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Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine
Cloudflare’s CEO has threatened to pull the company out of Italy, and to withdraw free services it intends to provide to the Winter Olympic games, after the nation’s communications regulator slugged it with a fine equal to one percent of its annual revenue for violating anti-piracy regulations.…
India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code
India’s government has denied that it is working on rules that would require smartphone manufacturers to provide access to their source code.…
Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut
Asia in Brief The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have suspended access to social network X, on grounds that it allows users to produce sexual imagery without users’ consent.…
Meta admits to Instagram password reset mess, denies data leak
infosec in brief Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem led to theft of users’ personal information.…
AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial intelligence models, a handful of industry insiders are calling for those opposed to the current state of affairs to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the technology.…