Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation”
and she's not happy they might have anyway Liv McMahon / BBC : ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity OpenAI : How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : ChatGPT disable...
As ransomware gangs operate on multi-million dollar budgets at a global scale, telling companies to “just patch” or “implement zero trust” is no longer feasible
ve talked about ransomware and extortion attacks on organizations for about a decade. Tweets: @jaredhaight , @divinetechygirl , @justincormack , @simbakke , @ciaranmartinoxf , @drjessicabarker , and @...
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019
how to check if your phone number was leaked Christianna Silva / Mashable : Mark Zuckerberg is using Signal, according to phone number leaked in Facebook hack Ankita Chakravarti / India Today : Signal...
Survey of post samples from 173 adult US Facebook users' feeds during October 2020 found that 54% of users saw no news within the first 10 posts of their feeds
What do people see in their Facebook feeds? How much news do they encounter there — from legitimate outlets or from those known for sowing misinformation? Tweets: @froomkin , @marklittlenews , @phmai...
The story of CyberBunker, a hosting provider that once hosted The Pirate Bay and a number of dark web sites, whose German facility was raided by police in 2019
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. Tweets: @feikehacquebord , @balumcarnes , @alfonslopezt...
Facebook's subtle disclosure about storing millions of Instagram passwords in plain text before a holiday weekend shows it has mastered the art of the news dump
the data was also utilised to “improve ads.” Rob Price / @robaeprice : NEW: Facebook's harvesting of 1.5 million users' email contact data without consent may have broken US and EU law, experts say. F...
Facebook says it unintentionally collected email contacts of 1.5M users who used email password verification, will notify affected users and delete contacts
the data was also utilised to “improve ads.” Rob Price / @robaeprice : SCOOP: Facebook harvested 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent. It says it “unintentionally uploaded” them a...
Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse
Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This — The company knew … Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Google to overhaul ...
Twitter trolls are outing atheists and pro-LGBT women in repressive regimes
In Kuwait, the penalty for blasphemy can be a severe as death. That's why a new campaign to dox young Kuwaiti women with independent minds is so dangerous. — A band of Twitter trolls alleging … Twe...