Elon Musk’s Twitter Has Dozens Of Accounts And Hundreds Of Tweets Selling Child Abuse Material, Proves New Review

A new and shocking review by NBC News on Elon Musk’s Twitter app has left the tech world stunned.

Twitter accounts are offering to trade and even sell content that’s explicit and has to do with child sexual abuse. This material is under a very thin veil that’s covered by hashtags and terms that continue to surface online for a few months now. This is despite CEO Elon Musk claiming he would be the one to combat the child exploitation seen on the app.

Musk referred to the objective as his number one priority when he set out a tweet on November 20. Moreover, he was seen criticizing the app’s leadership for not doing enough to address the important matter and he did vow to change things, when and if he got the chance to do so.

Ever since this declaration took place, dozens of accounts have arisen that post hundred of tweets as a whole using words, hashtags, and even abbreviations that indicate sales of what the firm calls exploitation material, as per a single day’s tweets. These are certainly some clear signs for those that are well aware of the news.

So many experts and different law enforcement firms are working hard to combat the matter and spread such material but it continues to be a major issue today. Moreover, such tweets get reviewed by the likes of NBC News which offers to sell or even have content traded off.

This is usually known as child porn or CSAM and if Twitter does claim to be doing something to solve the matter, well, it needs to work harder, that’s for sure because such tweets and plenty of accounts have been up for a few months now. They’re predating Elon Musk’s mega takeover and even on Friday morning, they’re been live and in action.

So many tweets were getting reviewed by the likes of NBC News over a few weeks and these happened to be published when Elon Musk was working. Some of the app’s users started to tweet and mention how such explicit posts often appeared at a time when you wish to delete such tweets after a short while, right after it’s posted. This would avoid detection and it later posted some similar offers from such accounts.

Those accounts that were offering CSAM claim older accounts were shut down by the app but still, it was quite simple to have it created again.

As per Twitter’s new rules that had been published in 2020, the app boldly declared that it had zero tolerance for such content that featured or promoted the likes of child sexual exploitation. Moreover, they were even seen calling it out as the most offensive violation of their rules laid out for users. This entails media, text, illustrations, and even images produced by a computer.

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In one particular email that had been sent out to NBC News after such an article had been published, we saw the company’s VP for trust and safety go on and on about how the platform is well aware of the great amount of work required to solve the crisis. But she also acknowledged how hard the firm was working to better things.

Since then, we’ve seen NBC News set out more details on the investigation for the form so it could provide a follow-up for the picture and allow content to be nailed down.

For now, it’s just a very cloudy picture in terms of how many people remain at the Twitter app to address the matter as Musk did enact a few rounds comprising of layoffs while issuing ultimatums that could lead to a line of resignations.

H/T: NBCnews

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Mobile phone cameras will one day replace the standalone professional cameras

These days, when the majority of people want to take photos they use smartphone cameras which are very portable and inexpensive compared to proper standalone cameras. Ever since the early 2000s when the early versions of the smartphones we know started coming into the market they brought along with them their portable cameras that started undermining the standalone cameras that were the dominating photo-capturing devices of the time.

The smartphones of today are so advanced that according to the CEO of Sony’s semiconductor manufacturing company smartphone cameras will soon start producing better quality photos than the ones taken by the highest quality of cameras, a DSLR.

But even though the question of whether smartphones will replace professional cameras is still a topic that is open to debate, there is one completely clear point, that, while smartphones were on the rise this past decade, digital camera sales fell sharply down.

In an animation by James Eagle, we can see how the annual sales data for film cameras and digital cameras compared to the sales of smartphones over the years. This was done just so that the full impact of the smartphone industry on the camera industry could be realized.

Going back to the early 2000s when this all started, smartphone cameras were significantly less powerful than their standalone counterparts and thus the latter was favored. As an example, one of the first camera phones on the market Samsung’s SCH-V200 could take photos at 0.35 megapixels; which was pretty good for the time, however, there was a catch as the phone could take 20 photos only as it had no more storage. And the hottest camera of the year was Canon’s EOS D30 which was a digital camera that could take many photos at the resolution of 3 megapixels.

