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Scalping Bots, Tampered Exam Applications, Hacked Robots: The Legal Boundaries of Computer Crime in the AI Era
Scalper ticket bots, tampered exam applications, hacked robot vacuums—do these acts violate criminal law? Drawing on Luo Xiang's legal analysis, this article explores the crime of destroying computer information systems.
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The eBay Harassment Scandal Explained: Executive-Directed Cyberstalking and a $56 Million Penalty
Deep analysis of the eBay harassment scandal: executives directed employees to stalk, send threatening packages, and surveil critics, resulting in $56 million in fines and settlements.
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Five Local LLMs Built a Small Town, and Emergent Behaviors Included Facebook and a Duck Credit Bureau
A developer lets Mistral, Qwen, Llama and other local LLMs autonomously live in virtual town Pepperton. AI residents spontaneously invent social networks, conspiracy theories, and case law.
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AI Powers Over Half of African Cybercrime: An In-Depth Warning from Interpol
Interpol reports AI now powers over half of Africa's cybercrime, with deepfakes and phishing surging. Analysis of AI as a crime accelerator, Africa's unique challenges, and global response strategies.
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Nightcrawler: Deep Dive into an AI Penetration Testing Agent Running Locally on Smartphones
Deep analysis of Nightcrawler, an AI penetration testing agent running entirely on smartphones. Exploring how on-device AI empowers cybersecurity testing, its architecture, use cases, and risks.
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Flock License Plate Recognition System Fails: 71% of Alerts Are False Positives, Raising Doubts About AI Surveillance Reliability
Data from a California town shows Flock Safety's ALPR system has a 71% false alert rate, raising serious concerns about AI surveillance accuracy, law enforcement risks, and civil liberties.
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Flock License Plate Recognition System Fails: 71% of Alerts Are False Positives, Raising Doubts About AI Surveillance Reliability
Data from a California town shows Flock Safety's ALPR system has a 71% false alert rate, raising serious concerns about AI surveillance accuracy, law enforcement risks, and civil liberties.
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Steam Malware Attribution: How Bitcoin, Cookies, and Food Delivery Orders Identified the Attacker
Investigators traced Steam malware to its creator using Bitcoin transaction chains, Google Cookies, and Uber Eats orders—revealing how cross-referencing digital evidence destroys the illusion of online anonymity.
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Prestel and Micronet: Britain's Lost Proto-Internet
Explore Britain's 1979 Prestel Viewdata system and its community platform Micronet 800 — an interactive online service that predated the World Wide Web by a decade, and why it lost to the open internet.
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Prestel and Micronet: Britain's Lost Proto-Internet
Explore the history of Britain's Prestel Viewdata system (1979) and its community platform Micronet 800 — an interactive online service that predated the World Wide Web by a decade, and why it lost to the open internet.
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MediaCrawler: Deep Dive into an Open-Source Crawler Framework Covering Seven Major Platforms
Deep dive into the popular GitHub project MediaCrawler — a Playwright-based multi-platform crawler framework supporting data collection from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili, Weibo, Tieba, and Zhihu.
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Ransomware Negotiator Turns Insider: Third Conviction for Colluding with Hackers to Extort Businesses
A Florida ransomware negotiator was convicted for secretly colluding with hackers to extort US businesses—the third such conviction. Learn how insider negotiators operate and how firms can defend themselves.
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Beware the Gemini Free Membership Scam: The Account Security Risks of Leaked Backup Codes
Exposing the phishing trap behind the "free Gemini Pro membership" tutorials circulating on video platforms: they lure users into handing over account passwords and backup recovery codes, leading to account theft. This article breaks down the process technically and teaches you to spot three danger signs.
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Learning Python Web Scraping from Scratch: How It Works, the Full Workflow, and Legal Boundaries
A must-read intro to Python web scraping: from HTTP requests and HTML parsing to data storage, systematically explaining how crawlers work and their full workflow, while clarifying legal boundaries like the robots protocol and privacy protection.
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Python Web Scraping for Beginners: How It Works, Core Workflow, and Legal Red Lines Explained
A plain-language guide to how Python web scrapers work: from HTTP requests and responses, HTML tag parsing, to the complete three-step data scraping workflow, with a focus on the three legal red lines and compliance advice.
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The C Readability Crisis: Engineering Reflections Behind Clever Tricks
Why do C programmers keep creating readability disasters? An in-depth look at macro abuse, fancy pointer tricks, and over-nesting—and how coding standards, static analysis, and code review protect maintainability.
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Harness Engineering: Core Methodology and Practical Guide for Enterprise-Level AI Programming
Can AI really replace programmers? This article explains Harness Engineering principles and its three evolutionary stages, revealing real pain points of enterprise AI programming.
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T3MP3ST: The Open-Source Framework Tha…
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T3MP3ST: The Open-Source Framework That Turns Coding Agents into Autonomous Red Team Operators
T3MP3ST is an open-source offensive security framework that turns coding agents like Claude Code and Codex into autonomous red team tools. Achieves 90.1% pass@1 on XBEN, supports Web pentesting, CVE discovery, and smart contract auditing.
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A Complete Guide to Learning Python from Scratch: From Basics to Web Scraping Projects
A systematic Python learning path for beginners covering syntax, OOP, web scraping, office automation, and data analysis, with methodology tips and resources.
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Free Full-Power GPT on AI Aggregation Platforms? The Risks and Truth Behind Shared Accounts
Deep analysis of AI aggregation platforms promoted on Bilibili, exposing privacy leaks and legal risks of shared account pools for free GPT and Claude access, plus safe alternatives like OpenRouter and DeepSeek.
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