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You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald

Jun25
by on June 25, 2019 at 12:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion, Social Media


Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, you’re gone. Unless you’re a member of the r/TheDonald subreddit, in which case the rules don’t apply to you. The past 24 hours has seen a surge in posts on r/TheDonald calling for citizen violence over the current political kerfuffle in Oregon – yet there’s no evidence that Reddit is doing anything about it. In essence, the Democrat-led assembly in Oregon…

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A hacker penetrated NASA’s network using a $35 gadget from Amazon

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A hacker illegally accessed NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2018 by targeting an off-the-shelf micro-computer called a Raspberry Pi. The breach was discovered in 2018, but just disclosed to the public in a June 18 report. In it, NASA details an “unauthorized” Raspberry Pi that created a portal that allowed the unknown attacker access to the network for months, until it was ultimately discovered and patched. For those unfamiliar, a Raspberry Pi is a $35 micro-computer made popular by any number of school science projects (mostly involving a blinking light) or its occasional appearance in hacker movies or TV shows.…

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A hacker penetrated NASA’s network using a $35 gadget from Amazon

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A hacker illegally accessed NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2018 by targeting an off-the-shelf micro-computer called a Raspberry Pi. The breach was discovered in 2018, but just disclosed to the public in a June 18 report. In it, NASA details an “unauthorized” Raspberry Pi that created a portal that allowed the unknown attacker access to the network for months, until it was ultimately discovered and patched. For those unfamiliar, a Raspberry Pi is a $35 micro-computer made popular by any number of school science projects (mostly involving a blinking light) or its occasional appearance in hacker movies or TV shows.…

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This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site

Jun24
by on June 24, 2019 at 9:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has an interesting new tactic in the war on fake news: make more of it. A team of researchers at the institute recently developed Grover, a neural network capable of generating fake news articles in the style of actual human journalists. In essence, the group is fighting fire with fire because the better Grover gets at generating fakes, the better it’ll be at detecting them. According to the institute: Our study presents a surprising result: the best way to detect neural fake news is to use a model that is also a generator. The…

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