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Angry Tech News #70: Pixelated Grace

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New EU battery regulations, Ubisoft does another bad thing, NFTs aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, and a Native Ad for porn!

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EU requires all phones to have replacable batteries
https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/

Ubisoft deletes accounts, digital libraries, if you haven’t logged in recently
https://www.techspot.com/news/99507-ubisoft-delete-account-game-library-if-inactive-long.html

$2.9M Dorsey tweet NFT for sale, $2k OBO
https://www.techspot.com/news/99510-auction-29-million-jack-dorsey-tweet-nft-has.html

Unstable Diffusion releases AI porn generator
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/21/as-ai-porn-generators-get-better-the-stakes-raise/

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Angry Tech News #38: Iconic Faceprint

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TikTok, Twitter, and Ubisoft screw their users, European government screws everyone, a way to defeat air gaps, yet another NPM supply chain attack, and a new product that will help you reach your inner cyborg!

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TikTok bends over your privacy
https://www.engadget.com/fcc-commissioner-google-facebook-ban-tik-tok-064559992.html
https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/security/tiktok-privacy-faceprints/

Firefox starts stripping tracking tags from URLs
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-firefox-privacy-feature-strips-urls-of-tracking-parameters/

Smart contact lenses
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/05/18/mojo-visions-smart-contact-lens-ready-for-real-world-testing/

Ubisoft shows who really owns your games
https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-creed-liberation-steam

Twitter has no ethics
https://therecord.media/twitter-apologizes-for-abusing-user-security-information-after-150-million-ftc-settlement/

Iconburst NPM supply chain attack
https://blog.reversinglabs.com/blog/iconburst-npm-software-supply-chain-attack-grabs-data-from-apps-websites

DMA, DSA pass EU parliament
https://epic.org/european-parliament-adopts-dsa-dma/

ETSC mandates black boxes
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/today-all-new-vehicles-eu-will-have-surveillance-black-boxes

Using SATA cable to defeat air gaps
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/air-gapped-systems-leak-data-via-sata-cable-wifi-antennas/