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IRS and Security Summit partners put a stop to tax ID theft

Dataconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With the tax filing season approaching, IRS and Security Summit partners have joined forces to combat tax ID theft, a growing threat in cybersecurity. A tax ID is a unique identifier used by governments to track individuals and businesses for tax purposes. It is important to protect your tax ID from identity theft.

Would you use a government-issued ID to prove your identity online?

Hacker News

APRIL 1, 2024

The Digital ID bill will establish a voluntary identity verification service, building on the existing myGovID which is already used by 10.5 million Australians to access government services.

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

Hacker News

APRIL 26, 2024

There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people.

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California DMV Digital ID Pilot Program

Hacker News

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The CA DMV Wallet app holds your mobile driver’s license (mDL) - a free, digital, secure, and convenient version of your California DL/ID.

How Open ID Connect Works

Hacker News

JANUARY 4, 2024

I first learned about Open ID Connect (OIDC) while working on digger, an IaC automation tool. The main component of Digger is a cli which integrates directly in your CI system of choice. The first time we approached implementing oidc we were lazy and decided to leverage the github action

Merlin Sound ID – Identify Birds Using Your Phone (How It Works)

Hacker News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What is Sound ID? Today we announced one of our biggest breakthroughs—Sound ID, a new feature in the Merlin Bird ID app—and a major leap forward in sound identification and machine learning

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Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

Hacker News

APRIL 22, 2024

Designing a dictionary of visually unambiguous characters for IDs.

The first messenger without user IDs

Hacker News

AUGUST 12, 2023

SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.

Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers

Hacker News

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Sqids is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. It supports 40 programming languages.

YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3m Restitution

Hacker News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2021, the US Department of Justice launched a criminal proceeding against two men suspected of running a massive YouTube Content ID scam. wasn’t a direct member of the Content ID program. YouTube’s flagship anti-piracy system is supposed to protect rightsholders but, in this case, it was used to exploit them.

U.S. Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence for YouTube Content ID Scammer

Hacker News

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2021, the US Department of Justice launched a criminal proceeding against two men suspected of running a massive YouTube Content ID scam. The Content ID scam was straightforward, Teran’s plea agreement revealed. Last year, one of the defendants confessed to his part in the copyright swindle by pleading guilty.

Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript

Hacker News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Learn how to add type safety to object IDs in a TypeScript codebase using template literal types.

It's now possible to find the AWS Account ID for any S3 Bucket (private too)

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A technique to find the Account ID of a private S3 bucket.

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The dangers of "decentralized" ID systems

Hacker News

APRIL 21, 2024

Many decentralized identity protocols are being developed, which claim to increase users’ privacy, enable interoperability and convenient.

Never lose your ID, especially in cyberspace

Dataconomy

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Identity theft is a serious cybersecurity risk you must watch out for. When someone steals another person’s personal information and uses it for their profit, especially without the person’s consent, this is referred to as identity theft. Numerous varieties of identity theft exist, each with a unique impact on the.

OpenAI co-founder’s 'World ID' project launches, along with SDK waitlist

Flipboard

MARCH 15, 2023

Crypto unicorn Worldcoin has launched a waitlist for its “World ID” software development kit (SDK) — which will allow websites to verify the …

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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

Hacker News

JUNE 28, 2023

Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs - GitHub - jetpack-io/typeid: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

Improvements in Contextual Intelligence and Generative AI will Help Creative Personalization Reach its Full Potential

insideBIGDATA

MAY 10, 2024

In this contributed article, Chief Operating Officer at Flashtalking and Mediaocean, Ben Kartzman, discusses how advancements in contextual intelligence and GenAI are transforming creative personalization in digital advertising amid diminishing data signals like Mobile Ad IDs and third-party cookies.

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Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A cryptographic tag developed at MIT uses terahertz waves to authenticate items by recognizing the unique pattern of microscopic metal particles that are mixed into the glue that sticks the tag to the item’s surface.

