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2026-09-08 08:04:24
European cities dominate the top 20 – only three cities out of 20 are non-European (two in Japan and one in Australia). #travel #Europe
https://klaava.com/happiest-cities-in-the-world-are-happy-to-provide-residents-and-travelers-services-they-need/
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2026-09-07 09:06:45
Carmakers have woken up to value of our private data::
- Carmakers also want access to your telemetry data, by which I mean things like routing habits, or how often apps are used. When you load up #CarPlay or #AndroidAuto, it's only app developers and Apple or Google that have any access to this.
https://www.pocket-lint.com/why-some-cars-dont-support-carplay-or-android-auto/
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2026-09-02 08:40:11
#Meta now estimates that less than one tenth of a percent of all glasses sold have been tampered with (the recording light has been disabled). The company didn’t provide specific figures, but 7 million glasses were sold in 2025.
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/01/2026/meta-disables-cameras-on-thousands-of-tampered-smart-glasses
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2026-08-30 08:28:45
The investigation found that trackers embedded in (mostly) free #VPN apps for phones can collect information including advertising identifiers, device models, network types, mobile carrier details, and other device data. #cyber #tracking #privacy
https://cyberinsider.com/proton-finds-85-of-us-downloaded-vpn-apps-contain-trackers/
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2026-08-27 08:34:31
#EU officials were hit with what a state-sponsored spearphishing attack on #Whatsapp. That means a government-backed campaign built around specific named people rather than a mass mailing. Attackers used social engineering, writing personalised messages designed to make a particular official click a link or open an attachment.
https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-officials-whatsapp-spearphishing-deepseek-chinese-hackers
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2026-08-26 08:50:08
Over-the-air updates to #Android car software #hacked and used as a proxy for attacks:
- This is the first documented case of malware infecting a car head unit through an attack specifically designed for this type of device. Previous attacks against such systems have typically relied on physical access to a vehicle or vulnerabilities in their operating systems and other components.
https://therecord.media/android-botnet-china-hackers
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2026-08-23 08:40:04
A positive take on #cyber #privacy trend::
- In 2026, privacy is no longer a dusty toggle buried in the settings menu. It’s becoming the main event, a core selling point that companies are building their reputations on.
https://thenextweb.com/news/privacy-software-killer-feature-2026
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2026-08-19 08:31:36
Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding #Google’s artificial intelligence model.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/18/business/google-spirit-airlines-data
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2026-08-16 08:48:56
The strike at #Tesla factories in Sweden began on 27 October 2023 with about 120 mechanics across seven Swedish workshops. It became the longest industrial conflict in modern Swedish history.
https://thenextweb.com/news/tesla-sweden-strike-ends-if-metall-buyouts
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2026-08-14 08:36:18
#EU legislators are demanding that #internet users be informed whether they are engaging with AI and whether the content they see is the output of bots or the creation of a human.
--- AI behemoth Anthropic announced that all its future models would support watermarking to comply with the EU rules.
https://www.politico.eu/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-watermark-big-tech/
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2026-08-11 08:34:36
In other words: Formula E can use 150% of its #battery capacity during a race::
"One of the things I love about Formula E is that we start with roughly 50% of the energy actually required to complete the race. Everything else comes through regenerative braking and the energy-management strategy we deploy. That’s something you could never do with a combustion engine.” #EV
https://www.t3.com/auto/electric-vehicles/how-formula-e-cars-finish-races-with-0-1-percent-battery-0826
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2026-08-09 08:15:58
Traffic #trend for the #internet:
"In five years, non-human traffic will be as much as 1,000 times as much as human traffic. In other words, humans will be a rounding error on the internet, not because human traffic goes down, but that’s just how fast we’re seeing non-human traffic grow.
https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/08/07/humans-will-be-a-rounding-error-on-the-internet-says-cloudflare-exec/5284429
