Mark Zuckerberg has declared that Facebook is ‘going to stand up for free expression’ in spite of the fact it will ‘piss off a lot of people’. The controversial CEO, 35, made the claim during a fiery appearance at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Utah on Friday. Zuckerberg told the audience that Facebook had […]
For Tech-Weary Midwest Farmers, 40-Year-Old Tractors Now a Hot Commodity…
Kris Folland grows corn, wheat and soybeans and raises cattle on 2,000 acres near Halma in the northwest corner of Minnesota, so his operation is far from small. But when he last bought a new tractor, he opted for an old one — a 1979 John Deere 4440. He retrofitted it with automatic steering guided […]
The Rise of Tech Totalitarianism…
The Wall Street Journal just published a shocking expose, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results, [by Kirsten Grind, Sam Schechner, Robert McMillan and John West , November 15, 2019], revealing not only that Google is exploiting its market power in ways the clearly raise anti-trust questions, but also that it […]
How Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep Into Our Lives…
Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted. Israel’s status as a “startup nation” was established decades ago. But its reputation for hi-tech innovation always depended on a dark side, one that is becoming […]
New Jersey Orders Uber to Pay $650 Million in Employment Taxes for Drivers…
Uber has been ordered to pay close to $650 million in employment taxes in New Jersey after the state’s department of labor said the ride-sharing company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors, according to a Bloomberg report. Bloomberg Law first reported Thursday that New Jersey has hit Uber and subsidiary Rasier LLC with $523 million […]
Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans…
Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
The Next Freakout: Foreign Spies in Surveillance Valley!…
I’m back in New York for now and am working on a longer letter about my recent trip to Israel and Palestine. In the meantime, I want to flag a piece of news that sits at the intersection of a few issues that are close to my heart: immigrants, xenophobic national security panics, and Silicon […]
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords to Hackers…
A new report from security researchers alleges that Amazon Ring doorbells have exposed users’ home Wi-Fi passwords to hackers. TechCrunch reports that security researchers at Bitdefender have claimed that Amazon Ring doorbells were sending users Wi-Fi passwords in cleartext as the doorbell joins the home network. This would allow hackers to intercept the Wi-Fi password […]
Libra Is Dead: eBay, Stripe, Visa and MasterCard All Abandon Facebook’s Cryptocurrency…
One week after we reported that Facebook’s Libra stablecoin project, Libra, was imploding, as online payment giant PayPal quite the Libra network, we can now set the time of death to today – that’s when first eBay, then Stripe and finally Mastercard all abandoned Mark Zuckerberg’s pet “cryptocurrency” (which was anything but) project. As the […]
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