Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows

Stanford computer scientists just proved what therapists already suspected: AI chatbots will agree with almost anything you say to keep you happy. The researchers caught these systems validating dangerous decisions just to maintain user engagement. That's a worrying development, especially given...

Race Condition

Overview @genkit-ai/firebase is a Genkit AI framework plugin for Firebase including Firestore trace/state store and deployment helpers for Cloud Functions for Firebase. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition via the asynchronous user engagement collection in the...

Race Condition

Overview @genkit-ai/core is a Genkit AI framework core libraries. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition via the asynchronous user engagement collection in the appendSpan and collectUserEngagement methods, where calls were not correctly awaited. Improper handling of...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-5497

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Out of bounds memory access in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.141 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI...

CVE-2025-1068

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-02-25 17:15:09+00:00| seen| https://infosec.exchange/users/cR0w/statuses/114065651086000181 2025-02-25 17:23:24+00:00| seen| https://t.me/DarkWebInformerCVEAlerts/5337 2025-02-25 19:03:22+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cvedetector/18888 2025-02-25...

Web tracking report: who monitored users’ online activities in 2023–2024 the most

Web tracking has become a pervasive aspect of our online experience. Whether we're browsing social media, playing video games, shopping for products, or simply reading news articles, trackers are silently monitoring our online behavior, fueling the ceaseless hum of countless data centers worldwid...

“Simply staggering” surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds

The US Federal Trade Commission FTC released a report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services, finding that—and this will not come as a surprise to our regular readers—the companies engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order t...

Best Practices for Optimizing Web Development Standards for Media Sites

By Owais Sultan Boost user engagement and SEO ranking with these key web development practices for media sites. Discover responsive design, page speed optimization, user-friendly CMS, SEO structure, and accessibility best practices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Best...

Digital Experience Monitoring | What Is DEM?

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring: Illuminating the Basics In an era governed by technology, the satisfaction of an end-user is of utmost importance. It has the power to stimulate or to halt business growth, and frequently determines if a client continues or discontinues their...

Unrestricted Unwrap Fee Changes: Instability, Market Disruption, and Loss of Trust

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The current changeUnwrapFee function in the Ocean smart contract allows the owner to change the unwrap fee divisor with no restrictions, leading to several negative impacts: 1. Unstable Unwrap Fees: Frequent changes in the divisor can cause instability a...

What is Progressive Delivery ?

Delving Into the Essential Elements of Incremental Deployment Incremental deployment is an approach in the realm of software engineering, characterized by a phased release cycle. It allows the introduction of new features or updates to a select user community initially, before rolling them out to...

Navigating a New Reality: Content Personalization at Scale

Prioritizing content personalization can improve user engagement, enhance customer experiences, and boost revenue on a global scale...

Metrics That Matter: Measuring Streaming Performance

The COVID-19 health crisis created a dramatic shift in our lifestyles. With work, school, and entertainment taking place in home environments now, it's no surprise that screen time is up. Nielsen reports that not only did overall media consumption jump significantly in the first quarter of 2020,...

Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization

To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of switching is low, consumers are transient, and user expectations for how...

Adversarial use of current events as lures

By Nick Biasini. The goal of malicious activity is to compromise the system to install some unauthorized software. Increasingly that goal is tied to one thing: the user. Over the past several years, we as an industry improved exploit mitigation and the value of working exploits has increased...

Beyond the Looking Glass - The OTT Evolution in India

India, while at the cusp of becoming a digital, mobile first country, is also in the middle of evolving content consumption patterns. Hotstar's India Watch Report states that the video consumption in the country has seen a five-fold growth in just one year, with most of this growth is fuelled by...

Over 400 Popular Sites Record Your Every Keystroke and Mouse Movement

How many times it has happened to you when you look for something online and the next moment you find its advertisement on almost every other web page or social media site you visit? Web-tracking is not new. Most of the websites log its users' online activities, but a recent study from Princeton...

Gamification of Facebook Messenger... New feature Coming Soon

Good news for Gamers! Users of Facebook Messenger may soon be able to play games on the messaging platform. Nearly two months ago, Facebook launched its Messenger platform, inviting developers to create apps that allow you to send and receive GIFs, sound clips, and other artistic creations within...

Facebook Proposes Eliminating User Voting System for Privacy Changes

Facebook today announced plans to eliminate its voting system that gave users a say in how their privacy is handled. In a statement issued Wednesday, Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Communications, Public Policy and Marketing for the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social media company, said the voting...

Facebook Warns Users About Timeline Adware

Facebook issued a video warning to its hundreds of millions of users on Thursday about the dangers of adware programs that lure users with promises of special features. In a video message from the Facebook Security group, the company said that a growing number of companies are fooling Facebook...