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[Link] Elon Musk appears to reconcile with Apple after Twitter tirade
Read: 4/12/2022 arstechnica.com
Elon Musk said he had a “good conversation” with Apple chief executive Tim Cook and “resolved the misunderstanding” about his claim that Twitter could be removed from the App Store, just days after the world’s richest man unleashed a tirade against the most valuable tech company.
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[Link] Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps
Read: 12/8/2022 www.vice.com
In all these cases, the researchers submitted vulnerabilities to Electron to get them fixed, which earned them more than $10,000 in rewards. The bugs were fixed before the researchers published their research.
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[Link] Q Is Back and It’s Tearing the QAnon World Apart
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Jim Watkins clearly doesn’t know how his own website works.
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[Link] Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior executives.
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[Link] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.
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[Link] Being a Facebook Metaverse ‘Community Guide’ Seems Like a Nightmare Job
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
Imagine you had to moderate a Facebook comment thread, only each commenter was able to come up to you, wave their hands in your face, and scream whatever they want. Peanutbutter sighs loudly and approaches the group of kids.
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[Link] TikTok Finally Bans Deadnaming, Conversion Therapy Content
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
TikTok updated its terms of service Tuesday morning to ban deadnaming, misgendering, misogyny, and content that promotes conversion therapy programs.
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[Link] UK Revives Dangerous Attempt to Verify Age of People Who Watch Porn
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The bill would require social networks, and any websites that allow users to upload content, to enact a “duty of care” that would require sites to proactively remove harmful or illegal content.
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[Link] Facebook appeal over Cambridge Analytica data rejected by Australian court as ‘divorced from reality’
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facebook has lost a major battle with the Australian regulator over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a court dismissed the social media giant’s claim that it neither conducts business nor collects personal information in the country.
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[Link] Meta's Oculus Quest rebrand is off to a disastrous start
Read: 6/2/2022 www.creativebloq.com
It's going to take us a while to get used to calling Facebook Meta, but spare a thought for Oculus Quest users, who are also being asked to call their VR headset by a new name.
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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.
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[Link] “Popcorn Time” Shuts Down Due to a Lack of Use
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
During its heyday, Popcorn-Time.to had millions of active users but these and other forks have lost their shine. The piracy tool that once had Netflix CEO Reed Hastings worried has decided to shut down.
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[Link] How Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
Depending on where you’ve been scrolling online this past year, you might have seen ads for a company called Shein, bearing taglines like “Make every day your Shein day!” and offers to win 250 outfits with a single click.
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[Link] Hack The Web Without A Browser
Read: 19/1/2022 hackaday.com
It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site.
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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.
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[Link] I Can't Stop Playing This Wikipedia History Game
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
WikiTrivia is a deceptively simple game that has consumed my entire morning. Wordle is fun, but it’s over quickly. WikiTrivia you can play over and over again. Players sort random events in history along a timeline.
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[Link] WhatsApp criticised for plan to allow messages to disappear after 24 hours
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
WhatsApp users are to be given the option to have their messages disappear after 24 hours, a change that drew immediate criticism from children’s charities. In a blog post announcing the change, WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users, said its mission was to “connect the world privately”.
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[Link] Youtube Ripper Strikes Back at the RIAA in DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Lawsuit
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the RIAA last year in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The music industry group asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Yout clearly circumvents technological protection measures.
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[Link] Founder of Piracy & Subtitling Site YYeTs Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
Following pressure from Hollywood, more than a dozen people behind famous Chinese piracy and subtitling site YYeTs.com were arrested in February. After a legal process in China, the founder of the platform - also known as Renren Yingshi - has been sentenced to 3.
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[Link] Trump social media company claims to raise $1bn from investors
Read: 5/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner said on Saturday the partner had agreements for $1bn in capital from institutional investors. The former president launched Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in October.
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[Link] Another Porn Site Says Banks Forced It to Stop Paying Sex Workers
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Throughout December, models can keep selling content as usual. On January 1, however, all content on the site will be free. AVN and AVN Stars did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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[Link] You Can Now Get $25 From Zoom Following a Class Action Settlement
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
As part of a class action lawsuit for alleged privacy and security issues, people who used Zoom between 2016 and 2021 can now file a claim to receive $25 or $15 as compensation.
