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The Guardian
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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...

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The Associated Press
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The FBI's cyber division warned Wednesday about the discovery of two "critical vulnerabilities" in PHP, a widely used programming language that powers many websites and web applications.

bit.lySome websites go dark as operators address an AI-detected flaw in a web programming languageThe FBI’s cyber division warned Wednesday about the discovery of two “critical vulnerabilities” in PHP, a widely used programming language that powers many websites and web applications.

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NetBlocks
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⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in Volyn Oblast, western #Ukraine, corresponding to power outages after an onslaught of deadly Russian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure overnight 🔌

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Cloudflare
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When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks. https://cfl.re/4yUqWFG

cfl.reYandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the moveWhen strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.

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NetBlocks
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📉 ICYMI: No signs of recovery as Yandex suffers a sustained connectivity loss consistent with extensive infrastructure damage after Ukrainian drone strikes on key data centers in Sasovo and Vladimir. The Russian tech giant has issued a bleak outlook to users at home and abroad.

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The Guardian
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Saudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters

theguardian.comSaudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquartersDiscovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested. In a statement on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI company said it discovered the “sophisticated recording device” and used one of its “models to understand the device and where it had come from”. Continue reading...
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox."

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NetBlocks
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox."

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emptywheel
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I agree that this is a BFD. But I think it gives Trump too much agency. This was baked in for quite some time and I expect Lindsey Graham's death is what accelerated it. Putin is no doubt offering Trump a way out of his Iran disaster, which ALWAYS required scapegoating Ukraine.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

New primer about the news from the last few hours that the US is getting back to business with Russia. This is not Trump being erratic, it is not about diesel, it is not a small move. It is about the US moving to a more active position of helping Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-ab...

phillipspobrien.substack.comThis Is About Much More Than Just DieselWhat Really Matters From The Last Few Hours

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The Moscow Times
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Kremlin foreign policy spokesman Yuri Ushakov said the conversation on Friday between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was "very substantive and friendly" and "neither wanted to hang up first." — Interfax

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Human Rights Watch
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From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️

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Emily M. Bender
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New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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PBS News
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. https://to.pbs.org/4AUIDXc

to.pbs.orgNewsom signs California law banning officers from using gloves that deliver electric shocksIn California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants' rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant dete...

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NOELREPORTS
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Ukraine informed South Korea in advance that Zelenskyy might mention the transfer of two North Korean POWs during his UN speech, a senior Seoul official said. South Korea knew the topic could be included but was not told exactly how Zelenskyy would present it. #Ukraine

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The Kyiv Independent
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⚡️ Zelensky breaches confidentiality agreement by disclosing transfer of North Korean POWs, South Korea says.

kyivindependent.comZelensky breaches confidentiality agreement by disclosing transfer of North Korean POWs, South Korea saysUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the disclosure during a speech to the United Nations on Sept. 23, saying Ukraine had recently "sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Ko...
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www.reddit.com/r/books/comm...

reddit.comFrom the books community on Reddit: Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of sus...Explore this post and more from the books community
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

The new documents in copyright cases against AI companies show the lengths to which tech firms such as Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI went to obtain colossal troves of data with which to “train” their software, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of books.

washingtonpost.comInside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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The New York Times
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As Xi Jinping arrives in the U.S. this week for a state visit, China’s advances in A.I. will be in the air. What will be less discussed is that he is also the leader of an economy in its worst shape in decades. The two facts are related.

nyti.msIn China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags BehindAs Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week for a state visit, China’s advances in artificial intelligence will be in the air. Less discussed: China’s economy in its worst shape in decades.