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CISA warns hackers are increasingly targeting US water systems after Minnesota attack

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A coordinated intrusion knocked out industrial controllers at more than 30 Minnesota water systems. The US cyber-defence agency is telling utilities to get that hardware off the internet. The US cyber-defence agency has warned that hackers are increasingly targeting the country’s water systems, urging utilities to lock down the industrial controllers that keep taps running. […]

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China threatens ‘resolute’ retaliation over the US robot ban, and it holds the rare-earth card

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The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called the measure discriminatory and warned it “severely” damages trade relations, the New York Times and CNBC […]

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US senators warn Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips to escape the shortage

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Apple wants to buy cheap memory chips from China to ease a shortage. That shortage is already pushing up the price of its gadgets. A bipartisan group of US senators has just told Tim Cook not to. The senators wrote to Cook, urging Apple to drop any plan to buy Chinese memory. The two suppliers […]

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NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data

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NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, can view identifiable patient data inside part of the new Federated Data Platform. The admission followed a request from the National Data Guardian, the statutory […]

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ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot in the EU’s toughest tier

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ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe’s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI’s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could come as soon as August. The move was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a person […]

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The FTC is suing Hims & Hers for sharing patients’ health data with Meta and Snap

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The Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers, accusing the telehealth company of sharing customers’ sensitive health information with advertising platforms including Meta and Snap. The complaint, filed on 29 July and joined by Utah and California, also alleges the company charged people without proper consent and made subscriptions deliberately hard to cancel. The […]

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Australia takes Telegram to court over terrorist content it says the app left up

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The eSafety regulator has filed civil proceedings seeking up to A$54.6m, alleging Telegram hosted mass-shooting and Islamic State videos and ignored takedown demands. Telegram says it will fight. Australia’s online safety regulator has taken Telegram to court, alleging the messaging app left terrorist and violent extremist videos on its platform after being told to remove […]

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xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools

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xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment. Elon Musk’s AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota’s attorney general on Monday, CBS News first reported. It wants a federal court to strike down the first US law banning “nudification” technology. The […]

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China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse

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China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The Cyberspace Administration of China released the draft for public comment on 29 July, part of a widening effort to police what happens on the country’s platforms. The draft targets […]

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Russia charges Telegram’s Durov with aiding terrorism and adds him to a wanted list

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Russia’s FSB security service has charged Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, with facilitating terrorism, and moved to place him on an international wanted list. The charge accuses Durov of failing to take down channels and bots that the service says were used to coordinate attacks and sabotage inside Russia. It is the sharpest turn […]

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