sane authorities do). It's also open question of people sentenced for life could go to SVO. his desire is not all that is required
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    Calif. Gov. vetoes attempt to require new privacy option in browsers and OSes

    It depends. Speaking as (one of ) developers of mobile app (there is also web version) with millions of users: we do track almost every action on every screen (it include device id, user account id and a lot of other things) sometimes backend decide which ads to show to users (if any). any...
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    After latest Starliner setback, will Boeing ever deliver on its crew contract?

    Soyuz is no longer option because of political issues, not technical ones. Those issues could change. It's also likely still option if something critical happens and SpaceX can't help.
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    Redbox app starts going away, removing purchased content from owners

    I do buy music from iTunes Music Store (via macOS's Music app). I do get AAC files without DRM. Works rather good. Doesn't work same way for movies so I usually use torrents (or some streaming services I get access to anyway because it's part of bundle I don't want to drop). I always download...
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    AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent

    What I don't understood is why special protection for children images here. As far as I understood article. They used exactly for same reasons as other images. They are not images whose hosting is usually unlwaful itself (like CP). They are not even borderline cases. They are just regular child...
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    GOG will transfer your dead relative’s game account, but only with a court order

    So it's ok if it's by court order is ok? What would happen if there are than one heir? Also, if it's ok in cases of interitance - how long until divorce or bankruptcy courts decide they want to get themselves involved? Also, court order of which country? Is Palestine considered country for...
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    Google wants AI to listen to your phone calls, detect scam callers

    How long metadata (and later- data) will gets synced to cloud and subpoenaed by everyone who thing they need it? How long until somebody decide it's good idea to also monitor for bad things and report to approritate authorities?(so talks about abortion gets reported in one place, talks about...
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    Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

    Other countries could follow EU. In fact, we likely found "how much is enough" soon enough. AppStore's billing still work in Russia even if limited. Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service does have a lot of questions and fines for Apple. Apple did pay some fines (it's unclear if they pay...
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    Connected devices with awful default passwords now illegal in UK

    How exactly consumer is defined? I'm not from UK and I would benefit from this law only indirectly (if I don't immigrate to UK) but I (as regular physcial person) recently bought: Mellanox X2 cards. from aliexpress, price and performance is good, there are no firmware updates anymore and it's...
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    Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

    Samsung (at least Z series) supports this too
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    What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

    So if $my_little_package become used by ubuntu - I now have new responsibilities? What if I decide to ignore them? Will such responsibilities include passing background check and results will be published? By whom? Why only by them? What it it's become problematic or unsafe for me to try pass...
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    What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

    This could helped in this case. This wouldn't helped if it's Lasse Collin (original creator and maintainer) did all of this on his own or due to orders from his country's secret agency or due to wanting to do $SomethingGood (like "I plan to finish Israel-Palestine conflict by hacking IDF(or...
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    HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

    Evil Russian Hackers could "hack" AMD (or HDMI Forum) and host those specs on somesite.ru -:). What HDMI forum could do? Sue site's registered owner? Good luck enforcing this decision in Russia at this time. Try to force ISPs to block "pirate" site? Good luck too, also, there's market arleady...