Mozilla plans to shut down Pocket, the read-it-later service it acquired in 2017, on July 8, and Fakespot, which helps identify unreliable reviews, on July 1
Download Your Saved Articles Before They Disappear Amar Ćemanović / CyberInsider : Mozilla to Shut Down Pocket Service in July, to Allow Exports Until October Samantha Cole / 404 Media : Pocket, One o...
Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading “as a legitimate e-commerce ‘marketplace’”
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Online retailers Shein and Temu go to war Jasmin Malik Chua / Sourcing Journal : Temu a ‘...
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool
A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data. X: @mkbhd , @malwarejake , @ednewtonrex , @jos...
Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey and indicted for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021, is linked to the AT&T data breach
across the breadth of America's second largest teleco. It's just awful. https://x.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Scoop: John Binns, an American hacker in Turkey, is linked to the massive breach of...
Sources: AU10TIX, an ID verification service that handles ID photos and is used by TikTok, Uber, X, and others, exposed admin credentials online for over a year
A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces … Mastodon: @jik@federate.social . X: @evan_greer , @josephfcox , @samleecole , ...
The FBI arrests a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct
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Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor
A previously unknown contributor to the popular open-source Android app store F-Droid repeatedly pressured its developers to push … Mastodon: @samleecole@journa.host , @doctormo@floss.social , and @mh...
Pornhub changes its performer verification policy, requiring performers to upload proof of consent from scene partners, in addition to IDs, starting January 23
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Pornhub blocks access in two more states, Montana and North Carolina, in protest of the states' age verification laws that went into effect on January 1
The funny thing is, while the NC law is clumsily implemented and of course puts a ridiculous barrier of entry up, the immediate impacts of it might be . . . good? — Compliance will be hardest for si...
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...