But after the iPhone, and other more accessible and better quality camera phones came into the market, they quickly saw to it that many people who were not fond of standalone cameras switched to the more portable and multitasking camera phones. As an example, the phone released earlier this year Google’s Pixel 7 has multiple cameras with a 50-megapixel wide rear camera and a 12-megapixel ultra-wide rear camera, on the other hand, however, is Canon’s enthusiast EOS 850 with a 24.1-megapixel sensor. Not to mention that camera phones are much less pricey and can do multiple tasks for a medium price while specialized cameras can only click pictures and that too for a high price. So, in the end, it does make sense that people are reverting from specialized cameras and are moving toward camera phones.

Charting the Smartphone Effect on the Camera Market from Visual Capitalist.

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Insightfulness May Play An Important Role In Assessing Misinformation As Per This Study

A new study is shedding light on how more and more people are less likely to fall for fake information if they’ve got insightful skills when it comes to problem-solving.

The research was recently published in a journal called Thinking and Reasoning and it proves how critical of a factor insightfulness is and how often it’s overlooked.

Remember, in today’s day and age with the rise of the social media and internet world, you’re more susceptible to misinformation and it’s becoming a major concern. Authors of new research are jetting out to explore the brain’s cognitive mechanism that’s related to believing everything you see and read. And with misinformation at an all-time high, you need to be able to figure out right from wrong. In this research, the authors want to differentiate the likes of wrong from right and that’s through problem-solving.

This neural-themed study showed how the mind is a beautiful invention and it produces ideas that are so specific and comes with a few great Aha! Moments. And the authors really were on a mission to see the link between the likes of insightfulness and social reasoning like how to deal with over claims, bullshit, and even believing fake news.

This particular study entailed 61 right-handed speakers that spoke native American English and on average, they were 25 years old. Moreover, the researchers made use of Compound Remote Associate problems that gathered so much insight into how we connect three unrelated terms to find a particular theme. This issue forces some to think in a more creative manner while others just rely upon insights.

For instance, such issues end up forcing people to think in a more creative way and are really open to the likes of insights. See, when you’re faced with some huge problems, you require to reframe your thoughts and alter the starting representation of an issue to witness that in a newer light.

Solving matters through the likes of insights changes the way a matter is represented. And it produces new ideas by exploring unique paths for reasoning. In the end, what you get is the chance to better filter out distractions and focus solely on the problem’s solution. This has great benefits and it’s coming from overcrowded environments.

In conclusion, there was a positive link between both insightfulness and discernment. And those getting a higher score on their insightfulness were doing a better job to highlight fake news and differentiate statements that had great meaning.

Creator: sorbetto / Credit: Getty Images

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Social Media Reprograms Children’s Brains And Gets Them Hooked On ‘Likes’, New Study Claims

You may have heard about social media and its negative effects on mental activity. And now, a new study is shedding light on another reason why you might want to limit your child’s screen time.

New research conducted by the University of North Carolina has gone about speaking on how such an endeavor may end up reprogramming a child’s brain. Similarly, it spoke about how it gets them hooked on to likes.

So many applications like Instagram and even Snapchat may end up making teens more addicted to the likes of keeping a check on their phone to see whether or not they’re getting a reaction of their desire on a particular post.

Experts proved how it’s the younger lot that is more addictive than the others and they’re just so sensitive to feedback on social posts. This can arise in the form of the usual likes and comments as confirmed by psychologists.

A lot of the social feedback entails social rewards as well as punishments like a thumbs up and a down while even providing tags and reporting the content of various kinds. Then we also have the likes of star ratings taking center stage.

