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The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age — Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens …
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X: @danysterkhov, @protonvpn, @transsexualfag, @lilaclazure, @knucklesox2, @jess4lowestoft, and @g0adm
Forums: Hacker News, r/pcgaming, r/uknews, and r/technews
| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters — As of Friday, anyone trying to watch porn online in the UK will need to subject themselves to an awkward selfie or get their photo ID ready.
More: PCMag, Dexerto, TheGamer, The Independent, and Metro.co.uk
| NBC News: |
Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs — The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review. — Hackers have breached the Tea app …
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Bluesky: @endeavorance.camp, @kat.meangirls.online, @socialmedialab.ca, @chronotope.aramzs.xyz, and @bengoggin
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Forums: r/privacy, r/morningsomewhere, r/news, and r/SwipeHelper
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies — A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used … | Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer” — Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.
More: Metacurity, Bitcoinist.com, BleepingComputer, IJR, and Cointelegraph
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach — U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business — The company has defended search but its dominant position in online advertising may still be up for grabs| Financial Times: |
China's premier Li Qiang proposes creating an organization for global cooperation in AI and says “bottlenecks” in chip supplies are hindering AI innovation — Premier Li Qiang warns ‘bottlenecks’ in chip supplies are hindering innovation — William Langley in Guangzhou and Eleanor Olcott and Ryan McMorrow in Shanghai
More: Reuters, Engadget, The Guardian, The Decoder, Cryptopolitan, Nairametrics, and Reuters
| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete — Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.| Bloomberg: |
More: Barron's Online, Cyber Security News, Benzinga, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Tech in Asia, Cyber Daily, and Livemint
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @ericjgeller.com, and @patrickhowelloneill.com
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content — India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers … | Pretish M J / Reuters: |
Pony AI gets a permit to provide fully driverless robotaxi services in Shanghai, making it the only company with permits in all four of China's biggest cities — Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI (PONY.O) said on Saturday it had received a permit to provide fully driverless commercial robotaxi services …
More: Reuters, Pony AI Inc., KTVU-TV, NBC News, Automotive World, Benzinga, and CnEVPost
| Aaron Mak / Politico: |
The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a “try-first” culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states — Among the many, many ambitious ideas baked into his AI Action Plan, President Donald Trump wants to inculcate a “try-first” culture for innovation in the U.S.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg names Shengjia Zhao, the former OpenAI researcher who co-created ChatGPT, as chief scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs — Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.
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Threads: @zuck. X: @shengjia_zhao, @morqon, @morqon, @signulll, @drjimfan, @bonegpt, @yuchenj_uw, @aiatmeta, @marvinvonhagen, @mikeisaac, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, and @alexandr_wang. Forums: r/singularity
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
More: VentureBeat, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, Cryptopolitan, and Channel NewsAsia
Threads: @yannlecun, @zuck, @yannlecun, @jjackyliang, and @crumbler
X: @pfau and @lossdecay
| Washington Post: |
Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration — An internal proposal suggests how the Trump administration is planning to slash federal regulations, but obstacles loom.| Bloomberg: |
China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that has multimodal AI and weighs 25kg, for $5,900, drastically lowering the entry price for such machines — Unitree Robotics is marketing one of the world's first humanoid robots for under $6,000, drastically reducing the entry price …
More: The Decoder, Notebookcheck, South China Morning Post, Gizmodo, New York Post, Tech in Asia, and Reuters
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