This appears to just be a compilation of other leaks: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/

Still not a bad idea to change passwords and make sure MFA is enabled.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/

It is banned; they’re talking about un-banning it

Because of studies like https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622:

Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant.

That’s the Washington Post

We’re right there with y’all.

That would be equally annoying. Probably a better signal to noise ratio on IRC though; Discord descends into memes almost instantly.

Seriously. It’s beyond painful when some open source project only uses Discord for communication. You have to hope that you post your question at a time when the right people are online, and that there’s not a more interesting conversation going on, otherwise it just gets lost. Index that whole dataset.

This is trademark, not copyright

It’s a fee for people who want to renounce their US citizenship.

I don’t know why you’re being down voted; here’s an upvote for being sensible.

This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I’m not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.

Why would this be a bad thing? I assume that’s the connotation for posting it here

Because people who are struggling financially already shouldn’t have money taken out of their paychecks by the predatory student loan racket.

I don’t think this is a case of trying to make more money.

Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.