Wed 03 April 2024: The No Thanks app allows users to scan the barcodes of products or enter their name to find out if the item is linked to Israel. Launched on 13 November, No Thanks was downloaded over 100,000 times before it was removed from Play store on 30 November. download the app and […]
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Wed 03 April 2024: Instant messaging service WhatsApp has always placed a high priority on user privacy and has been steadily adding tools to support it. According to recent reports, the platform is working to improve secure user conversations, including those that are closed for linked devices. Extending privacy measures As per the recent reports […]
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Tue 02 April 2024: Your money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal system treats you. The New South Wales police recently scrapped a widely condemned program known as the Suspect Targeting Management Plan. It used algorithmic risk scores to single out “targets”, some as young as ten years old, […]
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Mon 01 April 2024: A tool for replicating voices has been introduced by OpenAI, but the public release of it has been delayed because of concerns about potential abuse during a crucial election year. An OpenAI blog post showcasing Voice Engine states that it can mimic a person’s voice from a 15-second audio clip. But […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: The researchers developed a new ultrafast camera system that can capture astonishingly accurate images at up to 156.3 trillion frames per second (fps). In contrast, professional cinematic cameras have frames per second (fps) that reach the thousands. This technology has been developed by Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications researchers at the Research Centre […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: A New York Times article has revealed more information about the mass surveillance Israel has deployed on Palestinians in Gaza. Producer Tariq Nafi reports on how facial recognition is being used to collect and catalogue the faces of Palestinians, “without their knowledge or consent”. Six months into Israel’s devastating war on […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: The oversight board of Meta, the social media giant which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has ruled that a ban on the use of the word “shaheed” – “martyr” in Arabic – should be lifted. Meta has acknowledged that the term “shaheed” accounts for more content removals under the company’s content […]
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Sun 31 March 2024: The multinational corporation claims that contact information, passcodes, and Social Security numbers (SSNs) of millions of former and current AT&T customers have been leaked online. In a statement issued on Saturday, the largest telecommunications network in the United States stated a recently found dataset on the “dark web” contained information for […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: Four school boards in Ontario have filed a $4.5 billion lawsuit against Snapchat, TikTok, and Meta. According to a local news source, school boards claim that these social networking sites cause harm to pupils, disrupt their education, and negatively impact their mental health, leaving teachers to “manage the fallout.” Neinstein LLP […]
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Thu 28 March 2024: On Thursday, March 28, Sam Bankman-Fried, a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency industry and the creator and CEO of FTX, an exchange for bitcoin derivatives, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Known in the cryptocurrency world for his trading prowess, Bankman-Fried found himself embroiled in a scandal and was recently […]
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