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The Kremlin has long sought to sow chaos using ‘information confrontation’. That job just got a lot easier

The Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1) has overturned a trial ruling and reinstated an injunction imposed by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) on Apple, as part of an investigation into alleged abuse of dominant position in the app distribution market for iOS devices. According to the ruling, the company will have 90 days to implement the changes mandated by the antitrust authority.

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The Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation reveals.

Facing competition from Vietnam and Cambodia, factories are using automation and surveillance to ramp up production and cut labor costs.

• Automation in Dhaka’s garment factories is leading to job cuts, especially for women.
• Smart surveillance devices monitor workers as factories struggle to compete globally.
• Brands are “pleased” by smart factories that produce efficiently and quickly.

As Spain's pirate site-blocking crisis persists for the fourth consecutive week, LaLiga's decision to block Cloudflare continues to affect innocent internet users and websites. Cloudflare took legal action last week hoping to stop LaLiga in its tracks. In a parallel process, cybersecurity group RootedCON has asked a court to strike out LaLiga's blocking authority. Meanwhile, RootedCON says moves are underway to undermine the authority of their lawyer.

• Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
• The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.
• Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

The American military has signed a deal with Scale AI to give artificial intelligence, as far as we can tell, its most prominent role in the Western defense sector to date – with AI agents to now be used in planning and operations.