Friday, April 30, 2021
Vandals Are Putting Ground Hamburger in EV Charging Stations
Submitted May 01, 2021 at 07:18AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3t66IG7
New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs: Lobby groups for Verizon, AT&T, and other ISPs ask court to overturn state law.
Submitted May 01, 2021 at 02:47AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3aUJpJd
The NYPD retires “Digidog” robot after public backlash
Submitted May 01, 2021 at 03:21AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3t6Jxf3
Basecamp implodes as employees flee company, including senior staff
Submitted May 01, 2021 at 02:00AM by pluram https://ift.tt/3aSBqMP
Amazon employees say you should be skeptical of Jeff Bezos’s worker satisfaction stat: It’s difficult to get honest feedback from workers who fear retaliation.
Submitted May 01, 2021 at 02:45AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3aSxawU
Masafumi Ito, leader of the Amazon Japan Union, sues for wrongful termination – His lawyers argue the tech giant unfairly fired him for his organizing activity.
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 11:53PM by Exastiken https://ift.tt/3nylVyM
Trade groups representing ISPs filed a lawsuit Friday against New York's new law requiring providers in the state to offer broadband service for $15/m to low-income households
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 10:32PM by Spirited-Pause https://ift.tt/3aRZT4Y
'It's your device, you should be able to repair it': E-waste is the world's fastest growing waste stream.
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 10:17PM by SinbadMarinarul https://ift.tt/2QMwouv
COVID-19 Is Devastating India. Its Government Is Trying To Censor Social Media.
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 06:27PM by zsreport https://ift.tt/3u6tOOd
‘Brain-like device’ mimics human learning in major computing breakthrough
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 03:55PM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3gPLxWp
Google's push to bring employees back to offices in September is frustrating some employees who say they'll quit if they can't be remote forever
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 06:00PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3nBTVdm
EU charges Apple with breach of competition law | The iPhone maker unfairly puts music streaming rivals at a disadvantage due to its App Store rules, the EU's Competition Commissioner says.
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 03:56PM by misana123 https://ift.tt/2R7AaOS
Patreon CEO Posts YouTube Apology for Firing 36 People As Valuation Rises to $4 Billion
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 10:39AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3aOE3z2
Manhattan Community Board Calls Giving Gig Workers Bathroom Access 'Crazy'
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 10:40AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3aOE7Pi
Amazon Launches Another Union-Busting Campaign
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 10:42AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3gMxUr6
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Engineers Have Developed the World’s First Fully Recyclable Printed Electronics
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 10:20AM by thinkB4WeSpeak https://ift.tt/3uiEFEM
U.S. Senator Asks for Repeal of Section 230, Censorship of 'Sexually Impure' Content
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 06:58AM by Anoth3rDude https://ift.tt/2Sb2j89
Massive school data breach shows we need better privacy policies
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 03:01AM by treetyoselfcarol https://ift.tt/3nxxdTT
Taiwan bans recruitment from China to combat chip talent poaching
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 01:34AM by benh999 https://ift.tt/3eLDoQp
Nvidia's Enhanced Anti-Mining GPU Limiter Debuts in Mid-May
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 11:02PM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/2QGbqNO
Verizon tries to sell Yahoo and AOL after spending $9 billion on fallen giants
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 12:43AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3e4nL7n
U.S. Labor Secretary throws his support behind classifying gig workers as employees
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 12:46AM by nosotros_road_sodium https://ift.tt/3u57LHQ
Security firm Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 09:13PM by rickk79 https://ift.tt/3nz5bXW
US investigating possible mysterious directed energy attack near White House
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 08:18PM by JRWoodwardMSW https://ift.tt/3aNxjSj
The best broadband in the US isn’t in New York or San Francisco. It’s in Chattanooga.
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 05:31PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3t34cAC
Facebook Posts $26 Billion In Revenue, Shattering Wall Street Expectations As Income Nearly Doubles
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 12:22PM by jonbristow https://ift.tt/3t2orOS
Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 12:43PM by wewewawa https://ift.tt/33097b4
Oculus will sell you a Quest 2 headset that doesn't need Facebook for an extra $500
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 11:38AM by ginwithbutts https://ift.tt/3e2yEXu
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Narendra Modi to resign over pandemic | Users based in India noted on Twitter that the #ResignModi hashtag had been blocked from view on Facebook
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 05:11AM by bliss_tree https://ift.tt/2Sg6mjP
Oracle VP Ken Glueck Suspended by Twitter for Doxing an Intercept Reporter
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 04:08AM by ProgsRS https://ift.tt/3xxXvtJ
Apollo astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 10:10PM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/32Zo5xX
Delivery Drivers Are Using Grey Market Apps to Make Their Jobs Suck Less - In Indonesia, unofficial apps let delivery drivers filter orders and spoof their GPS location to beat the algorithms at their own game.
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 06:29PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2SbN7I3
Joe Rogan Episode Under Review at Spotify Over 'COVID Misinformation'
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 08:59PM by Flying-Apple https://ift.tt/3gKKzL3
Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, But Not White Supremacists
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 07:54PM by CodeDinosaur https://ift.tt/32ToDVR
Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t – Researchers say hundreds of preinstalled apps can access a log found on Android devices where sensitive contact tracing information is stored
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 07:04PM by speckz https://ift.tt/32WY9Da
Facebook approves alcohol, vaping, gambling and dating ads targeting teens, lobby group finds
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 07:09PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3vvQcRD
Signal’s response to DOJ subpoena for user data / info 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 07:24PM by ghostpepperwings https://ift.tt/3sYGPYZ
Alphabet/Google reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 05:06PM by bartturner https://ift.tt/2SbFbXe
Taiwan says China waging economic warfare against tech sector
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 11:59AM by Exastiken https://ift.tt/3eFVO4X
Cellebrite Physical Analyzer no longer fully available for iPhones following Signal blog post
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 09:38AM by mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee https://ift.tt/3nqFeKp
Apple iOS 14.5 update includes ‘app tracking transparency’ feature
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 07:41AM by No_Weather_7038 https://ift.tt/3eDDrgS
Samsung's Lee family to pay more than $10.8 bln tax, donate art
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 10:53AM by DreGu90 https://ift.tt/3sVyyF3
Cyber-attack hackers threaten to share US police informant data
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 10:43AM by mayurbhattseo https://ift.tt/2QFhTZp
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Chinese Smart TV-Maker Accused of Spying on Owners' Other Devices
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 07:44AM by bigmoof https://ift.tt/3xuZrDm
Autonomous Weeder robot uses lasers to take out 100,000 plants an hour
Submitted April 28, 2021 at 06:14AM by StcStasi https://ift.tt/3xweZH2
Microsoft Teams is down worldwide
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 04:47PM by UnknownDeveloper https://ift.tt/3vmq0sn
As tech faces a reckoning, what you do offline can get you banned
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 04:49PM by kevin_dung https://ift.tt/3dZSZwB
Apple will reportedly face EU antitrust charges this week
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 03:16PM by UnknownDeveloper https://ift.tt/3eANzH7
Monday, April 26, 2021
YouTube Videos Brainwashed My Father. Can I Reprogram His Feed?
