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China orders Apple to remove Meta apps after “inflammatory” posts about president

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 5 days ago - 17:03

People walk past an Apple store in Shanghai, China.

Enlarge / An Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on April 11, 2024. (credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Apple said it complied with orders from the Chinese government to remove the Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China. Apple also removed Telegram and Signal from China.

"We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree," Apple said in a statement quoted by several news outlets. "The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered the removal of these apps from the China storefront based on their national security concerns. These apps remain available for download on all other storefronts where they appear."

The Wall Street Journal paraphrased a person familiar with the matter as saying that the Chinese cyberspace agency "asked Apple to remove WhatsApp and Threads from the App Store because both contain political content that includes problematic mentions of the Chinese president [Xi Jinping]."

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Whatsapp : vous allez adorer cette nouvelle fonctionnalité

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 5 days ago - 10:24

Whatsapp va changer changer la donne avec cette nouveauté extrêmement attendue par ses utilisateurs.

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La Chine censure WhatsApp et le supprime des magasins d’applications

news.movim.eu / Numerama · 5 days ago - 08:12

Déjà bloqué depuis 2017, WhatsApp est désormais introuvable en Chine sur décision du gouvernement. Les autorités chinoises ne veulent pas prendre le risque que l'application soit utilisée avec un VPN.

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Meta dévoile Llama 3 et attaque ChatGPT avec Facebook, Instagram et WhatsApp

news.movim.eu / Numerama · 6 days ago - 16:31

Meta AI, un chatbot uniquement disponible en anglais pour l'instant, devient encore plus performant grâce au nouveau modèle de langage Llama 3, dont les deux premières versions sont dévoilées aujourd'hui (avec 8 milliards ou 70 milliards de paramètres). L'objectif de Meta est de dépasser OpenAI et Google, grâce à ses 3 milliards d'utilisateurs dans le monde.

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Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 13:00

More children and families extorted with AI-made photos and videos, says National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Child sexual exploitation is on the rise online and taking new forms such as images and videos generated by artificial intelligence, according to an annual assessment released on Tuesday by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US-based clearinghouse for the reporting of child sexual abuse material.

Reports to the NCMEC of child abuse online rose by more than 12% in 2023 compared with the previous year, surpassing 36.2m reports, the organization said in its annual CyberTipline report. The majority of tips received were related to the circulation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) such as photos and videos, but there was also an increase in reports of financial sexual extortion, when an online predator lures a child into sending nude images or videos and then demands money.

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Anger from campaigners as WhatsApp lowers age limit to 13 in UK and EU

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 12 April - 09:08

Child safety group says Meta ‘putting profits before protecting children’, as messaging app lowers age limit from 16

Campaigners have reacted with anger to the social media company Meta lowering age restrictions for WhatsApp users to 13 in the UK and EU.

The change to the messaging app, which reduces the age limit from 16 to 13, was announced in February and came into force in the UK and EU on Wednesday.

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Si vous voulez encore utiliser WhatsApp demain, vous devez accepter ces nouvelles conditions aujourd’hui !

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 11 April - 08:47

Le 11 avril 2024 marque l'entrée en vigueur des nouvelles conditions d'utilisation de WhatsApp, une mise à jour significative exigée par le nouveau règlement européen sur les marchés numériques (DMA).

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WordPress owner acquires Beeper, giving it two chat apps to rule them all

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 9 April - 15:08

Beeper app with mobile and desktop views, showing multiple chat networks connected.

Enlarge / Beeper's new apps are now available, without waitlist, across nearly all mobile and desktop platforms.

Beeper, the multi-network messaging app that recently gave up on trying to engineer around Apple's walled-off iMessage service , has been acquired by Automattic , the company behind WordPress. It is now open to everyone and has a completely revamped Android app.

All of Beeper's workers will join Automattic and will continue operating as an independent team, according to a press release. Eric Migicovsky, creator of the Pebble smartwatch and co-founder of Beeper, will become Automattic's head of messaging. Beeper and Texts.com , acquired last year by Automattic, will work together.

Given that Texts.com provides a similar "all your chats in one place" function but also an iMessage bridge using an app you run on your own Apple computers, it's likely that Beeper and Texts will consolidate into one platform that more closely hews to the "all" part of the companies' mission statements.

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William Wragg resigns from two Commons roles after divulging MPs’ phone numbers

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 8 April - 22:37

Tory MP resigns committee roles after apology for role in parliamentary sexting scandal

The Conservative MP who divulged colleagues’ personal phone numbers to someone he met on a dating app as part of a parliamentary sexting scandal has stepped down from two Commons roles, it has been reported.

William Wragg has resigned as chair of the Commons’ public administration and constitutional affairs committee and also quit his post as the vice-chair of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers after admitting to giving the information to a man he met , according to reports.