It is wrong to criminalize him. He found a bug and got a reward. Bring him in to fix the bug and to make it better. If you start scaring away people hunting for bugs and exploits for fun you will end up being exploited by a much nastier adversary
Edit: I did more research and it seems like there was some questionable actions such as creating a bunch of fake shell companies and crypto exchanges. This wasn’t a “bug” as the title is clickbait.
Code isn’t law. The article above does a bad job of explaining it and makes it sound like it was just a weekend bug find. It wasn’t a bug, it was them setting up a bunch of fake entities misdirect funds.
A product you were just talking about pops up in an online ad. How? Advertising algorithms are so good that they may know what you want even before you do. C...
Not to mention there are a lot of data points that are better. For instance, the can now if your interested in something by monitoring how long you look at it and if you click on something.
Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities, marking progress towards networks that could have revolutionary applications.
Technically Google could of made upstreaming easier or even the default but they instead modified the kernel a bunch and then encouraged bad practices in development.
There are of course trade offs to everything though. For instance, Qualcomm could do better.
[Feature Request] Vote for a Proton VPN App for Ubuntu Touch on ProtonMail’s UserVoice Forum
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21305656...
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins (www.tomshardware.com)
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)
MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)
‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet (www.nature.com)
Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities, marking progress towards networks that could have revolutionary applications.
Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.
The history of LibreOffice (www.libreoffice.org)
aka. dont use OpenOffice
Riker, the village roundabout (lemmy.world)
s3e9 “Defiant”...
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots (www.wired.com)