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...
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake artist” issue appar...
Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17
https://arstechnica.com/... Zeb Palmer / @zebpalmer@syringa.social : I've spent a surprisingly significant percentage of my career trying to get thousands of servers scattered around the globe to all ...
Hacker shares data stolen on 18 companies, like Dave and Wattpad, on a forum for free, including 9 previously unreported breaches of Havenly, Indaba Music, more
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : Tweets: @haveibeenpwned and @haveibeenpwned Tweets: @haveibeenpwned : New breach: Online fragrance service Scentbird had 5.8M records breached last month. Data in...
Analytics service Waydev says hackers breached it earlier this month and stole GitHub, GitLab OAuth tokens, likely pivoting to attack other companies like Dave
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum
Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum. — Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today …
Experts say ransomware victims like Baltimore have not taken sufficient measures to protect against the EternalBlue exploit two years after it first leaked
Nominations are now open for 2019 Rising Star Awards. Dave Aitel / CyberSecPolitics : Baltimore is not EternalBlue Daniel Uria / UPI : Baltimore seeks answers, help for crippling cyberattack linked to...