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South Africa needs to regulate X – RISE Mzansi

Today at 05:00 AM, via Newsday

As numerous countries across the globe crack the whip on social media platform X, RISE Mzansi has called for South African lawmakers to introduce stricter rules for major media platforms.

Australian writers festival in turmoil over decision to bar Palestinian author

Today at 04:39 AM, via Daily Maverick

SYDNEY, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The director of one of Australia’s top writers festivals resigned on Tuesday saying she could not be party to silencing a Palestinian author and warning government moves to ban protests and slogans in the aftermath of the Bondi mass shooting threatened free speech.

European Firms Hit Hiring Brakes Over AI and Slowing Growth

Today at 04:10 AM, via Slashdot

European hiring momentum is cooling as slower growth and accelerating AI adoption make both employers and workers more cautious. DW.com reports: [Angelika Reich, leadership adviser at the executive recruitment firm Spencer Stuart] noted how Europe’s labor market has “cooled down” and how “fewer job vacancies and a tougher economic climate naturally make employees more cautious about switching...

Viral Chinese App ‘Are You Dead?’ Checks On Those Who Live Alone

Today at 03:30 AM, via Slashdot

The viral Chinese app Are You Dead? (known as Sileme in Chinese) targets people who live alone by requiring regular check-ins and alerting an emergency contact if the user doesn’t respond. It launched in May and is now the most downloaded paid app in China. Cybernews reports: Users need to check in with the app every two days by clicking a large button to confirm that they are alive. Otherwise,...

Even Linus Torvalds Is Vibe Coding Now

Today at 02:50 AM, via Slashdot

Linus Torvalds has started experimenting with vibe coding, using Google’s Antigravity AI to generate parts of a small hobby project called AudioNoise. “In doing so, he has become the highest-profile programmer yet to adopt this rapidly spreading, and often mocked, AI-driven programming,” writes ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols. Fro the report: [I]t’s a trivial program called AudioNoise — a recent...

Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages

Today at 02:10 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an “unauthorized message” that was sent via a “third-party system.”...

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