This increasing anticipation and addictive behavior are urging more and more people to keep a check on accounts as per researchers. Now, more findings suggest that such behavior during the early years of life has the ability to finetune a brain’s sensitivity to both rewards and punishments.

The behavior becomes a habit during the period of early adolescence and may lead to hypoactivation and higher levels of sensitivity to cues over some time.

Remember, this is all proven by science as it shows how the brain alters with time and there is a change in structure and function while an element of reorganization does occur. Therefore, it wouldn’t be wrong to call it a period of development. Then there’s an element of peer pressure that from society that starts to kick in too.

But who is most at risk? Well, as per this study, it’s those young kids who scan social media around 15 times a day who are most at risk.

This study entailed 169 students and they arose from nearly three different public middle schools situated in the state of North Carolina. The study went on for three years and every participant kept on reporting that they kept a check on social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Moreover, you had people admitting that they really did go about doing the activity 20 times per day.

Some even participated in Social Incentive Delay Tasks where their mind’s responses were calculated when they anticipated getting social rewards and ridding the need for social punishments.

Meanwhile, new research has proven how 78% of people between the 13 to 17 age bracket continued to check their phones on an hourly basis while 35% looked at the top 5 networks in a constant manner. For this research, the authors continued to highlight how students that stare at social media around 15 times a day are the most sensitive of them all, in terms of social feedback.

Moreover, such findings even proved how many kids grow up thinking social media is the way to go and they’re becoming more sensitive to the likes of feedback from their friends. So in conclusion, you might want to rid them of the habit before it becomes an addiction, as proven in this eye-opening longitudinal study. After all, prevention is always better than regret and cure.

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Are You An Aspiring Future Tech Employee? Here Are The Top Tech Jobs And Their Pay In Major Tech Hubs

As the world is progressing, tech is in the lead and it pays big bucks. If you’re an aspiring tech employee, you’re in the best field as nothing will pay better than tech in the coming years.

A few sites (including comprehensive.io) have started gathering the pay rates of different tech jobs through the invisibility law that requires companies in tech capitals to display their salary rates. The website we’re talking about has assessed 700 different companies and then created a list of jobs and salaries.

The website specifies that the salary rates fluctuate daily since companies keep updating them. The rates we’ll discuss today are the most recent ones.

According to the website, the highest paying job at the moment is a Principal Software Engineer. The lowest salary ranges around $207,000 based on 38 jobs at 14 different companies. The highest that this job pays is $282,000.

The rest of the jobs fall around the same range. The ones surrounding engineering include Senior Software Engineer whose salary starts from $147,000 and ends at $210,000, Software Engineer ($132,000 - $200,000), Engineering Manager ($173,000 - $234,000), Security Engineer ($150,000 - $180,000), and Staff Software Engineer ($175,000 to $226,000).

A few jobs in the Product Handling sector include Product Manager ( $130,000 - $197,000), Senior Product Manager ($152,000 - $208,000), Senior Product Designer ($141,000 - $200,000), Product Designer ($123,000 - $188,000), and Senior Product Marketing Manager ($147,000 - $199,000).

If you’re from the finance department, tech has some scope for you as well. Some of the financial jobs on the site included Enterprise Account Executive ($178,000 - $242,000), Account Manager ($75,000 - $101,000), Account Executive ($111,000 - $150,000), Sales Development Representative ($54,000 - $63,000), and Senior Financial Analyst ($92,000 - $128,000).

The last set of jobs we found on the website were some miscellaneous positions. They included Data Scientist ($154,000 - $212,000), Site Reliability Engineer ($120,000 - $175,000), Technical Program Manager ($147,000 - $201,000), and Senior Data Analyst ($125,000 - $174,000).

These jobs and their pays are tempting enough to want us to leave our jobs and start from scratch. So if you’re someone who’s in the tech field, you have a bright future ahead.

