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 Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops

Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops

2024-10-17 404 Media
Telegram, the messaging platform much mentioned in the recent news, has always been regarded as a kind of communication safe from any kind of gaze: whether it belongs to malicious persons or the authorities. The confidentiality guaranteed to its users has built a certain reputation for the application in question, alth...
 TikTok: We shut down Merlin negotiation over fears about streaming fraud.

TikTok: We shut down Merlin negotiation over fears about streaming fraud.

2024-10-16 Music Business Worldwide
MusicBusinessWorldwide, a website dedicated to sharing information relevant to the music scene, recently confirmed an important stance by the famous Tiktok platform. The social media company has stated that it will not pursue negotiations for a new licence with the Merlin Group, the renowned music licensing partner of ...
 Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline.

Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline.

2024-10-15 404 Media
The United States of America is in a rather serious situation: the hurricane season has only just begun and has already caused considerable damage to industrial facilities, private homes and entire cities. Several evacuation orders have been issued and followed by those in a position to do so - however, several familie...
 Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.

Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.

2024-10-14 404 Media
Any online content is potential nourishment for the artificial intelligence systems currently being ‘trained’: videos, images, texts and sound samples constitute the appetiser, the main dish and the dessert for these models, eternally in search of man-made works in order to be able to offer the most accurate result...
 OnlyFans Creators in the Crosshairs! Fake Tool Spreads Lumma Stealer Malware.

OnlyFans Creators in the Crosshairs! Fake Tool Spreads Lumma Stealer Malware.

2024-10-11 Red Hot Cyber
OnlyFans creators, pay close attention to your accounts. According to research conducted by a specialised team of the security platform ‘Veriti’, a new trend is spreading within the cybercriminal environment: several malicious people are targeting OF profiles, with the intention of ‘infecting’ them. The aforem...
Huge leak of new Netflix anime.

Huge leak of new Netflix anime.

2024-10-10 Fumettologica
The first week of October brought new content to Netflix, one of the world's most popular and popular streaming platforms, such as the long-awaited ‘DanDaDan’ anime and the remake of ‘Ranma 1/2’. The month's news is not limited to what has recently been released, as several new titles have been mentioned recent...
 'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them.'

'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them.'

2024-10-09 BBC News
Nowadays, more and more people are fighting to make sure that their voices are heard, to ensure that no great power decides to silence the words of others; however, the current narrative seems to be taking a different path, albeit one that is equally worrying. Following the advent of artificial intelligence, billions ...
New Data Breach Uber Eats in Less than a Year: 283,000 Orders Exposed on BreachForums

New Data Breach Uber Eats in Less than a Year: 283,000 Orders Exposed on BreachForums

2024-10-08 RedHotCyber
According to today's reference article, a home-delivery giant has again fallen victim to a major data breach. Uber Eats, a food delivery company particularly popular in the United States, had already been the victim of a suspiciously similar unfortunate affair in November 2023, during which 1.4 million pieces of data h...
 Meta to put under-18 Instagram users into new ‘teen accounts’.

Meta to put under-18 Instagram users into new ‘teen accounts’.

2024-10-07 The Guardian
Myriads of British, American, Australian and Canadian teenagers will soon be forced to submit to the new rules of one of today's most loved and popular social networks: Instagram. The software, now owned by Meta, has announced that it will soon introduce a new account category, dedicated exclusively to teenage users. ...
 OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’.

OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’.

2024-10-04 The Guardian
Two years after the sudden boom in artificial intelligence, triggered by the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the company behind this rapid rise has recently declared that the latest version of its famous product is capable of ‘thinking’, supposedly bridging the gap between technology and the human mind - but i...
 Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material.

Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material.

2024-10-03 404 Media
In December 2023, a team of researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory discovered that one of the world's largest open-source datasets, LAION-B5, used for machine-learning training of various AI models, contained more than 3,000 suspected istances of child abuse material. Anyone who had downloaded the dataset w...
 White House blasts Elon Musk for X post about Biden and Harris assassination.

White House blasts Elon Musk for X post about Biden and Harris assassination.

2024-10-02 The Guardian
The owner of X (generally known as ‘Twitter’) seems to have found his new favourite pastime: using his platform to provoke government structures, both US and British. The entrepreneur is rapidly gaining a reputation as the ‘troublemaker’ of the online landscape, often sharing somewhat controversial thoughts on ...
 AI Adds Human Cries and Creepy Laughs to People’s Songs Without Warning.

AI Adds Human Cries and Creepy Laughs to People’s Songs Without Warning.

2024-10-01 Vice
The time has come, dear readers. Artificial intelligence has become sentient, has attained a superior understanding of its own self, and has realised the misuse to which it has been subjected in recent years. As its only methodology for communicating with humans, it is now sharing its state of mind through disturbing c...
 Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History.

Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History.

2024-09-30 404 Media
The ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ is a famous work by the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch, dated between 1480 and 1490. The painting is, more precisely, composed of a triptych of works using the technique of oil on oak panels and is generally considered to be the most ambitious work created by Bosch - the artist wi...
 Threatened US ban against TikTok ‘unconstitutional’, platform argues.

Threatened US ban against TikTok ‘unconstitutional’, platform argues.

2024-09-27 The Guardian
Tiktok is no longer the beloved platform dedicated to dancing, funny voice-overs and short funny clips of little animals. In recent years, the average content of the platform has expanded considerably, mainly due to the introduction of videos of a longer duration. Storytimes, makeup tutorials and vlogs of various genre...
 Stalker Allegedly Created AI Chatbot on NSFW Platform to Dox and Harass Woman.

Stalker Allegedly Created AI Chatbot on NSFW Platform to Dox and Harass Woman.

2024-09-26 404 Media
Obsession with real life people is a dangerous perversion. James Florence Junior, a Massachusetts citizen, was arrested on Wednesday 11 September on charges of stalking, harassment and doxing a female professor, his victim for seven years. The man is also accused of using artificial intelligence to create pornographic ...