Google said that alternative Chromium-based browsers are using its infrastructure and abusing Chrome Sync to store their users' data, bookmarks and browsing history on Google's servers without permission. The discovery, according to the search giant, was made during a recent audit.

To prevent future abuse, Google said it plans to limit some of the APIs features Chrome includes in Chromium starting March 15, 2021, making them unavailable to any third-party open source browsers.

This will not only affect Chrome Sync, but also features like spell checker, contacts, translation, and so on. All of these APIs are implemented in the Chromium source code, the open source framework that underpins the Chrome browser.

Later in the year it is expected that Google will make closed and private few more parts. Whole browser code will go into closed source around 2023.

Cloud Walk, headquartered in Guangzhou, conducts machine learning of facial recognition systems and analysis and evaluation of big data to track the risk level of potential criminals. Those who frequent gun shops or frequent transportation hubs are more likely to be flagged by the system. According to the newspaper, even visitors to hardware stores may fall under "suspicion", because these places are considered by the authorities as "high risk" zones.

"Of course, if someone buys a kitchen knife, then there is nothing criminal. But if the same person buys a bag and a hammer, he will become suspicious for the system," said a representative of Cloud Walk in a conversation with the Financial Times.

The Cloud Walk software is reportedly already networked with a police database of more than 50 cities and provinces and can tag suspicious individuals in real time. The country also already has a system of "personal re-identification" used as a crime prevention measure: the system is capable of identifying people in different places, even if they wear different clothes.

"We can use the re-ID system to search for suspicious people wandering back and forth in the same area or wearing masks" (...) With the help of re-ID it is also possible to trace the path of a person moving over a large area, "commented the Financial Times, Lien Biao, professor of figurative recognition at Beijing Aviation and Astronautics University.

As Culture second revolution will happen they again will tell that they are innocent lambs and people are wrong doing bad things to them.

On January 8, 2021, Twitter blocked the official Sci-Hub account beyond recovery. The reason for the permanent ban is a violation of the social network policy in terms of attitudes towards counterfeit materials.

Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan believes this was done for other reasons. In her opinion, Twitter closed the Sci-Hub account at the request of Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society. Now India is hearing a case to ban Sci-Hub and Libgen. Services are accused of copyright infringement. Indian scientists and researchers have announced support for Sci-Hub and Libgen on Twitter, as it is difficult to legally access scientific articles in the country due to their low salaries and lack of adequate funding for higher education.

Note how corporation started to ban left and right as soon as they understood that they are now fully unaccountable.

Samsung will ditch free chargers on all smartphones. This was reported on the company's website.

The Korean company said in a statement that more and more Galaxy smartphone owners are reusing charging accessories. “To support our consumers in this decision, we are moving to eliminating the charger and headphones in our latest set of devices,” - said a Samsung spokesman. The company clarified that in this way it intends to protect the ecology of the planet.

The report says the company will be phasing out charging from all Galaxy smartphones. Apparently, accessories may remain in the boxes with the most affordable and most expensive devices of the brand, but over time, all smartphones of the Galaxy line will be sold without a charging adapter and headphones.

And to further protect ecology they serialize all parts and make unauthorized repairs almost impossible. Seems like smart move to save few trees around. :-)

http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/featurestories/answers-to-your-questions-about-the-galaxy-s21-series-from-samsung-mobile-executives