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Telegram restricts access to Hamas channels on Google, Apple stores (www.aljazeera.com)

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has quietly restricted access to several channels affiliated with the Palestinian armed group Hamas....

Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter (mashable.com)

Hey, Stephen, I love you and all but really? Just join us over on Mastodon instead of sticking with the fascists.

Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers (www.wired.com)

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts (www.vox.com)

The 2023 Bletchley Declaration: A Major Leap in AI Safety and Ethics — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...

AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers (www.bbc.co.uk)

The researchers behind the simulation say there is a risk of this happening for real in the future.

AI Camera's took over one small American Town. Now they are everywhere. (www.404media.co)

Spread across four computer monitors arranged in a grid, a blue and green interface shows the location of more than 50 different surveillance cameras. Ordinarily, these cameras and others like them might be disparate, their feeds only available to their respective owners: a business, a government building, a resident and their...

Smokestack industries: how Glasspoint is disrupting the world's largest market for renewables (thegreentechpreneur.substack.com)

Rod MacGregor, Founder of GlassPoint, is a lifelong serial entrepreneur whose career trajectory changed after he read ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore....

Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device” (arstechnica.com)

AI for Web Devs: What Are Neural Networks, LLMs, & GPTs? (austingil.com)

Good things to understand when building AI applications: artificial neural networks, LLMs, parameters, embeddings, GPTs, and hallucinations.

Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC (www.reuters.com)

TAPPED Out report reveals why we make bad security decisions: phones, location and lunch | TechFinitive (www.techfinitive.com)

A new report helps explain why we make bad security decisions. Davey Winder can summarise its findings in three words: phones, lunch and location.

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one (www.theregister.com)

Researchers develop solid-state thermal transistor for better heat management (techxplore.com)

Google Play highlighting VPNs that have undergone an independent security review (9to5google.com)

One aspect of the Data Safety section that the Play Store introduced last year is the ability to feature “Independent security reviews.” Google Play is more prominently surfacing that badge when you search for VPN apps.