Day: January 20, 2025

Inheritance, “cronyism and corruption” or monopoly power grows billionaire wealth in 2024 in second-largest annual increase since records began

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by $2tn (£1.64tn) last year, three times faster than in 2023, amounting to $5.7bn (£4.7bn) a day, according to a report by Oxfam. The latest inequality report from the charity reveals that the world is now on track to have five trillionaires within a decade, a change from Read more about Inheritance, “cronyism and corruption” or monopoly power grows billionaire wealth in 2024 in second-largest annual increase since records began[…]

Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report shows 17x more user content reports with 10x user growth fed by Brazilians serial complainers

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] In 2024, Bluesky grew from 2.89M users to 25.94M users. In addition to users hosted on Bluesky’s infrastructure, there are over 4,000 users running their own infrastructure (Personal Data Servers), self-hosting their content, posts, and data. To meet the demands caused by user growth, we’ve increased our moderation team to roughly 100 moderators and Read more about Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report shows 17x more user content reports with 10x user growth fed by Brazilians serial complainers[…]

ChatGPT crawler flaw opens door to DDoS, prompt injection

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In a write-up shared this month via Microsoft’s GitHub, Benjamin Flesch, a security researcher in Germany, explains how a single HTTP request to the ChatGPT API can be used to flood a targeted website with network requests from the ChatGPT crawler, specifically ChatGPT-User. This flood of connections may or may not be enough to knock Read more about ChatGPT crawler flaw opens door to DDoS, prompt injection[…]