Man behind LinkedIn scraping said he grabbed 700M profiles ‘for fun’
Last month we reported a LinkedIn scraping that exposed the data of 700 million users – some 92% of all those on the service. The data included location, phone numbers, and inferred salaries. The man behind it has now been identified, and says tha.....»»
Laboratory and natural strains of intestinal bacterium turn out to have similar mutational profiles
Understanding mutational processes in a cell offers clues to the evolution of a genome. Most actively, mutation processes are studied in human cancer cells, while other genomes are often neglected......»»
Tesla interns say offers are getting revoked weeks before their start date
Tesla Inc. is rescinding offers just weeks before internships were set to start, prompting aspiring employees to take to LinkedIn to appeal to other employers to take them in......»»
Apple profiles three distinguished Swift Student Challenge winners
Apple has profiled three of the "Distinguished Winners" of its 2024 Swift Student Challenge, with apps covering care, extreme sports, and breathing exercises.Three winners from the 2024 Swift Student ChallengeApple launched its 2024 Swift Student Cha.....»»
Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
Bot-driven service was also connected to targeted harassment site Kiwi Farms. Enlarge (credit: Discord) Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details.....»»
Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It's easy to get the impression that Discord chat messages are ephemeral, especially across different public ser.....»»
LinkedIn Statistics By Users, Demographics And Audience Reach
Introduction LinkedIn Statistics: Nowadays, job posting and searching have […] Introduction LinkedIn Statistics: Nowadays, job posting and searching have become easy. LinkedIn offers millions of job postings by companies all around th.....»»
Surrogate otter mom at aquarium is rehabilitating pup "better than any human ever can"
Millie, a fatigued mother of an infant, was ready for a nap. So she grabbed her baby, flipped it around, threw it on her belly and started grooming its tail—a soothing behavior......»»
Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants
The motive for the alleged data manipulation is unknown. Enlarge (credit: LinkedIn) An accomplished and prominent transplant surgeon in Texas allegedly falsified patient data in a government transplant waiting list, whic.....»»
Elon Musk threatens to disobey court order over banned profiles
Brazil threatens to regulate social media owned by "billionaires domiciled abroad." Enlarge (credit: Anadolu Agency / Contributor | Anadolu) Brazil’s attorney general has demanded “urgent regulation” of social medi.....»»
Apple struck deal with Shutterstock to license millions of images for AI training
The AI boom has sprung up a mini-economy for content repositories, which AI companies want access to in order to train their models. Companies like OpenAI initially trained their models by scraping data from the web. However, with the legal overha.....»»
Publisher: OpenAI’s GPT Store bots are illegally scraping our textbooks
OpenAI has taken down some bots from GPT Store, but copyright complaints continue. Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto) For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since.....»»
Avast One Silver allows users to tailor their coverage based upon their personal preferences
Avast released a new product tier to the Avast One suite: Avast One Silver. The new offering takes a modular approach to cyber security, allowing people to tailor their coverage based upon their needs, personal preferences, or risk profiles. The Avas.....»»
WSJ profiles Phil Schiller, who is working nearly 80 hours a week defending the App Store
As Apple continues to face App Store battles around the world, it’s leaning heavily on Phil Schiller, its former Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. A new report from The Wall Street Journal gives an interesting look at how Schiller, who.....»»
Tastes like chicken? Think again—edible ants have distinctive flavor profiles.
Go ahead, eat some ants. We triple-dog dare you. Enlarge / Chicatana ants have a nutty, fatty flavor. They are consumed in parts of Mexico to add texture and flavor to dishes. (credit: Changqi Liu) Edible insects, like a.....»»
LinkedIn adding word games so you can procrastinate at work
LinkedIn may exist to help professionals look for new job opportunities and network with others, but it could soon become the place for a bit of down time, too......»»
Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images
Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from Stability AI employee. Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. (credit: Getty Imag.....»»
These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used
Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts. Enlarge / Testing replica Stone Age tools with a bit of wood-scraping. (credit: A. Iwase et al., 2024/Tokyo Metropolitan University) W.....»»
How to add new a profile to Amazon Fire TV
The Amazon Fire TV is even better when you setup profiles for adults and kids alike. Here are the steps involved to create Amazon Fire TV profiles......»»
GM"s Cruise hardware chief resigns in latest exit after operations suspended
Carl Jenkins, the senior vice president for autonomous vehicle platforms, is leaving after six years with the company, he said in a post on LinkedIn......»»
Ex-Apple executive in the running to lead joint ESPN, Warner, and Fox sports streamer
Pete Distad once headed up sports on Apple TV+, and is now in the running to become CEO of the as-yet unnamed sports streaming network formed by the likes of Disney and Warner.Pete Distad (Source: LinkedIn)Distad was senior director of Video, Sports,.....»»