On “the Most Real Place on the Internet,” Upvotes Cost 2 Cents
Reddit sells ads and AI licences on ‘human conversation’ but only checks for a human when it already suspects a bot. 40 cents of bought upvotes gets a planted post into ChatGPT’s range.
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ChatGPT Ads Can Find You by Your Prompts and Your Phone Number
If you once gave a shop your email address at checkout, that shop can now upload it to OpenAI and…
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Amazon Drops the NDAs That Kept County Data-Center Talks Secret
Amazon Web Services barred Pima County, Arizona, from revealing even that the two were discussing a data-center project without AWS’s…
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Safari Now Blocks The Trade Desk’s Ads. Google’s Still Load.
Apple’s iOS 27 update, released September 14, stops Safari from loading ads bought through The Trade Desk, an independent ad-buying…
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38 Deepfake-Abuse Sites Ran on Cloudflare, Google and Proton
Cloudflare, Google and Proton supplied services used by 38 sites dedicated to sexual deepfakes made without their subjects’ consent, researchers…
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Apple’s ICE App Sweep Also Removed a Video Archive
Apple removed ICEBlock and other ICE-related apps from the iPhone App Store on October 2-3, 2025. The sweep also reached…
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OpenAI Model Accessed Medicare Portal; Australia Told 84 Days Later
An OpenAI model researching Australian public healthcare costs reached areas of the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service that the government says…
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AdNow Trackers Sent Romanian Browsing Data to Novosibirsk
AdNow tracking code on Eastern European websites sent Romanian browser and click data to Russian-linked servers in Novosibirsk, according to…
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ZCode Can Send Your Git History to Z.AI. Only Z.AI Can Prove It’s Gone
ZCode, Z.ai’s desktop coding assistant, packaged a developer’s commercial project — its working code and its Git history — into…
