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Judge rules that NSO cannot continue to install spyware via WhatsApp pending appeal | The Record from Recorded Future News

Judge rules that NSO cannot continue to install spyware via WhatsApp pending appeal

NSO Group had sought to stay the order pending a decision on its appeal in the case, which centers on allegations that it targeted 1,400 WhatsApp u...

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files) 🤯

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive�...

How Internet Censorship Impacts the Women’s Rights Movement in Iran: Insights from OONI Data and Activist Interviews | OONI

How Internet Censorship Impacts the Women’s Rights Movement in Iran: Insights from OONI Data and Activist Interviews

This study documents how internet censorship impacts the women’s rights movement in Iran based on insights from OONI data and activist interviews.

Two more ICC judges sanctioned by the US, a direct attack against international law: Sanctioning ICC Judges Directly Engaged in the Illegitimate Targeting of Israel https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/sanctioning-icc-judges-directly-engaged-in-the-illegitimate-targeting-of-israel/

RSF uncovers new spyware from Belarus

Exclusive: RSF uncovers new spyware from Belarus

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s Digital Security Lab (DSL), working with the Eastern European organisation RESIDENT.NGO, has uncovered a previo...

The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy

Data Workers' Inquiry

The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the ...

TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt

Global: Amnesty International launches an Algorithmic Accountability toolkit to enable investigators, rights defenders’ and activists to hold powerful actors accountable for AI-facilitated harms

Amnesty International

Global: Amnesty International launches an Algorithmic Accountability toolkit to enable investigators, rights defenders' and activists to hold powerful actors accountable for AI-facilitated harms

With the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making systems (ADMs) that impact our everyday lives, it i...

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back | WIRED

WIRED

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back

Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against ...