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SGGQA 388 Desktop Mode Coming to Android, Google Play Games on PC, Tesla Autopilot Drives Through Walls
A supply chain attack on a GitHub Actions tool has put up to 23,000 organisations at risk of having credentials stolen.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/github-attack-threatens-23-000-organisations
Ofcom’s risk assessment deadline has passed, and online platforms must now take action to protect users from illegal content and activity occurring on their platforms. Significant fines await those who fail.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2025/new-online-safety-act-measures-come-into-force
Amazon is discontinuing a privacy-focused feature that allowed select Echo devices to process voice requests locally, meaning all voice recordings will now be sent to the cloud before being deleted.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/amazon-to-remove-privacy-feature-from-echo
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@MichaelTunnell talks about KDE Devs launch a company, CrossOver 25, Garuda Linux, & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
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@404mediaco
@arstechnica
@verge
@heiseonline (in German)
@2600
@themarkup
@osnews
@TechCrunch
@TechDesk
@WIRED
@Engadget
@TomsHardware
@EuronewsNext
@mobilesyrup
@Golemde (in German)
@ZDNet
@PCMag
@BGR
@sciencefocus
@Gizmodo
@canaltech (in Portuguese)
@TechTudo (in Portuguese)
@Adrenalinebr (in Portuguese)
@TecMundo (in Portuguese)
@Tecnoblog (in Portuguese)
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If you still use one of these devices, you might want to start looking into alternatives.
"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally [...] Starting on March 28, recordings of everything command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."
Get the latest from TravelTechnologySolutions.net. Click here for original #traveltechnology news, opinion and analysis https://traveltechnologysolutions.net/travel-tech-news/ #travel #technews
Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users.
https://www.theverge.com/news/629620/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android
#Saudi Prince: Catch Embassy-Exclusive Rare #Pokémon Now
https://isglitch.com/article/2025-03-14-saudi-prince-catch
After the Honey scandal, Google updates its Chrome extensions policy to ban affiliate link swapping before checkout. PayPal’s Honey was accused of this behavior in December. 
#Google #Chrome #Honey #TechNews #AffiliateMarketing #Privacy #OnlineShopping #PolicyUpdate #PayPal
"We are in the midst of a shift in work and workplace relationships as significant as the Second Industrial Revolution of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And new policies and protections may be necessary to correct the balance of power."
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1111664/worker-monitoring-employee-surveillance/
Europe is investing €200 billion for AI development
#EU #Europe #billion #euros #euro #artificialintelligence #artificial #intelligence #AI #AIfactories #austria #bulgaria #france #germany #poland #slovenia #news #information #informations #stat #data #geopolitics #politics #today #todaynews #tech #technology #techiinformations #technews ##mastodonsocial #social #austria #bulgaria #france #germany #poland #slovenia
Berlin Tech @berlin@techhub.social»#DealMonitor - TastyUrban erhält 6,5 Millionen – LipoCheck bekommt 2,5 Millionen – Medice übernimmt Selfapy« https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2025/03/13/dealmonitor-tastyurban-lipocheck-selfapy/?Berliner.in #Berlin #Tech #Technews #Startups
Europe's six new AI Factories:
AI:AT (Austria
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BRAIN++ (Bulgaria
)
AI2F (France
)
JAIF (Germany
)
PIAST (Poland
)
SLAIF (Slovenia
)
With €485 million in investments, they are part of the EU's AI leadership strategy.
A recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism has revealed alarming inconsistencies and inaccuracies in AI search tools, challenging their growing popularity as replacements for traditional search engines.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-search-engines-plagued-by-inaccuracy
Among the 10,000 unexpected items discovered to be connecting to The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust’s networks were PlayStations, coffee machines and passing electric vehicles.
A brand-new horror just dropped, the CL1 is the first computer with a chip that has neurons from lab grown brains integrated into it. The case has a built-in life support system (of course there are already people who shoehorned ChatGPT on it, because AI nonsense can't be far behind).
Thankfully, the high price point will keep it out of the general consumer market...The dystopia future is coming in hot still.
I honestly dislike this abomination and find it fascinating at the same time; it's also another step in cybernetic enhancement.
Figuring out how to keep brain cells active and healthy outside the body. In the future, what can be learned from this process of keeping brain cells alive outside a person's body could be applied in other situations. Like a person who is mostly chrome, except for the brain and perhaps a few other body parts.
