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The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware...

This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...

Vous aviez complètement oublié que ce titre avait existé à une époque lointaine ? Personne ne vous en voudra. D’une part, il était sorti il y a déjà 22 ans et à cette époque, uniquement sur PlayStation 2 et GameCube. D’autre part, malgré certains aspects positifs tels que le gameplay et le level des...

Ces derniers jours ont été intenses pour le programme Windows Insider, qui a levé le voile sur une nouvelle build dans chacun de ses quatre canaux. Après avoir détaillé en pratique toutes les nouveautés attendues pour la grosse mise à jour 24H2 prévue pour octobre prochain, attardons-nous sur tous les micro-changements apportés par ces pré-versions. De la synchronisation avec votre smartphone à la réorganisation du menu Démarrer en passant par la sauvegarde automatique de vos captures vidéo, ils ont tous pour point commun de hisser d'un cran l'ergonomie du système. Rien de sensationnel à la clé, mais plusieurs détails et des optimisations qui pourraient vous simplifier la vie au quotidien. Pour rappel, ces nouveautés ne sont pas toutes susceptibles d'être poussées vers la version “release” ; elles sont avant tout conçues pour être testées par les utilisateurs ayant (gratuitement) adhéré au programme, mais certaines d'entre elles pourraient être diffusées à travers un nouveau “Moment” précédent la mise à jour majeure. Si vous souhaitez les essayer à votre tour, authentifiez-vous sur ce lien avec votre compte Microsoft. Et rendez-vous ensuite sur la page des téléchargements pour récupérer leur ISO complète, à déployer de préférence sur une machine virtuelle. […]

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Peter Scarfe, a researcher at the University of Reading's School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, conducted an experiment testing the vulnerability of their examination system to AI-generated work. Using ChatGPT-4, Scarfe's team submitted over 30 AI-generated answers across multiple undergraduate psychology modules, finding that 94 percent of these submissions went undetected and nearly 84 percent received higher grades than human counterparts. The findings have been published in the journal PLOS One. Ars Technica reports: Scarfe's team submitted AI-generated work in five undergraduate modules, covering classes needed during all three years of study for a bachelor's degree in psychology. The assignments were either 200-word answers to short questions or more elaborate essays, roughly 1,500 words long. "The markers of the exams didn't know about the experiment. In a way, participants in the study didn't know they were participating in the study, but we've got necessary permissions to go ahead with that," Scarfe claims. Shorter submissions were prepared simply by copy-pasting the examination questions into ChatGPT-4 along with a prompt to keep the answer under 160 words. The essays were solicited the same way, but the required word count was increased to 2,000. Setting the limits this way, Scarfe's team could get ChatGPT-4 to produce content close enough to the required length. "The idea was to submit those answers without any editing at all, apart from the essays, where we applied minimal formatting," says Scarfe. Overall, Scarfe and his colleagues slipped 63 AI-generated submissions into the examination system. Even with no editing or efforts to hide the AI usage, 94 percent of those went undetected, and nearly 84 percent got better grades (roughly half a grade better) than a randomly selected group of students who took the same exam. "We did a series of debriefing meetings with people marking those exams and they were quite surprised," says Scarfe. Part of the reason they were surprised was that most of those AI submissions that were detected did not end up flagged because they were too repetitive or robotic -- they got flagged because they were too good. Out of five modules where Scarfe's team submitted AI work, there was one where it did not receive better grades than human students: the final module taken by students just before they left the university. "Large language models can emulate human critical thinking, analysis, and integration of knowledge drawn from different sources to a limited extent. In their last year at the university, students are expected to provide deeper insights and use more elaborate analytical skills. The AI isn't very good at that, which is why students fared better," Scarfe explained. All those good grades Chat GPT-4 got were in the first- and second-year exams, where the questions were easier. "But the AI is constantly improving, so it's likely going to score better in those advanced assignments in the future. And since AI is becoming part of our lives and we don't really have the means to detect AI cheating, at some point we are going to have to integrate it into our education system," argues Scarfe. He said the role of a modern university is to prepare the students for their professional careers, and the reality is they are going to use various AI tools after graduation. So, they'd be better off knowing how to do it properly.