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[Link] Air Force Spent Millions on Encrypted App Wickr
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. Air Force has spent millions of dollars on licenses from encrypted chat platform Wickr, according to Air Force documents and public procurement records reviewed by Motherboard. The documents further solidify Wickr’s position as a preferred tool of the U.S. government and military.
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[Link] Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Again
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down for the second time since founding the company, Twitter announced Monday. Dorsey will be replaced by current CTO Parag Agrawal. The announcement ends Dorsey's uneven, six-year second stint as Twitter CEO.
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[Link] Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey set to step down, report says
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role at the social media company, according to CNBC.
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[Link] Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication?
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
You’ve got to wonder how Peter Dutton, one of the most wealthy and overstretched members of federal parliament, fathoms up the wherewithal to sue for defamation an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate who called him something nasty on Twitter. Busy? You bet you are.
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[Link] Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.
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[Link] A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic. The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.
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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] The Pirate Bay Story Will Be Turned Into a TV Series
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay's turbulent history will be turned into a six-part TV drama. The Swedish production is scheduled to start filming next year and will be aired by public broadcaster SVT. The makers will base their story on input from various insiders but the site's founders are not part of the crew.
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[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] Jury Correctly Recognizes That Print-On-Demand Website Isn't A 'Counterfeiting' Business Engaged In Infringement
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Phew.
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[Link] Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
It’s the duty of those with right-clicker mentality to save every NFT they see. But right-click saving the thousands of JPEGs of Bored Apes and Lazy Lions out there tiring work.
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[Link] Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender
Read: 12/11/2021 www.theregister.com
UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.
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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.
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[Link] Discord Teases Getting Into Crypto and NFTs, People Big Mad
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Internet users, generally speaking, tend to dislike design changes.
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[Link] Akamai: Online Pirates Are Clever But Not Unbeatable
Read: 7/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
There's a growing number of technology companies trying to help copyright holders fight online piracy. Akamai Technologies, one of the big players, takes a multi-faceted approach to tackle the problem.
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[Link] Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On The Wrist
Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com
Tired of that unsettling feeling you get from looking for paywalled papers on that one site that shall not be named? Yeah, us too. But now there’s an alternative that should feel a little less illegal: this new index of the world’s research papers over on the Internet Archive.
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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] A Treasure Trove of Furry History Is Available on the Internet Archive
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Internet Archive is full of gifts: malware museums, secret public domain books, random VHS tape collections, basically any esoteric interest you can think of, there's probably an archive collection of it, built by volunteers who are just really into that thing.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] Zillow Is Killing Its Home-Buyer Service, Cutting 25 Percent of Workforce
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Only months after announcing plans to dramatically ramp up Zillow Offers, its home-buying iBuyer service, Zillow announced Tuesday that it is effectively killing it, saying it was too difficult to accurately price homes and only served a small percentage of its customer base.
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[Link] The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came from PayPal’s fraud prevention system. Someone had tried to use my PayPal account to spend $58.82, according to the automated voice on the line. PayPal needed to verify my identity to block the transfer.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Netflix hit with unfair labor charge from suspended and fired employees
Read: 31/10/2021 www.avclub.com
After weeks of controversy surrounding its release of—and then vocal high-level support for—the transphobic material in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, streaming giant Netflix now faces an unfair labor charge from two of its current/former employees.
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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.
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[Link] Federal police confiscate largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency
Read: 31/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
The federal government has netted its largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency and will redistribute the $1.2 million to law enforcement and community safety programs.
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[Link] Looks like Steam is getting a QR code login option
Read: 29/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A recent update to Steam's code includes signs of an upcoming new login method: Scanning a QR code with the Steam mobile app. That's according to a tweet by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.
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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] Lyft Has Received More Than 4,000 Sexual Assault Reports
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The report, released Thursday, breaks down sexual assault into five categories, including non-consensual sexual penetration, attempted sexual penetration, and non-consensual touching and kissing of body parts.
