Google labels Australia's news media bargaining code as 'unfair'

It said the regulation is putting the way Aussies search every day on Google at risk and that it will do everything it possibly can to get the proposal changed.

Google has responded to the federal government's move to back media organisations in bargaining to secure "fair" payment for news content shown on its platform, labelling the imminent regulation as putting the way Aussies search every day on Google at risk.

"We need to let you know about new government regulation that will hurt how Australians use Google Search and YouTube," it writes in an open letter penned by local MD Mel Silva.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-labels-australias-news-media-bargaining-code-as-unfair/

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German watchdog launches Amazon investigation - report

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s anti-trust authority has launched an investigation into Amazon’s relationship with third-party traders selling on its site, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

“We are currently investigating whether and how Amazon influences how traders set prices on the market-place,” Andreas Mundt, President of the Federal Cartel Office, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.

Germany is Amazon’s second-biggest market after the United States.

During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many stores were closed and shoppers flocked online, Mundt said there had been complaints that Amazon had blocked some traders because of allegedly overly high prices.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-germany-competition/german-watchdog-launches-amazon-investigation-report-idUSKCN25C0LW

#Europe #Germany #Amazon #Antitrust

A Princess Is Making Google Forget Her Drunken Rant About Killing Muslims

The removal of nearly 200 links from Google search in Germany about a princess’ drunken rampage in Scotland raises questions about who has the 'right to be forgotten.'

In 2014, German princess Theodora Sayn-Wittgenstein, 27 at the time, attended the University of St Andrews’ charity Oktoberfest, got drunk, assaulted police officers and first responders, and said: "I was doing my nails this morning and wondered how many Muslims I could kill." Her family, with the help of Google and Europe’s right to be forgotten law, have been trying to make that night disappear.

Twice a year, Google shares data about how governments and corporations make requests to the company in its Transparency Report. One section of the report broadly summarizes content removal requests to “inform discussions about online content regulation.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889kyv/a-princess-is-making-google-to-forget-her-drunken-rant-about-killing-muslims

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PM Modi: India will soon have a new cyber security policy

During today's Independence Day speech, PM Modi announced India will soon introduce a new cyber security policy.

During today’s Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that technology will play a big role in developing the country. PM also made a crucial announcement related to the importance of cyber security. Modi announced India will soon introduce a new cyber security policy.

Addressing the nation from New Delhi’s Red Fort, PM Modi talked about threats from cyber space that can harm the country’s society, economy and development. He said, “threats from cyber space can endanger all these aspects of Indian life.” “The government is alert on this,” PM Modi said added and said the government of India will soon come out with a policy on this. The details related to the cyber security policy will be revealed in the days to come.

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/pm-modi-india-will-have-a-new-cybersecurity-policy-soon-6555565/

#Asia #India #cybersecurity #policy

Trump Says ‘Whatever’ And Isn’t Worried That Banning WeChat Will Kill iPhone Sales In China

With the impending ban on US companies doing business with the likes of WeChat, multiple American companies have expressed concerns about what it will mean for their business in China.

WeChat is a big deal there, not only offering chat services but also being how much of the country handles payments and other daily tasks. Apple, Disney, and others have concerns, but President Trump doesn’t care.

https://www.redmondpie.com/trump-says-whatever-and-isnt-worried-that-banning-wechat-will-kill-iphone-sales-in-china/

95% Of Chinese Users Say They Will Ditch Their iPhones If WeChat Is Banned

https://www.redmondpie.com/95-of-chinese-users-say-they-will-ditch-their-iphones-if-wechat-is-banned/

#US #Asia #China #Apple #iPhone #WeChat #Tencent

Over 6,000 Hackers From China, India and Russia Are Working for Kim Jong Un's North Korea: Report

A report released by the US Army claimed that Bureau 121 is the primary organization responsible for computer warfare

A recently released report by the U.S. Department of Army has claimed that North Kore may have over 6,000 hackers working on behalf of the Kim Jong Un regime around the globe.

As per the North Korean edition of the U.S. Army Techniques Publication (ATP), these cybercriminals have been operating from several countries including Belarus, China, India, Malaysia, and Russia. The report is believed to be created to determine what the U.S. should expect from the highly secretive North Korea and DPRK's army in the event of any active conflict.

https://www.ibtimes.sg/over-6000-hackers-china-india-russia-are-working-kim-jong-uns-north-korea-report-50222

#Asia #NorthKorea #hackers

Feds: NJ Man Attempted to Hire a Hitman on the Darkweb

In a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, prosecutors accused John Michael Musbach, 31, of hiring a hitman in an attempt to kill one of his teenage victims. According to the statement, Musbach found and contacted a site advertising murder for hire on the darkweb. He paid the site administrator $40,000 in Bitcoin to carry out the hit.

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Text editor Notepad++ banned in China after ‘Stand With Hong Kong’ update

The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday, “obviously due to” its release of editions named ‘Free Uyghur’ and ‘Stand With Hong Kong’, the source code and text editor announced on Twitter.

First released in 2003 by France-based developer Don Ho, free-to-use Notepad++ operates on Windows and supports some 90 languages. In his release notices for the two editions, Ho openly voiced his concerns over ‘human rights’ conditions, respectively in the Xinjiang autonomous region and Hong Kong.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/notepad-plus-plus-blocked-in-china/

#Asia #China #NotepadPlus

Tutanota - We are under another DoS attack and working on mitigating this already. We apologize for this inconvenience.

