European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company | Economy and Business | EL PAÍS English #privacy #ai #digitalsouvereignty

Over the past year, major European banks and asset managers have dramatically increased their investments in Palantir, the controversial U.S. technology company. This is despite the firm’s links to serious human rights violations. The company provides services to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and to the Israeli army in the Palestinian territories. In 2020, Amnesty International denounced the company for failing to comply with international standards, while the consulting firm MSCI gave it a score of two out of 10 for “civil liberties” and “human rights” in a recent benchmark report for institutional investors worldwide. Palantir’s founder and chairman, Peter Thiel, openly advocates anti-democratic and anti-EU positions.

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A curated list of best cuda programming books · GitHub #cuda #library

A curated list of every major book on CUDA programming — beginner to advanced, C++/Python, architecture, optimization, and the latest 2024–2026 releases. Focused on practical, high-quality resources for NVIDIA GPU parallel computing.

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone #hardware #android

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives.

As both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.

The Keep Android Open campaign is gathering attention and support as the big red numbers on its page count down. The good news is that you do already have alternatives, and The Register has been reporting on them. But if you are not the sort of person who reads phone reviews, or writeups of alternative phone OSes, and just wants to buy a new handset and retain control of it and its contents, we thought it might be a good time to remind you of where to go and who to talk to.

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it | TechSpot #security

A researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" recently released YellowKey, a security vulnerability that allegedly enables a full bypass of BitLocker's full-volume encryption. The researcher described YellowKey as one of the most "insane" flaws they have ever encountered and has also accused Microsoft of potentially embedding a legitimate backdoor in BitLocker's data protection system.

Dutch suicide prevention hotline shares visitor data with tech companies | NL Times #privacy

The Dutch suicide prevention hotline 113 shared data from website visitors with third parties without consent, BNR reports based on research by ethical hacker Mick Beer of Hackedemia.nl. After being confronted with this research, Stichting 113 temporarily suspended all measurement and analysis tools on its website.

“If someone opens the 113 page, or clicks on the chat or call menu, that is sensitive information in itself,” Beer told the broadcaster. Until recently, 113 shared this data with third parties, including Google, even if visitors did not give consent via cookies.

The data included the user’s location, browser, device, the website the user had visited shortly before surfing to 113, and screen recordings of the 113 website visit. 113 also provided certain data to Microsoft, but this time only if the cookies had been accepted, Beer said.

“Anyone who surfed to the 113 website left a digital footprint behind,” the ethical hacker said. “Google and Microsoft can use this information to build general user profiles.”

Kickstarter Reportedly Forced To Ban NSFW Content By Stripe #freespeech #censorship

Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform used to fund the likes of Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come: Deliverance, has recently updated its “Mature Content” guidelines to prohibit content that is deemed “violent,” “derogatory,” and sexually “photo-realistic,” and, based on emails sent to creators on the platform, the payment processor Stripe may be to blame for the sudden shift away from NSFW content.

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