TechLetters #174 Twitter's winds 'free speech' case with Australia regulator, AI-scam detector listening to conversations.

Security

Linux kernel.org compromised in 2009. Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009.

Cyber threat actor directing operations at AI researchers and experts. Iin academia, industry, government. Suspicion on Chinese(?) group, but no attribution. The goal is data theft.

Technology Policy

Twitter/X won in Australian court. Australian internet regulator cannot force a web platform to censor content outside Australia (which would be a kind of a precedent, for others to see, too).

Google/Android AI feature to detect scams-calls is useful. Client-side so privacy guaranteed. But once client-side scanning and control is is baked into software infrastructure, nobody knows where it may lead. Censorship? Technology control of societies? Let's just be careful here.

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