Tag: Lawsuits
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Slashdot: DNA of 15 Million People For Sale In 23andMe Bankruptcy
Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/2022232/dna-of-15-million-people-for-sale-in-23andme-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DNA of 15 Million People For Sale In 23andMe Bankruptcy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses 23andMe’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, raising significant concerns about the security and privacy of genetic information following a major data breach. The financial turmoil highlights the vulnerabilities associated…
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The Register: Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn’t pay up
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/extortionists_ox_thief_legal_threats/ Source: The Register Title: Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn’t pay up Feedly Summary: Don’t laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Dark web analysts at infosec software vendor Fortra have discovered an extortion crew named Ox Thief that threatened to contact Edward Snowden…
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The Register: GitLab and its execs sued again and again over ‘misleading’ AI hype, price hikes
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/gitlab_thrice_sued/ Source: The Register Title: GitLab and its execs sued again and again over ‘misleading’ AI hype, price hikes Feedly Summary: Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI…
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Hacker News: Doge Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data
Source URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/ Source: Hacker News Title: Doge Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reveals significant concerns surrounding an entity referred to as DOGE, associated with Elon Musk, gaining excessive access to several U.S. government agencies, including USAID, NASA, and the CDC. This…
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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…