Pornhub leaves France over age verification law

Aylo, the company which runs a number of pornographic websites, including Pornhub, is to stop operating in France from Wednesday. It is in reaction to a French law requiring porn sites to take extra steps to verify their users’ ages. An Aylo spokesperson said the law was a privacy risk and assessing people’s ages should…

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Renewed APT29 Phishing Campaign Against European Diplomats

Highlights Check Point Research has been tracking an advanced phishing campaign conducted by APT29, a Russia linked threat group, which is targeting diplomatic entities across Europe. The campaign, which appears to be a continuation of a previous one that utilized a backdoor known as WINELOADER, impersonates a major European foreign affairs ministry to distribute fake invitations to diplomatic…

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Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and the University of Colorado (USA), in collaboration with various institutions in America and Europe, reveal that a recently identified second species of bacteria responsible…

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Government spending review now settled, says Downing Street

The government’s latest spending plans are settled, the prime minister’s official spokesman has said. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to expected to announce funding increases for the NHS, schools and defence, along with a number of infrastructure projects, when she sets out her day-to-say spending and investment plans for each department in Wednesday’s Spending Review….

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The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams

DURING a recent summit in Paris, J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, declared that the world’s most powerful artificial-intelligence (AI) systems would be developed in America with “American-designed and manufactured chips”. That is a lofty ambition, for although America leads the world when it comes to designing AI chips, it long ago ceded its position as the…

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