Enlarge / Colorized photo image of a Western blot test result. (credit: Getty Images) Scientific publishers such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Taylor & Francis have begun attempting to detect fraud in academic paper submissions with an AI image-checking program called Proofig, reports The Register. Proofig, a product of an Israeli...
Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked
(credit: xxdigipxx) The head of Kiwi Farms, the Internet forum best known for organizing harassment campaigns against trans and non-binary people, said the site experienced a breach that allowed hackers to access his administrator account and possibly the accounts of all other users. On the site, creator Joshua Moon wrote: The forum was hacked. You...
At eBay, Lurid Crimes and the Search for Punishment
The victims of a bizarre cyberstalking operation are trying to hold the chief executive and the culture of the company responsible.
TikTok’s CEO Navigates the Limits of His Power
Shou Zi Chew, TikTok’s chief executive, is balancing how to be an autonomous leader while juggling the demands of the app’s Chinese parent company.
For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine
Need to find a restaurant or figure out how to do something? Young people are turning to TikTok to search for answers. Google has noticed.
Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.
Uber Boss Testifies He ‘Could Not Trust’ Ex-Security Chief
Dara Khosrowshahi is a star witness at the trial of Joe Sullivan, who has been accused of obstructing justice for failing to disclose the 2016 breach.
Artists begin selling AI-generated artwork on stock photography websites
Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock. (credit: Shutterstock.com) Seeking ways to “monetize” AI-generated art, some artists have already begun submitting their AI-generated pieces to stock photography websites like Shutterstock. Searches for “AI generated” or “Midjourney” (a popular image synthesis service) produce thousands of results on the site. In...
Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack
Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on the GPT-3 language model by OpenAI. Using a newly discovered technique called a “prompt injection attack,” they redirected the bot to repeat...
Uber was breached to its core, purportedly by an 18-year-old. Here’s what’s known
Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone. (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Uber employees on Thursday discovered that huge swaths of their internal network had been accessed by someone who announced the feat on the company Slack channel. The intruder, who sent screenshots documenting the breach to The New...






