Tag: Facebook
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The Register: DeepSeek’s iOS app is a security nightmare, and that’s before you consider its TikTok links
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek’s iOS app is a security nightmare, and that’s before you consider its TikTok links Feedly Summary: PLUS: Spanish cops think they’ve bagged NATO hacker; HPE warns staff of data breach; Lazy Facebook phishing, and more! Infosec In Brief DeepSeek’s iOS app is a security nightmare that you…
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Slashdot: ‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’: Meta Emails Unsealed
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/07/1224244/torrenting-from-a-corporate-laptop-doesnt-feel-right-meta-emails-unsealed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’: Meta Emails Unsealed Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This report highlights serious allegations against Meta for copyright infringement relating to unauthorized training of AI models on pirated literary works. Newly released emails bring to light extensive data piracy,…
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Hacker News: Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
Source URL: https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/ Source: Hacker News Title: Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant geolocation data leak involving over 2,000 apps that collect user data without consent, revealing privacy risks from intricate advertising networks. The author’s personal investigation…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/mark-zuckerberg/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg Feedly Summary: Llama 4 is making great progress in training. Llama 4 mini is done with pre-training and our reasoning models and larger model are looking good too. Our goal with Llama 3 was to make open source competitive with closed models, and our…
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Hacker News: Why OpenAI’s $157B valuation misreads AI’s future (Oct 2024)
Source URL: https://foundationcapital.com/why-openais-157b-valuation-misreads-ais-future/ Source: Hacker News Title: Why OpenAI’s $157B valuation misreads AI’s future (Oct 2024) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic dynamics and strategic challenges in the AI industry, centered around OpenAI’s recent funding rounds and its implications for value creation in…
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Slashdot: Meta’s AI Chatbot Taps User Data With No Opt-Out Option
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/27/1821216/metas-ai-chatbot-taps-user-data-with-no-opt-out-option?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s AI Chatbot Taps User Data With No Opt-Out Option Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s AI chatbot is now incorporating users’ personal data from Facebook and Instagram to provide tailored responses, raising concerns about privacy and data sharing. This upgrade allows the AI to retain…
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The Register: Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/scale_ai_outlier_sued_over/ Source: The Register Title: Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths Feedly Summary: Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it’s alleged Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform…
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Hacker News: Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/meta-ai-powered-instagram-facebook-profiles Source: Hacker News Title: Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Meta is discontinuing its AI character profiles on Facebook and Instagram due to user backlash and operational bugs. The profiles, initially launched in 2023, included personalities that sparked…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jason Koebler
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/jason-koebler/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jason Koebler Feedly Summary: the Meta controlled, AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles going viral right now have been on the platform for well over a year and all of them stopped posting 10 months ago after users almost universally ignored them. […] What is obvious from…
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Hacker News: Time to check if you ran any of these malicious Chrome extensions
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/dozens-of-backdoored-chrome-extensions-discovered-on-2-6-million-devices/ Source: Hacker News Title: Time to check if you ran any of these malicious Chrome extensions Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security incident involving malicious browser extensions in Google’s Chrome Web Store that compromised sensitive data from approximately 2.6 million devices. The threat…