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Why Do These Instagram Electricians Want to 'Deep Throat' You?
A convoluted web of referral schemes results in Instagram ads for roofers who want to have sex with you.
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Google Contractor Used Admin Access to Leak Info From Private Nintendo YouTube Video
The leak made its way to Reddit, which teased the release of a new Yoshi game in 2017.
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Amazon Sold Fake Copies of Hotly Anticipated UFO Book
UFO enthusiasts admit they bought scam copies of Luis Elizondo’s upcoming “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs.”
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Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small.
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Ticketmaster Confirms Hack in SEC Filing
404 Media also obtained a second, larger sample of the data, which is connected to genuine accounts on the Ticketmaster website.
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Hacker Allegedly Wanted to Become the Tech Arm of ISIS
An alleged fraudster who used Genesis Market, a bazaar for all sorts of stolen credentials and cookies, was also secretly making plans to join ISIS and help with violent attacks.
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Would You Waste Less of Your Life Online If You Got Daily ‘Attention Receipts’?
The experiment found that "the materiality of the receipt improves reflection and therefore influences the quality and quantity of time spent on YouTube."
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What It’s Like Finding Your Nonconsensual AI Clone Online
Ali Diamond captured the exact moment she found out someone had posted an AI model of her to Civitai without her consent.
Google Laid Off Workers That Help Investigators During School Shootings and Kidnappings
A third of the team responsible for handling Google’s data requests was laid off, a union representing workers said, raising concerns about how the company will manage its users’ data security.
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Google Researchers Say AI Now Leading Disinformation Vector (and Are Severely Undercounting the Problem)
It’s much easier to produce AI-generated disinformation than it is to fact check it.
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Hacker Breaches Scam Call Center, Warns Victims They've Been Scammed
A hacker claims to have also stolen source code from the call center, which they say is an antivirus scam.
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Amazon Kills Shareholder Proposals on Worker Protections and AI Oversight
The proposals requested increased transparency on working conditions and freedom of association. Amazon recommended that shareholders vote against them.