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Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours) Link: https://readhacker.news/c/78MMx If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers. Although Google claims to disconnect them from your account when human-reviewed, they explicitly warn not to enter confidential information. https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16836988 “[Gemini app activity] is used to improve Google services for everyone, including by training generative AI models, if your Keep Activity setting is on.“ https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#human_review “A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers” https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#pn_retain_data “Chats reviewed by human reviewers [...] are not deleted when you delete your activity. Instead, they are retained for up to three years.” https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#pn_data_usage “Please don’t enter confidential information that you wouldn’t want a reviewer to see or Google to use to improve our services, including machine-learning technologies.” To disable their training on your chat sessions, you need to turn off “Keep Activity” in Gemini’s settings. Turning that off means you’ll lose any chat sessions after 72 hours. I learned this too late, thinking that having a paid subscription = not being turned into the product. Apparently paying is not enough. Thank you to this user on HN for mentioning in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355424

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Gitbook Breached (Score: 150+ in 13 hours) Link: https://readhacker.news/c/78JSA We opened a ticket with support about Gitbook availability issues and got this in reply. We have yet to see any official customer communication or breach notification. Apologies for the formatting, did the best I could as it's a mobile paste. Update: GitBook security incident update Hey <$name>, The GitBook app, the GitBook API, and published docs are available again. A few services may still be degraded as we finish restoring everything to full performance. *What happened* GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents. At 19:00 CET, November 2, the attacker gained unauthorized access to some of our infrastructure credentials. We detected the attack immediately and acted swiftly to block further impact. To make sure our infrastructure was fully secure, we then took the GitBook app and authenticated docs sites offline. We kept publicly published content live for as long as possible, using cached data. *What we did immediately* * Blocked the attacker and closed the vulnerabilities involved * Replaced every credential and secret across our infrastructure * Brought services back only once we were confident they were secure * Invalidated every customer’s API tokens on our platform *Your data* Our investigation shows that the attacker may have accessed the following: * Git Sync secrets. * GitBook API tokens. * Third-party API tokens used to connect external tools to GitBook. * Questions asked to GitBook Assistant by your site visitors. At this stage, we have found no evidence that any of your content in GitBook was modified. *What you need to do now* * Rotate any existing GitBook API tokens. We revoked all personal API tokens during the incident. * Rotate any third-party API tokens or secrets you use to connect other tools to GitBook. * If you have published integrations that use secrets, rotate those secrets. * If you use the GitBook MCP server, re-authenticate it. Please contact your GitBook organization’s admin to assist with this process. *What we are doing next* * Monitoring the situation in case of further attacks. * Introducing further security measures to our platform. * Writing a full post mortem that will be published soon with more detailed information about the incident. * If you have any further questions, please reach out to your account manager or our support team. You can also check status.gitbook.com for updates Thank you for your patience, and we apologize again for the disruption The GitBook team

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Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (Score: 156+ in 23 hours) Link: https://readhacker.news/s/78Gtd Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/78Gtd I saw HackerTube (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510) a few days ago, the YouTube videos HN keeps recommending, pulled from 19 years of comments. It made me want to flip through them instead of picking, so I built a TV for it. I have Algo fatigue. Each topic area is a channel (DEVTV, SOLDER, RETRO, ORBIT, ...), plus HN Prime (the top 400), a music channel, and Late Night on ch 99, which only broadcasts 11pm-5am your local time and shows color bars otherwise. Similar to HackerTube it was built with Claude Code in a few hours. All credit for the data goes to HackerTube. Happy to hear channel ideas.

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Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws (🔥 Score: 170+ in 2 hours) Link: https://readhacker.news/s/78JwP Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/78JwP

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