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PhD Candidate Who Dropped Out to Become OnlyFans Model Is Making a Killing Posting Educational Videos to PornHub

Former PhD candidate Zara Dar left academia to earn over $1 million on OnlyFans and gained viral success posting educational videos on Pornhub.

Latin Times

It's Way Too Easy To Hack License Plate Cameras, Researcher Finds

Last June, the Department of Homeland Security released an advisory noting that a commonly used automated license plate reader (ALPR) was theoretically vulnerable to a variety of hacks. This week, security researcher Matt Brown has demonstrated that not only are these ALPRs actually vulnerable, but many are easily accessible to anyone…

Motor1

Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots

I'm all smiles over here.

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'I've been waiting over 4 hours in the cold': Zipcar's Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps

Nothing convenient about that.

PC Gamer

Conspiracy Theories Flood Social Media After Users Discover 'Creepy' ChatGPT Error

A peculiar ChatGPT glitch has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories after users found that the AI tool refuses to respond when certain names are mentioned.

Latin Times

Drug Cartels Use Tether And Bitcoin To Launder Millions, Court Documents Reveal

Unsealed court documents highlight how drug cartels from Mexico and Colombia are leveraging cryptocurrency, particularly Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) and

Benzinga

Nintendo's lawsuit bonanza continues, with streamer EveryGameGuru targeted for being 'a recidivist pirate who has obtained and streamed Nintendo's leaked games on multiple occasions'

The filing also alleges he linked to ROM sites and emulators.

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Apple Makes It More Difficult for Crooks and Cops To Look at Your Phone

A new "inactivity reboot" protects data from thieves and helps preserve due process.

Reason

Location tracking, meet abortion bans – authoritarians have too much power

Babel Street’s people-tracking service allows customers – including government agencies – to track mobile users

The Guardian - US

LinkedIn already started training its AI on user data before updating ToS

Your data will be used to train LinkedIn’s AI, but the company didn’t update its terms of service until it was too late.

TechRadar

US firm Cox Media accused of listening to private conversations to help push targeted ads

In this Science segment we tell you about how new revelations by the investigative website 404 Media are set to affect the world of digital advertising. The American company Cox Media Group has privately admitted to developing an "active listening" software to eavesdrop on users' private conversations to better target…

France 24

Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory. But maybe our phones really are listening to us

Big brands already know far too much about us. But Cox Media Group’s ‘Active Listening’ software adds a whole new layer of creepiness, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

"Is this even legal?" A leaked pitch reveals marketing agency uses 'Active Listening' software to eavesdrop on calls and push curated Facebook and Google ads

A marketing agency admitted it listens to user voice data using its “Active Listening” software via smartphone microphones and uses the data to channel the "right" Facebook and Google ads to target customers.

Windows Central

NVIDIA accused of scraping 80 years worth of videos daily to train AI models — what you need to know

A new report alleges that NVIDIA has been scraping videos from YouTube and Netflix to train AI models.

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Nvidia accused of scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of videos per day to train AI

A 404 Media report sourced through an anonymous former employee accuses Nvidia of scraping millions of videos without the proper permission to train its AI.

TechRadar

Tracker company Tile hacked — police data provider says it faced "extortion" attempt following breach

Names, addresses and phone numbers were stolen and then used to try and extort Tile parent company Life360.

Inverse

7 Years Later, Gaming's Most Annoying Problem Has Only Gotten Worse

The industry hasn't been able to keep secrets for nearly a decade.

GamesRadar

Nintendo leak reportedly came from an employee accessing private YouTube videos, but Google says it was "non-intentional" because they only showed it to a friend

A 2017 E3 leak just got some new light shed on it

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Android Central

A glaring Android TV security flaw might put your Gmail at risk

Logging into an Android TV with your account might leave your emails open for anyone with physical access to the device.

PC Gamer

Discord drops the hammer on data-scraping 'Spy.pet' website, says it is 'considering appropriate legal action'

The Spy.pet site had reportedly scraped billions of messages from Discord and was offering them for sale.

iMore

Apple yanks multiple AI nude-generating apps from the iPhone's App Store

Apple has removed three AI apps from the App Store after it was discovered that they could be used to generate nonconsensual nudes.

International Business Times UK

Hatsune Miku Fans Cry Foul Over Virtual Tour 'Downgrade'

Popstar Hatsune Miku's North American tour uses screens instead of holograms, sparking fan debate over value for money.

WEKU

C-e-a-s-e and desist: 'The New York Times' goes after Wordle spinoffs

Hundreds of GitHub users were notified after the media outlet sent takedown notices to coders it believed violated its copyright on the game.

Reason

AI Versus Age-Verification Laws

AI tools churning out images of fake IDs could help people get around online age-check laws.

Fortune

Taylor Swift deepfakes highlight AI's biggest flaw

Policing deepfakes is difficult because today's AI doesn't have human-like conceptual understanding.

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