Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies
Here's the latest on how the social media titans who said it was wrong to “censor” the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 are justifying doing the same thing to the Vance dossier today: https://www.was...
X says Likes are now private for everyone, meaning users are no longer able to see who liked someone else's post
I wonder if they've made bookmarks easier to find in the UI. Kylie Robison / The Verge : X is about to start hiding all likes Threads: @bobbyallyn : now that Twitter likes are private, this is a good ...
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X
But It Does Have Privacy Issues Emergent Behavior : 2024-05-29: Memorial Day Shenanigans Siddharth Jindal / AIM : Yann LeCun Delays Elon Musk's AGI Plans James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Elon Musk and M...
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
most prominently, Stable Diffusion 1.5—to see to what degree CSAM itself might be present in the training data. https://purl.stanford.edu/... Alex Stamos / @alex.stamos : Lots of people have worried a...
Stanford researchers: Twitter didn't stop uploads of 40+ known child sexual abuse images in recent months; the issue seemed fixed in May after staff were told
Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told Mastodon: @alex@cybervillains.com and @alex@cybervillains.com Mastodon: Alex Stamos / @alex@cybervil...
Q&A with ex-Facebook CSO and Stanford Internet Observatory professor Alex Stamos on overestimating mis- and disinformation's impact, Brazil, Gamergate, and more
“Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos. Tweets: @pkafka , @chrisabraham , @pkafka , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Peter Kafka / @pkafka : We've gott...
Q&A with Alex Stamos on Apple's proposed child safety features, his reservations about the company's announcement and approach to child safety online, and more
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[Thread] How iPhone security degrades following a user's first device unlock after powering it on, leaving it more vulnerable to data exfiltration
or you need the user to have entered it. 4/ Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : When you first unlock your iPhone after power-on, it uses your passcode to derive several sets of cryptographic keys. The...
Zoom consultant Alex Stamos and experts say offering end-to-end encryption, which needs user authentication, only to paying customers is a reasonable compromise
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @ncweaver , @alexstamos , @alexstamos , and @alexstamos Tweets: Nicholas Weaver / @ncweaver : @evan_greer @pvineetha Billing records matter. $15/month is establish...
Sources: Zoom's business partner Dropbox privately paid hackers to find bugs in Zoom's code and pressed the company to fix them, fearing vulnerabilities
Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them. Tweets: @kimzetter , @natashanyt , @kimzetter , @racheldonadio , and @sh...