While most indie media was focused on debating the way people talk about Kanye West and the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an unprecedented escalation in internet censorship took place which threatens everything we all care about. It received frighteningly little attention. After a massive purge of hundreds of politically oriented pages and personal […]
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Were You One of the 30 Million Hacked Facebook Users? Here’s How to Check…
On September 28, Facebook announced that as many as 90 million users may have had their “access tokens” – which keep people logged into their account, stolen by hackers. On Friday, the company reduced that figure to 30 million accounts whose phone numbers and email addresses were accessed in the largest security breach in the […]
Facebook, Twitter Purge 800 More Dissident Media Pages in Latest Escalation…
Facebook has purged more dissident political media pages today, this time under the pretense of protecting its users from “inauthentic activity”. In a statement co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher (who also happens to be the former White House National Security Council Director of Cybersecurity Policy), the massive social media platform explained that […]
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Soyuz Rocket Failure: Booster Separation Was to Blame for Botched Launch…
Russia says that a problem with the separation of first and second stage booster rockets was to blame for Thursday’s failed Soyuz launch. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin made a dramatic escape shortly after Thursday’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Sergei Krikalyov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos’ […]
Miracle Escape for Space Station Astronauts As Rocket Fails Mid-Launch…
Two astronauts are alive after dramatically aborting their voyage to the International Space Station when their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned while it carried them into orbit at 4,970mph. American Nick Hague and Russian Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to abort their mission on the cusp of space, at an altitude of approximately 50km (164,000ft). They landed […]
Class Sues Over Possible Exposure of Google Plus User Data…
In the latest fallout over yet another Silicon Valley privacy scandal, computer users hit Google and its parent company Alphabet with a federal class action Monday night for potentially exposing the data of up to 500,000 users of Google Plus to outside parties. Google announced in a blog post Monday morning that it would discontinue […]
‘THE GOOD CENSOR’: Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for ‘Safety And Civility’…
Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a “blip” in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products. But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other […]
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?…
Jack Poulson, a Google research scientist, recently became alarmed by reports that the company was developing a search engine for China that would censor content on behalf of the government. While Dr. Poulson works on search technologies, he had no knowledge of the product, which was code-named Dragonfly. So in a meeting last month with […]
Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China…
“We have to be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google’s search engine chief. “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.” It was Wednesday, July 18, and Gomes was addressing a team of Google employees who were working on a secretive project to develop a censored search […]
Google+ Shutting Down After Massive Date Leak…
Google exposed the private details of almost 500,000 Google+ users and then opted not to report the lapse, in part out of concern disclosure would trigger regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people briefed on the matter and documents that discussed it. Shortly after the article was published, Google […]
Facebook Is Teeming with Fake Accounts Created by Undercover Law Enforcement Officers…
In the summer of 2015, as Memphis exploded with protests over the police killing of a 19-year-old man, activists began hearing on Facebook from someone called Bob Smith. The name was generic, and so was his profile picture: a Guy Fawkes mask, the symbol of anti-government dissent. Smith acted as if he supported the protesters, […]
New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright…
Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative announced a replacement deal for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nearly 25-year-old trade deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Amid the long list of tariff-free products and restriction-free cheese names [PDF] in the new trade deal, called simply the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement or USMCA, […]
AT&T Claims it Wants Meaningful Privacy Rules…After Just Lobbying to Kill Meaningful Privacy Rules…
If you hadn’t noticed, the telecom industry has been on a tear lately, completely dismantling most government oversight of its natural monopolies. From killing net neutrality to gutting FCC and state authority to rein in ISP bad behavior, companies like AT&T dream of a future where neither competiton nor even modest regulatory oversight prevent it […]
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies…
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream […]
Twitter Blacklists Popular ‘Wired Sources’ News Account…
The last tweet Wired Sources made before the ban was a video of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) admitting that the Democrat Party’s call for an FBI investigation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh was an “opening” to block him from the Supreme Court. “This was our last tweet before we left for the holidays. It had nearly […]
Democratic Intern Arrested in Doxxing of GOP Senators During Kavanaugh Hearing…
A Democratic congressional intern was arrested Wednesday and accused of posting the personal information of at least one Republican senator during last week’s hearing about sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, authorities said. U.S. Capitol Police said 27-year-old Jackson Cosko was charged with making public restricted personal information, witness tampering, threats in […]
Trump to Host Google CEO, Tech Execs at White House Summit…
The Trump administration will host a technology summit in the coming weeks with executives including Google chief Sundar Pichai, a White House spokeswoman confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The gathering comes as firms like Google, Facebook, and others face increasing pressure from Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats are pressuring social media companies to increase security […]
Tim Berners-Lee Tells Us His Radical New Plan to Upend the World Wide Web…
Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of […]
Inside The Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings…
Christopher Talbot thought he would make a great police officer. He was 29 years old, fit, and had a clean background record. Talbot had military experience, including a tour of Iraq as a US Marine, and his commanding officer had written him a glowing recommendation. In 2014, armed with an associate degree in criminal justice, […]
Class Sues Facebook for Breach of 50M User Accounts…
Mere hours after revealing that a security breach had compromised 50 million user accounts, Facebook was hit with a class action Friday afternoon seeking punitive damages for the exposure of private user data. Lead plaintiff Carla Echavarria of California claims Facebook acted with “absolute disregard” for its users’ private information, and that its “lax and […]
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