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South Korea Vows To Prevent Technology Leaks With Heavier Penalties

South Korea will prepare stronger measures in a bid to prevent overseas leaks of business secrets amid intensifying competition for advanced technologies, the finance minister said on Thursday. From a report: “We will prevent illegal leaks of advanced technologies to raise the global competitiveness of our companies and strengthen technology leadership,” Minister Choi Sang-mok said.

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Google finally kills its dead Meet app

Credit: Andy Walker / Android Authority The Google Meet (original) app, formerly Google Hangouts Meet, has stopped working. Users relying on the service will now have to install the new Google Meet app, which initially debuted as Google Duo. Google initiated the transition over two years ago, but it has only now completely retired the

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Startup Can Identify Deepfake Video In Real Time

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Real-time video deepfakes are a growing threat for governments, businesses, and individuals. Recently, the chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations mistakenly took a video call with someone pretending to be a Ukrainian official. An international engineering company lost millions of dollars earlier in 2024

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JD Vance thinks monarchists have some good ideas

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images JD Vance is, by his own admission, “plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures.” His much-mocked comments about childless cat ladies and unassimilated Italian immigrants were made on a “masculinist” podcast. He doesn’t eat seed oils, a dietary restriction du jour on the extremely online right.

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