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Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...

KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2...

Le DNS que vous avez demandé n’est plus disponible

Une décision de justice demande à Cisco, Google et CloudFlare de bloquer l‘accès à plus d’une centaine de sites. Canal+ en est à l’origine, dans sa guerre contre le piratage sportif.

« En raison d’une décision de justice en France »

Certains pourraient y voir une manière d’écraser une mouche avec un bazooka, d’autres une manière de répondre aux « aux exigences des ayant-tous-les-droits ». La raison officielle est donnée par OpenDNS dans un billet de blog :

« À compter du 28 juin 2024, en raison d’une décision de justice en France rendue en vertu de l’article L.333-10 du code du sport français et d’une décision de justice au Portugal rendue en vertu de l’article 210-G(3) du code portugais du droit d’auteur, le service OpenDNS n’est actuellement pas disponible pour les utilisateurs en France et dans certains territoires français et au Portugal. Nous nous excusons pour la gêne occasionnée ».

Canal+ obtient le blocage DNS d’une centaine de sites

La décision de justice dont il est question a été publiée par nos confrères de l’Informé. Elle demande à Google, Cisco (propriétaire d’OpenDNS) et CloudFlare de bloquer l’accès à une centaine de sites, via leur résolveur DNS. Concrètement, les internautes utilisant le DNS d’un des trois services ne fait plus le lien entre le nom de domaine et l’adresse IP du serveur.

Il s’agit pour Canal+ de protéger ses droits et de rendre inaccessibles des sites diffusant des matchs des Champions League, de Premier League en football et du Top 14. « Après avoir obtenu le blocage par les fournisseurs d’accès et le déréférencement par Google de plusieurs sites illicites, Canal+ a décidé en octobre 2023 de passer à la vitesse supérieure en assignant cette fois Google, Cloudflare et Cisco », expliquent nos confrères.

Dans la décision du tribunal, publiée par nos confrères, il est indiqué : « La proportionnalité des blocages demandés est contestée par les défenderesses. Les sociétés Google, Cisco et Cloudflare prétendent que ces mesures seraient inutilement complexes et coûteuses dans la mesure où il existe de nombreux moyens autres de bloquer tout accès aux sites litigieux. De plus, les atteintes en cause ne seraient pas irrémédiables puisqu’il suffirait d’utiliser un VPN ou un autre service DNS alternatif pour contourner le blocage ». Ces arguments et les autres ont été rejetés par le tribunal.

OpenDNS renvoie un message « REFUSED »

Si on tente d’interroger le résolveur DNS en France ou au Portugal, on a désormais un beau message « REFUSED », avec un rappel du texte de loi en question. Comme le précise Stéphane Bortzmeyer, spécialiste du DNS, « ce n’est pas spécifique au nom de domaine demandé, tous donnent le même résultat. En outre, on peut vérifier, par exemple avec les sondes RIPE Atlas, que c’est pareil depuis quasiment tous les FAI français ».

CloudFlare aussi s’est exécuté avec désormais un message « Error HTTP 451 […] Unavailable For Legal Reasons ». Chez Google, le message d’erreur est plus succinct : « Hum, nous ne parvenons pas à trouver ce site ».

Des résolveurs DNS en pagaille

Stéphane Bortzmeyer est bien remonté contre cette décision de justice : « Les défenseurs de l’appropriation intellectuelle affirment souvent qu’elle sert à « protéger les créateurs » mais, comme on le voit ici, elle sert surtout à enrichir les clubs de football. Les personnes qui utilisaient OpenDNS le faisaient sans doute pour contourner une censure qui bénéficie surtout aux ayant-droits », ou encore parce que leurs objets connectés reposaient sur OpenDNS, ce qui n’est pas sans conséquence.

