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Gmail is Now Blocking 100 Million Extra Spam Messages Every Day With AI
Google has recruited its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to help train additional spam filters for Gmail users. With the new filters in place as of last month, the company claims Gmail is now blocking an extra 100 million spam messages every day. From a report:
In the context of Gmail's 1 billion-plus users, this isn't necessarily a huge gain -- it works out as one extra blocked spam email per 10 users -- but Google says Gmail already blocks 99.99 percent of spam, so working out what constitutes that last sliver of a percentage is hard. |
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| cauz |
Feb. 6, 2019, 5:48 p.m. |
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| James Fallows |
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like. |
| George Matthew Adams |
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health. |
| Jason Calacanis |
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month. |
| Jefferson Han |
The funniest thing is that now I know what reverse spam is. You know you get spam from people saying, 'Can you invest in this or that?' People are now e-mailing me saying, 'Oh my God, can I invest in your company?' It's a reverse solicitation of money. |
| Jack Abramoff |
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. |
| Robert Darnton |
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything. |
| James Fallows |
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar. |
| Ray Dalio |
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. |
| Mitch Hedberg |
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. |
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Unfortunately, I think the rise of chatbots or conversational agents is actually blurring the definition of spam. If a recruiter emails a bunch of people with generated personalized messages, is it spam or not? I certainly don't want to see it and the generated parts often sound super fake and wrong, so it seems even more like spam.
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39 Years Ago The World's First Spam Was Sent (Praise Him)
Wednesday was the 39th anniversary of the world's first spam, sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer for Massachusetts' Digital Equipment Corporation in 1978 to over 300 users on Arpanet. It was written in all capital letters, and its body began with 273 more email addresses that wouldn't fit in the header. The DEC marketer "was reportedly trying to flag the attention of the burgeoning California tech community," reports the San Jose Mercury News. The message touted two demonstrations of the DECSYSTEM-20, a PDP-10 mainframe computer.
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Anytime I get a spam message in my inbox I read it. Because lord knows you are doing high quality spam if you are inboxing my Gmail. On that note, how the hell did this not get flagged?
"do you suspect your partner of cheating?
do you need live evidence for any issue?
do you need immunity and protection for your online accounts?
do you wish to double your bitcoins, ethereum,lite coin, etc
every ...
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Hackers Claim They Possess Details of 120 Million Facebook Accounts, Publish Private Messages From 81,000 of Them (bbc.com)
Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical about that figure. Facebook said its security had not been compromised. And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions.
Facebook added it had tak...
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the biggest take away from my years in the spam game is volume and scale.
find something that works, and do it 100 times. do it 1000 times. scale that bitch up to a million times.
you dont make profit and change from 1 sale. you make it from 10,000 sales.
in the words of freddie gibbes 'IM PUSHIN WEIGHT'
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Pirate Bay is Mining Cryptocurrency Again, No Opt Out
msmash 11 minutes ago 6
The Pirate Bay is mining cryptocurrency again, causing a spike in CPU usage among many visitors. From a report: For now, the notorious torrent site provides no option to disable it. The new mining expedition is not without risk. CDN provider Cloudflare previously suspended the account of a site that used a similar miner, which means that The Pirate Bay could be next. Last month The Pirate Bay caused some uproar by adding a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner to its website. The miner utilizes CPU power from visitors to generate Monero coins for the site, providing an extra source of revenue. [...] The Pirate Bay currently has no opt-out option, nor has it informed users about the latest mining efforts. This co...
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(12:10:49 PM) spartanchat10: i can't get a new IP address
(12:10:53 PM) spartanchat10: from at least my research
(12:11:14 PM) spartanchat10: I would have to unplug my modem for 8 days, and even then it's not a guarentee
(12:11:38 PM) spartanchat10: if the reason I can't use outlook for email is because my IP is blacklisted, then why can I still get email through the web interface?
(12:12:49 PM) spartanchat10: Everything worked for 8 years years up until Thursday
(12:12:59 PM) spartanchat10: I ...
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Perhaps this is spam
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If any spam says "do you want to stroke my gourd" I'm gonna click it.
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Sorry for the spam. Back to your regularly scheduled madness.
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