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As Crypto Frauds Are Increasing, Web3 Ecosystem Also Lost A Large Amount to It in 2022

As technology is progressing, digital fraud is increasing. Just when cryptocurrency became popular, a rise in crypto frauds could be seen and now Web3 ecosystems are also experiencing frauds continuously. These frauds are stripping away the hard-earned money of many people all around the world. Web3 lost billions in 2022 and Immunefi, Web3 bug bounty provider, released the exact number of money that Web3 lost in 2022. It wasn't a matter of thousands or millions of dollars, because the Web3 ecosystem has lost $3,948, 856, 037 billion to be exact to different frauds in 2022. The report by Immunefi also put forward the names of blockchains that were targeted the most by fraud actors. These blockchains were BNB Chain and Ethereum. These blockchains experienced unique frauds, BNB Chain with 65 and Ethereum with 49 frauds last year.

Even if the money lost seems big, the percentage has decreased since 2021 to 51.2% (which was $8,088,338,239). In 2022, the Web3 ecosystem lost a total of $3,948,856,037 (i.e. 3.94 billion) to crypto frauds but now there is a prominent decrease in it. These stats are still a huge security risk to many organizations who do trading through the Web3 ecosystem. So it is best for them if they find a new security strategy for the new crypto-threats, or their data will be exposed to crypto frauds.

Even with all these frauds happening at Web3, researchers have predicted that the Web3 market is going to grow from $3.2 billion in 2021 to $81.5 billion by 2030. As the value of the Web3 market will increase, cybercriminals will find new and innovative ways for fraud. Truth is that in these big markets, frauds happening are inevitable. Web3 has to take steps to decrease fraud, even if ceasing them is impossible. Web2 applications were nothing for cybercriminals to hack, but in Web3 everything is much more advanced. As Web3 is fairly new to the crypto market, it is hard for users to adjust to it and criminals take advantage of this vulnerability. Over time, users will learn how to handle Web3 and the amount of loss will keep on decreasing.

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Twitter's New and Improved Bookmarks: Easier Access and Better Organization

Twitter has announced plans to update the user interface (UI) for its bookmarks feature, making it easier for users to access and manage their saved tweets.

The new UI, which is currently being tested with a small group of users, will be rolled out to all users and platforms in the coming days. The bookmarks feature allows users to save tweets for later reference. It has been a popular feature among Twitter users, with many using it to save articles, links, and other information for later reading or sharing. Elon Musk is interested in adding this feature to Twitter as he is a firm believer in not liking every tweet you love. Instead, according to him, it is much better to save a tweet in personal bookmarks.

However, the current implementation of the bookmarks feature has been criticized for being difficult to access and manage. To access their bookmarks, users must click on the "More" menu in the tweet options, then select the "Add to Bookmarks" option. This process is cumbersome and requires multiple clicks, making it less convenient for users to access their saved tweets.

The new UI aims to address these issues by making the bookmarks feature more visible and easier to access. Under the new design, users will be able to access their bookmarks by clicking on a separate tab on the main navigation bar. This will allow them to easily access their saved tweets without having to go through the previous multiple-click process.

In addition to making the bookmarks feature more accessible, the new UI will also make it easier for users to manage their saved tweets. The updated design includes a new "Bookmarks Manager" that allows users to organize their saved tweets into different folders and categories. This will make it easier for users to find and reference their saved tweets at a later date.

In addition to benefiting users, the update to Twitter's bookmarks feature is also likely to have a positive impact on advertisers. The new UI, which makes it easier for users to access and manage their saved tweets, is likely to increase the visibility and engagement of sponsored tweets that users have saved.

When users save a sponsored tweet, it is added to their bookmarks and can be accessed and shared at a later date. This can help to extend the life of a sponsored tweet and increase its reach, as users are more likely to share a tweet that they have saved in their bookmarks.

Overall, the new UI for the bookmarks feature is a welcome improvement that should make it easier for users to access and manage their saved tweets. The updated design is expected to be rolled out to all users in the coming weeks.

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