As Durov Hits Out At French Authorities, Telegram Quietly Revamps Moderation Rules – ZeroHedge 9/4/24

Source: ZeroHedge.com

In his first public statements since his arrest by France on Aug. 24 at Paris’ Le Bourget airport, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blasted French authorities for detaining and charging him, but also admitted that Telegram is not perfect that he’ll work to clean up instances of criminals abusing the platform.

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Media Giant CMG Bragged About Eavesdropping On Phone, Laptop Or ‘Smart Home’ Microphones – ZeroHedge 9/3/24

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For years people have suspected that their smartphones, laptops, and home assistants were secretly eavesdropping on their private conversations. Now, a leaked pitch deck seems to confirm that our devices are, in fact, listening—and the implications are far-reaching.

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Sleeping Aids and Electromagnetic Fields – A Midwestern Doctor 9/1/24

Source: MidwesternDoctor.com

I believe one of the biggest issues in modern medicine is that patients often don’t get the opportunity to establish a genuine relationship with their physician and hence often lack the critical voice which is necessary for a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship. Because of this, my goal here was always to be able to correspond with everyone who reached out to me. Unfortunately, due to the traffic I now receive, it’s not possible to do that. For that reason, I decided the best solution was to have a monthly open thread (where people could ask any question they wanted) and link that to a topic I’d wanted to write about but didn’t quite feel merited a full article. In this month’s open thread, I will discuss another facet of the insomnia puzzle—the devices that improve sleep and strategies for sleep friendly housing.

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EU Tightens Grip on Telegram With New Probe Following France Arrest – Didi Rankovic 8/31/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The EU is putting additional pressure on Telegram, after one of its member countries, France, arrested the platform’s co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov.

The EU has launched an investigation into the number of users the platform has in the bloc, and whether the number reported by Telegram is correct.

The importance of this is the EU’s ability to censor using the Digital Services Act (DSA), which applies services with over 45 million users.

In February, Telegram said that their number is 41 million, but the EU has chosen precisely this moment to start looking for ways to determine if this reporting was accurate – or, more likely, try to prove that it isn’t….

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When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber? – Makai Allbert 8/26/24

Source: TheEpochTimes.com

As Mohamed  Elmasry, emeritus professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, watched his 11 and 10-year-old grandchildren tapping away on their smartphones, he posed a simple question: “What’s one-third of nine?”

Instead of taking a moment to think, they immediately opened their calculator apps, he writes in his book “iMind Artificial and Real Intelligence.”

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2,000 Workers Gone: Klarna Is First Major Company To Unleash Mass Layoffs Thanks To AI – ZeroHedge 8/28/24

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Last March, when the world was just learning about the AI crazy that would send markets to bubbly, nosebleed levels, we quoted a report by Goldman’s chief economist Jan Hatzius who used data on occupational tasks in both the US and Europe, to find that “roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work. Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation” as up to “two thirds of occupations could be partially automated by AI.”

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VPNs Vanish from Brazil’s App Store as Internet Freedom Faces Unprecedented Clampdown – Ken Macon 8/20/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

In Brazil, a significant upheaval in digital privacy and access to information is unfolding, as a notable number of reputable VPN services—including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Surfshark, and VyprVPN—have vanished from the local iOS App Store. This move is widely believed to comply with Brazilian authorities’ directives, reflecting a concerning trend towards online censorship.

This development is particularly alarming in light of the recent decision X made to shutdown its operations in the country. X terminated its operations after a protracted legal confrontation with Brazilian officials, who had accused the platform of insufficient efforts to combat disinformation, specifically its failure to block accounts spreading false information and hate speech. Despite the shutdown, X’s app is still accessible in Brazil….

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A Billion Views: Donald Trump Tells Elon Musk Kamala Harris is a Radical ‘San Francisco Liberal’ – Matt Lamb 8/13/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

A much publicized recorded conversation between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has generated 1 billion views, according to the former.

Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter), spoke with Trump for nearly two hours last night on the social media platform. The conversation was delayed by a “massive distributed denial of service attack,” Musk said. The hackers’ attack showed “there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say.”

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The Co-Opting of Bitcoin: BTC Nashville, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, and Rumble – Derrick Broze 8/1/24

Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

As U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appealed to the Bitcoin community for votes, the right-leaning Big Tech bro’s sunk their claws further into the once potentially revolutionary project.

Former President Donald Trump and Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr courted voters at the BTC Nashville Conference this past weekend. Both men made promises to change the Biden administration’s policy of criminalizing elements of the cryptocurrency industry.

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The Rapid Decline of Bugs, Bees and Butterflies: An Unusual Suspect – Fariha Husain 7/9/24

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

The proliferation of wireless communications, which has led to an unprecedented rise in ambient radiofrequency radiation, could be the cause of decreasing insect populations, researchers say.

Scientific literature suggests that the rapid decline of global insect populations may be a blaring indicator of the potentially catastrophic consequences of rising radiofrequency (RF) radiation levels.

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Food Without Farms: Coke, Nestlé, Pepsi Among Ultra-Processed Food Giants Running Global Food Policy – Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. 7/2/24

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Ultra-processed food producers are key actors in a complex global network of influence groups where they exert disproportionate power on global food policy and nutrition policy, according to a new paper in Agriculture and Human Values.

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Arsonists Run the Fire Department – Clayton J. Baker, MD and Brian Hooker 7/1/24

Source: Brownstone.org

Imagine if you will, an exceptionally ambitious city Fire Department, located in a city with very few naturally occurring fires.

These ambitious firemen don’t have nearly enough work, prestige, or pay for their liking. Uninterested in simply polishing their trucks, lifting weights, and cooking chili, these firemen want more. A lot more.

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OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order – Andy Maxwell 6/29/24

Source: TorrentFreak.com

This month, a French court went along with a demand from Canal+ to tighten up previously obtained anti-piracy measures. The court ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS records to prevent these third-party services acting as workarounds for existing pirate site blockades. Cisco’s response became evident on Friday when it withdrew its OpenDNS service from the entire country….

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The Century of Evidence Putting Light Inside the Body Is A Miraculous Therapy – A Midwestern Doctor 6/23/24

Source: MidwesternDoctor.com

Story at a Glance:

•Natural light is an essential nutrient many of us do not have enough of within our bodies. Because of this, when ultraviolet light is added to the bloodstream, phenomenal health benefits emerge.

•Once ultraviolet blood irradiation (UVBI) was discovered in the 1930s, it produced miraculous results for patients on the verge of death and was quickly adopted by hospitals throughout America. There, it demonstrated remarkable efficacy for a wide range of diseases, and the doctors who pioneered its use compiled a large body of research.

•To neutralize this competition, the American Medical Association published a small doctored study that “debunked” UVBI, and before long it became a forgotten side of medicine. The Russians and Germans however recognized the value of it, and for decades have produced research showing UBVI’s remarkable utility for a variety of challenging medical conditions both within and outside the hospital. However, in America, UVBI is primarily used by integrative practitioners who need effective tools to treat complex illnesses (e.g., Lyme disease, Chronic fatigue syndrome, spike protein injuries, or migraine disorders).

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South Korean ISP ‘Infected’ Torrenting Subscribers with Malware – Ernesto Van der Sar 6/25/24

Source: TorrentFreak.com

News reports from South Korea, reveal that Internet provider KT actively installed malware on the computers of over half a million subscribers. The malware was intended to interfere with BitTorrent traffic, presumably as a network management solution. A police investigation suggests that cost savings likely played a role too, which is not surprising given local file-sharing habits.

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