"South Korea’s government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams."
South Korea to require face scans to buy a SIM
: SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
"European and American liberal democracy is so dangerous to their project, in fact, that the MAGA ideologues seem to be planning to undermine it. They don’t want to meddle in anyone’s internal politics anywhere else on the planet: “We seek good relations and peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change.” The glaring exception to this rule is in Europe. Here, it is now American policy to “help Europe correct its current trajectory,” language that implies that the U.S. will intervene to do so."
The Atlantic
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
 #USA #Europe
Journalism in the age of Hitlers
The Conversation
One UK journalist’s close access to Hitler carries a warning about Trump’s media restrictions
In the 1930s, many foreign correspondents refused to cover Germany. Instead, George Ward Price got close to Hitler – and was rebuked by Churchill.
Carole Cadwalladr was the radio in New Zealand today. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019016783/carole-cadwalladr-the-broligarchy #Broligarchy #CaroleCadwalladr
Disney turns to the dark side.
Disney, OpenAI sign video, image generation licensing deal
: Begun, these AI wars have
 It's very like YouTube, which slowly figured out how to monetize people uploading clips from copyrighted films and TV shows.
"The case, filed by Adams' estate, is among a small but growing number of lawsuits filed against artificial intelligence companies claiming that their chatbots encouraged suicide. It is the first to link an AI chatbot to a murder." https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/openai-sued-allegedly-enabling-murder-suicide-2025-12-11/
Australia is tackling the hard problems...
Girls are algorithmically driven, boys are a tumbling dice...
The Conversation
Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes
The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential...