AI Vendor Perplexity Accused of Scraping Websites That Explicitly Blocked AI Scraping Oops. Did they do that? They wouldn’t do that, would they? Cloudflare published research that says it actually saw Perplexity scraping sites while explicitly obscuring its identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. To the tune of tens of thousands of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, you heard me right. No, not party balloons, spy balloons. As countries want ever more spy data but don’t have ever more budget, this is an option they are testing. Just last week the UK said it had completed trials of an UNCREWED, high altitude set of balloons. The MoD said they were a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Drug Cartels Use IT to Kill FBI Informants According to a newly published report, a Sinaloa cartel/El Chapo insider contacted the FBI in 2018 and told it of all the ways in which the cybercrook hired by the cartel helped it track down those who could give up key details about its operation and eliminate […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In light of the Supreme Court saying that it it not invasive for web sites to collect your government ID to verify your age before letting you see their site, Google is trying a different, very interesting, tactic instead of requiring you to upload your government ID. The problems with web sites collecting your ID […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Tea app, apparently, is a women-only dating safety app where members can share reviews about men, with access to the platform requiring a selfie and a government ID. The app, apparently, had a security problem. On Friday a user posted that there was an unsecured Firebase storage bucket with driver’s licenses, selfies and photos […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DOGE Staffer Leaked Private xAI API Key This does not appear to be malicious but both careless and of questionable judgement. Marko Elez, a special government employee who recently worked on systems at Treasury, Social Security and Homeland, published code to his GitHub. The code contained a private API key that exposed dozens of models […]
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