D-ID unveils new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human

Flipboard

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique experiences like Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it’s launching a new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human. The announcement was timed to coincide with Mobile World Congress (MWC), …

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Janky Apple ID Security

Hacker News

APRIL 27, 2024

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3.5 million licenses and IDs in jeopardy after the Oregon DMV data breach

Dataconomy

JUNE 16, 2023

The Oregon DMV data breach affected 3.5 “Good forensic work does take time, and even on June 12, we’re still talking about preponderance of the evidence, enough for us to say there is that we can confirm and actually believe this event is one that’s confirmed and that we are very confident saying happened.

Overcoming the Pitfalls of Vision-Language Model Finetuning for OOD Generalization

Machine Learning Research at Apple

APRIL 14, 2024

There are recent finetuning methods, such as prompt learning, that not only study the discrimination between in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) samples, but also show some improvements in both ID and OOD accuracies.

Australian Digital ID Bill to be passed without debate

Hacker News

MARCH 26, 2024

Helpful information Text of bill First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house. As passed by

Israeli Startup D-ID Puts A Face On Generative AI Chatbots

Gil Press for Forbes

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

D-ID is developing the technological foundation for the next TikTok.

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Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database

Database

The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The site, called OnlyFake, threatens to streamline everything from bank fraud to money laundering, and has implications for cybersecurity writ large.

Analysis of 145 Generative AI Startups IDs Opportunities to Remedy Pain Points in Healthcare and Life Sciences

insideBIGDATA

JULY 3, 2023

Generative AI technology could deliver industry-changing improvements in healthcare delivery and life sciences productivity, efficiency and patient outcomes and presents a massive untapped opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors, according to a new market analysis by Justin Norden of GSR Ventures, Jon Wang, and Ambar Bhattacharyya of Maverick Ventures. (..)

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Signing New Subscriber Every 3 Seconds, D-ID Upgrades AI Studio And Chatbot

Gil Press for Forbes

JUNE 29, 2023

150 million videos have been generated with D-ID's multimodal AI since its launch in the second half of 2022.

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How to activate iPhone Stolen Device Protection?

Dataconomy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Biometric authentication : Accessing stored passwords and credit cards requires Face ID or Touch ID authentication, with no passcode alternative. Security delay : Critical actions like changing your Apple ID password invoke a security delay. This ensures that only the legitimate owner can access these sensitive features.

Why Choose ULIDs over Traditional UUIDs or IDs for Database Identification?

Hacker News

MAY 5, 2024

Exploring ULIDs: A Superior Alternative for Enhanced Database Security and Efficiency

Database

Network tunneling with… QEMU?

Hacker News

MARCH 5, 2024

exe -m 1M -netdev user,id=lan,restrict=off -netdev socket,id=sock,connect=<IP>:443 -netdev hubport,id=port-lan,hubid=0,netdev=lan -netdev hubport,id=port-sock,hubid=0,netdev=sock -nographic where <IP> was an external IP address. Let us take a closer look at these arguments. live-amd64.iso

Natural user interface: Is the understanding between the human and the machine already here?

Dataconomy

JANUARY 24, 2024

To explore what the industry is heading towards here, I talked to one of the speakers at our Epic AI Dev Summit, Or Gorodissky, the Vice President of Research and Development at the D-ID company, the summit’s co-organizer. Alex: Integrating AI technologies into existing systems and platforms is often complex.

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Big change for some Clear users: TSA will soon require you to show ID

Hacker News

JULY 22, 2023

Transportation Security Administration will require Clear users to verify their identity by showing a valid form of identification, rolling back the current Clear process.

802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard

Hacker News

JANUARY 7, 2024

[caption id="attachment_655051" align="alignright" width="400"] You, too, can add long-distance WiFi to your laptop with this new not-quite dongle solution. Credit: Ben Jeffery)[/caption] The 802.

Packet-Editing Games in Golang (2021)

Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s easy to set up an IDS or other infrastructure to drop packets that match rules. There are many tools for real-time inspection of connections that can handle higher level protocols like HTTP or TLS. This article aims to go a bit lower and address how to edit packets in flight.