L'Internet des Objets, c'est quand on ne peut plus allumer la lumière car le contrôleur a les résolveurs #DNS d'#OpenDNS en dur et qu'on ne peut pas les changer : https://t.co/UqoWAih5oQ

— Stéphane Bortzmeyer (@bortzmeyer) June 28, 2024

Le spécialiste des infrastructures d’Internet et des DNS en profite pour rappeler que, en Europe, il y a d’autres résolveurs DNS : dns.sb, DNS4ALL, celui de FDN et même le sien personnel. Nous pouvons aussi ajouter Quad9. Il ajoute : « Si on utilise un résolveur public (ce qui n’est pas forcément une bonne idée), le choix est vaste et les alternatives nombreuses (aucune raison de tous aller sur le résolveur d’une grosse entreprise capitaliste états-unienne). Mais il n’est pas évident de choisir ».

• Quad9 : un résolveur DNS ouvert qui veut vous protéger en respectant votre vie privée

Le DNS que vous avez demandé n’est plus disponible

Une décision de justice demande à Cisco, Google et CloudFlare de bloquer l‘accès à plus d’une centaine de sites. Canal+ en est à l’origine, dans sa guerre contre le piratage sportif.

« En raison d’une décision de justice en France »

Certains pourraient y voir une manière d’écraser une mouche avec un bazooka, d’autres une manière de répondre aux « aux exigences des ayant-tous-les-droits ». La raison officielle est donnée par OpenDNS dans un billet de blog :

« À compter du 28 juin 2024, en raison d’une décision de justice en France rendue en vertu de l’article L.333-10 du code du sport français et d’une décision de justice au Portugal rendue en vertu de l’article 210-G(3) du code portugais du droit d’auteur, le service OpenDNS n’est actuellement pas disponible pour les utilisateurs en France et dans certains territoires français et au Portugal. Nous nous excusons pour la gêne occasionnée ».

Canal+ obtient le blocage DNS d’une centaine de sites

La décision de justice dont il est question a été publiée par nos confrères de l’Informé. Elle demande à Google, Cisco (propriétaire d’OpenDNS) et CloudFlare de bloquer l’accès à une centaine de sites, via leur résolveur DNS. Concrètement, les internautes utilisant le DNS d’un des trois services ne fait plus le lien entre le nom de domaine et l’adresse IP du serveur.

Il s’agit pour Canal+ de protéger ses droits et de rendre inaccessibles des sites diffusant des matchs des Champions League, de Premier League en football et du Top 14. « Après avoir obtenu le blocage par les fournisseurs d’accès et le déréférencement par Google de plusieurs sites illicites, Canal+ a décidé en octobre 2023 de passer à la vitesse supérieure en assignant cette fois Google, Cloudflare et Cisco », expliquent nos confrères.

Dans la décision du tribunal, publiée par nos confrères, il est indiqué : « La proportionnalité des blocages demandés est contestée par les défenderesses. Les sociétés Google, Cisco et Cloudflare prétendent que ces mesures seraient inutilement complexes et coûteuses dans la mesure où il existe de nombreux moyens autres de bloquer tout accès aux sites litigieux. De plus, les atteintes en cause ne seraient pas irrémédiables puisqu’il suffirait d’utiliser un VPN ou un autre service DNS alternatif pour contourner le blocage ». Ces arguments et les autres ont été rejetés par le tribunal.

OpenDNS renvoie un message « REFUSED »

Si on tente d’interroger le résolveur DNS en France ou au Portugal, on a désormais un beau message « REFUSED », avec un rappel du texte de loi en question. Comme le précise Stéphane Bortzmeyer, spécialiste du DNS, « ce n’est pas spécifique au nom de domaine demandé, tous donnent le même résultat. En outre, on peut vérifier, par exemple avec les sondes RIPE Atlas, que c’est pareil depuis quasiment tous les FAI français ».

CloudFlare aussi s’est exécuté avec désormais un message « Error HTTP 451 […] Unavailable For Legal Reasons ». Chez Google, le message d’erreur est plus succinct : « Hum, nous ne parvenons pas à trouver ce site ».

