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Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording in Real Time' Software
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Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording in Real Time' Software

The complaint claims that Babeland and Good Vibrations websites uses Microsoft's Clarity tracking software to see what visitors searched for and bought.
Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts
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Perplexity’s Origin Story: Scraping Twitter With Fake Academic Accounts

CEO Aravind Srinivas explained how the company took off after it created a demo by scraping twitter with fake academic accounts using fake AI-generated research proposals.
Self Tanner and Cheap Ties: Bankruptcy Filings Reveal Rudy Giuliani's Amazon Purchases
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Self Tanner and Cheap Ties: Bankruptcy Filings Reveal Rudy Giuliani's Amazon Purchases

Court documents show what the former mayor of NYC has been buying on Amazon lately, including a lot of socks, ties, and self-tanning lotion.
Researchers Prove Rabbit AI Breach By Sending Email to Us as Admin
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Researchers Prove Rabbit AI Breach By Sending Email to Us as Admin

The researchers claim they could see “all Rabbit R1 responses ever given."
ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses
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ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses

As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.
California Apple Manufacturing Facility Has 19 ‘Potential Violations’ of EPA Regulations
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California Apple Manufacturing Facility Has 19 ‘Potential Violations’ of EPA Regulations

A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency suggests that Apple also miscalculated the effectiveness of its hazardous compound air filters.
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
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I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI

Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.
Researcher Infects His Own Meta Quest VR Headset With Ransomware
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Researcher Infects His Own Meta Quest VR Headset With Ransomware

A cybersecurity researcher set out to prove whether Meta’s virtual reality headset is susceptible to a certain flavor of ransomware.
Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn
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Users ‘Jailbreak’ AI Video Generator to Make Porn

Luma Labs’ Dream Machine, an AI video generator that’s on the market before OpenAI’s Sora, can be tricked to generate explicit videos.
AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
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AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell

Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.
Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops
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Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops

A hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'
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Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on GitHub to Protest 'Art Theft'

An extension for a popular Stable Diffusion graphical user interface on Github appears to have been stealing users’ login credentials.