AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
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    3w ago 100%

    Finitebanjo is right. Yes they are used to fight spam and bots but they way they do it us is picked intentionally to train ai.

    https://medium.com/@yennhi95zz/how-google-trains-ai-with-your-help-through-captcha-876cb4eb4d01

    Also from the Wikipedia article "Google profits from reCAPTCHA users as free workers to improve its AI research." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

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  • What did you have to learn the hard way?
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    3mo ago 100%

    I mean at that point wouldn't it make sense to get a private bank loan to pay off the other loan with a much lower interest rate?

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  • How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
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    3mo ago 100%

    Neither does window. A file deletion did not cause this. A human at Crowdstrike uploaded a bug to production. Bugs in production can happen on any OS, this is just a terrible, terrible look for Crowdstrike because they seriously messed up

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  • How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
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    3mo ago 100%

    Two quick points, given the massive impact of this eveny it is clear to say many critical systems run windows. Meaning them being windows doesn't make them any less "actual computers".

    Also, the OS in this event is irrelevant. They could have botched an update to their Linux version and crashes all the Linux boxes leaving windows untouched. This was not a result of an issue of any OS but a bad update.

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    3mo ago 100%

    Why is that? Do dems simply have less voter engagement or is this a split on age lines? Really interesting statistics though!

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  • Pleasant Politics: Politics without the jerks
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    4mo ago 90%

    Really cool idea! I agree on the whole most people are incredibly nice and will go out of their way to explain their reasoning. But a small, loud group seems to crop up in political discussions. It's interesting because it's not always they they don't know they're being rude, but rather they know and are proud of it because of their beliefs.

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  • Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen
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    4mo ago 66%

    They absolutely gained unauthorized access to the data. Their access was not intended or sanctioned. If it was intended to be public and accessible like it was, this wouldn't be a story and they wouldn't have locked down the access.

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  • Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen
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    4mo ago 100%

    They absolutely exploited unintended functionality. If this was intended, they wouldn't have added rate limiting and locked down the api after. It was clear to say this was certainly not an intended use of the api.

    In a video game for example, if there is a an item that caused excessive lagging just by placing the item. Placing a lot of them with the intent to lag the game would be an exploit. They only used items sanctioned by the game, but for unintended reasons and they would likely be banned for exploitation.

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