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 10:24AM by LisaMck041 https://ift.tt/32Tbc8p
Tesla Loses A Lot Of Money Selling Cars, But Makes It All Back On Credits And Bitcoin
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 05:56AM by ohnoh18 https://ift.tt/2S53yWy
Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 11:42PM by jining https://ift.tt/2S164Nn
Toyota is buying Lyft’s autonomous car division for $550 million
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 02:58AM by dapperlemon https://ift.tt/3dTqXm7
EPA will allow California to set stricter emission standards for cars, SUVs
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 12:08AM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3dSHUxb
Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading An Internal Report About Its Role In The Insurrection. You Can Read It Here.
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 01:17AM by imagepoem https://ift.tt/3aBQ4bd
How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores Into Admitting Their Automated Art Theft – Waxy.org
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 07:50PM by MKorostoff https://ift.tt/2S3I9Ns
A Very 90s Death: The Tamagotchi Cemetery
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 06:50PM by CrankyBear https://ift.tt/32LxWqW
About Half the Public Thinks Local Governments Should Be Able to Pursue Their Own Broadband Network Build-Outs
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 07:34PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3tVQErP
CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 07:15PM by TypicalActuator0 https://ift.tt/3xnv55D
Tim Cook Urged Mark Zuckerberg to Delete User Data From 3rd Party Apps in Private 2019 Meeting
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 05:21PM by UnKindClock https://ift.tt/3dUbhiK
Your Smartphone Should Be Built to Last - A movement is underway to slow the obsolescence of our electronic gear.
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 12:14PM by Philo1927 https://ift.tt/3gETDRO
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Elon Musk on Mars efforts: “A bunch of people will probably die.”
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 05:41AM by Hetalbot https://ift.tt/2QXULoy
NASA's Mars helicopter travels further and faster on its third flight
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 03:53AM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/32Ms2Wz
Twitch Bans 7.5 Million Bots Inflating Viewership
Submitted April 26, 2021 at 01:06AM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3sKQFgU
'Full Of Hatred And Fear': Disinformation On YouTube Divided A Dad And Daughter
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 11:16PM by eeca20 https://ift.tt/3aE8NCW
Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. after beaver chews through fibre cable
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 11:24PM by CodeDinosaur https://ift.tt/2QnhElL
U.S. Special Operations Command Central Claims Twitter Account Was Hacked
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 06:10PM by ChasingTheCoyote https://ift.tt/3dQiKPS
India asks Twitter to remove tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling as cases hit new world high
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 07:21PM by tyw7 https://ift.tt/3vkOeUa
Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 06:20PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3eyggEC
In space, no one will hear Bezos and Musk’s workers call for basic rights
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 12:05PM by MAEIRUYU https://ift.tt/2PiZ4KM
‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world | Energy
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 10:54AM by spainguy https://ift.tt/3dMwoDh
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 09:49AM by penguinopusredux https://ift.tt/2QxhXKH
MacKenzie Scott Gave Away Billions. The Scam Artists Followed.
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 08:39AM by nosotros_road_sodium https://ift.tt/3sQaHXa
Your Service Provider’s Terms of Service Shouldn’t Overrule Your Fourth Amendment Rights
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 04:22AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3dMrW7C
R3FI Team AMA, Come Hear About Our Bridge and Rebrand!
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 02:25AM by psoedespiertavc https://ift.tt/32K9dDl
Solar and wind can meet world energy demand 100 times over
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 01:07AM by altmorty https://ift.tt/32IZixM
Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 01:40AM by totestsuswopfi https://ift.tt/3enX6Bq
Air Fryer Hacking On The Menu As Security Flaws Revealed
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 08:21PM by ---Sanguine--- https://ift.tt/3tNL0Ip
Twitter censored tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic at its government’s request
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 09:26PM by ChumbaWambah https://ift.tt/2PjXGrr
India orders Twitter to takedown tweets critical of its coronavirus handling
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 09:23PM by hfbvm https://ift.tt/3vahP2i
Major media is taking millions from Facebook — and keeping the details secret
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 06:00PM by Fr1sk3r https://ift.tt/3gIl7po
California Gov. Gavin Newsom orders ban on new fracking permits by 2024, wants to stop all oil drilling by 2045
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 07:25PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3dLLuZH
Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 06:33PM by speckz https://ift.tt/32Kzr8U
Apple’s ransomware mess is the future of online extortion
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 05:08PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3eu8QCh
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 05:52PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3dRSXqx
Friday, April 23, 2021
More Americans say they are "cutting the cord"
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 09:32AM by Philo1927 https://ift.tt/3aAMrCo
Bugs Allowed Hackers to Dox John Deere Tractor Owners: A security researcher found two bugs that allowed him to find customers who had purchased John Deere tractors or equipment.
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 05:41AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3dOdxIh
U.S. Marshals Used Drones to Spy on Black Lives Matter Protests in Washington, D.C.
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 05:47AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3ayJuSG
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Submitted April 24, 2021 at 04:28AM by veritanuda https://ift.tt/3tORkiD
Nasa rover extracts oxygen from Mars atmosphere in key breakthrough for future crewed missions: Tech demo could pave way to producing breathable air on Red Planet
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 02:18AM by Fuzier https://ift.tt/3ndDrIu
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 07:48PM by darkstarrising https://ift.tt/3gyfUAx
Why Bitcoin Is Bad for the Environment | Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing.
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 07:17PM by pnewell https://ift.tt/3ve2H3X
Facial recognition should be banned, EU privacy watchdog says
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 06:38PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3eteogj
World entering ‘new epoch’ as solar set to become most economic generation source by 2030
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 05:37PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/2QhOxjH
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 12:03PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/32GUPM8
SpaceX launches 4 astronauts to ISS on recycled rocket and capsule
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 03:25PM by reddicyoulous https://ift.tt/3tKzhdF
'World's most powerful' tidal turbine ready to make waves in Scotland - Energy Live News
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 02:11PM by stoich_cynic https://ift.tt/3sJiLJm
YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips - Google throws custom silicon at YouTube's massive video-transcoding workload.
