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Dedicated IP arrives on Surfshark's Linux apps – but how does it compare to its rivals? - Tom's Guide
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Dedicated IP arrives on Surfshark's Linux apps – but how does it compare to its rivals? - Tom's Guide
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Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites -- are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and malware. When Internet users try to visit expired domain names or accidentally navigate to a lookalike "typosquatting" domain, they are typically brought to a placeholder page at a domain parking company that tries to monetize the wayward traffic by displaying links to a number of third-party websites that have paid to have their links shown.
A decade ago, ending up at one of these parked domains came with a relatively small chance of being redirected to a malicious destination: In 2014, researchers found (PDF) that parked domains redirected users to malicious sites less than five percent of the time -- regardless of whether the visitor clicked on any links at the parked page. But in a series of experiments over the past few months, researchers at the security firm Infoblox say they discovered the situation is now reversed, and that malicious content is by far the norm now for parked websites. "In large scale experiments, we found that over 90% of the time, visitors to a parked domain would be directed to illegal content, scams, scareware and anti-virus software subscriptions, or malware, as the 'click' was sold from the parking company to advertisers, who often resold that traffic to yet another party," Infoblox researchers wrote in a paper published today.
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Linux Kernel Rust Component Hit by Vulnerability Causing System Crashes - Cyber Press
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Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard - 9to5Linux
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Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard - 9to5Linux
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Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard - 9to5Linux
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Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard - 9to5Linux
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Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard - 9to5Linux
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Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard - 9to5Linux
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Mageia 10 Planning For April Release While Still Maintaining 32-bit Support - Phoronix
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Google AI Summaries Are Ruining the Livelihoods of Recipe Writers
Google's AI Mode is synthesizing "Frankenstein" recipes from multiple creators, often stripping away context and accuracy and siphoning traffic and ad revenue away from food bloggers in the process. Many recipe writers warn this shift amounts to an "extinction event" for ad-supported food sites. The Guardian reports: Over the past few years, bloggers who have not secured their sites behind a paywall have seen their carefully developed and tested recipes show up, often without attribution and in a bastardized form, in ChatGPT replies. They have seen dumbed-down versions of their recipes in AI-assembled cookbooks available for digital downloads on Etsy or on AI-built websites that bear a superficial resemblance to an old-school human-written blog. Their photos and videos, meanwhile, are repurposed in Facebook posts and Pinterest pins that link back to this digital slop.
Recipe writers have no legal recourse because recipes generally are not copyrightable. Although copyright protects published or recorded work, they do not cover sets of instructions (although it can apply to the particular wording of those instructions). Without this essential IP, many food bloggers earn their living by offering their work for free while using ads to make money. But now they fear that casual users who rely on search engines or social media to find a recipe for dinner will conflate their work with AI slop and stop trusting online recipe sites altogether. "For websites that depend on the advertising model," says Matt Rodbard, the founder and editor-in-chief of the website Taste, "I think this is an extinction event in many ways."
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