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Nepal blocks most social media sites for failing to register with the government

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 21:15:12

The government of Nepal is blocking commonly used social platforms including Facebook, X, Instagram, WeChat, Reddit and YouTube due to noncompliance with a new law requiring them to register with the government, The Associated Press reported. Five platforms including TikTok and Viber that did register in the country were exempted from the ban. Social media companies were asked to provide a local contact, grievance handler and person responsible for self-regulation to avoid a shutdown and many a

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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 10:31:58

The restrictions come after the social media giants failed to meet state registration requirements, says government. Nepal’s government has said it will shut off access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and X, after they failed to comply with authorities’ registration requirements. The move, announced on Thursday, is part of what the government says is an effort to curb online hate, rumours and cybercrime. Companies were given a deadline of Wednesday to register with the Min

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Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-15 05:06:54

Nepal has ordered internet service providers to block access to major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X, after the companies failed to comply with local registration rules — drawing criticism from media rights groups and raising concerns over censorship and free expression. On Thursday, Nepal’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology directed the Nepal Telecommunications Authority to instruct internet service providers to restrict access to 26 so

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We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 19:14:51

Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior. Social credit, in its original economic definition, means distributing industry profits to consumers to increase purchasing power. But the term has evolved far beyond economics. Today, it de

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Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on

news.ycombinator.com Anton Cebalo 2025-10-22 11:49:15

Between 1921 and 1932, a strange man became a familiar face in Greenwich Village, New York City. Howard Scott lectured all who would listen on his vision for an anti-democratic state led by technicians and engineers. Businesspeople and politicians would be replaced, and a new society of abundance would be possible through science. He spread a gospel that preached “technology was the revolutionary agent of our period.” Scott believed liberal capitalism would eventually collapse and give way to a

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Enforcing Australia's social media ban on kids is possible but contains risks, report says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-23 14:34:13

Enforcing Australia's social media ban on kids is possible but contains risks, report says Though the move is popular with many parents, experts have raised concerns over data privacy and the accuracy of age verification technology. Under the new laws, platforms must take "reasonable steps" to prevent Australian children from creating accounts on their sites, and deactivate existing ones. The government says its ban, which comes into effect in December, is designed to limit the harmful impact

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A Crack in the Cosmos

news.ycombinator.com Colin Wells 2025-10-22 16:11:05

Some time around the year 466 BCE – in the second year of the 78th Olympiad, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder tells us – a massive meteor blazed across the sky in broad daylight, crashing to the earth with an enormous explosion near the small Greek town of Aegospotami, or ‘Goat Rivers’, on the European side of the Hellespont in northeastern Greece. Pliny’s younger contemporary, the Greek biographer Plutarch, wrote that the locals still worshipped the scorched brownish metallic boulder, the s

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The Verge’s favorite gifts for book lovers

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-23 13:00:20

PopSocket grips might be closely associated with smartphones, but they work surprisingly well with most e-readers. That’s because they let you prop up or securely hold any big-screen device with just one hand, making them a handy tool for those looking for a little more convenience. The fact that they come in an array of fun styles is just a plus.

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 16:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-24 21:50:11

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so. The social non-profit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says. The statement follows a lively back-and-forth convers

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Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-26 13:14:21

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms. The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi rather than comply with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that, as a small team, it lacked the resources to implement the substanti

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PopSockets PopCase Kindle Hands-On (2025): Easy Reading

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-29 11:09:00

If you're into accessories for your e-reader, then you probably already know about PopSockets. It's a popular grip attachment that's been around for years, originally designed for smartphones with a Kickstarter that launched back in 2012. That's still the PopGrips' main use, but plenty of people stick them on the back of a Kindle case to make their Kindle easier to hold. That used to require either a sticker or getting a magnetic adapter to get your PopSockets to stick to your Kindle or Kindle c

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PopSocket PopCase Kindle Hands-On (2025): Easy Reading

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-29 21:09:00

If you're into accessories for your e-reader, then you probably already know about PopSocket. It's a popular grip attachment that's been around for years, originally designed for smartphones with a Kickstarter that launched back in 2012. That's still the PopGrips' main use, but plenty of people stick them on the back of a Kindle case to make their Kindle easier to hold. That used to require either a sticker or getting a magnetic adapter to get your PopSocket to stick to your Kindle or Kindle cas

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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

news.ycombinator.com Geoff Brumfiel 2025-10-30 09:50:24

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers toggle caption Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post/Getty Images A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whi

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DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 16:04:23