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 08:56AM by Philo1927 https://ift.tt/3sKVSVQ
Crypto Exchange Goes Dark: Near 400,000 Users Fear Possible $2B Fraud
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 09:09AM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3axDyJU
Thursday, April 22, 2021
How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle's "Partner of the Year"
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 05:52AM by ProgsRS https://ift.tt/3tKcFKd
Signal booby-traps its own encrypted messaging app to hack its hackers
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 02:10AM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3v9P5qw
Stanford student finds glitch in ransomware payment system to save victims $27,000
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 01:54AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3axrTKY
NYC Gig Workers Are Organizing Against Rampant E-Bike Theft and Assault: On Wednesday, more than 1,000 New York City e-bike delivery workers, known as Los Deliveristas Unidos, protested against working conditions on DoorDash, GrubHub, and Postmates.
Submitted April 23, 2021 at 12:16AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3awYKPT
Apple Must Face Lawsuit for Telling Consumers They Can "Buy" Movies, TV Shows
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 09:32PM by Sumit316 https://ift.tt/3dHqmEc
Last night Googles's domain for Argentina expired and a guy from Argentina bought google.com.ar for $4 leading to a country wide block of the site for several hours.
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 07:59PM by hidden-47 https://ift.tt/32DuX3Q
A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 06:02PM by DisturbedBeaker https://ift.tt/3dI7owU
Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 05:19PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3dCtbX0
The Erosion Of Personal Ownership - Everything From Your Fridge To Your Tractor Can Change Without Your Permission.
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 05:03PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3dCpnVD
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
University of Minnesota Banned from Linux development for deliberately buggy patches
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 07:27AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3gBU27g
Signal drops a bomb on the phone hack tool used by law enforcement
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 03:21AM by bobbyw24 https://ift.tt/3dEiH9F
Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool
Submitted April 22, 2021 at 04:26AM by habichuelacondulce https://ift.tt/3tFKnQN
Linux bans University of Minnesota for [intentionally] sending buggy patches in the name of research
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 08:39PM by Alexander_Selkirk https://ift.tt/3syLL6J
Nextdoor to Warn Users About to Share Potentially Racist Comments, Posts - All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, White Lives Matter are prohibited on its platform
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 06:10PM by Flying-Apple https://ift.tt/3dDHpag
The FCC is going to hold providers accountable for anti-robocall efforts
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 08:25PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3atG1Vk
Apple’s $64 billion-a-year App Store isn’t catching the most egregious scams
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 06:40PM by jcrabapple https://ift.tt/3n9fWjS
Europe proposes strict regulation of artificial intelligence.
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 05:27PM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3x9OTt8
TikTok sued for collecting children's data in Britain, Europe
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 04:04PM by Majnum https://ift.tt/3xdeVvK
China-linked hackers used VPN flaw to target U.S. defense industry -researchers
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 07:01AM by lotsofsweat https://ift.tt/3n51J7i
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Netflix: Shares plunge as subscribers switch off
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 09:08AM by electrictoothbrush09 https://ift.tt/3tP7Jn6
Deleting Yahoo Answers is a disastrous idea. For history's sake, we need to preserve our digital record.
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 05:18AM by StuffyGoose https://ift.tt/3xcbd5y
Feds Track Down Capitol Rioter With Facial Recognition Hit On His Girlfriend's Instagram
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 04:51AM by The-world-is-done https://ift.tt/3gsKJqm
Discord ends sale talks with Microsoft - sources
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 01:07AM by Maclunkey1 https://ift.tt/3tw0rVn
Internal Facebook memo reveals company plan to ‘normalise’ news of data leaks after 500 million user breach
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 12:17AM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3n8PVAX
UK Poised To Require ‘Right To Repair’ Information For Consumers - Manufacturers Face New Ecodesign And Energy Labelling Regulations Due To Be Introduced This Summer
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 06:14PM by speckz https://ift.tt/32veIFT
X-Prize Winners Use CO2 Emissions to Make Concrete
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 06:54PM by Yogurt789 https://ift.tt/3gr5PoT
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 will (finally) enter the 64-bit world
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 04:30PM by swingadmin https://ift.tt/2QIcy2V
Google Play apps with 700k installs steal texts and charge you money
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 05:23PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3tvhWFg
Uncensored Satellite Internet Will Weaken Dictatorships
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 03:47PM by ChasingTheCoyote https://ift.tt/32xea2d
Nextdoor will alert users if it thinks they’re about to post something racist. It calls the feature the anti-racism notification
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 01:49PM by propperprim https://ift.tt/32IcEe1
Monday, April 19, 2021
Toyota Unveils New Electric SUV, the BZ4X, Plans 15 Models by 2025
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 06:49AM by wewewawa https://ift.tt/2QFloOY
Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 03:48AM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/3gnLvop
Parler re-platformed as Apple allows social network back into App Store
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 04:55AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3mYRxgI
Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 04:52AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3gpbtbs
WeWork Was the Embodiment of Silicon Valley’s Culture of Delusion
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 02:42AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3dxXIW4
Geico data breach exposed customers' driver's license numbers for more than a month
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 03:21AM by bevmoon https://ift.tt/2Q7jVBn
Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 10:38PM by CrankyBear https://ift.tt/32qkNU4
Video Hearings Tuesday and Wednesday: EFF Will Tell Copyright Office That Consumers Should Have the Freedom to Fix, Modify Digital Devices They Own
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 09:57PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3tsMOpU
How Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths – Exxon, Comcast, and other companies target people of different political leanings with different ads
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 08:22PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3v3GUfu
Elon Musk says Starlink should be 'fully mobile' by the end of 2021, allowing customers to use it at any address or in moving vehicles
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 07:09PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3tvkHq4
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 05:44PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/3sABOW5
Flashback 2015: Mark Zuckerberg asks Chinese President Xi Jingping to name his baby as a way to “charm” him to get Facebook into China.
