for 50 seconds when I was wearing an Apple headset I thought there were monsters on the world
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Zaslav literally pulling a “some of my best friends are writers.” Beautiful.
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What’s the best time of year to find a new apartment? (Aside from never)
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“Babe was actually a terrible pig. I hated him, and I’m glad he’s dead.”
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I filmed this set in 2016 and cc continues to run it and I never see a dime.
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“This is for all you Megans, Sarahs, and Lindseys out there.” @blacktress
Full special now streaming on YouTube: spr.ly/6011OiLKU
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Exclusive: L.A.'s hospitality union, which represents workers at popular shooting locations across the region, is backing the writers' strike. told hotel employers it "will not cross any picket line set up" by .
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Vibe guide to WGA picketing locations. Disney: a lovely stroll in the park. WB: block party. Netflix: a friendly riot. Paramount: horny.
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god forbid a woman have hobbies
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New: The City of Dallas has been hit by ransomware. The attack, claimed by Royal, has forced the city to shut down courts and has disrupted some 911 services
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Here's the ransom note that the hackers reportedly made some of the city of Dallas' printers spit out.
techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/ran
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It took the U.S. government a decade to track down the mastermind behind Try2Check, a service that verified stolen credit card numbers for cybercriminals, making them millions. Here’s how they did it techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/try
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hahahaha this is the same shit they tried to pull 15 years ago when we asked for jurisdiction over this crazy futuristic thing that they said it was too soon to talk about called “the internet”
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NEW: Hackers have stolen users' personal information
from two hookup websites, CityJerks and TruckerSucker.
Stolen data includes: usernames, email addresses, poorly encrypted passwords, geolocation (city/stare), and private messages.
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SCOOP: Hackers have been breaking into AT&T email accounts and abused that access to steal cryptocurrency.
Once the cybercriminals hack into the email accounts, they reset passwords to the victims' accounts on crypto exchanges.
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one of the first alerts some colleagues got was that we were shutting down lmao
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BuzzFeed News had us go through training of a new news alert system the day before they shut us down and so now every hour or so I am getting breaking news notifications and it’s just like !!! Ok!!!
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I hope this night of obscene debacles becomes at least like a business school case study in thinking about things before you do them.
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NEW: Apple's "extreme" privacy and security mode blocked a hacking attempt made with NSO's zero-day exploits, according to Citizen Lab.
First documented case where Lockdown Mode not only blocked the attempt, but also notified the target.
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Cyberattack on important farm water controllers for irrigating fields in the Jordan Valley. Made them not function. “those who left their systems on remote control were the ones impacted by the attack”. Remember: don’t keep your irrigation system online. m.jpost.com/israel-news/ar
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Nexx, the company, claims it is being “proactive”. But this move comes after a security researcher was ignored for months when they tried to report the issue. Company also didn’t respond to us for weeks. Only now addressing it
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I've said this before but I think one of the best ways to tell whether a software privacy feature is effective is whether it's upsetting people who work in advertising
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If you thought Apple couldn't eliminate more data / cookies along comes Safari 16.4.
Server set FIRST PARTY cookies now max 7 days (conditions described in original PR below).
This aimed squarely at Google Tag Manager but affects every server-side proxy.
It's War on the web.
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This is horrible.
"A Belgian man recently died by suicide after chatting with an AI chatbot on an app called Chai...The app’s chatbot encouraged the user to kill himself..."
Unleashing this into the world with zero accountability 😡
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“we want to know what you think”
your own website has tiktok trackers
…and facebook trackers
…and google trackers
y’all actually have a terrible consumer privacy policy 😐
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TikTok's security and data collection policies have been hotly debated for some time, and we want to know what you think.
Should TikTok should be banned in the U.S.?
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New: ransomware group claims a breach of Amazon's Ring. Is threatening to release stolen data publicly. Unclear what data they have, corporate or customer. This ransomware group recently dumped peoples' medical data. Verified the Ring listing is online. vice.com/en/article/qjv
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this tweet took me everywhere
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After the Challenger tragically exploded, my dreams of being an astronaut were cut short.
But I did what I had to do – including hog farming – to purchase my first McDonalds in 1997.
Today, I am honored to represent #OK01 in the U.S. Congress.
Never EVER give up.
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starz had the real caterers working the party down premier in LA - wear the same uniform - as the characters on party down, who are all struggling to make it in LA and forced to take a shitty second job as a caterer …that’s an RDD
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