People trying to do an innocent thing and running headlong into porn instead is nothing new. Replace the words QR code in this story with phone number and you’ve got a tale as old as time. In fact, it’s one that I wouldn’t even have bothered to mention had CTV Kitchener not given us all …
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Another Reason To Hate CAPTCHAs: Scammers Are Pretending They’re Broken And Tricking People Into Installing Malware To Fix Them
If you’ve spent oh, let’s say about 20 minutes online in your lifetime, you’ve probably run into one of those “verify you are human” or “I am not a robot” things. Most of the time, it’s a simple enough operation to prove you’re a person and move on with your day. Annoying for people with …
🎶 Honk Honk Honk Honk WaddleLoo: Know Where The Geese Are and Have a Clue. 🎶
Man, I knew the geese were vicious as heck. I had heard lots of stories about geese attacking folks for their croissants near the University of Waterloo campus, and children getting chased by geese outside the Catalyst building where I work, among other stories. I know in the case of the children, their parents started …
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Reasons Not To Trust AI, Number…Never Mind. Numbers Are Kind Of The Problem Here
Raise your hand if you didn’t see this coming. Anybody? No one? Ok. Both The Washington Post and Digital Trends have spotted instances of scam support numbers showing up in Google AI Overviews, reports of which appeared on Facebook and Reddit respectively. Credit unions and banks are also warning their customers about these scams. Here’s …
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Dear Mysterious Chinese Bots: Please Stop Slowing Down The Site And Making Me Think I Have Dementia
Mystery bot traffic from China floods websites, puzzling cybersecurity experts This has been happening to us on and off for months. Like the article says, it doesn’t seem to be malicious. None of our security systems has flagged anything, which I’m fairly certain would have happened by now were there anything to flag. It’s just …
What An Idiot It Is
Normally I don’t have a lot of time for people who complain that true but unflattering things about them can be easily Googled (we don’t edit Hitler out of the war footage because it makes his family feel bad), but the key word there is true. Because while it’s one thing to have to wear …
I Have To Take Bell’s Side On Something And I Hate It
A Netflix deal for Warner means curtains for Crave unless Canadian regulators step in For the good of the industry there’s no way that mergers like these should almost ever be approved, but let’s not waste one single second pretending that it wouldn’t be just a little bit fucking hilarious if Bell was undone by …
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Oh, So You Like Soccer, Do You? Well Then How’s About You Show Me Your Balls!
I’m sure the Elon Musk factor explains a lot of this (his AI does think it’s Hitler and that that’s a positive, after all), but it’s hard to imagine how we got from where we started to where we finished here. A Toronto mom says things took an unpredictable turn when her 12-year-old son asked …
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What’s He Doing Here? Am I Hallucinating?
AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court Listen. If this is truly something that this guy would have wanted and it helped his family deal with their loss, more power to them. But I’m telling you right now. If I die and any of you does this to me, I’m visiting …
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In These Unprecedented Times, You Can Count On Us To Tell The Truth About Our Crummy User Experience. That’s Why We Need Your Support Now More Than Ever
They say that the best jokes often start out with a grain of truth. If that’s true, then this one makes me feel like I’ve just been run over by a truck full of them. Speaking of which, if I get asked to sign into a random website with my Google account one more time… …