Miscellaneous Tech News
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AI draws dog-walking baby radish in a tutu
Avocado-shaped armchairs, radishes in tutus and cats in sunglasses are among some surreal works of art created by an artificial-intelligence system.
Dall-E was trained to generate images from short text-based descriptions, using 12 billion images and their captions sourced from the internet. Creator OpenAI previously produced a text generator that turns short phrases into stories, poems and articles. Experts said the results of its latest innovation were impressive, if patchy. Combining an understanding of both language and pictures will be the key to making AI smarter and the models devised by OpenAI make good strides towards this, most researchers agree. -
Facebook blocks Trump 'at least until transition complete'
Donald Trump has been suspended from his Facebook account for at least two weeks - and possibly indefinitely.
It means the president will be unable to post on Facebook and Instagram until after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January. The social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after his supporters attacked the US Capitol. Facebook's chief Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post "are simply too great". In a video posted to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Mr Trump told the rioters attacking the seat of government "I love you" before telling them to go home. He also repeated false claims about election fraud. -
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Roku snaps up Quibi's collection of short shows
Entertainment platform Roku has acquired the rights to more than 75 programmes and short films created for the failed streaming service Quibi.
Quibi broadcast short programmes less than 10 minutes long, but collapsed just six months after its launch. Roku, which is known for its internet-connected set-top boxes and dongles, will show the programmes on its own streaming service free of charge. Quibi co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said he was "thrilled" by the deal. Roku has not announced how much it paid for Quibi Holdings. But Rob Holmes, vice-president of programming for Roku, told the BBC: "The pivot from subscription to ad-supported is a different set of economics. We're really excited about the value we were able to achieve through the ad-supported model. "This is the kind of content that you don't normally get for free." -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/firefox-were-finally-getting-hw-acceleration-on-linux/
Hey, I'll take it! I hope one day more software on Linux will take advantage of hardware acceleration.
Maybe 2021 will be the year of the Linux desktop!
Baby steps!
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Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support
Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called "free speech" social network.
Parler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it. Parler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter. The platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user. Amazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence. -
I got the email from Ubiquiti today:
Dear Customer,
We recently became aware of unauthorized access to certain of our information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider. We have no indication that there has been unauthorized activity with respect to any user’s account.
We are not currently aware of evidence of access to any databases that host user data, but we cannot be certain that user data has not been exposed. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account (in technical terms, the passwords are hashed and salted). The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us.
As a precaution, we encourage you to change your password. We recommend that you also change your password on any website where you use the same user ID or password. Finally, we recommend that you enable two-factor authentication on your Ubiquiti accounts if you have not already done so.
Ugh.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I got the email from Ubiquiti today:
Dear Customer,
We recently became aware of unauthorized access to certain of our information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider. We have no indication that there has been unauthorized activity with respect to any user’s account.
We are not currently aware of evidence of access to any databases that host user data, but we cannot be certain that user data has not been exposed. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account (in technical terms, the passwords are hashed and salted). The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us.
As a precaution, we encourage you to change your password. We recommend that you also change your password on any website where you use the same user ID or password. Finally, we recommend that you enable two-factor authentication on your Ubiquiti accounts if you have not already done so.
Ugh.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ubiquiti-change-your-password-enable-2fa/
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken
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File under: Fucking Duh.....
Signal and Telegram downloads surge after WhatsApp says it will share data with Facebook
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken
Maybe they should have actually hired a professional or three instead Billy Bob’s web and app design.
One article said they were using the free tier of twilio for something also.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken
Security researchers don't leak information. They let the platform know they found a leak and work with them to close it.
If they leak information, they are be definition hackers (crackers, black hats, hacktivists etc).
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken
Security researchers don't leak information. They let the platform know they found a leak and work with them to close it.
If they leak information, they are be definition hackers (crackers, black hats, hacktivists etc).
At what point does someone go from being a security researcher who's raised the red flag to a platform who apparently refuses to fix simple but large vulnerabilities to a black-hat?
There are numerous cases of White-Hats saying "hey we gave them months to fix this issue and we were continually ignored, for the security of the users, we're making this public to get the platform to fix this issue"
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I got the email from Ubiquiti today:
Dear Customer,
We recently became aware of unauthorized access to certain of our information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider. We have no indication that there has been unauthorized activity with respect to any user’s account.
We are not currently aware of evidence of access to any databases that host user data, but we cannot be certain that user data has not been exposed. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account (in technical terms, the passwords are hashed and salted). The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us.
As a precaution, we encourage you to change your password. We recommend that you also change your password on any website where you use the same user ID or password. Finally, we recommend that you enable two-factor authentication on your Ubiquiti accounts if you have not already done so.
Ugh.
Yepp.... I got one too. I suppose that I should go change my password.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yepp.... I got one too. I suppose that I should go change my password.
Yeah it took seconds. Hope onto that
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yepp.... I got one too. I suppose that I should go change my password.
Yeah it took seconds. Hope onto that
I'm not sure what my password is anyway, lol. I should check my password manager and see if it knows, lol.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken
Security researchers don't leak information. They let the platform know they found a leak and work with them to close it.
If they leak information, they are be definition hackers (crackers, black hats, hacktivists etc).
At what point does someone go from being a security researcher who's raised the red flag to a platform who apparently refuses to fix simple but large vulnerabilities to a black-hat?
There are numerous cases of White-Hats saying "hey we gave them months to fix this issue and we were continually ignored, for the security of the users, we're making this public to get the platform to fix this issue"
You are a black hat when you're main goal is to simply steal and dump or steal and do other bad things.
No one is calling Google's Project Zero hackers/black hats because they give a, what 90 day window to companies to fix their shit before they post about it.
But really, if you're white - YOU should never dump someone else's data. Period. Dumping is very likely an act that is over the line and makes you a black hat.
You don't need to dump their data to embarrass the hell out of a company... just tell the world about them, and post how you found said data - others will go and pull it out and post it...
