🇳🇴 Norway's privacy regulator wants smart glasses pulled from sale. As a first step, Norway's Digitalisation Minister Karianne Tung is weighing a ban on facial recognition of strangers in public rather than on the glasses themselves, and is setting up an expert group to propose rules this autumn for the cameras and AI now built into glasses, earbuds and caps.
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‼️ BREAKING: A major breach at Nordic/Benelux IT supplier Dustin has led it to take systems offline. Webshops are down, and orders and deliveries have stopped.
We have reason to believe Dustin also stores highly confidential government data, possibly exposing secret networks and hardware. They are a major supplier of IT hardware and software to government bodies across the Nordics and Benelux.
https://www.dustingroup.com/en/media#/pressreleases/dustin-investigates-a-serious-it-security-incident-3464571
We have reason to believe Dustin also stores highly confidential government data, possibly exposing secret networks and hardware. They are a major supplier of IT hardware and software to government bodies across the Nordics and Benelux.
https://www.dustingroup.com/en/media#/pressreleases/dustin-investigates-a-serious-it-security-incident-3464571
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❗️A UK class action is seeking £2bn from Apple over its tracking prompts.
Since 2021 apps must ask permission before tracking Apple users — but those rules were less strict for Apple's own apps, says Hausfeld, which filed the claim on 3 September for thousands of UK developers. Apple denies any double standard.
Apple says it is "bound by the exact same requirements as all developers".
https://www.hausfeld.com/en-gb/news/apple-faces-2-billion-legal-action-over-app-tracking-transparency-att-framework
Since 2021 apps must ask permission before tracking Apple users — but those rules were less strict for Apple's own apps, says Hausfeld, which filed the claim on 3 September for thousands of UK developers. Apple denies any double standard.
Apple says it is "bound by the exact same requirements as all developers".
https://www.hausfeld.com/en-gb/news/apple-faces-2-billion-legal-action-over-app-tracking-transparency-att-framework
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A new documentary floats the idea that Elon Musk stole the 2024 election with satellite lasers.
The evidence, per Alex Gibney's film: an ex-partner recalling that Musk promised to unleash an "anomaly in the matrix," and one text onscreen — "I have ten thousand lasers in space."
The reality: those lasers are optical crosslinks that pass traffic between satellites. Vote tabulators are air-gapped and, in Georgia and North Carolina, barred by law from touching the internet.
The evidence, per Alex Gibney's film: an ex-partner recalling that Musk promised to unleash an "anomaly in the matrix," and one text onscreen — "I have ten thousand lasers in space."
The reality: those lasers are optical crosslinks that pass traffic between satellites. Vote tabulators are air-gapped and, in Georgia and North Carolina, barred by law from touching the internet.
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‼️ BREAKING: Serbia targeted activists with Pegasus spyware. At least 14 people, including student protesters and opposition figures, were infected.
Citizen Lab confirmed one iPhone was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus through an iMessage zero-click exploit.
Two NoviSpy infections were also confirmed. One Serbian student's Android phone was confiscated during police questioning. Amnesty International's Security Lab then found a new NoviSpy variant on it, rebuilt specifically to evade detection.
Serbia's intelligence office calls the findings "trivial sensationalism."
What led to these findings, are Apple's threat notifications, sent on Aug. 13, to users in 110 countries, prompting 12 of the Serbian targets to contact SHARE Foundation.
Serbian parliamentary elections are in October.
https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-serbian-activist/
Citizen Lab confirmed one iPhone was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus through an iMessage zero-click exploit.
Two NoviSpy infections were also confirmed. One Serbian student's Android phone was confiscated during police questioning. Amnesty International's Security Lab then found a new NoviSpy variant on it, rebuilt specifically to evade detection.
Serbia's intelligence office calls the findings "trivial sensationalism."
What led to these findings, are Apple's threat notifications, sent on Aug. 13, to users in 110 countries, prompting 12 of the Serbian targets to contact SHARE Foundation.
Serbian parliamentary elections are in October.
https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-serbian-activist/
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❗️OPSEC level: fellow passenger photographs my pedo chats.
Sony has fired "Wheel of Fortune" announcer Jim Thornton, effective immediately, after a fellow passenger took these photos.
Sony has fired "Wheel of Fortune" announcer Jim Thornton, effective immediately, after a fellow passenger took these photos.
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Dutch police used a decoy "grandpa" to catch a scamming bank-helpdesk courier.
They baited phishing sites with a fake pensioner's details.
The scam call came a day later.
The Amsterdam court then acquitted the courier who showed up.
The judges found that the decoy knew from the first call that the fake bank employee's story was scripted, so he was never actually deceived.
Under Dutch law, no deception means no completed fraud.
Prosecutors charged completed fraud, not attempt.
The court said an attempt charge could have stuck, but it wasn't on the indictment.
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2026:8867
They baited phishing sites with a fake pensioner's details.
The scam call came a day later.
The Amsterdam court then acquitted the courier who showed up.
The judges found that the decoy knew from the first call that the fake bank employee's story was scripted, so he was never actually deceived.
