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[Link] SafeGraph Investor Selling His Stake, Donating the Money to Planned Parenthood
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
Motherboard reported that SafeGraph was selling aggregated location data of people who visited family planning centers, raising concerns the data could be used to figure out which clinics were providing out-of-state abortions. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance.
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[Link] Meme Stock Traders Pump Fake Company Enough to Get It Trending
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The increasingly bored-seeming WallStreetBets crowd has decided that instead of pumping real companies, it’s going to start focusing its energy on a fake one.
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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] Model Claims She Was Turned Into a Sex Doll Without Her Permission
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
The doll has the same dark hair, glasses, lip freckle, and name as her. The company, called Irontech, claims that this was all a coincidence. She first posted publicly about the doll in July 2019, on Instagram.
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[Link] The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More.
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
One of the web’s oldest functions remains one of its most powerful and promising. As we debate the negative effects of social media, consider the earliest and arguably most prevalent way that we use the internet to connect with other people: the chat.
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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale.
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[Link] Why are the Last 4 Digits of an SSN Important?
Read: 11/11/2021 www.stilt.com
Social Security Numbers are issued by the government and they are used for various purposes. A lot of times, different companies will use the last four digits of your SSN. However, these four digits are crucial and you need to protect them. But why are the last 4 digits of an SSNso important?
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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] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.
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[Link] Facebook bans, sends cease-and-desist letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
Read: 12/10/2021 www.techspot.com
What just happened? Given the rough couple of weeks Facebook has been through, the company could definitely use some good PR right now, so here's exactly the opposite: it's been revealed that the social network has permanently banned the creator of a tool that unfollows all connections automatically
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[Link] Alison Parker’s On-Air Murder Was in 2015 and Facebook Won’t Remove the Video
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the morning of August 26, 2015, television journalist Alison Parker was in Monela, Virginia reporting for a CBS affiliate station.
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[Link] How friend ‘lost to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media giant and not foment hatred of it.
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[Link] Facebook Knew Its Algorithm Fed QAnon Content to Users Within a Week
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook knew its recommendation algorithm was a problem, so it set up a study to test out just how bad the problem was.
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[Link] Google Locks Historian’s Account Over Terrorism Research Videos
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Ed Francis studies the evolution of military technology over at his YouTube channel, Armoured Archives. But this week, Francis says five years’ worth of research stored on Google Drive has become inaccessible thanks to Google’s automated error.
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[Link] Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
In the wake of the flood of misinformation that's drowning the US, lots of organizations have turned to fact-checks. Many newsrooms set up dedicated fact-check groups, and some independent organizations were formed to provide the service.
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[Link] Video Games, Exams, Hit Dramas: What’s Getting Banned in China
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Lots of things are getting banned in China, as the government uses its far-reaching power to crack down on what it deems harmful practices across Chinese society, from education to entertainment to the tech industry.
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[Link] The Social Impact That Deepfake Porn Has On Its Victims
Read: 23/8/2021 hackernoon.com
The amalgamation of deep learning and fake, deepfake technology lets people create content where the face of a person superimposes on the other person’s body for realistic-looking fake visuals. This AI-driven technology did more harm than good.
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[Link] ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Dr Christian Mayala and Dr Rodin Nzembuni Nduku sit together on a bench outside the Covid ward at Kinshasa’s Mama Yemo hospital.
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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In a rare rebuke against a big U.S.
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[Link] The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot
Read: 28/7/2021 www.bbc.com
A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.
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[Link] YouTube recommends videos that violate its own policies, study finds
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
Writer at Neural by TNW — Thomas covers AI in all its iterations. Likes Werner Herzog films and Arsenal FC.
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[Link] DRM Strikes Again: Ubisoft Makes Its Own Game Unplayable By Shutting Down DRM Server
Read: 8/7/2021 www.techdirt.com
It's not exactly a secret that we've been very anti-DRM here at Techdirt for some time. It's honestly perplexing how anyone can be otherwise.
[Link] The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn
Read: 11/6/2021 thewalrus.ca
Over the past three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. You may have recently caught a grinning Tom Cruise doing magic tricks with a coin or Nicolas Cage appearing as Lois Lane in Man of Steel.
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[Link] How product placements may soon be added to classic films
Read: 19/4/2021 www.bbc.com
Product placement is big business for movies and TV series alike, and items can now be added digitally to films and programmes both new and old. Fans of classic war flicks will know the scene - actor Steve McQueen revs his motorcycle furiously as he is chased by German soldiers.
[Link] Meet the Russian patriots making their presence felt in Australia
Read: 15/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
Vladimir Putin wants to reclaim Russia's former glory, and he expects the support of Russians across the globe, wherever they may live.
[Link] When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad
Read: 23/1/2021 jalopnik.com
Adobe’s Flash, the web browser plug-in that powered so very many crappy games, confusing interfaces, and animated icons of the early web like Homestar Runner is now finally gone, after a long, slow, protracted death.