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 04:31PM by jondavidbrooks https://ift.tt/3n1BnDq
Mars helicopter Ingenuity successfully completed its historic first flight
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 04:44PM by cyberanakin https://ift.tt/3go2XJI
Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 04:38PM by WannoHacker https://ift.tt/3x5oigT
Reddit, Pinterest & Alibaba Among World’s Highest Carbon Emissions Websites
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 02:11PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3n17x1J
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Facebook bullies third-party apps Swipe and Simple Social into oblivion
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 06:44AM by ApathyJacks https://ift.tt/2Q6rick
Flashback: Mark Zuckerberg sucks up to Chinese President by asking him to name his baby as part of a “charm” offensive to get Facebook into China
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 07:46AM by jondavidbrooks https://ift.tt/3mYo1Yo
FBI finally found a way to hack the iPhone without the help of Apple
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 04:57AM by christianotoo https://ift.tt/3x5LThg
Dogecoin As Payment Option Gains Momentum As 'Meme Currency' Shoots For The Moon
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 03:55AM by FearLess_Alpha https://ift.tt/3gmjMVs
Popular Website Backend Manager Wordpress, to automatically disable Google FLoC
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 02:47AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3gmJwkb
Here’s why we should never trust AI to identify our emotions
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 12:19AM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3sphCGV
Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving - The Verge
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 11:31PM by desertfoxz https://ift.tt/2Qd1VWa
Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments, Says Risks Are Too Big
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 10:15PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/2RzQJmH
Report: Indianapolis FedEx shooting suspect was part of My Little Pony subculture of 'bronies'
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 08:58PM by Flying-Apple https://ift.tt/3ahn9cc
'Scores' of customers ripped off by Apple's trade-in partner, says report
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 07:31PM by Jedistro https://ift.tt/32pCFhP
Keep On Connecting: 5 Connectors That Changed The World
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 07:04PM by alien_player https://ift.tt/3e9Rjzj
Daimler to hire 1,000 programmers in Germany. German carmaker Daimler will create 1,000 new jobs for software programmers at its S-Class production facility to develop its planned operating system for electric vehicles, Automobilwoche reported on Sunday.
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 04:52PM by veritanuda https://ift.tt/2Q5cPNO
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Blacklight: this site will scan your favourite websites and show you the specific user-tracking technologies they're using to harvest your data
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 08:00AM by LisaMck041 https://ift.tt/3efmvgs
Mark Zuckerberg, the modern Bond villain, is now coming for your children
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 07:53AM by MIddleschoolerconnor https://ift.tt/2Qa7ogg
The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 04:02AM by Mim7222019 https://ift.tt/3sq8j9G
Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 06:52AM by HeroAntagonist https://ift.tt/2Qdhflt
DoD space agency: Cyber attacks, not missiles, are the most worrisome threat to satellites
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 02:42AM by thinkB4WeSpeak https://ift.tt/3trDR0c
Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 12:57AM by speckz https://ift.tt/3uXjyYB
First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 10:11PM by plato_thyself https://ift.tt/2Qw1DJJ
Let’s remember netbooks - You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 09:23PM by im-the-stig https://ift.tt/3x6aYso
SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 08:32PM by no_more_lines https://ift.tt/32nTs4W
iOS Kids Game Morphs into Underground Crypto Casino
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 04:35PM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3aj7PMf
Court Permits FBI to Hack Computers Around the US so It Can Eradicate a Hack
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 07:06PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3eaRNoL
Hard Drive and SSD Shortages Are Imminent If New Cryptocurrency Blooms
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 04:34PM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/2P0U914
Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 02:57PM by fotogneric https://ift.tt/3x4t91B
Chinese technology company Huawei eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network KPN
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 02:01PM by DutchBlob https://ift.tt/3gn1aV5
Friday, April 16, 2021
New Windows 10 update is causing a whole world of pain
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 05:35AM by wewewawa https://ift.tt/3x1ajsk
Elon Musk says Starlink internet service should be ‘fully mobile’ by the end of this year
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 04:23AM by antillian https://ift.tt/3syZLNT
MyPillow CEO's New 'Free Speech' Social Media Platform Will Ban Porn
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 05:29AM by ohnoh18 https://ift.tt/3srRSJI
NASA says SpaceX wins $2.9 billion contract for moon lander, with 2024 goal
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 02:58AM by mepper https://ift.tt/3ggUuaV
New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 03:38AM by 08830 https://ift.tt/2Qy4cuY
NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX to build spacecraft for manned moon missions
Submitted April 17, 2021 at 12:05AM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/32jhcXZ
Facebook prevents sharing of New York Post Black Lives Matter story
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 06:46PM by calbert1735 https://ift.tt/32mFrnW
Sanctioned Russian IT firm was partner with Microsoft, IBM
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 06:14PM by mayurbhattseo https://ift.tt/2Q8rN5t
Big Tech Is Pushing States To Pass Privacy Laws, And Yes, You Should Be Suspicious - The Markup Found Industry Fingerprints On At Least Five Bills Around The Country—Weak Laws, Experts Say, That Are Designed To Preempt Stronger Protections
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 06:52PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3dt0Qm5
Tesla has made $1 billion from its bitcoin investment in just 10 weeks
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 03:53PM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/32xHpCl
Thousands urged to sue Facebook in mass action over leaked data
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 04:46PM by magicm0nkey https://ift.tt/3en3n0n
World-first ruling in Australian court as Google faces massive fines over data breaches
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 02:18PM by boppinmule https://ift.tt/3eb1dR6
[Crosspost] We're Privacy International (r/PrivacyIntl) and EDRi and we're fighting against the uptake of facial recognition in Europe and across the world - IAMA on April 16-18th on r/privacy
We're working with a coalition of organisations to get One million European citizens to sign our European Citizen's Initative to tell the European Commission to ban biometric mass surveillance. Join us to find out everything you need to know about facial recognition (and other campaigns you can sign up to if you're not an EU citizen!)
We're doing an IAMA on r/privacy from 16th April 10am BST / 2am PDT - 18th 6pm BST / 10am PDT - come find out everything you might need to know about facial recognition!
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 02:34PM by PrivacyIntl https://ift.tt/3mT1SuH
Australian judge rules Google misled Android users on data
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 10:54AM by mayurbhattseo https://ift.tt/3dkVx7S
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Bezos says Amazon workers aren’t treated like robots, unveils robotic plan to keep them working | He didn’t specifically mention the peeing in bottles, however
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 09:25AM by Fuzier https://ift.tt/3e2dqHQ
Whitest paint ever created could have air-con like cooling effects
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 09:51AM by Elliottafc1 https://ift.tt/3dm6HcE
Google 'partially' misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 07:04AM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3tpBk6u
Twitter bans James O’Keefe of Project Veritas over fake account policy
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 08:03AM by Opcn https://ift.tt/3dofSJA
MyPillow CEO’s free speech social network will ban posts that take the Lord’s name in vain
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 05:15AM by tyw7 https://ift.tt/3mRWpUO
Massachusetts wants to pull the plug on Robinhood.
