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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    The UK government doesn’t find TikTok to be Tip-Top.

    The UK has banned TikTok on government-issued phones after a review concluded there “could be a risk around how sensitive government data is accessed and used by certain platforms.”

    Described as a “precautionary move,” the ban dawdles after the US and EU already introduced their own restrictions citing similar security concerns.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    BurgerTime Deluxe gets served up for Nintendo Switch Online.

    Nintendo has added four new Retro games to its Switch Online membership: Kirby’s Dream Land 2 and BurgerTime Deluxe for the Game Boy collection, Xevious for the NES collection, and Side Pocket for the Super NES collection.

    These classic titles are free if you’re already subscribed to the standard Switch Online membership ($3.99 monthly).

    A screengrab of the Burger Time Deluxe videogame
    A food fight throwback, where the food fights back.
    Image: Nintendo
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    This facial recognition site thinks you look just like your great, great-grandmother.

    PimEyes, a “face search engine,” has populated its facial recognition database by scraping pictures from Ancestry.com without consent, allegedly allowing its algorithm to identify living people using images of deceased relatives by indexing their facial features.

    Ancestry prohibits data scraping. PimEyes acknowledged its crawlers had “somehow broken the rule,” and is now blocking Ancestry’s domain and erasing facial indexes related to it.