[Link] QAnon’s Jim Watkins Tried To Save Kiwi Farms. Now His Site 8Kun Is Down.

Read: 10/9/2022 www.vice.com

After Kiwi Farms, a far-right hate forum, was knocked offline, Jim Watkins offered the site a lifeline. When Cloudflare pulled its support for Kiwi Farms, Watkins offered to provide Kiwi Farms protection from cyberattacks through a company called VanwaTech, in which Watkins is involved in.

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[Link] Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

Read: 21/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions. These cookies.sqlite databases normally reside in the Firefox profiles folder.

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[Link] Discord Backs Off of Crypto After Entire Internet Yells at CEO

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

Earlier this week, Discord CEO Jason Citron posted a tweet teasing integration between the gaming-focused chat platform and Ethereum, setting off a total shitstorm.

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[Link] Yes, Mark Zuckerberg Sites Are Down

Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

It would appear that Messenger, as well as Instagram’s messaging function and other Facebook-owned services, are currently having trouble, as thousands of users report being unable to access the company’s platforms Wednesday.

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[Link] Don’t Go Cheering Facebook for Killing Its Face Recognition Database Just Yet

Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement.

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