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Vietnam's Decree 147 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/23/vietnam-identity-verification-internet-law-reactions-decree-147-censorship">mandates social media users on platforms like Facebook and TikTok to verify their identities</a> and requires tech companies to store and share user data with authorities upon request, sparking concerns over increased censorship, self-censorship, and threats to free expression. Furthermore, the decree imposes restrictions on gaming time for minors and limits livestreaming to verified accounts. It becomes effective on Christmas Day. The Guardian reports: <i> Decree 147, as it is known, builds on a 2018 cybersecurity law that was sharply criticized by the US, EU and internet freedom advocates who said it mimics China's repressive internet censorship. [...] Critics say that decree 147 will also expose dissidents who post anonymously to the risk of arrest. "Many people work quietly but effectively in advancing the universal values of human rights," Ho Chi Minh City-based blogger and rights activist Nguyen Hoang Vi told AFP.
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She warned that the new decree "may encourage self-censorship, where people avoid expressing dissenting views to protect their safety -- ultimately harming the overall development of democratic values" in the country. Le Quang Tu Do, of the ministry of information and communications (MIC), told state media that decree 147 would "regulate behavior in order to maintain social order, national security, and national sovereignty in cyberspace." [...]
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Health care company Ascension <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/health-care-giant-ascension-says-5-6-million-patients-affected-in-cyberattack/">lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyberattack</a> that was attributed to a notorious ransomware gang, according to documents filed with the attorney general of Maine. Ascension owns 140 hospitals and scores of assisted living facilities. In May, the organization was hit with an attack that caused <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/06/19/nx-s1-5010219/ascension-hospital-ransomware-attack-care-lapses">mass disruptions</a> as staff was <a href="https://about.ascension.org/cybersecurity-event">forced</a> to move to manual processes that caused errors, delayed or lost lab results, and diversions of ambulances to other hospitals. Ascension managed to restore most services by mid-June. At the time, the company said the attackers had stolen protected health information and personally identifiable information for an undisclosed number of people.
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Since 2021, Apple has been sending <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-in/102174">threat notifications</a> to certain users, informing them that they may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. When victims of spyware reach out to Apple for help, TechCrunch reports, "Apple doesn't tell the targets to get in touch with its own security engineers." Instead, Apple <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/why-apple-sends-spyware-victims-to-this-nonprofit-security-lab/">directs them to the nonprofit security lab Access Now</a>, "which runs a digital helpline for people in civil society who suspect they have been targets of government spyware."
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While some view this as Apple sidestepping responsibility, cybersecurity experts agree that Apple's approach -- alerting victims, directing them to specialized support, and recommending tools like <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120">Lockdown Mode</a> -- has been a game changer in combating mercenary spyware threats. From the report: <i> For people who investigate spyware, Apple sharing spyware notifications with victims represented a turning point. Before the notifications, "We were just like in the dark, not knowing who to check," according to Access Now's legal counsel Natalia Krapiva. "I think it's one of the greatest things that's happened in the sphere of this kind of forensic investigations and hunting of sophisticated spyware," Krapiva told TechCrunch.
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Now, when someone or a group of people get a notification from Apple, they are warned that something potentially anomalous is happening with their device, that someone is targeting them, and that they need to get help. And Apple tells them exactly where to get it, according to Scott-Railton, who said Access Now's helpline is the right place to go because "the helpline is able to do good, systematic triage work and support." Krapiva said that the helpline is staffed by more than 30 people, supported by others who work in other departments of the nonprofit. So far in 2024, Krapiva said Access Now received 4,337 tickets through the helpline.
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The Biden administration said the Office of the United States Trade Representative would launch a Section 301 investigation to examine China's targeting of semiconductor chips for dominance, an effort to see whether the practices are unfairly hurting U.S. trade and take potential action. The investigation will broadly probe Chinese nonmarket practices and policies related to semiconductors and look at how the products are incorporated into industries for defense, auto, aerospace, medical, telecommunications and power. It will also examine production of silicon carbide substrates or other wafers used as inputs for semiconductors. </i> The probe launches four weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. "The effort could offer Trump a ready avenue to begin imposing some of the hefty 60% tariffs he has threatened on Chinese imports," notes <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-launches-new-us-trade-probe-into-legacy-chinese-chips-2024-12-23/">Reuters</a>.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: <i>Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopedia Britannica -- now known as just Britannica -- <a href="https://gizmodo.com/encyclopedia-britannica-is-now-an-ai-company-2000542600">is all in on artificial intelligence</a>, and may soon go public at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/business/dealbook/britannica-artificial-intelligence.html">New York Times</a>.
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Until 2012 when <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/13/2255247/after-244-years-the-end-for-the-dead-tree-encyclopedia-britannica">printing ended</a>, the company's books served as the oldest continuously published, English-language encyclopedias in the world, essentially collecting all the world's knowledge in one place before Google or Wikipedia were a thing. That has helped Britannica pivot into the AI age, where models benefit from access to high-quality, vetted information. More general-purpose models like ChatGPT suffer from hallucinations because they have hoovered up the entire internet, including all the junk and misinformation.
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While it still offers an online edition of its encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Britannica's biggest business today is selling online education software to schools and libraries, the software it hopes to supercharge with AI. That could mean using AI to customize learning plans for individual students. The idea is that students will enjoy learning more when software can help them understand the gaps in their understanding of a topic and stay on it longer. Another education tech company, Brainly, recently announced that answers from its chatbot will link to the exact learning materials (i.e. textbooks) they reference.
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For more than a month afterwards it was anchored in the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark where it was being observed by multiple countries and was boarded by Swedish police and other authorities last week. The ship tracking site VesselFinder showed the Yi Peng 3 heading north out of the strait on Saturday and on Monday China confirmed the ship had left in order to "ensure the physical and mental wellbeing of the crew." The Swedish foreign minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, said on Monday that China had not cooperated with Sweden's request to allow Swedish prosecutors onboard.</i><br>
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Gaming enthusiast Shank Mods, aided by local contacts and industrial shipping experts, secured the functioning 45-inch unit, which originally sold for $40,000 in the late 1980s. The TV, valued by retro gaming enthusiasts for its authentic, lag-free display capabilities, could potentially become a public exhibit pending future funding.<br>
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A U.S. judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/whatsapp-scores-historic-victory-against-nso-group-in-long-running-spyware-hacking-case/">breached hacking laws</a> by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware. From a report:<i> In a historic ruling on Friday, a Northern California federal judge held NSO Group liable for targeting the devices of 1,400 WhatsApp users, violating state and federal hacking laws as well as WhatsApp's terms of service, which prohibit the use of the messaging platform for malicious purposes.<br> <br>
The ruling comes five years after Meta-owned WhatsApp <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/10/29/2032239/facebook-sues-israels-nso-group-over-alleged-whatsapp-hack">sued NSO Group</a>, alleging the spyware outfit had exploited an audio-calling vulnerability in the messaging platform to install its Pegasus spyware on unsuspecting users' devices. WhatsApp said that more than 100 human rights defenders, journalists and "other members of civil society" were targeted by the malware, along with government officials and diplomats.
In her ruling, Judge Phyllis Hamilton said NSO did not dispute that it "must have reverse-engineered and/or decompiled the WhatsApp software" to install its Pegasus spyware on devices, but raised questions about whether it had done so before agreeing to WhatsApp's terms of service.</i><br>
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