Twitter's Traffic Plummets, Source Matters More in the AI Age, Massive Supply Chain Steals 390K Credentials, Millions Unnotified After Chinese Telecom Hack, ChatGPT Projects
Twitter's Traffic Plummets; Bluesky Soars. X's web traffic plummeted 10.5% in November, while Bluesky's soared over 75%. Bluesky now captures 21% of X's monthly web visits, suggesting a significant user shift.
Instagram Boss: Source Matters More in the AI Age. Instagram's boss warns us to be wary of AI-generated images flooding the internet, urging users to check sources and suggesting platforms need better labeling and context tools to combat misinformation.
Massive Supply Chain Attack Steals 390K Credentials. A year-long supply-chain attack silently stole login credentials from security researchers via Trojanized open-source software on GitHub and NPM, using spear phishing and cleverly disguised malicious packages to maintain persistence and steal data every 12 hours.
Millions Unnotified After Chinese Telecom Hack. Millions of AT&T and Verizon customers had their call metadata stolen, yet the companies, citing a new FCC rule, are largely keeping quiet. This has sparked outrage from Senator Wyden, who advocates for customer notification.
ChatGPT Projects: Organize Files, Chats, and More. ChatGPT's new Projects feature, similar to Google's NotebookLM, lets you organize chats and files within ChatGPT, boosting productivity and keeping everything in one place.
