Qantas confirms 5.7M customers' personal info was held on the system compromised in a recent cyberattack, including names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers
2.8 million had FF numbers accessed - some also had points balance and status credits included — 1.7 million had more data on compromised records, incl address, DOB, phone number, gender meal prefer...
Solana deletes a social media video ad promoting its NYC conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues
- Solana posted a video ad on social media on Monday to promote its upcoming conference, but it was removed hours later.
A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info
James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim's information to guide chatbots in impersonation Bluesky: @anabrandusescu . LinkedIn: Maree Crabbe . Forums: r/whenwomenrefuse Bluesky: An...
Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”
See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Valley, Meta is so big...
The American Sunlight Project finds 35K+ mentions of nonconsensual intimate imagery depicting 25 female Congress members and one male member on deepfake sites
A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images …
How Spain relies on the VioGén algorithm to score the likelihood of recurring domestic violence and decide protection measures, with at times fatal consequences
Spain has become reliant on an algorithm to score how likely a domestic violence victim is to be abused again … X: @tdietterich , @stevebholt , @ichbinilya , @noisejockey , @ichbinilya , @jonathancohn...
How Elon Musk uses X to back right-wing world leaders like Argentina's Javier Milei and India's Narendra Modi, who can help secure advantages for his businesses
Minutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America's second-largest nation in November … Threads: @karaswisher , @motorcityadam , @karaswisher , @yonetteajosep...
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic” and “perverts”, and more
GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets
Anthropic researchers find adding pleas to a prompt that tell its Claude 2 model not to be biased could reduce discrimination based on race, gender, and more
The problem of alignment is an important one when you're setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health.
A look at the rise of online feminism in China, driven by content on apps like Weibo, Douyin, WeChat, and Douban, despite increased scrutiny from the platforms
Lying in bed one night in 2021, Zhang Zirui was swiping through Chinese social media app Weibo when she came across a post that gave her pause. Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social Mastodon: @TechDesk...