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Submission + - Palestinians say Microsoft unfairly closing their accounts (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning — cutting them off from crucial online services.
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers — and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza.
Microsoft says they violated its terms of service — a claim they dispute.

Submission + - YouTube Censored Videos Uncovering China's Persecution Of Uighur Muslims (reuters.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes: A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region is moving its videos to little-known service Odysee after some were taken down by the Google-owned streaming giant, two sources told Reuters.

Submission + - Freenode new management hijacks distro channels - most move to libera (ubuntu.com)

Submitted by AleRunner
AleRunner writes: Ubuntu has announced that, with immediate effect Ubuntu's IRC channels are moving to libera.chat. The move follows a hijacking of Ubuntu's namespace by Freenode's new management and appears to be happening to many other distributions including Gentoo and CentOS as well as other projects that have used Freenode. For Ubuntu, and many other FOSS projects, Freenode has long been one of the major official forms of communication. Hijacking these long held channels is liable to dispel any remaining doubts about the reason that Freenode's staff recently quit en-masse (discussed recently here on Slashdot). With IRC channels often used for important system advice, and project communication, takeover by a hostile entity becomes not just an inconvenience but even a security problem. For this reason Ubuntu's replacement network, libera.chat has a more clearly open organisational structure than Freenode had before being taken over.

Submission + - Elon Musk's Own Engineers Say He Exaggerates Autopilot Capabilities (theverge.com)

Submitted by boudie2
boudie2 writes: According to his own employees, Elon Musk has been exxagerating
the capabilities of Tesla's Autopilot system. Documents obtained
from the California Department of Motor Vehicles show that despite
Musk's tweets to the contrary “Elon’s tweet does not match
engineering reality per CJ. Tesla is at Level 2 currently,”. CJ
Moore is the director of Autopilot software. Level 2 technology
refers to a semi-automated driving system, which requires supervision
by a human driver.
Tesla is unlikely to achieve Level 5 (L5) autonomy, in which its
cars can drive themselves anywhere, under any conditions, without
any human supervision, by the end of 2021, Tesla representatives
told the DMV.

Submission + - SPAM: Biden Admin Wants to use Private Spy Firms to Bypass 4th Amendment

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent” restrictions the U.S. government has to surveil American citizens. “A source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge.
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Submission + - Autopilot lie exposed by consumer reports. (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Rei_is_a_dumbass
Rei_is_a_dumbass writes: Elon Musk has tweeted that "data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled." Tesla defenders also insisted that Autopilot couldn't have been active because the technology doesn't operate unless someone is in the driver's seat. Consumer Reports decided to test this latter claim by seeing if it could get Autopilot to activate without anyone in the driver's seat.

It turned out not to be very difficult.

Submission + - SPAM: Striking Charter Workers Build ISP Where 'Profits Are Returned To Users'

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Charter Communications employees who have been on strike since 2017 are building an Internet service provider in New York City called "People's Choice." "People's Choice Communications is an employee-owned social enterprise launched by members of IBEW Local #3 to bridge the digital divide and help our neighbors get connected to the Internet during the COVID-19 pandemic," the ISP's website says. "We are the workers who built a large part of New York City's Internet infrastructure in the first place. We built out [Charter] Spectrum's cable system, until in 2017, the company pushed us out on strike by taking away our healthcare, retirement, and other benefits. It's now the longest strike in US history."

So far, People's Choice says it has completed rooftop antenna installations at two schools in the Bronx and installed "hardline connections to wireless access points connecting 121 units" at housing for survivors of domestic violence who have disabilities. A Gizmodo article said the system is equipped to offer minimum speeds of 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream, meeting a broadband standard that has been used by the Federal Communications Commission since 2015. "We have a big portion of most of the Bronx covered with our antenna," IBEW Local #3 steward Troy Walcott told Gizmodo. "Now we have to go building by building to let people know we're out there and start turning them on." "A few dozen Spectrum strikers have been actively involved in the installations, but Walcott expects that at least one hundred workers are waiting in the wings for the project to scale up," the Gizmodo article said.
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Submission + - Open Source Website To Hunt Down Capitol Insurrectionists (huffpost.com)

Submitted by SysEngineer
SysEngineer writes: Some of the citizen sleuths behind the open-source effort to identify the hundreds of Donald Trump-loving rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol have launched an impressive new website that organizes the stunning amount of digital evidence collected about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The website, Jan6evidence.com, was built by a small team of volunteer software developers, using the work of open-source investigators looking into the deadly Capitol attack. The site features a color-coded timeline that reflects the time of day, and allows users to click around on a map of the Capitol and pull up any video evidence from a particular location and time frame. Users can even track an individual suspect’s movements over the course of Jan. 6.

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