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[Link] ‘Asian Achievers,’ ‘Gay’: How ISPs Label Customers for Advertisers
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
A new FTC report has revealed that ISPs collect and sell a horrifying amount of sensitive data about their customers.
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] When Does Battlefield 2042 Unlock?
Read: 21/10/2021 www.gamespot.com
Battlefield 2042 suffered a small delay but will finally be arriving on November 19 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC.
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[Link] Netflix Isn’t Backing Down on Dave Chappelle and Neither Are Its Workers
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Employees have pledged to walk out of work on Wednesday, including the LGBTQ+ storytelling team and its head of queer editorial.
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[Link] Facebook’s Brand Is So Toxic Zuckerberg Reportedly Wants to Change Its Name
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In the middle of one of the worst crises his company has ever faced, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not digging in and fixing the democracy-destroying problems he’s created. Instead, he’s reportedly planning to rebrand.
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[Link] Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
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[Link] Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
The so-called “Vienna Laid Bare” initiative was launched by Vienna’s tourism board late last week along with its OnlyFans account. As of writing subscribers can receive a complimentary Vienna City Card, or a ticket for one of the museums featured on the account.
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[Link] Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Photos From Hundreds of iCloud Accounts
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
Hao Kuo Chi, 40, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and computer fraud after he hacked into hundreds of iCloud accounts and stole nude photos, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice.
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[Link] Google countersues Epic Games for lost Play Store money
Read: 17/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases.
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[Link] Netflix Is Sure 'Content' Doesn't Affect the World, Unless it Does
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
In a letter to Netflix employees about the backlash associated with Dave Chappelle's new stand up special, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he believes that media does not cause harm, in part because of the popularity of first-person shooter video games.
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[Link] People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs—And Defaulting
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the ongoing speedrun to turn everything into a non-fungible token, savvy traders and entrepreneurs have recently taken a few steps to squeeze more investment opportunities out of their JPEGs. Case in point: it’s now a thing to take out a loan and offer up an NFT as collateral.
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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.
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[Link] Looks Like Facebook Found a Way to Bypass Europe’s Privacy Rules
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] The Gamers Who Regularly Stream to No One
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017. The numbers tend to vary.
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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.
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[Link] Migration to SourceForge
Read: 12/10/2021 opengapps.org
Hello everyone! It’s been a while. You may have noticed that our website has undergone some changes. Today we’d like to share what has been going on with the hosting situation at GitHub and shed some light on our decision to transfer our releases to the SourceForge.
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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] High Traffic Pirate Sites Worldwide Under Investigation, DMCA Subpoenas Reveal
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
The operators of around two dozen torrent sites and pirate streaming services are at risk of having their identities obtained by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
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[Link] VPN Hosting Company Settles Copyright Lawsuit by Blocking Pirate Sites
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Hosting provider Sharktech has settled a copyright lawsuit filed by several movie companies. The service stood accused of failing to take action against VPN providers, some of whose subscribers were pirating films.
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[Link] EU Parliament Committee Adopts Digital Services Act
Read: 10/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
The EU's plans to modernize copyright law in Europe are moving ahead. The Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has just adopted a draft of the new Digital Services Act.
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[Link] Netflix edits Squid Game phone number after woman deluged with calls
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Netflix has edited out a phone number that appears in its hit series Squid Game after a South Korean woman and others who use similar combinations were deluged with calls – with some callers even asking to join the show’s life-or-death games.
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[Link] Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
Read: 9/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Cloudflare is not liable for the copyright infringement of websites that use its content-delivery and security services, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
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[Link] Wayback Machine’s 485 billion web pages blocked by Russian government order
Read: 5/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Internet Archive—including its Wayback Machine, which currently stores 485 billion snapshots of the world's web pages at different dates—is inaccessible for some users in Russia, as a post on the Global Voices site explains.
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[Link] Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage
Read: 4/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook’s network of services including Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit by an outage in multiple countries including UK and the US, as the company admitted users were having “trouble accessing our apps”.
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[Link] Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users’ and Models' Personal Information
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
Some former OnlyFans support staff employees still had access to users' data—including sensitive financial and personal information—even after they stopped working for the company used by sex workers to sell nudes and porn videos.
