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Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data
The Plaintiff claims Tea harmed her and ‘thousands of other similarity situated persons in the massive and preventable cyberattack.’
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UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage
“If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.
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A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.
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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
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Credit Card Companies Are Hurting the Future of Video Games
By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”
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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
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Behind the Blog: High Stakes Data Dumps
This week, we discuss data dumps, high stakes, and lizard brain screen time.
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Steam Bends to Payment Processors on Porn Games
Steam, which has hosted sex games for years, says developers must now comply with the standards of payment processors and financial institutions.
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Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.
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a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise
Data shows that the vast majority of images on Civitai were pornographic, and that the site hosted more than 50,000 AI models designed to recreate the likeness of real people.
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Payment Processors Are Pushing AI Porn Off Its Biggest Platforms
Creators of AI image models for porn and celebrities are running out of easy hosting options as Civitai and Tensor.Art change their policies under pressure.