Although how they did it is slightly different, Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps and Yandex, a Russian company that offers Google-like services, both figured out that just because a user said don’t track me didn’t mean that it applies to them. Rather than sending cookie data back to Meta and Yandex, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And big US players are not happy. Apple has been forced to allow users to specify non-Safari browsers as their default. Browser choice was also opened in the Android world although users could already use any browser they want to. Mostly, it is about companies like Apple, Google, TikTok and a few other mega players […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Great AI Tool With a Large Dose of Chinese Propaganda and Censorship If you want a very high performing and very low cost AI model, likely subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, that meets or beats OpenAI and are willing to tolerate Chinese propaganda and censorship, have I got a piece of software for you. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Orleans Truck Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Bans to Surveil French Quarter An advertising executive once said all publicity was good. I don’t think he understands terrorism. The FBI has revealed footage from the attacker’s Meta glasses that he took while going through the French Quarter on a bicycle. Not exactly the “use case” Meta wants […]
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