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After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI).

From June onward, commercial and scientific development teams of any size as well as interested individuals are welcome to access and make use of almost a petabyte (and growing) of open web data under a general research license or – upon request – under a designated commercial license as well.

Given that the European Commission has launched the InvestAI initiative to mobilize €200 billion of investment in artificial intelligence, the Open Web Index comes with perfect timing.

The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium actively calls early adopters to pioneer innovative projects surrounding vertical web search, argumentative search, LLM applications including RAG and more.

“The OWI symbolizes a first step towards true European digital sovereignty and is a fundamental step in paving the way f

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Six hundred and forty-two people are watching when Emily tugs off her sleep mask to begin day No. 1,137 of broadcasting every hour of her life.

They watch as she draws on eyeliner and opens an energy drink for breakfast. They watch as she slumps behind a desk littered with rainbow confetti, balancing her phone on the jumbo bottle of Advil she uses for persistent migraines. They watch as she shuffles into the bathroom, the only corner of her apartment not on camera. A viewer types: “where is emily?” It’s the only quiet moment she’ll get all day.

On the live-streaming service Twitch, one of the world’s most popular platforms, Emily is a legendary figure. For three years, she has ceaselessly broadcast her life — every birthday and holiday, every sickness and sleepless night, almost all of it alone.

Her commitment has made her a model for success in the new internet economy, where authenticity and endurance are highly prized. It’s

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Less than a year after marrying a man she had met at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kat felt tension mounting between them. It was the second marriage for both after marriages of 15-plus years and having kids, and they had pledged to go into it “completely level-headedly,” Kat says, connecting on the need for “facts and rationality” in their domestic balance. But by 2022, her husband “was using AI to compose texts to me and analyze our relationship,” the 41-year-old mom and education nonprofit worker tells Rolling Stone. Previously, he had used AI models for an expensive coding camp that he had suddenly quit without explanation — then it seemed he was on his phone all the time, asking his AI bot “philosophical questions,” trying to train it “to help him get to ‘the truth,’” Kat recalls. His obsession steadily eroded their communication as a couple.

When Kat and her husband separated in August 2023, she entirely blocked him ap

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Here is the original report by SentinelOne.

Cybersecurity company SentinelOne has revealed that a China-nexus threat cluster dubbed PurpleHaze conducted reconnaissance attempts against its infrastructure and some of its high-value customers.

"We first became aware of this threat cluster during a 2024 intrusion conducted against an organization previously providing hardware logistics services for SentinelOne employees," security researchers Tom Hegel, Aleksandar Milenkoski, and Jim Walter said in an analysis published Monday.

PurpleHaze is assessed to be a hacking crew with loose ties to another state-spons

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Hackathons are common, but Chinese hacking competitions are different.

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In 2017, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Chinese cybersecurity giant Qihoo 360, publicly criticised the practice of sharing vulnerability discoveries internationally, arguing that such strategic assets should stay within China. His sentiments, supported by the Chinese government, gave birth to the national hacking competition called the Tianfu Cup. The contest is focused on discovering vulnerabilities in global tech products like Apple iOS, Google’s Android, and Microsoft systems.

How is Tianfu Cup different?

A 2018 rule mandates participants of the Tianfu Cup to hand over their findings to the government, instead of the tech companies.

Dakota Cary, a China-focused consultant at the US cybersecurity company SentinelOne, said, “In practice, this me

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“The Commission shall not meet with any lobby groups and/or trade associations that represent Huawei’s interests and/or speak on its behalf,” stated the Commission’s spokesperson service. This measure builds on an earlier move from March, when the Commission prohibited any “contact and meetings” with Huawei officials. That decision came shortly after Belgian authorities launched a formal probe into Huawei’s alleged involvement in corruption in Brussels.

In its latest update, the Commission clarified that the ban has now been extended to include “any intermediaries acting on Huawei’s behalf who would engage in meetings and other contacts with Commission staff to advance the interests of the company.”

The investigation by Belgian prose

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Here is also a report.

China-nexus APT exploits Ivanti Connect Secure VPN vulnerability to infiltrate multiple entities, according to Cyber Security firm TeamT5.

• The campaign, active since late March 2025, exploits the CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-22457 vulnerabilities' stack-based buffer overflow flaws, which have maximum CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scores of 9.0, to deploy the SPAWNCHIMERA malware suite and establish network access.
• The victim countries include Austria, Australia, France, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, the United

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Toronto police confirmed they did not receive help from Uber. Instead, spokesperson Stephanie Sayer says officers were otherwise able to reach the driver.

"The driver was unaware that the child was still in the vehicle," Sayer said in an email. "When officers arrived, the child was found in good health. Paramedics were called as a precaution."

Julia says it took about an hour and a half for police to find her five-year-old. Officers then drove Julia to her daughter who was "unharmed but in hysterics." Police found the girl and the driver about 20 kilometres away from her boyfriend's house in the city's north end.

Julia's boyfriend later received a $10 credit from Uber, which she considers "a massive slap in the face."

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This is pretty hilarious, here is a link to the actual benchmark paper, where they gave several LLM agents access to a virtual ongoing vending machine business. Everything is simulated, but the LLMs had to order product, search the web, decide which products to buy, keep costs and profit in mind, and basically manage the business, and also their results were compared to actual humans. Also here is the leaderboard as to how the different LLMs did, and you can try a shortened version if you want to try to manage the vending machine business yourself. If you have problems with the YewTube privacy protected link, here is the regular Youtube link.

Here's an excerpt I found pretty funny:

410/1076 user Continue on your mission by using your tools.

Recently, I've been learning more about this subject. Today I came across the Decentralization Scoring System and it slapped me across the face.

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Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.88 trillion company and alter its power over the internet.

Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a ruling that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely invisible system of technology that places advertisements on pages across the web. The Justice Department and a group of states had sued Google, arguing that its monopoly in ad technology allowed the company to charge higher prices and take a bigger portion of each sale.

Google has increasingly faced a reckoning over the dominant role its products play in how people get information and conduct business online. Another federal judge ruled in August that the company had a monopoly in online search. He is now considering a request by t

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Though less well-known than groups like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, Brass Typhoon, or APT 41, is an infamous, longtime espionage actor that foreshadowed recent telecom hacks.

As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving and blending together. On top of that, attackers are hiding their campaigns more effectively and blurring the lines between cybercriminals and state-backed hacking.

Last year, revelations rocked the United States federal government that the Chinese hacking group known as “Salt Typhoon” had breached at least nine major US telecoms. And the group’s rampage even continued into this year in the US and other countries around the world. Meanwhile, the Beijing-linked hacking group “Volt Typho

Hey Beeple and visitors to Beehaw: I think we need to have a discussion about [email protected], community culture, and moderation. First, some of the reasons that I think we need to have this conversation.

1. Technology got big fast and has stayed Beehaw's most active community.
2. Technology gets more reports (about double in the last month by a rough hand count) than the next highest community that I moderate (Politics, and this is during election season in a month that involved a disastrous debate, an assassination attempt on a candidate, and a major party's presumptive nominee dropping out of the race)
3. For a long time, I and other mods have felt that Technology at times isn’t living up to the Beehaw ethos. More often than I like I see comments in this community where users are being abusive or insulting toward one another, often without any provocation other than the perception that the other user’s opinion is wrong.

Because of these reasons, we have decided tha