Des résolveurs DNS en pagaille

Stéphane Bortzmeyer est bien remonté contre cette décision de justice : « Les défenseurs de l’appropriation intellectuelle affirment souvent qu’elle sert à « protéger les créateurs » mais, comme on le voit ici, elle sert surtout à enrichir les clubs de football. Les personnes qui utilisaient OpenDNS le faisaient sans doute pour contourner une censure qui bénéficie surtout aux ayant-droits », ou encore parce que leurs objets connectés reposaient sur OpenDNS, ce qui n’est pas sans conséquence.

L'Internet des Objets, c'est quand on ne peut plus allumer la lumière car le contrôleur a les résolveurs #DNS d'#OpenDNS en dur et qu'on ne peut pas les changer : https://t.co/UqoWAih5oQ

— Stéphane Bortzmeyer (@bortzmeyer) June 28, 2024

Le spécialiste des infrastructures d’Internet et des DNS en profite pour rappeler que, en Europe, il y a d’autres résolveurs DNS : dns.sb, DNS4ALL, celui de FDN et même le sien personnel. Nous pouvons aussi ajouter Quad9. Il ajoute : « Si on utilise un résolveur public (ce qui n’est pas forcément une bonne idée), le choix est vaste et les alternatives nombreuses (aucune raison de tous aller sur le résolveur d’une grosse entreprise capitaliste états-unienne). Mais il n’est pas évident de choisir ».

• Quad9 : un résolveur DNS ouvert qui veut vous protéger en respectant votre vie privée

Alors que le marché de la console portable semble embouteillé comme jamais avec la MSI Claw, la ASUS ROG Ally, la Ayaneo Slide ou encore la Lenovo Legion Go, (sans compter le remix de la Slide sauce Antec, mais ce sera pour une prochaine fois !) toutes quatre faisant suite au duo Nintendo Switch/Ste...

Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into the horns of 20 rhinos to deter poaching, aiming to leverage existing radiation detectors at borders for early detection and interception of trafficked horns. The Associated Press reports: The research, which has included the participation of veterinarians and nuclear experts, begins with the animal being tranquilized before a hole is drilled into its horn and the nuclear material carefully inserted. This week, researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand's Radiation and Health Physics Unit in South Africa injected 20 live rhinos with these isotopes. They hope the process can be replicated to save other wild species vulnerable to poaching -- like elephants and pangolins. "We are doing this because it makes it significantly easier to intercept these horns as they are being trafficked over international borders, because there is a global network of radiation monitors that have been designed to prevent nuclear terrorism," said Professor James Larkin, who heads the project. "And we're piggybacking on the back of that." According to figures by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, an international conservation body, the global rhino population stood at around 500,000 at the beginning of the 20th century. It now stands at around 27,000 due to continued demand for rhino horns on the black market. South Africa has the largest population of rhinos with an estimated 16,000, making it a hotspot with over 500 rhinos killed yearly. [...] While the idea has received support from some in the industry, the researchers have had to jump many ethical hurdles posed by critics of their methodology. Pelham Jones, chairperson of the Private Rhino Owners Association, is among the critics of the proposed method and doubts that it would effectively deter poachers and traffickers. "(Poachers) have worked out other ways of moving rhino horn out of the country, out of the continent or off the continent, not through traditional border crossings," he said. "They bypass the border crossings because they know that is the area of the highest risk of confiscation or interception." Professor Nithaya Chetty, dean of the science faculty at Witwatersrand, said the dosage of the radioactivity is very low and its potential negative impact on the animal was tested extensively.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One of the most striking things about the explosion of renewable power that's happening in the U.S. is that much of it is going on in states governed by politicians who don't believe in the problem wind and solar are meant to address. Acceptance of the evidence for climate change tends to be lowest among Republicans, yet many of the states where renewable power has boomed -- wind in Wyoming and Iowa, solar in Texas -- are governed by Republicans. That's partly because, up until about 2020, there was a strong bipartisan consensus in favor of expanding wind and solar power, with support above 75 percent among both parties. Since then, however, support among Republicans has dropped dramatically, approaching 50 percent, according to polling data released this week. [...] One striking thing about the new polling data, gathered by the Pew Research Center, is how dramatically it skews with age. When given a choice between expanding fossil fuel production or expanding renewable power, Republicans under the age of 30 favored renewables by a 2-to-1 margin. Republicans over 30, in contrast, favored fossil fuels by margins that increased with age, topping out at a three-to-one margin in favor of fossil fuels among those in the 65-and-over age group. The decline in support occurred in those over 50 starting in 2020; support held steady among younger groups until 2024, when the 30-49 age group started moving in favor of fossil fuels. Democrats, by contrast, break in favor of renewables by 75 points, with little difference across age groups and no indication of significant change over time. They're also twice as likely to think a solar farm will help the local economy than Republicans are. Similar differences were apparent when Pew asked about policies meant to encourage the sale of electric vehicles, with 83 percent of Republicans opposed to having half of cars sold be electric in 2032. By contrast, nearly two-thirds of Democrats favored this policy. There's also a rural/urban divide apparent (consistent with Republicans getting more support from rural voters). Forty percent of urban residents felt that a solar farm would improve the local economy; only 25 percent of rural residents agreed. Rural residents were also more likely to say solar farms made the landscape unattractive and take up too much space. (Suburban participants were consistently in between rural and urban participants.) What's behind these changes? The single biggest factor appears to be negative partisanship combined with the election of Joe Biden. Among Republicans, support for every single form of power started to change in 2020 -- fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear. Among Democrats, that's largely untrue. Their high level of support for renewable power and aversion to fossil fuels remained largely unchanged. The lone exception is nuclear power, where support rose among both Democrats and Republicans (the Biden administration has adopted a number of pro-nuclear policies).

