180853472
submission
Arrogant-Bastard writes:
Blogger "rogi" decided to verify themself on LinkedIn — and then dug into the privacy policy not just of LinkedIn, but of the company they use for this purpose...and then of the companies and governments the data is shared with. It's an extensive, alarming, and well-written trip down the rabbit hole of the user verification.
179939702
submission
Arrogant-Bastard writes:
The Center for Nonprofit Excellent has summarized the issues this raises: lack of consent, confusion for funders and supporters, fees and other expenses, SEO optimization, and implementation challenges. They recommended immediate action on the part of nonprofits. GoFundMe walked this back and apologized and a statement from the National Council of Nonprofits while noting "Nonprofits depend on transparency, trust, and the ability to control their own fundraising. GoFundMe’s actions were a breach of that trust." I'll add that this is the sort of thing we'd expect from typosquatting scammers, not from a professional fundraising organization; I have no idea what they possibly could have been thinking when they decided to do this.
175160875
submission
Arrogant-Bastard writes:
A recent Rand report (PDF) discusses the large-scale use of bots powered by LLMs to manipulate/astroturf social media. An introduction to the report ominously notes: "[...] we have to assume that AI manipulation is ubiquitous, it's proliferating, and we're going to have to learn to live with it. That's a really scary thing.”
175107863
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Arrogant-Bastard writes:
German authorities have seized 47 cryptocurrency exchanges used by various criminal organizations (ransomware gangs, botnet operators, etc.) in operation "Final Exchange". They've redirected the relevant websites and announced that they intend to track down the users/transactions.
