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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 21, 2023

Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]

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The Noose is Tightening – SLOWLY – Around Social Media’s Neck

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will be fined $100,000 a day over privacy breaches unless it fixes the issue, says Norway’s data protection board. Norway says that Meta can’t harvest physical location data to target ads. Big tech loves doing this, so while Meta is in the cross hairs today, if this sticks, others will […]

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Hearing is Believing – NOT!

Remember when we used to say seeing is believing. Or hearing. Well not any more. Want to hear Johnny Cash sing Barbie Girl? With amazing fidelity? It is available on YouTube. Only problem is that the Barbie song came out after Cash was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and had stopped performing. Also, this recording […]

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Media Calls Twitter ‘Dying Social Media Platform as Humans Flee’

Twitter’s traffic has been plummeting since the launch of Threads according to Vice, but they say that what has been increasing on the platform is the number of bizarre spam accounts hawking questionable wares. Since anyone can now buy a checkmark, these spammers have been doing that and advertising overpriced decorative items and household items. […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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If ChatGPT Libels You, Who Do You Sue? – It Is A Problem Already

Everyone is in love with Large Language Model AIs, but they are far from perfect. Someone suggested that ChatGPT is “mansplaining as a service” (MaaS). While perhaps it is a somewhat pejorative term (to either the GPTs or men), it is fairly accurate. A couple of months ago a professor at UCLA asked ChatGPT to […]

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