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A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election voters; 1% of users accounted for 70% of the exposure (Washington Post)
Washington Post: A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election…
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SteamDB: Valve's Steam platform crossed 10M concurrent in-game players for the first time on January 7 and recently exceeded 33M concurrent online users (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: SteamDB: Valve’s Steam platform crossed 10M concurrent in-game players for the first time on January…
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The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 (Josh Nicholas/The Guardian)
Josh Nicholas / The Guardian: The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in…
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Snap is shutting down its Camera app for Mac and PC on January 25; launched in 2018, the app let users apply facial filters while on video conference calls (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Snap is shutting down its Camera app for Mac and PC on January 25; launched…
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WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections access WhatsApp via servers set up by volunteers and others (Matt Burgess/Wired)
Matt Burgess / Wired: WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections access WhatsApp via servers…
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A hacker allegedly leaks a data set containing email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, apparently a cleaner version of the 400M set circulating in December 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A hacker allegedly leaks a data set containing email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, apparently a…
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NFT service Magic Eden, the largest Solana marketplace, blames a hacked image caching service after some users were served porn and TV stills instead of the NFT (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: NFT service Magic Eden, the largest Solana marketplace, blames a hacked image caching service after some…
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Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand report the service being down for over 12 hours, starting around 6:40am AEST on January 4 (Zachariah Kelly/Gizmodo Australia)
Zachariah Kelly / Gizmodo Australia: Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand report the service being down for over 12…
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PyTorch identifies a malicious dependency that uses its "torchtriton" library name, warning users to uninstall the framework; the hacker claims ethical research (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)
Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: PyTorch identifies a malicious dependency that uses its “torchtriton” library name, warning users to uninstall the…
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