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 02:33AM by AdamCannon https://ift.tt/3n20S7D
Advocacy group urges Zuckerberg to cancel plans to launch Instagram for kids
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 07:21PM by geoxol https://ift.tt/32fiNxZ
California to hunt greenhouse gas leaks and superemitters with monitoring satellites — The $100 million Carbon Mapper project, announced today is financed by private philanthropists
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 12:40AM by BlankVerse https://ift.tt/3gln3UC
Bezos says Amazon workers aren’t treated like robots, unveils robotic plan to keep them working
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 11:34PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/3gldkxA
Bezos says Amazon workers aren’t treated like robots, unveils robotic plan to keep them working
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 10:25PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/3uUpDFq
HTTPS Everywhere Now Uses DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 07:17PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3mO4GZX
Chelsea Clinton leads calls for Facebook to ban Tucker Carlson as his anti-vaxx video becomes world’s most-read post
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 07:40PM by Flying-Apple https://ift.tt/3djjixa
Vertical farming company Plenty is building a futuristic farm in Compton. Upon completion, the vertical farm will contain rows upon rows of crops with the capacity to produce 365 harvests of high quality leafy greens per year
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 02:57PM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/3gg6kSK
US poised to impose sanctions on Russia for cyber-attacks
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 12:37PM by mayurbhattseo https://ift.tt/3sixF9h
Washington State Votes to End Restrictions On Community Broadband: 18 States currently have industry-backed laws restricting community broadband. There will soon be one less.
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 11:51AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/2Q3bxTj
France is giving citizens $3,000 to get rid of their car and get an ebike
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 09:34AM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/2PVaxkd
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Spectrum workers have been on one of the longest strikes in history. So they built their own ISP
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 03:00AM by McLHuman https://ift.tt/3sje7lc
AT&T/Verizon workers’ union urges states to regulate ISPs as utilities - "Three decades of of industry-driven deregulation have failed us," union says.
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 01:26AM by speckz https://ift.tt/3dgH0Ks
Congress, Don’t Let ISP Lobbyists Sabotage Fiber for All
Submitted April 15, 2021 at 12:52AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3dYgULs
Far-Right Extremists Unite to Peddle COVID-19 Vaccine Disinformation
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 11:14PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3wOHUFM
FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 09:28PM by rainbowarriorhere https://ift.tt/2Qt648k
The EU is considering a ban on AI for mass surveillance and social credit scores
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 07:01PM by UnknownDeveloper https://ift.tt/2RAHy5F
ICE and DHS use Clearview AI, but won’t say how. They’re being sued for an answer.
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 06:34PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3e3vjGa
Digital colorisation versus actual color photos from between 1909 and 1915
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 06:52PM by RangeroftheIsle https://ift.tt/3e4mOKT
Taiwan says its chip firms will adhere to new U.S. rules blacklisting China supercomputing entities
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 05:19PM by benh999 https://ift.tt/3scPma9
The NSA phone surveillance program was illegal and expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack. Mass surveillance costs millions of Dollars. Yet, it does not improve security.
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 12:25PM by privant https://ift.tt/3dl6jeF
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
DuckDuckGo can now block the Google Chrome tracking method, FLoC
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 09:23AM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/2QnPDK8
Detroit man sues police for wrongful arrest based on facial recognition
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 04:59AM by habichuelacondulce https://ift.tt/32e66Ua
Open Letter: banning government use of facial recognition surveillance is not enough, we must ban corporate and private use as well
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 01:51AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3se0pQv
New York Times tech workers form a union.
Submitted April 14, 2021 at 12:16AM by chrisarchitect https://ift.tt/3dh0KxL
Discord to block all access to NSFW servers via iOS app
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 07:48PM by highflyflow https://ift.tt/2OImFEo
Tickets for this nuclear-powered superyacht will cost $3 million for VIPs and be free to scientists and students selected to help study climate change
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 10:34PM by YouHaveTakenItTooFar https://ift.tt/2Ryhmsn
Tech workers at The New York Times have formed a union
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 09:11PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/3a86mIs
South Korea's cheaper, less stealthy alternative to the F-35 marks 'new era of independent defense,' president says
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 08:08PM by QuantumThinkology https://ift.tt/3th96e6
WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal.
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 08:04PM by Niyazali_Haneef https://ift.tt/3dZzcfl
You can now store PS5 games on a USB drive
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 07:31PM by QuicklyThisWay https://ift.tt/3g6eEVh
DuckDuckGo Announces Plans to Block Google's FLoC
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 07:53PM by giantyetifeet https://ift.tt/3wUl8w8
US senator proposes banning acquisitions by Big Tech. Josh Hawley wants to ban companies with a market value of $100 billion from acquiring or merging with other companies.
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 06:10PM by habichuelacondulce https://ift.tt/327UwJV
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin lands a Pentagon contract to design nuclear-powered spacecraft
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 05:06PM by DonaldWillKillUsAll https://ift.tt/2RlDpSP
Monday, April 12, 2021
Facebook could have stopped 10 billion impressions from "repeat misinformers", but didn't: report - A study raises questions as to why Facebook did not stop the spread of misinformation in the 2020 election run-up
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 09:48AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3dcK4HJ
Why EFF Supports Repeal of Qualified Immunity
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 03:07AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3dZ29bc
Microsoft buys speech recognition firm Nuance in a $16 billion deal
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 03:51AM by CloudInvest https://ift.tt/2OGZryr
Pentagon unveils microchip that senses Covid in the body
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 04:10AM by dingo8yobb https://ift.tt/2Rz13vv
Tesla is burning its solar roof customers with a huge price increase
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 03:02AM by YouHaveTakenItTooFar https://ift.tt/3sbJvSF
Charter must pay $19 million for tricking customers into switching ISPs | Charter mailed false ads to convince users Windstream was going out of business.
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 01:54AM by Eurynom0s https://ift.tt/3wPozEm
White House zeros in on chip shortage in meeting with company officials
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 12:37AM by DragonPup https://ift.tt/3a69GUC
White House Convenes Summit To Address Supply Shortage Crippling Auto Plants
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 08:59PM by c0viD00M https://ift.tt/2Qg7H9h
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 07:37PM by eric_bousquet https://ift.tt/3d89iXE
Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 06:16PM by shubhbadonia https://ift.tt/2RkYm0c
Australia's main grid hits record renewables high of 56 per cent on Sunday
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 06:34PM by thispickleisntgreen https://ift.tt/3mGaJQj
Singapore now home to one of the world's largest floating solar farms
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 07:07PM by thispickleisntgreen https://ift.tt/3wOLrE8
A Facebook loophole is allowing politicians around the world to fake support and criticize opponents
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 04:38PM by UnknownDeveloper https://ift.tt/3taGMKB
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account | Technology
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 05:30PM by mayurbhattseo https://ift.tt/328bXdq
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Israel appears to confirm it carried out cyberattack on Iran nuclear facility
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 07:43AM by mepper https://ift.tt/2PMrDRh
Another 500 million accounts have leaked online, and LinkedIn’s in the hot seat: LinkedIn says that scraped data in the collection was public information
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 05:21AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/3d7bKgQ
TSMC to discuss semiconductor shortage at the White House summit
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 03:45AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/323MW3h
South Korean conglomerates to invest $38 billion to boost hydrogen economy
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 12:35AM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3wXdgdA
Trading clunkers for electric bikes: France moves to offer financial incentive
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 01:08AM by geoxol https://ift.tt/3t9Sntp
Google gamed its ad auction system to favor its own ads, generated $213 million
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 03:50AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3g1PZkx
Watch NASA Mission Control as They Attempt First Helicopter Flight on Mars
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 10:54PM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/3d8AuVY
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Decline Of My Democracy.
