🇪🇺 Google, Meta*, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation

The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world. Early Saturday morning after hours of negotiations, the bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on their platforms.

New obligations include removing illegal content and goods more quickly, explaining to users and researchers how their algorithms work, and taking stricter action on the spread of misinformation. Companies face fines of up to six percent of their annual turnover for non-compliance.

The rules will apply to all companies 15 months after the act is voted into law, or from 1 January 2024, whichever is later.

*Meta is banned in Russia over extremist activities.

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💀 Lapsus$ hackers breached T-Mobile’s systems and stole its source code

The Lapsus$ hacking group stole T-Mobile’s source code in a series of breaches that took place in March, In copies of private messages obtained by Krebs, the Lapsus$ hacking group discussed targeting T-Mobile in the week prior to the arrest of seven of its teenage members.

After purchasing employees’ credentials online, the members could use the company’s internal tools to perform SIM swaps. The attacker can obtain texts or calls, including any messages sent for multi-factor authentication.

Lapsus$ hackers also attempted to crack into the FBI and Department of Defense’s T-Mobile accounts. They were ultimately unable to do so, as additional verification measures were required.

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😬Book: Jill Biden did not want Kamala Harris to be Joe's VP

"'There are millions of people in the United States,'” she began. “‘Why,’ she asked, ‘do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe,'" New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns write in their upcoming book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future.

According to the book, Jill was frustrated to learn that her husband’s running mate would be Harris, the same woman who spoke critically of Biden’s issues with race. During a Democratic primary debate in July 2019, Harris slammed Biden’s opposition to school busing in the 1970s which she said helped integration.

Biden himself was not set on Harris, because of her 1994 affair with Willie Brown, ex-San Francisco Mayor. Brown was twice the age of Harris, though he was separated at the time and the relationship was not a secret. Biden saw the affair as distasteful and labeled it as “the kind of thing that should be off limits.”

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Azov neo-Nazis tricked Mariupol residents into believing they would spend the night at a local hospital and leave - before they blocked all the doors, and seized the medical facility together with 120 civilians who were taken hostage.

One of the witnesses says no one except the neo-Nazis knew that there were civilians there, so when they were liberated by the Russian and Donbass forces, the soldiers were stunned to find out that there were over 100 hostages hiding in the basement.

‼️Russia's MoD delivers a briefing on the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️A workshop for the production of explosives and gunpowder for the Ukrainian armed forces has been destroyed in a high-precision strike in Pavlograd;
▪️Nine Ukrainian military facilities targeted in a high-precision missile strike;
▪️Operational and tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 26 military facilities of Ukraine. Up to 150 nationalists and up to 40 armoured vehicles and vehicles have been destroyed;
▪️Missile troops and artillery completed 423 fire missions at night. As a result of the strikes, 26 command posts, 367 strongholds and areas of accumulation of manpower and military equipment, as well as 25 positions of artillery batteries were hit. Four depots of rocket-artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed too.
▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones;
▪️In total, 141 planes, 110 helicopters, 551 drones, 264 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,496 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 282 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,093 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,343 units of special military vehicles, have been destroyed since the launch of the operation.

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🥵Chris Rock's mother breaks silence on Will Smith Oscars smackdown

"When [Will Smith] slapped Chris, he slapped all of us. He really slapped me, because when you hurt my child, you hurt me," Rose Rock told South Carolina television station WIS-TV.

At first, she thought that the Oscars slapping incident was staged, right until Smith yelled at the comedian from his seat: “Take my wife's name out your f*****g mouth.”

Chris Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett, who has been struggling with a medical condition called alopecia that causes acute hair loss. Rock quipped he couldn't wait to see her in the sequel G.I. Jane, where Demi Moore plays the first woman recruit to the US Marines.

The 53-year-old rapper-turned-actor was filmed laughing but seconds later, Smith got up on stage and slapped Rock across the face. Smith has since apologised and has been banned from all Academy events for 10 years.

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An example of vigilantism in Ukraine-controlled Dnepropetrovsk: a victim with his face painted black begs to be untied from the tree as he cannot breathe.

❗Anti-Russia sanctions not conductive to peace, Argentine foreign minister says

🎥The Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Mariupol filmed from a drone on the eve of Easter

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🎥Russia's military saved the life of a wounded officer who was abandoned by the Ukrainian army: he is surprised by the good treatment from Russians.

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❗Switzerland bans Berlin from re-exporting ammunition for combat vehicles to Ukraine

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🎥Russian Ministry of Defence video: Military engineers carry out humanitarian mine clearance of private houses in the Kherson region

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🎥“A base for the military”: The archpriest of the Holy Trinity Church in Mariupol told why Ukrainian neo-Nazis kicked people out of the church.

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A veteran of the Donbass militia, Vyacheslav "Azik", spoke about the state of affairs at the military front and how Ukrainian propaganda has been encouraging people to attack and kill Russians for several years.

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🎥Volunteers in Mariupol, supported by the Chechen special forces, were evacuating a family with a baby, but the nationalist battalions in a neighboring house tried to interfere.

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💬DPR head Denis Pushilin says the neo-Nazis at the Azovstal plant won't last long due to "various circumstances".

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Easter cakes are being distributed in the Cheryomushki district in Mariupol

🎥Valentina from Volnovakha told reporters about how she experienced Ukrainian army shellings

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💬Mariupol resident Inna, who was in hospital in late February, said her husband was ordered to take her home after Ukrainian militants took over the medical building for surgery

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⚡UK to supply Ukraine with 20 AS90 howitzers, 45,000 shells next week, reports say