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23andMe urges users to change passwords after major data breach
Well, folks, it looks like 23andMe has gone and gotten themselves hacked. Yep, the DNA testing company that’s been helping people dig into their ancestry got their user data dumped…
Oops! Microsoft AI team accidentally spills 38 TB of data
Picture this: You’re a massive tech company, and you decide to share some open-source code and AI models on GitHub. But in a plot twist that would make M. Night…
Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data
Uh Oh “Oops” doesn’t even cover this one. Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked a staggering 38 terabytes — yes, terabytes — of confidential company data on the developer site GitHub, a…
How to Legally Scrape EU Data for Investigations
Data collection laws are much trickier to navigate in Europe than in the U.S.How to Legally Scrape EU Data for Investigations
Fun with Community Notes data
several types of data related to X/Twitter’s Community Notes feature are available for downloadAmong the features of X/Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes (formerly known as Birdwatch), is the ability…
On social media data access for researchers
a deeply unfortunate trend in the world of social mediaIn recent months, two major social media platforms — X/Twitter and Reddit — have shut down longstanding free data access APIs…
Help Us Investigate Surveillance Marketing Using Facebook Data
Surveillance marketers are upping their game. Instead of relying on tracking pixels, companies are now sending tracking data directly to one anotherHelp Us Investigate Surveillance Marketing Using Facebook Data
When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen
It hasn’t even been a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, and already generative AI is everywhere. It’s in classrooms; it’s in political advertisements; it’s in entertainment and journalism and a…
AI Developers Are Already Quietly Training AI Models Using AI-Generated Data
Self-Fulfilling While most AI models are built on data made by humans, some companies are starting to use — or are trying to figure out how to use — data…