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[Link] Prominent DDL Piracy Site Snahp.it Shuts Down Citing Security Concerns
Read: 23/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
For the past five years, piracy release site Snahp.it has provided information and links to all kinds of pirated content including movies and TV shows. The site operated in the so-called DDL niche, relying on content hosted elsewhere to service its users.
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[Link] Thai OnlyFans Star Faces Prison Time As Outrage Over Case Grows
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Known by her online persona “Kai Nao,” which means rotten egg in Thai, the performer and her boyfriend, Korakot, broke the law by creating and spreading “obscene” content online, Thailand’s Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
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[Link] Discord funding round values it at an eye-popping $15 billion
Read: 16/9/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Discord is so hot right now.
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[Link] OnlyFans’ Botched Porn Ban Cost Creators Real Money
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
OnlyFans creators are still trying to recover the subscriptions and income they lost during the company's now reversed sexually explicit content ban.
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[Link] Coinbase Goes Nuclear After SEC Threatens to Sue Over Crypto Loans
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Notably, the fine print states that Coinbase is not a bank and funds lent through the service would not be protected by FIDC or SIPC insurance, which insure funds held in US savings accounts and financial instruments like stocks, respectively.
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[Link] The Publishers Association Ramps Up Site Blocking to Reduce Piracy
Read: 8/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Publishers Association, a UK organization supporting members producing digital and print books, research journals, and educational resources, obtained its first pirate site blocking injunction in 2015.
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[Link] Sky Subscribers’ Piracy Habits Directly Help Premier League Block Illegal Streams
Read: 29/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
UK ISP Sky Broadband is monitoring the IP addresses of servers suspected of streaming pirated content to subscribers and supplying that data to an anti-piracy company working with the Premier League.
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[Link] PayPal will no longer charge late fees for buy now, pay later purchases
Read: 26/8/2021 www.engadget.com
Soon, you'll no longer get hit with additional charges if you miss a PayPal installment for a previous purchase.
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[Link] Usenet Indexer NZBXS.com Shares User Details With Anti-Piracy Group and Shuts Down
Read: 25/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has claimed another victory on the piracy front. Usenet indexing site NZBXS.
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[Link] Filelinked Was Shut Down By ACE – Can Replacements Avoid The Same Fate?
Read: 25/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Back in June, the hugely popular Filelinked service, which enabled Amazon Fire TV users to easily install piracy-related apps, disappeared in mysterious circumstances. It's now confirmed that the powerful Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment took Filelinked down.
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[Link] Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A coalition of Hollywood studios, with the addition of Amazon and Netflix, has obtained an injunction to restrain Jason Tusa, the alleged operator of Altered Carbon, Area 51, and several other pirate IPTV services.
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[Link] Spaghetti Detective Users Boiled By Security Gaffe
Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com
For readers that might not spend their free time watching spools of PLA slowly unwind, The Spaghetti Detective (TSD) is an open source project that aims to use computer vision and machine learning to identify when a 3D print has failed and resulted in a pile of plastic “spaghetti” on the build p
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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[Link] How These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The youth-run organization is based in the US but has created an international community that lives online with the sole purpose of bringing to light human right violations and current events happening in the Middle East.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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[Link] Plex just changed the game when it comes to music playlists that aren't terrible
Read: 15/8/2021 www.androidauthority.com
When you create an automatic playlist on your music streaming platform of choice, it is almost certainly based on metadata. In other words, a track by Radiohead will get paired with tracks by artists in similar genres, as well as other Radiohead tracks.
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[Link] This Woman Secretly Runs One of the World's Biggest Anti-Vax Websites From Her House
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
An anti-vaxxer website which scrapes and misrepresents data from a government-run database has been spreading misinformation like wildfire through anti-vax communities for the last month. Now for the first time, the identity of the woman running the site has been revealed.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Yes, another streaming service is launching in Australia today
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Here's your Shortcuts Guide to the new service. It's the new streaming service owned by US media giant ViacomCBS.
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[Link] Adelaide man arrested for allegedly stalking woman he met on dating app
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
A man from Adelaide's northern suburbs has been arrested for stalking offences after a victim he met on a dating app contacted police fearing for her safety. Detectives went to the man's Andrews Farm address on Tuesday and found evidence including mail in different women's names.