A Social Security Administration (SSA) official alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that DOGE officials created "a live copy of the country's Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight." Chuck Borges, the SSA's Chief Data Officer (CDO), "has become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans' Social Security da

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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 04:42:51

(Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to an unsecured cloud environment in June, the New York Times reported. This may have exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The complaint alleges that under the authority

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-31 08:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-31 20:21:22

A startup called Skylight is taking a different approach to short-form video. Instead of restricting users to an algorithmic main feed, as is common on social apps, Skylight is building a community around human curators who post and repost videos to build out their own custom feeds others can subscribe to. The option, which launched on Monday in the version 2.0 release of the app, could appeal to users who feel a growing sense of unease about traditional social media platforms and their algorit

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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-11-01 08:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-11-01 23:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

news.ycombinator.com Stefan Krempl 2025-11-03 20:06:17

After more than four years of work, the Copyright Clearing House for the Internet (Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet, CUII), established in 2021, has declared itself "successful in the fight against criminal business models on the Internet." At the same time, it is responding to one of the main points of criticism, namely that a private body imposes restrictions on websites that are sensitive in terms of fundamental rights, largely unchecked and behind closed doors. The procedure is now to

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AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 11:25:00

You don't have to be chronically online to know that generative AI has infiltrated nearly every part of our online lives. Social media is no exception: Meta's AI chatbot pushes its way into search on Instagram and Facebook, and Grok offers chat and content creation on X. AI video generation features have emerged on Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok. Beyond its reach to users, artificial intelligence is increasingly significant behind the scenes as a professional tool for social media brands and crea

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Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 12:36:33

It's no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, social media platforms quickly turned into rage-filled and polarizing echo chambers with one purpose: to keep users hooked on outrage and brain rot so they can display more ads. And given the results of a recent experiment by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, they may be doomed to stay tha

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The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-11-16 04:24:27

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s GPT-5 has arrived, bringing faster performance, more dependable reasoning and stronger tool use. It joins Claude Opus 4.1 and other frontier models in signaling a rapidly advancing cognitive frontier. While artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains in the future, DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has described this era as “10 times big

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Apple prepares for iPhone 17 launch by expanding its reach

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-17 09:27:09

When Apple announces the iPhone 17 event next week, it will have a new place to spread the message. As noted by South China Morning Post, Apple expanded its social media footprint in China over the weekend. The move comes just in time for Apple’s next product launch that will include iPhone 17, 17 Air, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, as well as Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3, and maybe even AirPods Pro 3. Earlier this summer, Apple joined Threads in a very limited capacity after two years of not ha

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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

technologyreview.com Ben Crair 2025-11-17 18:00:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living

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The Tweens Down Under: Life Without Social Media in Australia

wired.com Charley Locke 2025-11-17 18:00:00

Starting on December 10, many Australian teenagers will no longer be as online as their peers in other countries. The Social Media Minimum Age Bill, passed in 2024, stipulates that a person must be at least 16 years old to have an account on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. Across the world, people young and old are increasingly recognizing the negative impacts that social media has on adolescents. Nearly half of teenagers in the US claim these platforms harm people thei

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 21:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

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Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto

news.ycombinator.com Burkhard Stubert 2025-11-14 09:30:27

Many embedded Linux systems use a Wayland compositor like Weston for window management. Qt applications act as Wayland clients. Weston composes the windows of the Qt applications into a single window and displays it on a screen. I still have to find a Yocto layer that does not start Qt applications as root. This violates the cybersecurity principle that every application should only run with the least privileges possible. Let us figure out how to run Qt applications as non-root users and make ou

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The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 03:14:05

The Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on one of the many state-level age-verification laws currently being reviewed across the country. Today, the top court chose not to intervene on legislation from Mississippi about checking the ages of social media users, denying an application to vacate stay from NetChoice. The Mississippi law requires all users to verify their ages in order to use social media sites. It also places responsibility on the social networks to prevent children from acce

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Latest Tech News

Nepal blocks most social media sites for failing to register with the government

Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on

Enforcing Australia's social media ban on kids is possible but contains risks, report says

A Crack in the Cosmos

The Verge’s favorite gifts for book lovers

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws

Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

PopSockets PopCase Kindle Hands-On (2025): Easy Reading

PopSocket PopCase Kindle Hands-On (2025): Easy Reading

Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails

Apple prepares for iPhone 17 launch by expanding its reach

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

The Tweens Down Under: Life Without Social Media in Australia

HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto

The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

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