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An unsecured database exposed 4.3 billion LinkedIn-derived records, enabling large-scale phishing and identity-based attacks. TechRepublic Get the web's best business technology news, tutorials, ...

Los Angeles is a car city, and it’s rarely more obvious than from a vulnerable perch on top of a bicycle. Among big cities in the US, LA has a middling-to-bad reputation for bike riding. A lack of ...

Austrian researchers used a WhatsApp contact-lookup flaw to map 3.5 billion phone numbers, revealing how basic metadata can build a directory of accounts. TechRepublic Get the web's best business ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad ...

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San ...

After living in upstate New York, I’ve come to love many things about winter. Ice skating, building snowmen and buying snow boots distract me from the things I don’t love so much, like shoveling heavy ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...