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[Link] Instagram Shuts Down Fake Likes Factory
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Instagram recently sent a cease and desist demand to a site that sold fake likes and engagement on the platform, prompting the site to shut down in response, according to a person involved in the site and confirmation from Instagram.
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[Link] Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Read: 9/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform.
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[Link] Facebook users struggling to reactivate hacked accounts are buying $300 Oculus VR headsets just so they can talk to a customer service rep
Read: 8/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
Facebook users struggling to get back into their hacked accounts are buying the company’s $US300 ($AU405) VR headset and returning them unopened just so they can reactivate their profiles, according to an NPR report.
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[Link] You should download the new Google Drive for Desktop
Read: 8/8/2021 www.popsci.com
You might be familiar with Google Drive from its web interface or its mobile apps. But desktop software is available as well, allowing you to seamlessly sync files stored in your Google Drive with the file system on your Windows or macOS computer.
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[Link] Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Google maps street view form? Yes
Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com
Created by Nassim’s Software, the interface will be very familiar for those of you who mess with Google maps. It has minimalistic zoom options, as well as a full overview of the world of Hyrule. But it also has a secret weapon compared to many other fan-created maps: street view.
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[Link] The Future of Weaponized App Data
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s an old story with a new twist. A top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after someone leaked information about his private life. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill left his post after a Catholic-oriented Substack accused him of being a frequent user of Grindr.
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[Link] Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.
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[Link] Square to buy ‘buy now, pay later’ giant Afterpay in $29B deal
Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com
In a blockbuster deal that rocks the fintech world, Square announced today that it is acquiring Australian buy now, pay later giant Afterpay in a $29 billion all stock deal. The purchase price is based on the closing price of Square common stock on July 30, which was $247.26.
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[Link] How to Check if the Business That Won’t Pay You a Fair Wage Got a PPP Loan
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Summer’s ugliest trend is bosses pinning the blame for business interruptions on “lazy” workers.
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[Link] OnlyFans isn’t revolutionising sex work, and using it ruined things I once did for personal pleasure
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
I joked to another sex worker recently that five years ago every journalist asked us, maddeningly and repeatedly, about sex robots. Now, the obsession is OnlyFans.
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[Link] Meet FitGirl, The Repack ‘Queen’ Of Pirated Games
Read: 1/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Repacked games are in high demand on pirate sites as they save considerable bandwidth. One of the leading names in this niche is FitGirl. In recent years, the Russian-born repacker transformed from a home archivist into the best-known releaser on the Internet.
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[Link] BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
Read: 31/7/2021 www.infoq.com
In a series of blog posts published recently, Johnathan Ishmael, lead technical architect at BBC, explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast.
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[Link] Mass Bogus DMCA Takedowns Impersonate Reddit to Attack Downloading Tools
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Reddit downloader bot SaveVideo took itself offline this week following what appeared to be a copyright and trademark complaint from Reddit. However, it later transpired that the main document was an elaborate fake designed to sow confusion.
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[Link] Microsoft's new 'power app converging model' hits public preview with Custom Pages
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Microsoft's Custom Pages, an effort to converge its two different low-code Power App platforms, are now in public preview - though it is more hybrid than truly converged.
[Link] Tumblr Now Allows Creators to Charge for Content — You Know, Except for Porn, Which Is Still Banned
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Tumblr is following the lead of virtually all its competitors and introducing a new paid subscription tool for artists, writers, bloggers, other creators, the Wall Street Journal first reported on Wednesday. The once-massive blogging site has fallen on tough times.
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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.
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[Link] This Neat Twitch Tool Could Be the Answer to Streamers’ Copyright Strikes
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
In response to the waves and waves of copyright claims fired at Twitch streamers for more than a year, one developer has come up with a clever workaround for gamers who want to play copyrighted jams on the Amazon-owned streaming site.
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[Link] Robinhood to Raise Billions From the Rich, Give None of It to the Poor
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Robinhood, the wildly popular stock-trading app that’s made it easy to throw fistfuls of money at meme stocks while also occasionally locking those users out of trades on a whim, is ready to cash in big time.
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