Submitted April 12, 2021 at 12:15AM by bhodrolok https://ift.tt/3g2trA4
You're Constantly Being Stalked Online—and You Don't Even Know It
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 08:59PM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3a3QCpT
Egyptian Authorities Demand up to a Billion Bucks to Set Ever Given Free
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 09:23PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3g5kcPE
Facebook removes over 16,000 groups trading fake reviews
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 09:11PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/3tafrYU
Canada's Telesat takes on Musk and Bezos in space race to provide fast broadband
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 08:25PM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/322d8LD
Personal info for 1.3 million Clubhouse users reportedly leaked online
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 08:33PM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3dYiUU9
Facebook will not notify the 533 million users exposed in online database
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 12:29PM by DonaldWillKillUsAll https://ift.tt/3tcD4zS
Tech giants who made remote working possible now turn their back on it
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 10:58AM by dunkin1980 https://ift.tt/3tdLRle
Facebook ‘still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories’
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 11:30AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/324Uu5S
She sued for pregnancy discrimination. Now she’s battling Google’s army of lawyers
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 11:31AM by propperprim https://ift.tt/2OGjFIM
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Data of 1.3 Million Clubhouse Users Leaked Online: Report
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 10:05AM by NolaAgora https://ift.tt/3samqQd
Google removes a fake ‘Netflix’ app that’s been spreading malware via WhatsApp
Submitted April 11, 2021 at 06:06AM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/32aEOh7
Oh Look, LinkedIn Also Has a 500M User Data Leak
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 11:28PM by curiouscoffee23 https://ift.tt/3s1F2BS
SpaceX is spending $1,500 to make each Starlink terminal but customers will only be charged $499, its president says
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 08:33PM by Philo1927 https://ift.tt/3uEscLt
'Milk Tea Alliance' brews democracy online among young activists across Asia
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 07:38PM by lotsofsweat https://ift.tt/3mM31El
A Far-Right Extremist Allegedly Plotted to Blow Up Amazon Data Centers - The FBI arrested the suspect in Texas after he purchased explosives from an undercover agent.
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 08:09PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3uEkEIH
Musk’s Las Vegas Tunnel Is Like a Tesla Amusement Park Ride
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 07:40PM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/2QfYCgl
China hits Alibaba with record $2.8 billion fine for behaving like a monopoly
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 07:37PM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/3t7fKn3
Critical Zoom vulnerability triggers remote code execution without user input | ZDNet
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 06:07PM by bartturner https://ift.tt/3uFAdzT
CRISPR Breakthrough: Scientists Can Now Turn Genes On and Off at Whim
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 03:36PM by XVll-L https://ift.tt/39ZvbXa
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Submitted April 10, 2021 at 02:42PM by veritanuda https://ift.tt/3sauhNE
Friday, April 9, 2021
YouTube pulls Florida governor's video, says his panel spread Covid-19 misinformation
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 07:27AM by CapitalCourse https://ift.tt/39X5wya
Microsoft Stock To Join Apple In $2 Trillion Club
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 05:26AM by AidThisFellowUser https://ift.tt/3wJBpnF
Facebook Had Years to Fix the Flaw That Leaked 500M Users' Data
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 05:59AM by impishrat https://ift.tt/2OzjzT4
Texas Man Tried to Blow Up the Internet: Federal Investigators allege that a Texas man wanted to use C-4 to blow up around 70% of the internet.
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 05:44AM by impishrat https://ift.tt/3fXDKWj
SpaceX COO says Starlink is just five launches away from "full global connectivity"
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 03:09AM by Act_Serious https://ift.tt/320OVFh
FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 03:41AM by Snardley https://ift.tt/31YukS2
No password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 01:18AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3dKiIHS
EFF Challenges Surreptitious Collection of DNA at Iowa Supreme Court
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 01:12AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3d0JHzH
Amazon Waged a Brutal Anti-Union Campaign. Unsurprisingly, They Won.
Submitted April 10, 2021 at 02:08AM by psychothumbs https://ift.tt/2Qfp61u
Scientists Dive Into Axolotl Genome, Looking for Secrets to Regeneration
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 11:08PM by LogosPathos339 https://ift.tt/2RcpTkn
Bitcoin mining in China could soon generate as much carbon emissions as some European countries, study finds
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 08:38PM by Alpra_Creem https://ift.tt/3d4a4VC
Mark Zuckerberg caught using WhatsApp competitor Signal
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 07:04PM by DazedNConfucious https://ift.tt/3mFYRxG
Comcast nightmare: Six months without Internet despite $5,000 payment
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 05:49PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/2Rbt6AH
Early vote counts show Alabama Amazon workers overwhelmingly against a union
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 06:57PM by cambeiu https://ift.tt/39YlEzp
Uninformed Legislators Shoot Down Right To Repair Legislation In Colorado
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 05:54PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3mws2TL
Americans are super-spreaders of COVID-19 misinformation
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 05:34PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/39Tx1IP
Half of S&P 500 report more money for foreign taxes than U.S. taxes
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 05:33PM by geoxol https://ift.tt/3fWRcd2
Facebook was running ads with voter fraud conspiracies as recently as this week
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 01:10PM by DonaldWillKillUsAll https://ift.tt/3g1WN1L
Neuralink's brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 10:44AM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/3t2eqC0
Thursday, April 8, 2021
How Venmo's privacy policy exposes financial transactions of users
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 08:05AM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3d2dSGX
Musk's Neuralink publishes new blog post showing a rhesus macaque playing pong with its brain
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 06:54AM by iskaandismet https://ift.tt/3d2hpVo
Apple presses ahead with aim to replace paper passports and ID with iPhone
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 06:25AM by stamatgeorge https://ift.tt/39VRBbC
Proctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms to Detect Faces: A student researcher has reverse-engineered the controversial exam software—and discovered a tool infamous for failing to recognize non-white faces.
