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Submission + - Microsoft's cut access to accouts related to the International Criminal Court (techzine.eu)

Submitted by denisbergeron
denisbergeron writes: In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no access to the emails on his Microsoft account. The incident once again demonstrates the risks of dependence on US IT services.

To make matters worse, Khan’s bank accounts have also been frozen, according to the Associated Press. If he takes a flight to the US, he will likely be arrested upon arrival. According to the Associated Press, the ICC has been paralyzed by the forced Microsoft blockade. The conflict between the ICC and the US arose in November, when the former issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Submission + - Nestle's pays €2m for breach of regulations at Perrier (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'In 2024, Nestlé Waters admitted using banned filters and ultraviolet treatment on mineral waters. It said it had always defended the safety of its products and had been transparent to authorities. It denied having put pressure on government.

'The company paid a €2m fine to avoid legal action over the use of illegal water sources and filtering. It said at the time that that the replacement filters were approved by the government and that its water was “pure”.'

The fun bit is that the French government appears to have covered up the details.

Submission + - Firefox TOS change has an over reaching data grab license term (mozilla.org) 3

Submitted by agristin
agristin writes: Recent update to the Firefox license ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... ) has this disturbing little TOS addition:

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

Seems like an over reach.

Submission + - Slashdot Dies A Slow Death with Crippling Advertisements (slashdot.org) 2

Submitted by zamboni1138
zamboni1138 writes: Anybody familiar with the technology news web forum known as Slashdot have known about the recent decline in quality of stories and comments. Recently Slashdot decided to "upgrade" their advertisement experience resulting in an almost broken user experience for users that implement any kind of ad-blocking technology. Over the last week visitors to the site using ad blockers have noticed a unique experience with javascript alerts explaining "This page could not be loaded properly due to incorrect / bad filtering rule(s) of adblockers in use. Please disable all adblockers to continue using the website. (click OK if you'd like to learn more)". These notices are almost non-stop while trying to load/read a page making the site unusable.

Submission + - Slashdot goes mental with advertising 9

Submitted by sizzlinkitty
sizzlinkitty writes: Has anyone else noticed Slashdot failing to load because of your ad blocker? I know I sure have and it's breaking my user experience like no other.

Please post the blocking patterns you're using to make Slashdot usable again.

Submission + - Slashdot is dead and has been replaced by an ad-saturated shithole (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ..and nothing of value was lost.
Between all the Trump-supporting shitheads that permeate this place, and now ads everywhere you look that can't be blocked without blocking the entire site, I declare Slashdot to be dead.
RIP Slashdot.

Submission + - SPAM: Storm communications recommendations for 2024 2

Submitted by evil_aaronm
evil_aaronm writes: With the recent storm, Helene, and others sure to follow, impacted areas commonly lose communications with the outside world due to downed telecoms and power line poles. How can local communities, in 2024, keep in touch with outside aid providers to coordinate rescue and aid operations? Are there radio rigs we "concerned citizens" can use to help these communities keep in touch? Things to consider are portability, including power, and operator licensing. For example, how useful are those systems that anyone can buy advertising ranges of 15 or more miles? Would those be on a band that local authorities can receive? Or do we need something more sophisticated?

Comment I had my phone next to me (Score 1) 2

by denisbergeron (#64815975) Attached to: Google's Find My Device network is a disaster

Connected to the network, live.

I just didn't see it. So I go the the google find my device web site to make it ring.

Was unable to find it.

during 2 or 3 second I panic, looking everywhere and find my phone under a book I just read.

Then I see if everything was ok with my phone, connected to the wife network, to the lte network, I was able to reach it with ssh.

Then I retry the find my device google web shit... nothing

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