Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts...
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Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why
Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. (credit: Nathan Coppen/Getty Images) Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many people since late Thursday night, and the social network...
Sam Bankman-Fried, Founder of FTX, Responds to Fraud Charges
The disgraced founder of the crypto exchange FTX denied that he stole anyone’s money and said customers could still get their deposits back.
Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down on a relationship with the start-up OpenAI.
Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting. “This is an unauthenticated RCE,” members of the Shadowserver group wrote on Twitter, using the abbreviation for remote code exploit. “Exploitation is trivial and a PoC published.” PoC...
Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers
(credit: Fortinet) An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report on Wednesday. Tracked as CVE-2022-42475, the vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code. It carries a severity...
Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name
Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation’s feather logo. The photo is part of a set aiming to recreate a similar image taken around the time of the foundation’s launch. (credit: Rich Bowen/Zaheda...
FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file
Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded flights across the US on January 11, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Saul Loeb) A Notice to Air Missions system outage that grounded flights across the US yesterday morning seems to have been caused by...
How to Make Your Smartphone Photos So Much Better
Professional photographers have long used the RAW format and editing software to turn image files into gorgeous pictures — and you can, too.