"On Wednesday, the European Commission (EC) announced that 'X does indeed not qualify as a gatekeeper in relation to its online social networking service, given that the investigation revealed that X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users.'" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

X’s depressing ad revenue helps Musk avoid EU’s strictest antitrust law

X invoked tanking ad revenue to remove threat of DMA gatekeeper designation.

Exclusive: If you’ve suspected that you’re yelling into a void about the election on Instagram, Facebook or Threads, it might not be your imagination. Downplaying politics is a business and political strategy from Meta, the social media giant.

Column | Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts

Our tech columnist investigates how Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads suppress content related to the election. Even discussing how to vote isn’t safe.

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Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs

Can you make a robot vacuum eat a bar of soap?

I bought a tv last year, to have it ask me if I wanted to set my screen-saver to an NFT. www.samsung.com/nz/support/t...

Introducing the Samsung NFT Platform for your Samsung TV

FAQ for Samsung Television. Find more about introducing the Samsung NFT Platform for your Samsung TV with Samsung Support.

Companies like Apple want "the reputation that they protect users' data and they will do so at the expense of their relationship with law enforcement,” but they also want to tap the multi-billion-dollar police tech market, EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social@forbes.com.

Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance.

At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.

I bought a tv last year, to have it ask me if I wanted to set my screen-saver to an NFT. www.samsung.com/nz/support/t...

Introducing the Samsung NFT Platform for your Samsung TV

FAQ for Samsung Television. Find more about introducing the Samsung NFT Platform for your Samsung TV with Samsung Support.

That recent Firefox zero-day was used to target Tor Browser users blog.torproject.org/new-release-...

New Release: Tails 6.8.1 | Tor Project

This release is an emergency release to fix a critical security vulnerability in Tor Browser.

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CISA: Hackers abuse F5 BIG-IP cookies to map internal servers

CISA is warning that threat actors have been observed abusing unencrypted persistent F5 BIG-IP cookies to identify and target other internal devices on the targeted network.

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Using inside info, iPhone thieves arrive at your house right after FedEx

Police: Porch pirates follow FedEx drivers, have tracking info for AT&T iPhones.

Mobility as a Service, IRL edition: Fisker EVs "cannot, as a technical matter, be 'ported' from the Fisker server to which the vehicles are currently linked to a distinct server owned and/or controlled by" a non-bankrupt vehicle operator. Tbh, this is just an early example for connected cars.

Fisker EVs can’t be ported to new server

The sale of 3,300 Fisker Oceans is now in doubt as they cannot be migrated away from Fisker’s server.