Under Dutch law, no deception means no completed fraud.
Prosecutors charged completed fraud, not attempt.
The court said an attempt charge could have stuck, but it wasn't on the indictment.
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2026:8867
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‼️ BREAKING: Berlin's Senate Chancellery hired CrowdStrike to assess the hack on the city administration. One district, Lichtenberg, is refusing to let the firm in because of its US ties.
They're blocking CrowdStrike's Falcon agent from their network, citing visibility into staff devices and personal data, US legal disclosure duties and the vendor's Palantir ties.
They'll only allow access if the Senate carries full responsibility and all costs.
The Senate Chancellery hired the US firm to check district systems for traces of the recent Rhysida hack.
Rhysida sat in Berlin's network from 7–12 August, undetected until the 14th. After Berlin refused a 30 BTC (€2M) ransom, it dumped 1.4 million files, roughly 5.8TB. Its leak page claims 46,500 contracts and over 5,000 personnel files. One file held close to 6,000 logins, and we have confirmed they've had documents with cleartext credentials.
They're blocking CrowdStrike's Falcon agent from their network, citing visibility into staff devices and personal data, US legal disclosure duties and the vendor's Palantir ties.
They'll only allow access if the Senate carries full responsibility and all costs.
The Senate Chancellery hired the US firm to check district systems for traces of the recent Rhysida hack.
Rhysida sat in Berlin's network from 7–12 August, undetected until the 14th. After Berlin refused a 30 BTC (€2M) ransom, it dumped 1.4 million files, roughly 5.8TB. Its leak page claims 46,500 contracts and over 5,000 personnel files. One file held close to 6,000 logins, and we have confirmed they've had documents with cleartext credentials.
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‼️ An Italian activist hosting provider has lost its domain, its PayPal account and its bank account after the Trump administration listed it as a global terrorist entity.
Its bank, the Italian Banca Etica, has publicly accused the Trump administration of using terrorism sanctions against political dissent.
The bank says Autistici/Inventati had banked normally since 2018, medium risk, no money-laundering flags. The OFAC listing alone forced the reclassification. Keeping the account open risked secondary sanctions cutting card payments for its other 130,000 customers and members.
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Autistici/Inventati on 26 August. Two days later, the .org registry pulled its domain from global DNS. No Italian court ruled. The collective hosts 16,000 mailboxes and 10,000 blogs, by the State Department's own count.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616
Its bank, the Italian Banca Etica, has publicly accused the Trump administration of using terrorism sanctions against political dissent.
The bank says Autistici/Inventati had banked normally since 2018, medium risk, no money-laundering flags. The OFAC listing alone forced the reclassification. Keeping the account open risked secondary sanctions cutting card payments for its other 130,000 customers and members.
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Autistici/Inventati on 26 August. Two days later, the .org registry pulled its domain from global DNS. No Italian court ruled. The collective hosts 16,000 mailboxes and 10,000 blogs, by the State Department's own count.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616
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The creator of the C++ programming language, Bjarne Stroustrup, says AI-generated code is not successful and calls the idea of using natural language as a programming language idiotic.
He says humans will still write code and use abstraction.
According to him, AI generates bloated code with more bugs and security holes, making it hard to validate.
He also says the senior developers needed to validate it are starting to retire because they don’t want to deal with validating something that changes every time you change your prompt.
He goes on to say that AI is not good at writing safety-critical or performance-critical code: “Now, let’s say that 70 or 80% of the world’s code doesn’t fit that pattern, but it’s that 10, 20% of the code that I’m interested in.”
He says humans will still write code and use abstraction.
According to him, AI generates bloated code with more bugs and security holes, making it hard to validate.
He also says the senior developers needed to validate it are starting to retire because they don’t want to deal with validating something that changes every time you change your prompt.
He goes on to say that AI is not good at writing safety-critical or performance-critical code: “Now, let’s say that 70 or 80% of the world’s code doesn’t fit that pattern, but it’s that 10, 20% of the code that I’m interested in.”
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People who want to use AI to understand animals say we will be able to talk to them and have two-way communication before 2030.
That could mean finally cracking the code and understanding what animals are truly feeling or saying. For this, AI needs to be fed giant datasets of animal calls.
Scientists expect that once we can talk to animals, we will show more compassion towards them and do more to protect their habitats.
A $10 million prize is on offer for the first AI that can converse with an animal without the animal realising a human is behind it.
If you play one animal's call to its own group over and over, and it works like a deepfake in its likeness: researchers warn the group may start ignoring the real animal's calls.
https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2096728334130405487?s=20
That could mean finally cracking the code and understanding what animals are truly feeling or saying. For this, AI needs to be fed giant datasets of animal calls.
Scientists expect that once we can talk to animals, we will show more compassion towards them and do more to protect their habitats.
A $10 million prize is on offer for the first AI that can converse with an animal without the animal realising a human is behind it.
If you play one animal's call to its own group over and over, and it works like a deepfake in its likeness: researchers warn the group may start ignoring the real animal's calls.
https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2096728334130405487?s=20
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