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[Link] Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using WhatsApp Bot Farm to Ask Military to Surrender

Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com

The message, according to the press release, said: “The outcome of events is predetermined! Be prudent and refuse to support nationalism and leaders of the country who discredited themselves and already fled the capital!!!”

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[Link] Bored Ape Yacht Club, Other Major NFT Project Discords Hacked by Scammers

Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com

Early Friday morning, the Discords of multiple major NFT projects were hacked as part of a phishing scam to trick users into handing over their digital jpegs. Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, and Shamanz confirmed Discord hacks in tweets.

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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.

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[Link] Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade

Read: 9/11/2021 www.technologyreview.com

The threat comes from quantum computers, which work very differently from the classical computers we use today. Instead of the traditional bits made of 1s and 0s, they use quantum bits that can represent different values at the same time.

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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.

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[Link] The Futuristic Stink of Amazon’s Science Fiction

Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com

Throughout the week, WIRED is publishing a series of essays about the current state of streaming services. Read about Netflix losing its cool here. Farts linger, far into the future. So suggests Solos, the latest sci-fi show on Amazon Prime.

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