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 03:56AM by impishrat https://ift.tt/3fVjWCU
U.S. Blacklists Two Major Chinese CPU Developers
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 03:51AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/39XnMHJ
Facebook will not notify more than 530m users exposed in 2019 breach
Submitted April 09, 2021 at 01:55AM by bhodrolok https://ift.tt/3s3ketC
Right to Repair is overdue - and consumers are already leading the charge
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 10:41PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3t3Bnoz
After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again: I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family.
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 10:51PM by Fuzier https://ift.tt/3d21NS8
T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 10:18PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3d2G1NK
U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 09:36PM by giuliomagnifico https://ift.tt/3usxLN0
U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 07:29PM by Sad-AdTrump2024 https://ift.tt/2POXVL8
Apple's stricter rules on digital tracking to take effect soon
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 06:42PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3dJLZ5l
Musicians and digital rights activists launch campaign targeting Spotify over surveillance patent
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 05:42PM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3cZQedV
UPS agrees to buy electric vertical aircraft to speed up package delivery in small markets
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 05:16PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3wM4jUr
Data scraped from 500 million LinkedIn users found for sale online
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 05:16PM by janjinx https://ift.tt/31ZD5eJ
Facebook will not notify the half a billion users caught up in its huge data leak, it says
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 04:03PM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/39TQ9qm
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Facebook isn’t planning to tell you if you’re one of the 533 million people whose data leaked
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 10:42AM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3d1bZdz
Apple officially starts letting your iPhone help find lost third-party products
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 07:23AM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3uy0OyI
YouTube Kids 'a vapid wasteland', say US lawmakers
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 04:43AM by _DEAL_WITH_IT_ https://ift.tt/3d0Ntt4
Peter Thiel suggests Bitcoin may be 'Chinese financial weapon against the U.S.'
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 04:04AM by 3dprinteddildo https://ift.tt/3mqoQZQ
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 02:31AM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/31YC9XK
Despite A Ban, Facebook Continued To Label People As Interested In Militias For Advertisers
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 02:05AM by westondeboer https://ift.tt/2Q5WY0M
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
Submitted April 08, 2021 at 12:57AM by rainbowarriorhere https://ift.tt/3wBB0Uk
California To Test Whether Big Batteries Can Stop Summer Blackouts - The State Is Set To Become A Global Test Case In Using Batteries To Back Up Wind And Solar Power
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 06:19PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3wwZhuG
The post-pandemic world: 34% of remote workers say they'd rather quit than return to full-time office work
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 07:44PM by John-Galt-Lover https://ift.tt/3rWHPwd
Facebook removes over 1,100 accounts spreading deceptive content
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 06:24PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3cU8rd0
Nuclear power now deemed safe and clean by EU.
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 06:42PM by jo_l21 https://ift.tt/3g2kkzF
Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues' firings - email
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 03:40PM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3sX8kTx
Pandemic Profits: Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less than 1 Percent
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 06:31PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3dNuMs2
Huge Facebook leak that contains information about 500 million people came from abuse of contacts tool, company says
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 04:57PM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/2Rg1aMc
Facebook says hackers 'scraped' data of 533 mn users in 2019 leak
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 02:23PM by Sorin61 https://ift.tt/3uuQOX7
Mark Zuckerberg uses Signal app instead of WhatsApp as per cyber security researcher Dave Walker
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 01:53PM by abhi_07 https://ift.tt/3dFRl1E
NY Will Set $15 Per Month Price Cap on High-Speed Internet for Low-Income Earners
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 12:47PM by JoseTwitterFan https://ift.tt/31PWjDq
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Facebook did not hire Black employees because they were not a 'culture fit,' report says
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 05:46AM by YouHaveTakenItTooFar https://ift.tt/3fMvwzY
Google AI manager resigns following controversial firings of two top researchers
Submitted April 07, 2021 at 01:25AM by a_Ninja_b0y https://ift.tt/3sXY39w
Facebook says leak of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 10:05PM by Martipar https://ift.tt/2Q5Z9Sk
After A Major Hack, U.S. Looks To Fix A Cyber 'Blind Spot'
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 04:26PM by zsreport https://ift.tt/3mvPGQk
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Survives First Cold Martian Night on Its Own
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 08:34PM by Torquemada1970 https://ift.tt/3fNOhTM
Amazon broke the law by firing workers who called for better Covid safety measures, board finds
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 08:10PM by chrisdh79 https://ift.tt/3dGIRXR
Your 'Smart Home' Is Watching – And Possibly Sharing Your Data With The Police - Smart-Home Devices Like Thermostats And Fridges May Be Too Smart For Comfort – Especially In A Country With Few Laws Preventing The Sale Of Digital Data To Third Parties
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 06:29PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2OpR8XH
Once again, someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the internet
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 01:58PM by dapperlemon https://ift.tt/3fSwHOi
Troy Hunt: The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 03:35PM by -Phinocio https://ift.tt/3cUNHBM
Monday, April 5, 2021
553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 05:37AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3sT9TSd
Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he uses Signal
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 01:16AM by the_internaut01 https://ift.tt/3umTx4O
Clarence Thomas suggests US should regulate Twitter and Facebook
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 04:35AM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/3sSFJ1F
Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 02:41AM by maki23 https://ift.tt/31PJUQ0
Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony: Stories of environmental disaster and wheelchairs on fire weren’t enough to move legislators to pass right-to-repair.
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 03:29AM by impishrat https://ift.tt/3wwOnVG
First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the Police
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 03:27AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3dAKoPt
Justice Clarence Thomas Takes Aims At Tech And Its Power 'To Cut Off Speech' : NPR
Submitted April 06, 2021 at 12:30AM by Puzzleheaded-Pain-41 https://ift.tt/3sRdqkg
Tim Cook says Facebook's objections to letting people pick whether or not to be tracked are 'flimsy arguments'
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 08:50PM by ohnoh18 https://ift.tt/3wswgQF
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 09:53PM by pluram https://ift.tt/2PtGlwo
Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 07:37PM by pipsdontsqueak https://ift.tt/3uniNrx
Louis Rossmann Starts a GoFundMe to raise $6 million to fund and pass "Right To Repair" Legislation.
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 05:52PM by Viraat-Kholi https://ift.tt/3fFs7D1
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 04:09PM by zsreport https://ift.tt/31OR2Mh
Film Companies Using Censorship to Target Articles that simply talk about Piracy
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 10:38AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3dzB2TV
NASA’s Mars rover drops off Ingenuity helicopter ahead of historic flight
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 10:08AM by dapperlemon https://ift.tt/2R7NH9d
Sunday, April 4, 2021
LG confirms it's shutting down its mobile business
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 08:09AM by DADMITTEN https://ift.tt/39HmJvj
Facebook data leak: Half a billion users' information posted on hacking website, cyber experts say
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 07:50AM by Pessimist2020 https://ift.tt/31LHW2Z
LG to close mobile phone business worldwide.