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According to a report from The Information, Apple is developing a new "electrically induced adhesive debonding" technology that would make iPhone batteries easier to replace. 9to5Mac reports: Currently, replacing an iPhone battery requires using tweezers to remove the existing battery, which is held in place by adhesive strips. Then, you must use a "specialized machine and tray" to press the new battery into place. The new process uses metal instead of foil to cover the battery, as The Information explains: "The new technology --- known as electrically induced adhesive debonding -- involves encasing the battery in metal, rather than foil as it is currently. That would allow people to dislodge the battery from the chassis by administering a small jolt of electricity to the battery, the people said. Consumers still have to pry open the iPhone themselves, which is not an easy process because of the adhesives and screws that keep the iPhone's screen sealed in place." Even with this change, however, Apple will still recommend that iPhone users visit a professional to replace their battery. If Apple's development of this new bonding technology goes according to plan, it could debut it with at least one iPhone 16 model this year. According to the report, it would then expand to all versions of the iPhone 17 next year.

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Samantha Cole reports via 404 Media: A woman is suing Microsoft and two major U.S. sex toy retailers with claims that their websites are tracking users without their consent, despite promising they wouldn't do that. In a complaint (PDF) filed on June 25 in the Northern District of California, San Francisco resident Stella Tatola claims that Babeland and Good Vibrations -- both owned by Barnaby Ltd., LLC -- allowed Microsoft to see what visitors to their websites searched for and bought. "Unbeknownst to Plaintiff and other Barnaby website users, and constituting the ultimate violation of privacy, Barnaby allows an undisclosed third-party, Microsoft, to intercept, read, and utilize for commercial gain consumers' private information about their sexual practices and preferences, gleaned from their activity on Barnaby's websites," the complaint states. "This information includes but is not limited to product searches and purchase initiations, as well as the consumer's unique Microsoft identifier." The complaint claims that Good Vibrations and Babeland sites have installed trackers using Microsoft's Clarity software, which does "recording in real time," and tracks users' mouse movements, clicks or taps, scrolls, and site navigation. Microsoft says on the Clarity site that it "processes a massive amount of anonymous data around user behavior to gain insights and improve machine learning models that power many of our products and services." "By allowing undisclosed third party Microsoft to eavesdrop and intercept users' PPSI in such a manner -- including their sexual orientation, preferences, and desires, among other highly sensitive, protected information -- Barnaby violates its Privacy Policies, which state it will never share such information with third parties," the complaint states. The complaint includes screenshots of code from the sexual health sites that claims to show them using Machine Unique Identifier ("MUID") cookies that "identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites," according to Microsoft, and are used for "advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes." The complaint claims that this violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the Federal Wiretap Act, and Californians' reasonable expectation of privacy.

