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How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually…

In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host […]

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“Everything Is Fake”: Ex-Reddit CEO Confirms Internet Traffic Metrics Are Bullshit…

“It’s all true: Everything is fake,” tweeted Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao regarding a Wednesday New York Magazine article which reveals that internet traffic metrics from some of the largest tech companies are overstated or fabricated. In other words; they’re bullshit. Pao was responding to a tweet by the Washington Post’s Aram Zucker-Schariff, quoting the […]

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Whoopsie: Amazon Sends Couple’s Intimate Alexa Recordings to Wrong Person…

Amazon accidentally sent the wrong person approximately 1,700 audio files and a PDF containing transcripts of intimate conversations – all recorded over the company’s in-home echo assistant. In August 2018, a German Amazon customer took advantage of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to request whatever personal data Amazon had on file about him. […]

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US, Allies Slam China Over Cyberespionage As DOJ Indicts Hackers…

The steady drumbeat of indictments of Chinese companies, hackers and even bad actors allegedly working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security in recent months has provoked whispers that sanctions against Beijing in retaliation for its hacking and espionage efforts – something that has become a sticking point in the US-China trade war – […]

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Amazon’s Alexa Goes Haywire, Tells Customer to ‘Kill Your Foster Parents’…

One of Amazon’s newest projects is researching ways to make Alexa a more human-like communicator for customers, but sometimes the virtual assistant’s language comes across as creepy and offensive. New research is making Alexa better mimic human response, Reuters reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The research sometimes results in awkward moments for […]

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This Story’s Legs Are Growing: Facebook Admits That it Allowed Netflix and Spotify to Access Your Private Messages…

Facebook has acknowledged allowing other companies, namely Spotify and Netflix, to access millions of people’s private messages. Responding to a bombshell New York Times report from Tuesday on how Facebook shared user data with partners over the years, the company said it had given third-party companies extensive access to messages. It said this was so […]

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The Internet Lives…

Of all the anti-Trump hysterias of our age, perhaps the most absurd and extreme was the charge that last year’s repeal of an Obama-era regulation would break the Internet. A year later, the Internet is still working just fine and in many ways much better for U.S. consumers. The Obama strategy was to impose on […]

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Warning of Solar Geoengineering’s Dangers, Group Recommends a Global Ban…

A Harvard research team recently announced plans to perform early tests to shoot sunlight-reflecting particles into the high atmosphere to slow or reverse global warming. These research efforts, which could take shape as soon as the first half of 2019, fall under the banner of a geoengineering technology known as solar radiation management, which is […]

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Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation…

Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned. The internal rift over the system has had massive ramifications, effectively […]

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Apple to Build $1B Campus in Texas…

Apple is building a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, as well as three more smaller satellite locations on the west coast. The Austin campus is expected to employ 5,000 people working in engineering, research and development, operations, finance, sales, and computer support, the Associated Press reported. The Texas city is already the second largest […]

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China Bans the Sale of Nearly All iPhone Models for ‘Violating Patents’…

American chip supplier Qualcomm Inc on Monday said it had won a preliminary order from a Chinese court to ban the import and sale of several Apple Inc iPhone models in China due to patent violations. The preliminary order affects all of the iPhone models from the iPhone 6S to the iPhone X which are […]

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Children Who Are Spending 7 or More Hours on Smartphones or Tablets Brains Are Changing, Risking Lower IQs and Declining Memory, Cognitive Function…

Children who use screens for seven hours or more a day are showing signs that their brain cortex is thinning prematurely. The findings show that children are at risk of deteriorating memory function, perception skills and cognitive abilities, according to new major US study. The ongoing $300 million (£236mn) research is funded by the National […]

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China’s Huawei CFO Freed on Bail…

A Vancouver judge on Tuesday ruled that an executive of a Chinese tech firm accused of violating U.S. sanctions with Iran will be granted bail, according to media reports. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested on Dec. 1 in Canada at the request of the U.S. As a condition of her bail she will have […]

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Jim Jordan Questions Google CEO About Specific Example of Overt Political Bias from Executive…

According to an email chain between Google executives obtained by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and Breitbart News, Google’s Multicultural Marketing development head Eliana Murillo sent out an email November 9th, 2016, detailing how Google had “supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states,” which she characterized as a […]

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Huawei Executive Requests Bail in Canada, Pending Extradition to U.S…

The issues appear multifaceted. In a Canadian court lawyers for Chinese company Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, are arguing for bail while she awaits extradition to the United States for violations on Iran sanctions. There’s an element to this entire story that appears suspicious. President Trump was intentionally kept out of the loop; and that reality […]

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The Business of Selling Your Location…

A New York Times investigation has found that the information being collected about us through apps on our smartphones is far more extensive than most of us imagine — or are aware we have consented to…

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Google Plus to Shutdown Early After Discovery of New Bug Affecting 52.5 Million Users…

Google on Monday revealed that it had discovered a new software bug that briefly exposed nonpublic information for more than 50 million users of its Google Plus network. The discovery has prompted the internet giant to expedite the closure of its little-used social media platform, a decision Google announced in October when it revealed an […]

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The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants…

The Creepy Line, a new documentary by director M.A. Taylor, is now streaming at Amazon Prime. It provides an interesting and revealing look at how Google and Facebook influence their users’ view of the world, and how the users we often presume to be the customers of these companies aren’t really the customers. The users […]

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