Nicolas Jondet

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up SYDNEY—Saying the ruse began as a harmless prank about the continent’s mammals having pouches, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted Tuesday that all those animals like wallabies, numbats, quokkas, and bandicoots were completely made up. “We just assumed everyone would have caught on by now, because these creatures are clearly imaginary,” said Albanese, adding that […]

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up
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Meta illegally collected Flo users’ menstrual data, jury rules Meta has already disagreed with the decision.

Meta illegally collected Flo users’ menstrual data, jury rules

Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion' Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change' The second Trump administration has repeatedly complained about Europe's tech laws targeting Silicon Valley's finest, but now its antipathy is going into overdrive.…

Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion'

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website theonion.com/doj-rem...

"In the letter, Dame Onwurah expresses disappointment that the recently announced £54 million ($72 million) scheme to recruit the world's top researchers recognizes the important role of the devolved nations - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - but appears to ignore large swathes of England."

"Two months to get winter body ready"

"Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change that."

UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’ Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight.…

UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases

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Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages 'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages.…

Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers' Phones Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam.

Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam. www.wired.com/story/ice-ro...

Reddit turns 20, and it’s going big on AI Reddit Answers is just one part of it.

Reddit turns 20, and it’s going big on AI

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI | TechCrunch An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

After Notice and Choice: Reinvigorating “Unfairness” to Rein In Data Abuses | Stanford Law Review

After Notice and Choice: Reinvigorating “Unfairness” to Rein In Data Abuses
Lina M. Khan, Samuel A.A. Levine & Stephanie T. Nguyen review.law.stanford.edu/print/articl...

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.…

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.…

Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack

Les cambrioleurs pourront désormais noter votre logement sur Google En plus des restaurants, des bars et des hôtels, les logements des particuliers pourront désormais être notés afin d’aider les cambrioleurs à mieux s’y repérer. Reportage.

Les cambrioleurs pourront désormais noter votre logement sur Google www.legorafi.fr/2025/06/26/l...

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond Comment  A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations – a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millions of corporate customers.…

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency

Apple overhauls EU App Store rules following penalty The fines may continue until DMA compliance is reached.

Apple overhauls EU App Store rules following penalty

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop Opinion  Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is – sort of, kind of – extending Windows 10 support for another year.…

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models.…

More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case

Les prud’hommes valident le licenciement d’un salarié qui utilisait l’expression “prendre le lead” Coup de tonnerre dans la start-up nation : prononcer l’expression “prendre le lead” est désormais passible d’un licenciement pour faute grave. Décryptage.

Les prud’hommes valident le licenciement d'un salarié qui utilisait l’expression “prendre le lead”
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The Titan 2 is a modernized BlackBerry with 5G, Android, and a second screen Keeping the BlackBerry dream alive.

The Titan 2 is a modernized BlackBerry with 5G, Android, and a second screen

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public Altman put his emails with Iyo’s founder in the spotlight.

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public

"The strategic hire [of a former chief of Google Books] appears to have been designed to replicate Google's legally successful book digitization approach—the same scanning operation that survived copyright challenges and established key fair use precedents."

Getty drops its copyright claims in its ongoing case against Stability AI due to jurisdiction concerns. Together with yesterday's ruling in the US, we are seeing a very different copyright picture.