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The Unstoppable Pirate Ebook Haven with 600,000 Student Admirers Worldwide

TorrentFreak

Z-Library, the world's largest pirate eBook repository, revealed in May 2023 that more than 600,000 students and teachers worldwide were registered users of the site, based on an analysis of university and school email addresses in its user database. The figure is considered a significant undercount, as U.S.-based users were excluded due to an active criminal prosecution, and many students likely register with personal rather than institutional email addresses. Despite repeated legal crackdowns — including the seizure of over 200 domain names and the arrest of two alleged operators by U.S. law enforcement — Z-Library has continued operating, migrating to dark web and personalized domain access methods. The platform hosts millions of books and academic papers, offering free access that publishers argue costs the industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

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Over Half of World's Largest Lakes Losing Water

Phys.org

A major study published in the journal Science in May 2023 found that more than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant water volume over the past three decades. Researchers analyzed satellite data covering nearly 2,000 of the planet's largest bodies of water and found that 53% experienced declining water storage, with a cumulative loss of approximately 22 gigatonnes per year.

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Hidden Firmware Backdoor: Gigabyte Motherboards Undermine User Trust and Security

The Hacker News

In May 2023, firmware security firm Eclypsium disclosed a hidden mechanism embedded in the UEFI firmware of 271 Gigabyte motherboard models that effectively functioned as a backdoor. The code, intended to facilitate automatic firmware updates from Gigabyte's servers, downloaded and executed files during the system boot process without sufficient security verification, exposing an estimated 7 million devices to potential exploitation.

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The Sokal Affair: a Humorous Hoax Shakes the Academia

Wikipedia

The Sokal Affair was a 1996 academic hoax engineered by NYU physics professor Alan Sokal, who submitted a deliberately nonsensical paper to the cultural studies journal Social Text. Titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," the article mixed real scientific terminology with fabricated claims — including the assertion that quantum gravity renders objective reality a social construct — designed to flatter the journal's postmodernist editorial slant.

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Dark Web and Generative AI: Unveiling the Intriguing Connection

Flare

The emergence of generative AI tools in 2023 prompted rapid adoption — and exploitation — on dark web forums, where cybercriminals began circulating cracked versions of legitimate large language models alongside purpose-built malicious alternatives. Two of the most prominent, WormGPT and FraudGPT, appeared on dark web marketplaces in July 2023, offering subscribers AI-powered capabilities for generating phishing emails, writing malware, and creating fraudulent content with no built-in safety guardrails.

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