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 07:49AM by habichuelacondulce https://ift.tt/39CTbPF
The End of AMP: I am hopeful that 2021 will be the beginning of the end for two of my least favorite things – the pandemic and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 12:50AM by veritanuda https://ift.tt/3wqzx38
ISP imposes data cap, explains it to users with condescending pizza analogy
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 02:07AM by CrankyBear https://ift.tt/3ulzq6X
Scientists Connect Human Brain To Computer Wirelessly For First Time Ever
Submitted April 05, 2021 at 01:41AM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3rP9Khx
Uber will pay a blind woman $1.1 million after drivers stranded her 14 times
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 10:02PM by thebelsnickle1991 https://ift.tt/39YEsyP
Google has allowed ALL apps to see ALL your installed apps (pregnancy, trackers, insurance, bank, home devices) all the time, in real time, for the last 13 years
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 08:55PM by OH-YEAH https://ift.tt/3fGzWbO
Snapchat reportedly made plans to skirt Apple's new privacy rules and keep tracking its user base
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 07:08PM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3sUqrte
ACLU discloses it shares personally-identifiable info of its website visitors and donors with Facebook, Google, others for ad targeting
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 05:09PM by petrolly https://ift.tt/3umenBc
South Korea and Taiwan elbow out China in chip investment
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 05:43PM by benh999 https://ift.tt/3wqB49n
Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users, according to a researcher
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 05:52PM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/2Oizipu
The Ever Given Engine is 79,500 Horsepower and Is Bigger Than An Average House
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 11:53AM by Prudent_Reindeer9627 https://ift.tt/3dBdKgz
The Morning After: Xbox mini-fridges are really happening
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 03:23PM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/2Px9tTi
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Google is limiting which apps can see everything else you have installed
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 09:54AM by thebestyoucouldget https://ift.tt/3fGJW4S
US scientists introduce new compact fusion reactor concept
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 08:08AM by Yogurt789 https://ift.tt/3uhSi6Y
Over 500M Facebook account records leaked on hacking forum
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 06:53AM by spsheridan https://ift.tt/31NUh6A
Amazon apologizes for lying about pee — and attempts to shift the blame
Submitted April 04, 2021 at 03:10AM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3ugD2r1
How the Right-to-Repair Can Help Us Overcome Our Economic and Climate Challenges
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 09:28PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3miki7R
LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 08:06PM by SAT0725 https://ift.tt/31Gs2Hf
Why you should care about data privacy even if you have “nothing to hide” - Yes, your data is used to sell you shoes. But it also may be used to sell you an ideology.
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 09:26PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3wlEdaq
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 09:14PM by ProfessionalPeanut69 https://ift.tt/3cN2fDn
Amazon admits its drivers sometimes have to pee in bottles
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 08:22PM by ohnoh18 https://ift.tt/3rKJYuD
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 08:19PM by ohnoh18 https://ift.tt/2OljxOI
Stolen Data of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 08:20PM by JediBurrell https://ift.tt/3wqbpgP
Why You Shouldn’t Use Google Chrome After New Privacy Disclosure (Google is surveilling you, even just while using Google Chrome.)
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 05:11PM by LisaMck041 https://ift.tt/39GFb7z
GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 01:13PM by kry_some_more https://ift.tt/3cJkslg
Amazon offers rare apology, says it will look for solutions to drivers peeing in bottles
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 02:14PM by petrolly https://ift.tt/39GL8Bs
Friday, April 2, 2021
Japanese scientist awarded Nobel for LED lamp dies at 92
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 07:48AM by AnivaBay https://ift.tt/2PnCnp2
This News Publisher Quit Facebook. Readership Went Up
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 01:56AM by snappydo99 https://ift.tt/3doCBEc
AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 03:49AM by Ephoenix6 https://ift.tt/2PmijTZ
Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 02:46AM by golden430 https://ift.tt/3dyjAiA
Loot boxes too similar to “problem gambling” to avoid regulation, report says
Submitted April 03, 2021 at 01:58AM by geoxol https://ift.tt/3rLEWya
Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 11:55PM by golden430 https://ift.tt/2OfpwEz
Google is restricting which apps can see the other installed apps on your device
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 02:37PM by cj927 https://ift.tt/2PllSd6
LG will reportedly announce closure of smartphone business on April 5
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 04:15PM by wewewawa https://ift.tt/31DIqrJ
Apple Now Rejecting App Updates That Defy iOS 14.5 App Tracking Transparency Rules
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 03:52PM by chrisdh79 https://ift.tt/3cFOZ3w
Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 02:26PM by sdsanth https://ift.tt/3cH6cJJ
UK may force Facebook services to allow backdoor police access
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 10:57AM by x101y https://ift.tt/3dtqntP
North Korean hackers are now using a fake security company to target researchers
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 09:43AM by EnterpriseNews_Elf https://ift.tt/3fAi6XR
Thursday, April 1, 2021
NSA Director Says More Domestic Surveillance Might Stop Foreign Hacking; Fails To Explain Why NSA Isn't Stopping Much Foreign Hacking
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 12:07AM by golden430 https://ift.tt/3fzfFok
The FCC Wants Your Broadband Horror Stories: You Know What to Do
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 03:12AM by MyNameIsGriffon https://ift.tt/3udjP9r
Uber Must Pay $1.1 Million to Blind Passenger Who Was Denied Rides
Submitted April 02, 2021 at 04:06AM by golden430 https://ift.tt/3dtnc5s
Right to Repair advocate crowdfunding direct ballot initiative - "I'm tired of being laughed out of the room, and it's about time we do something about it."
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 08:59PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2QY1y1L
If You Care About Privacy, It’s Time to Try a New Web Browser - A new crop of internet browsers from Brave, DuckDuckGo and others offer stronger privacy protections than what you might be used to.
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 07:47PM by speckz https://ift.tt/3sJH5vs
New images of M87’s black hole reveal magnetized ring around it
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 06:59PM by spsheridan https://ift.tt/3wiDd6Z
Tesla’s Touchscreen Shifter Seems Like a Really Bad Idea
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 07:26PM by im-the-stig https://ift.tt/39zsTxx
Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 04:18PM by miso25 https://ift.tt/3m9HiWp
Taiwan chip maker TSMC to invest $100B to grow capacity
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 04:15PM by miso25 https://ift.tt/3rFDe1j
Abandon coal now or face catastrophe, US envoy says
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 01:56PM by Wagamaga https://ift.tt/31Er4Ln
Microsoft is shutting down the Cortana app on Android and iOS
Submitted April 01, 2021 at 12:08PM by cj927 https://ift.tt/31BNYDf