Sophos Firewall v21.5: Streamlined management
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5.
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Sweden Expands Anti-Sex Work Law to Criminalize Paying for Custom OnlyFans Clips and Camming
Participating in interactive adult live-streams or ordering custom porn clips are about to be punishable by a year in prison in Sweden, where a new law expands an already-problematic model of sex work criminalization to the internet. Sex work in Sweden operates under the Nordic Model, also known as the “Equality,” “Entrapment,” or “End Demand…
Kids Say They’re Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass ‘Gorllia Tag’ Age Verification
Kids say they are using pictures of Trump, YouTuber Markiplier, and the G-Man from Half-Life to bypass newly integrated age restriction software in the VR game Gorilla Tag. Gorilla Tag is a popular game with a global reach and a young audience, which means it has to comply with complicated and contradictory laws aimed at…
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active. Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to imagine…
DragonForce targets rivals in a play for dominance
Not content with attacking retailers, this aggressive group is fighting a turf war with other ransomware operators
Podcast: AI Slop Summer
We start this week with Jason’s couple of stories about how the Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer guide that was basically all AI-generated. Jason spoke to the person behind it. After the break, a bunch of documents show that schools were simply not ready for AI. In the subscribers-only section, we chat all about Star…
Scientists Explain Why Trump’s $175 Billion Golden Dome Is a Fantasy
The U.S. has one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. Its dream has long been that it could launch these nukes and suffer no repercussions for doing so. Ronald Reagan called it the Strategic Defense Initiative. His critics called it Star Wars. Trump is calling it the “Golden Dome.” Scientists who’ve studied the…
A familiar playbook with a twist: 3AM ransomware actors dropped virtual machine with vishing and Quick Assist
Another adversary picks up the email bombing / vishing Storm-1811 playbook, doing thorough reconnaissance to target specific employees with fake help desk call—this time, over the phone.
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
The “Heat Index” summer guide newspaper insert published by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer that contained AI-generated misinformation and reading lists full of books that don’t exist was created by a subsidiary of the magazine giant Hearst, 404 Media has learned. Victor Lim, the vice president of marketing and communications at Chicago Public…
Civitai, Site Used to Generate AI Porn, Cut Off by Credit Card Processor
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used to generate nonconsensual adult content, lost access to its credit card payment processor. According to an announcement posted to Civitai on Monday, the site will “pause” credit card payments starting Friday, May 23. At that…