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After launching in the United States earlier this year, Apple's Vision Pro is now available to buy in China, Japan, and Singapore. "The Apple Vision Pro will also roll out to Germany, France, Australia, the UK, and Canada on July 12th, with preorders for those regions available starting today at 5AM PT," notes The Verge. Apple is documenting the international launch via a recent blog post. According to CNBC, the device starts at $4,128 (29,999 yuan) in China, compared to $3,500 in the U.S. Meanwhile, Apple is already hard at work on a more budget-friendly model. In Bloomberg's "Power On" newsletter, Apple news-breaker Mark Gurman reports today that the tech giant is "working on a cheaper headset, a second Vision Pro model and augmented-reality glasses to better compete with Meta."

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Wine 9.12 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release and in passing roughly the half-way point before Wine 10.0 stable enters the sights for early 2025...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library's controlled digital lending (CDL) practices after book publishers last year won a lawsuit claiming that the archive's lending violated copyright law. In the weeks ahead of IA's efforts to appeal that ruling, IA was forced to remove 500,000 books from its collection, shocking users. In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt "a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others," who may not have access to a local library or feel "safe accessing the information they need in public." During a press briefing following arguments in court Friday, IA founder Brewster Kahle said that "those voices weren't being heard." Judges appeared primarily focused on understanding how IA's digital lending potentially hurts publishers' profits in the ebook licensing market, rather than on how publishers' costly ebook licensing potentially harms readers. However, lawyers representing IA -- Joseph C. Gratz, from the law firm Morrison Foerster, and Corynne McSherry, from the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation -- confirmed that judges were highly engaged by IA's defense. Arguments that were initially scheduled to last only 20 minutes stretched on instead for an hour and a half. Ultimately, judges decided not to rule from the bench, with a decision expected in the coming months or potentially next year. McSherry said the judges' engagement showed that the judges "get it" and won't make the decision without careful consideration of both sides. "They understand this is an important decision," McSherry said. "They understand that there are real consequences here for real people. And they are taking their job very, very seriously. And I think that's the best that we can hope for, really." On the other side, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the trade organization behind the lawsuit, provided little insight into how the day went. When reached for comment, AAP simply said, "We thought it was a strong day in court, and we look forward to the opinion." [...] "There is no deadline for them to make a decision," Gratz said, but it "probably won't happen until early fall" at the earliest. After that, whichever side loses will have an opportunity to appeal the case, which has already stretched on for four years, to the Supreme Court. Since neither side seems prepared to back down, the Supreme Court eventually weighing in seems inevitable.

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According to Interpol, nearly 4,000 people around the world have been arrested for a variety of online crimes, with $257 million in assets seized. The Record reports: The operation, dubbed First Light, was conducted by police officers from 61 countries and targeted phishing, investment fraud, fake online shopping sites, romance scams, and impersonation scams, according to a statement by Interpol. In addition to arresting thousands of potential cybercriminals, the police also identified over 14,600 other possible suspects across all continents. During the searches, law enforcement seized suspects' real estate, high-end vehicles, expensive jewelry, and many other high-value items and collections. They also froze 6,745 bank accounts used for transferring money obtained through illegal operations. In one case, the police intercepted $331,000 gleaned from a business email compromise fraud involving a Spanish victim who unknowingly transferred money to someone in Hong Kong. In another case, authorities in Australia successfully recovered $3.7 million on behalf of an impersonation scam victim after the funds were fraudulently transferred to bank accounts in Malaysia and Hong Kong. The criminal networks identified during the operation were spread around the globe. In Namibia, for example, the police rescued 88 local youths who were forced into conducting scams as part of a sophisticated international crime network, according to Interpol. Law enforcement from Singapore, Hong Kong, and China prevented an attempted tech support scam, saving a 70-year-old victim from losing $281,200 worth of savings.

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