An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more
This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited … LinkedIn: Kyle K. Courtney . Bluesky: @ecowarriorss . Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.soc...
Sources detail factors that weakened Elon Musk's alliance with President Trump, including his frustrations with Trump's tariffs and his disillusionment with DC
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch : Exit (or pretend to) pursued by a bear market. — www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... A.R. Moxon / @juliusgoat : Feel like the fact that...
After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), a foundational technology of the internet age, died at age 78 on October 11
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Threads: @blinkenjim . Mastodon: @CyberpunkLibrarian … and @m501@mast...
Researchers discover a cross-origin attack exploiting how modern GPUs compress images to let a malicious website in Chrome or Edge read pixels from another site
https://arstechnica.com/... Dan Goodin / @dangoodin@infosec.exchange : I'm not sure how to think of this new GPU.zip attack. The side channel exists in the GPUs themselves, so it seems fair to think ...
An amateur Go player beat a top-ranked AI system in 14 of 15 games, using tactics suggested by a computer program that had analyzed the AI system for weaknesses
But a human just trounced one of the world's best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/... … Tweets: @0xabad1dea : the overwhelming moral of the story recently is that AI is terrifyingly dang...
A US hacker says he built a network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups in 2015 to push bogus stories after a company hired him to “stop Hillary Clinton”
He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. — This is the story of the mastermind behind … Tweets: @ax_sharma , @robviglione , @fark , @dangillmor , @hexadecim8 , @czedwa...
Makers of CVCheat claim their computer vision-based cheat tool can offer “undetectable” “full auto-aim and auto-shots” for any game on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica : Tweets: @yangcliu , @tylerglaiel , @flugazi , @eposvox , and @storagezilla Tweets: Yang / @yangcliu : Kernel anticheat has been useless for the most dedicated hackers for...
AT&T says it is pulling all advertising from YouTube, after reports of pedophiles openly using the platform; Nestle and Epic Games have also pulled ads
And If History Is A Guide, They'll Be Back Soon Sheila Dang / Reuters : AT&T pulls ads from YouTube as concerns about content resurface Lisa Vaas / Naked Security : Advertisers flee YouTube after vide...
Jack'd, a gay dating app with 1M+ downloads from the Play store, stored users' images, posted and marked as private in chat sessions, on an unsecured AWS server
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica : Tweets: @hexadecim8 Tweets: H E X A / @hexadecim8 : If you're building dating apps, you have to get the security right. There's no excuse for getting the security so w...