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WhatsApp API flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts 🔥🕵️♂️🎯
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting!💥🧱💼🩲
#news #technews
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting!💥🧱💼🩲
#news #technews
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
WhatsApp API flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
WhatsApp API flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts 🔥🕵️♂️🎯
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting!💥🧱💼🩲
#news #technews
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting!💥🧱💼🩲
#news #technews
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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I am sure this will be hugely unpopular with a lot of people; but I think AI prompt visibility tracking is generally a big and expensive waste of time. 🤷♂️
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I am sure this will be hugely unpopular with a lot of people; but I think AI prompt visibility tracking is generally a big and expensive waste of time. 🤷♂️
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If there's one thing India's been good at, it's stalling/strangulating the economy with umpteen licenses, custom duties (read tariffs) on almost everything imaginable & then letting loose a bevy of indifferent inspectors to regulate it. The US should learn from India's mistakes, but it won't.
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If there's one thing India's been good at, it's stalling/strangulating the economy with umpteen licenses, custom duties (read tariffs) on almost everything imaginable & then letting loose a bevy of indifferent inspectors to regulate it. The US should learn from India's mistakes, but it won't.
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
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What's the word for when a university famous for economics and in possession of a $10bn endowment screws up its finances badly enough it has to sell a whole research institute? www.ft.com/content/4501...
UChicago sells prized institute amid high debt and low returns
Endowment of famed finance school posted weak investment gains as it borrowed heavily to invest in research capacity
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
What's the word for when a university famous for economics and in possession of a $10bn endowment screws up its finances badly enough it has to sell a whole research institute? www.ft.com/content/4501...
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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The @graphene_os account on TikTok that's getting a lot of interaction is fake and impersonating us. If you have an account there, please report it for trademark infringement. TikTok's reporting system for impersonating doesn't work for this but reporting it for trademark infringement should work.
September 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The @graphene_os account on TikTok that's getting a lot of interaction is fake and impersonating us. If you have an account there, please report it for trademark infringement. TikTok's reporting system for impersonating doesn't work for this but reporting it for trademark infringement should work.
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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This reminds me of this comic, that David Revoy just created recently: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/...
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This reminds me of this comic, that David Revoy just created recently: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/...
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It’s incredible how companies are threatening employees to use AI or else but then have no idea how or what employees are supposed to do with it.
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It’s incredible how companies are threatening employees to use AI or else but then have no idea how or what employees are supposed to do with it.
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Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.”
Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Either way, they take zero responsibility.
NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary
futurism.com/openai-scann...
futurism.com/openai-scann...
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
futurism.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.”
Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Either way, they take zero responsibility.
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Some notes on the insecurity baked into Perplexity's Comet "AI Browser" - the Brave security team reported serious prompt injection vulnerabilities in it, but Brave themselves are developing a similar feature that looks doomed to have similar problems simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/...
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
The security team from Brave took a look at Comet, the LLM-powered "agentic browser" extension from Perplexity, and unsurprisingly found security holes you can drive a truck through. The vulnerability...
simonwillison.net
August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Some notes on the insecurity baked into Perplexity's Comet "AI Browser" - the Brave security team reported serious prompt injection vulnerabilities in it, but Brave themselves are developing a similar feature that looks doomed to have similar problems simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/...
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Wow! 642,564 downloads of LibreOffice version 25.8 in just one week! That's an incredible start. What an amazing testament to the power of opensource software. Great work😊
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Wow! 642,564 downloads of LibreOffice version 25.8 in just one week! That's an incredible start. What an amazing testament to the power of opensource software. Great work😊
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs
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PSA. old.reddit.com exists if you don't want to use their JS-riddled, gamified, ad-thingie.
July 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
PSA. old.reddit.com exists if you don't want to use their JS-riddled, gamified, ad-thingie.
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“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
— George Carlin
— George Carlin
July 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
— George Carlin
— George Carlin
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
