The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale in internet regulation for democracies
A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records
Cloudflare: Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks
High Quality Offline Music: A brief overview of how to enjoy high quality music without subscribing to a privacy-invasive and usually lower-quality music streaming service like Spotify, Deezer, etc.
Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling: But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'
China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure: Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers
European creators reject AI Act implementation measures: A coalition of European creative industries formally condemns new AI guidelines as inadequate protection for intellectual property rights.
Honey Trap: Underage Live-Chat Hosts Getting Paid to Flirt — Live-chat platforms and third-party agencies are using underage hosts to entice audiences to spend money on voice and video calls.