A Russian man was extradited to the United States from the the European country of Georgia to face charges for a “massive” computer breaching campaign, including the largest-ever theft of consumer data from a U.S. financial institution, the U.S. Secret Service announced Friday. Andrei Tyurin, 35, appeared in Manhattan federal court Friday afternoon after arriving […]
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Pew Study: 44 Percent of Young Adults Deleted Facebook App in Past Year…
Almost half of the young adults in the U.S. who use Facebook deleted the app on their phones over the past year, according to a new study examining Americans’ changing relationship with Facebook. The Pew Research Center study, published on Wednesday, found that 44 percent of adults between ages 18 and 29, which is composed […]
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color…
In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to carpet Manhattan’s downtown streets with thousands of cameras and had, by 2008, centralized its video surveillance operations to a single command center. […]
Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars…
Twitter banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so. In a series of tweets on Thursday, the company said it had “permanently suspended” accounts associated with Jones and Infowars after numerous complaints that they violated its terms of service prohibiting repeated abusive behavior. A Twitter […]
New Tech Watchdog to Monitor Conservative Censorship on Facebook, Twitter, Google…
The Media Research Center, a conservative press watchdog which has long monitored liberal bias in the news media, on Thursday launchedMRC TechWatch — a new project dedicated to exposing bias and censorship online by major tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube. Overseeing the new effort: Allen West, a senior fellow at the […]
U.S. Charges North Korean Man in Sony Hack and WannaCry Ransomware Attack…
The Justice Department has charged an alleged North Korean operative with involvement in the infamous hack of Sony Pictures in 2014, as well as last year’s devastating WannaCry ransomware attack. The United States had faulted the country for the Sony hack as far back as late 2014. The cyber-operation was believed to be taken in […]
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Robot Boat Sails Into History to Become the First Unmanned Vessel to Cross the Atlantic…
A robotic craft has made history as the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic after a 1,800-mile (3,000 km) journey from Newfoundland in Canada to Ireland. The boat’s two-and-a-half-month journey saw it cross the churning North Atlantic as part of the Microtransat Challenge – a transatlantic race for autonomous boats. The SB Met, built […]
‘Strange Disappearance’ of WikiLeaks Consultant in Norway…
WikiLeaks has raised concern after Arjen Kamphuis, an associate of founder Julian Assange, went missing in Norway. The cybersecurity expert was last seen in northern Norway on August 20. The internet transparency entity WikiLeaks tweeted on Sunday about Arjen Kamphuis’ “strange disappearance,” saying he has been missing since August 20, when he left his hotel […]
Facebook and Twitter Chiefs Tell Senators: We Won’t Police the Truth…
As Facebook and Twitter once again expanded their estimates of how much fake content infects their platforms, the chief executives of both firms were reluctant to commit at a Senate hearing Wednesday to countermeasures that might jeopardize their profits in the name of protecting what they described as a digital public square. Facebook COO Sheryl […]
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Analyst Downgrades Facebook Over ‘Toxic Brew’ of Slow Sales and Regulation Risk…
CNBC reports that analysis firm MoffettNathanson has downgraded Facebook’s stock in a surprise move after the firm predicted that the social media company will generate earnings below expectations this year. Analyst Michael Nathanson said in a note to clients this week: “We believe that revenue growth deceleration coupled with the company’s long-term margin guidance does […]
Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales…
For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two […]
U.S. Levels Charges at China of ‘Super Aggressive’ Spy Campaign on LinkedIn…
The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down. William Evanina, the U.S. counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have told LinkedIn, owned […]
Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture…
The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social network. “We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York […]
Google Is on the Verge of Making a Huge Mistake With China…
The recent news that Google is working on a search engine for China’s highly censored Internet reminded me of a Chinese saying: “to have your spine pointed at.” Back home in China, if someone who has done something immoral or unethical is seen walking down the street, others might point at the person’s back after […]
Was the Pentagon’s Cloud Computing Project Rigged?…
At what point does lobbying cross over into the realm of crony capitalism and rigging the system? That’s a question many tech companies and the U.S. Congress are asking amid concerns that the bidding process for the Department of Defense’s cloud computing project has been fixed in favor of Amazon. The controversy began when the […]
Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government: How Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On…
In the last few years, we’ve discovered just how much trust — whether we like it or not — we have all been obliged to place in modern technology. Third-party software, of unknown composition and security, runs on everything around us: from the phones we carry around, to the smart devices with microphones and cameras […]
Tech Companies Are Gathering for a Secret Meeting to Prepare a 2018 Election Strategy…
Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday to share their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections. Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at […]
Facebook Censoring Articles from Conservative Outlets About Manafort, Cohen…
Multiple posts sharing articles by prominent conservatives have been temporarily censored on Facebook under the excuse that they “look like spam.” Both articles dealt with the Paul Manafort conviction and the Michael Cohen guilty plea, arguing that these events were not nearly as damning to President Donald Trump as the media supposed. First, Facebook blocked […]
Steve Jobs’ Daughter Rips Her ‘Cold’ Father in Memoir…
Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs describes the difficult relationship with her famous father in her new memoir “Small Fry,” but says that she forgives the tech icon. The Apple co-founder had rejected Brennan-Jobs during the early years of her life, denying paternity. Even after he accepted her as his daughter and court-ordered child support, however, […]
Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People…
“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter – Police in a small Georgia town tasered a 5-foot-2, 87-year-old woman who was using a […]
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