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LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken | Ars Technica

Cyber Security Concerns In The Global Wake of Hacking Threat
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)

Already smarting from a breach that stole customer vaults, LastPass has more bad news.

Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers.Although an initial intrusion into LastPass ended on August 12, officials with the leading…

What’s Wrong With Google? Letting Go of SEO

What happens if you search Google for African American authors.

[sc name="voicefemlower" ][/sc] I’m not going to mince words. Everybody knows what’s wrong with Google now. There’s lots of speculation and also lots of actual information about why and how it happened, and lots of debate about this, but everybody’s clear on the results: Google is no longer a reliable way to find the most relevant…

William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

The Reaction Economy
William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023 by William Davies (London Review of Books)

The quest for authentic joy or shock – or best of all, joy and shock at the same time – which drives reaction…

It is an infernal riddle of digital culture that ‘authenticity’ is constantly breeding its opposite: the ‘spontaneous’ event that proves to be no such thing, the ‘surprise’ that turns out to be staged, the emotional outburst that has been practised. TikTok is awash with apparently ‘authentic’ clips of humorous reactions (often based on pranks), the…

How AI Trains Humans on Transphobia

How AI Trains Humans on Transphobia
How AI Trains Humans on Transphobia from YouTube

What happens when capitalism, AI and gender-critical transphobia meet? You get a TERF app. And it’s… also racist?

Sign up for our “Identiteaze” Kickstarter pre-launch at www.kickstarter.com/projects/identiteaze What happens when capitalism, AI and gender-critical transphobia meet? You get a TERF app. And it’s… also racist? SUPPORT Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jessiegender PayPal: https://paypal.me/jessiegender

Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur
Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term (Media Matters for America)

Meta confirmed last July that use of the word “groomer” to baselessly describe LGBTQ people violates its hate speech policies, but Media Matters has identified over 200 ads that Meta has profited from that contain the harmful messaging — including 63 new ads that garnered nearly 1 million impressions.

 Right-wing media’s misuse of the term “groomer” has helped fuel a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ sentiment and coincided with a conservative push to enact legislation that strips away the rights of LGBTQ people, especially transgender people. Meta publicly confirmed in July that, as The Daily Dot explained, “baselessly calling LGBTQ people or the community ‘groomers’…

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