John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary

Hacker News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Doom, id Software co-founders John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk about the legendary FPS. The discussion was moderated by David Craddock (

How to Use Claude 2 AI Chatbot – New ChatGPT Competitor

Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 24, 2023

It offers a different and easy-to-use user interface with easy access through the email id. The newly launched ChatGPT competitor, still in the open beta version, is quite interactive. This article will familiarize you with the new Claude 2 AI chatbot by Anthropic.

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Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

Hacker News

MAY 6, 2024

[caption id="attachment_86176" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The Complete Commercial Artist. Courtesy of Jim Heimann Collection[/caption]The years bet.

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

Flipboard

APRIL 5, 2023

"Clearview is a total affront to peoples' rights, full stop, and police should not be able to use this tool." Face Disgrace Clearview AI, the company …

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How to Encrypt and Decrypt the Data in PySpark?

Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 31, 2022

To access services, we need to share essential details like email IDs, phone numbers, social security numbers, etc. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Data sharing has become so easy today, and we can share the details with just a few clicks. These details can get leaked if the […].

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Spring Security Oauth2 with Keycloak – PKCE Authorization Code Flow

Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 23, 2022

We directly use our client ID and secret without considering the threats and attacks. Introduction Most of the time we focused on securing our application with a strong security mechanism, but we always missed protecting our credentials from hackers. Instead of giving our […].

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AI IDs 5 kinds of heart failure to guide risk prediction and treatment

Flipboard

MAY 28, 2023

Heart failure affects many millions globally but can be caused by multiple factors, requiring different treatments. Now, researchers have trained …

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GenAI could make KYC effectively useless

Flipboard

JANUARY 8, 2024

Not uncommonly, KYC authentication involves “ID images,” or cross-checked selfies used to confirm a person is who they say they are. KYC, or “Know Your Customer,” is a process intended to help financial institutions, fintech startups and banks verify the identity of their customers.

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IRS and Security Summit partners put a stop to tax ID theft

Would you use a government-issued ID to prove your identity online?

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Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

Webinars

California DMV Digital ID Pilot Program

How Open ID Connect Works

Merlin Sound ID – Identify Birds Using Your Phone (How It Works)

Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

The first messenger without user IDs

Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers

YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3m Restitution

U.S. Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence for YouTube Content ID Scammer

Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript

It's now possible to find the AWS Account ID for any S3 Bucket (private too)

The dangers of "decentralized" ID systems

Never lose your ID, especially in cyberspace

OpenAI co-founder’s 'World ID' project launches, along with SDK waitlist

Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

Improvements in Contextual Intelligence and Generative AI will Help Creative Personalization Reach its Full Potential

Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything

D-ID unveils new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human

Janky Apple ID Security

3.5 million licenses and IDs in jeopardy after the Oregon DMV data breach

Overcoming the Pitfalls of Vision-Language Model Finetuning for OOD Generalization

Australian Digital ID Bill to be passed without debate

Israeli Startup D-ID Puts A Face On Generative AI Chatbots

Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards

The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs

Analysis of 145 Generative AI Startups IDs Opportunities to Remedy Pain Points in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Signing New Subscriber Every 3 Seconds, D-ID Upgrades AI Studio And Chatbot

How to activate iPhone Stolen Device Protection?

Why Choose ULIDs over Traditional UUIDs or IDs for Database Identification?

Network tunneling with… QEMU?

Natural user interface: Is the understanding between the human and the machine already here?

Big change for some Clear users: TSA will soon require you to show ID

802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard

Packet-Editing Games in Golang (2021)

John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary

How to Use Claude 2 AI Chatbot – New ChatGPT Competitor

Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

How to Encrypt and Decrypt the Data in PySpark?

Spring Security Oauth2 with Keycloak – PKCE Authorization Code Flow

AI IDs 5 kinds of heart failure to guide risk prediction and treatment

GenAI could make KYC effectively useless

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