South Korean police arrest four for hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one hacker made ~$12K
The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country's effort to stop exploitative recordings.
Sources: South Korean authorities suspect North Korean hacking group Lazarus of the $30M+ Upbit hack, which used methods resembling those of a 2019 Upbit theft
North Korean hacking group Lazarus is suspected to be behind a recent breach of around 45 billion won (US$30.6 million) …
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine. — This is a Malignancy. … X...
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting
Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @harmancipants , @samant...
A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal
also mostly minors — as a prank, out of curiosity or misogyny. https://apnews.com/... Tong-hyung Kim / @kimtonghyung : Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online...
Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run
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Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run
Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate
Scientists have so far failed to show that a South Korean team's LK-99 material is a claimed room temperature superconductor, which could transform computing
Hi, welcome to your Weekend. Justine Calma / The Verge : The LK-99 ‘superconductor’ went viral — here's what the experts think Moneycontrol : What is room-temperature superconductor? All you need to k...
Interviews and surveys: South Korean NGO Pscore details North Koreans' limited online use, including a days-long approval process for monitored internet access
Matt Burgess / Wired : Tweets: @martyn_williams Tweets: Martyn Williams / @martyn_williams : A new report from PSCORE provides some fascinating details on how North Koreans access the Internet. Some ...
A look at a “smart city” project near Busan, as the South Korean government normalizes surveillance by repurposing its “smart city” systems to battle COVID-19
Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times : Tweets: @ideafaktory , @niklaskossow , @margotroosevelt , @timonpoint , @thorstenbenner , @latimes , and @vicjkim Tweets: Steve Faktor / @ideafaktory : 👆👆 Same goes...