Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime ‘Pig Butching’ Scams

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:

Meta says it’s taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work… Continue reading Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime ‘Pig Butching’ Scams

Open Source, Forced Innovation, and Making Good Products

Art of 3D printer in the middle of printing a Hackaday Jolly Wrencher logo

The open-source hardware business landscape is no doubt a tough one, but is it actually tougher than for closed-source hardware? That question has been on our minds since the announcement …read more Continue reading Open Source, Forced Innovation, and Making Good Products

Is the ‘Hour of Code’ the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial?

Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation’s schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year’s newly-announced Ho… Continue reading Is the ‘Hour of Code’ the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial?

Google Exposes GLASSBRIDGE: A Pro-China Influence Network of Fake News Sites

Government agencies and non-governmental organizations in the United States have become the target of a nascent China state threat actor known as Storm-2077.
The adversary, believed to be active since at least January 2024, has also conducted cyber att… Continue reading Google Exposes GLASSBRIDGE: A Pro-China Influence Network of Fake News Sites

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