👀 👉🏼 https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1295456582956994567

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Secret Service bought access to cellphone location data

Locate X reportedly also worked with border agencies

The US Secret Service (USSS) signed a contract to access Locate X, a service that lets law enforcement track phone users’ locations. Motherboard published apparent confirmation of the deal this morning, following a Protocol report in March. The contract indicates that the USSS paid Virginia company Babel Street around $36,000 to add Locate X to a $2 million social media monitoring package.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21371886/secret-service-usss-locate-x-babel-street-foia-contract-report

#US #SecretService #privacy #surveillance

Apple terminating Epic’s developer account over Fortnite App Store protest

Things are moving fast in the Epic Games vs Apple battle. After Fortnite was pulled from the App Store for breaking Apple’s rules — sneaking in a direct payment method to get around the in-app purchase system — Epic almost immediately filed a lawsuit against Apple. Now the game developer says that Apple is terminating its account.

Epic shared the update on Twitter today, calling the removal of its account a “retaliation” for filing a lawsuit against Apple. The developer says that Apple is planning to terminate all of its accounts and cut it off from iOS and Mac development tools on August 28.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/17/apple-terminating-epic-games-dev-account/

#Apple #EpicGames

This is just entirely false. That notification is from Tencent security software bundled with their browser, and caused by many people reporting the website (which obviously happens because most Chinese are anti-HK).

Notepad++ and it's website are accessible within China.

YTS Operator Helped Movie Companies Catch a Pirating User

A group of movie companies is demanding nearly $100,000 in statutory piracy damages from US army veteran Mical Mesot. While the evidence is often flimsy in piracy cases, the rightsholders managed to get logs from the popular pirate site YTS to back up their claim. That evidence is corroborated by the operator of YTS, under penalty of perjury.

Lawsuits against pirating Internet subscribers are far from new. In the US, they first appeared more than a decade ago.

Over the years, the evidence in these lawsuits was regularly contested. In some cases this led to success, with courts concluding that an IP-address alone is not enough. After all, an IP-address doesn’t identify a person.

https://torrentfreak.com/yts-operator-helped-movie-companies-catch-a-pirating-user-200817/

#US #piracy

Oracle is in talks to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations, challenging Microsoft, source says

Oracle, an enterprise software giant, is in talks to acquire social media company TikTok’s U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand assets, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Oracle is working with a group of U.S. venture capital firms that already have a stake in TikTok, said the person, who asked not to be named because the negotiations are private. The Financial Times earlier reported on the talks and named General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital as two of the investors working with Oracle.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/17/oracle-is-in-talks-to-acquire-tiktoks-us-operations-source-says.html

#US #Oracle #TikTok

The Man Who Rallied India Against Facebook Worries Digital Nationalism Has Gone Too Far

“It’s almost like we have China envy.”

Six years before India shook the global internet by banning TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, Nikhil Pahwa was trying to convince his country to care about tech policy. It was October 2014, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was selling India’s leaders and public on a vision of a free, Facebook-centric internet that would bring hundreds of millions of people online. Pahwa, the founding editor of the media and technology blog MediaNama, wasn’t buying it. “What Zuckerberg means by internet for all is essentially Facebook for all,” he warned.

https://onezero.medium.com/the-man-who-rallied-india-against-facebook-worries-digital-nationalism-has-gone-too-far-b19522f98585

#Asia #India #Facebook

Soldiers could teach future robots how to outperform humans

In the future, a Soldier and a game controller may be all that's needed to teach robots how to outdrive humans.

At the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin, researchers designed an algorithm that allows an autonomous ground vehicle to improve its existing navigation systems by watching a human drive. The team tested its approach -- called adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration, or APPLD -- on one of the Army's experimental autonomous ground vehicles.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812144008.htm

#US #Army #Military #Robot

Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal

Exclusive: in some cases Google did not necessarily ban users who were often threatening violence or expressing extremist views

A little-known investigative unit inside search giant Google regularly forwarded detailed personal information on the company’s users to members of a counter-terrorist fusion center in California’s Bay Area, according to leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian.

But checking the documents against Google’s platforms reveals that in some cases Google did not necessarily ban the users they reported to the authorities, and some still have accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other services.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/17/google-giving-user-data-authorities-documents-reveal

#US #Google #privacy #surveillance

The Last Sunny Corner of the Internet? - Setting the Record Straight

The USA accuses Tiktok of lacking data security. With a new platform, Tiktok wants to set things right and win back trust.

While US President Donald Trump criticizes Tiktok's alleged lack of security, the Chinese company is publishing its own website with information on the subject. "In view of the rumours and misinformation about Tiktok that are spreading in Washington and in the media, we should set things right," writes Tiktok there.

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Report: AI Company Leaks Over 2.5M Medical Records

The leaked data relates to car accidents and includes names, insurance records, medical diagnosis notes, and payment records.

A security researcher has detailed how an artificial intelligence company in possession of nearly 2.6 million medical records allowed them to be publicly visible on the internet. It's a clear reminder that our personal health data is not safe.

As Secure Thoughts reports, on July 7 security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered two folders of medical records available for anyone to access on the internet. The data was labeled as "staging data" and hosted by artificial intelligence company Cense AI, which specializes in "SaaS-based intelligent process automation management solutions." Fowler believes the data was made public because Cense AI was temporarily hosting it online before loading it into the company's management system or an AI bot.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-ai-company-leaks-over-25m-medical-records

#US #AI #medical #records #leaks

Biohackers | First Original Series stored in DNA

DNA storage offers a lot of capacity and longevity. Netflix takes advantage of this and also shows how DNA storage works.

For the Biohackers series, Netflix had the first episode of the new series saved in DNA as a themed advertisement and sent 200 copies of it to fans and interested parties.

📺 👉🏼 https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=DMYgjOHgHxc

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