Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge

  Hacker News   ·   3 days ago

Anti-LGBTQ threats orchestrated on the internet shut down trans rights and drag events

  Pinboard   ·   2 weeks ago

Experts say Amazon's encrypted messaging app Wickr Me is full of child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Some local officials forced US schools and libraries to shut down or limit e-reader apps like Epic and OverDrive after conservative parents objected to content

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Illinois college, hit by ransomware attack, to shut down

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Twitter says recent "fluctuations in follower counts" of high-profile accounts after news of Elon Musk's takeover were "organic", but is still looking into it

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Government record keepers and watchdogs worry that use of Wickr and other auto-deletion apps may help CBP and other agencies sidestep transparency requirements

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

A look at growing online meth communities on Zoom, Reddit, and others as they attract little attention from content moderators, worsening the addiction problem

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Long Covid: Even mild Covid is linked to damage to the brain months after infection

  Pinboard   ·   4 months ago

Twitter has banned 100+ accounts that pushed the #IStandWithPutin hashtag for "coordinated inauthentic behavior", days after it trended on Twitter

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Premise, which uses gig workers to crowdsource intel for clients, denies working for Russia and says it is working for the US and a European country in Ukraine

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Meta and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian "covert influence operations" over the weekend, one tied to Russia and the other to Belarus

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Experts say Russia may not be able to evade sanctions using cryptocurrencies, which became a regulated business with safeguards against money laundering

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Parents against mask mandates use bogus 'surety bond' claims to flood schools with paperwork

  Pinboard   ·   4 months ago

Senate introduces bill to allow farmers to fix their own equipment

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Snapchat's friend recommendation feature will no longer suggest users under 18, unless they have a certain number of friends in common, to curb drug dealing

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

A look at the SMART Health Card, a minimal verification system that uses QR codes to check COVID-19 vaccine status, available to ~200M people in the US

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

The January 6 House committee subpoenas Meta, Alphabet, Reddit, and Twitter after their "inadequate responses" to requests for information about the riot

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Frustration with Covid-19 policies and crime have recently led many tech workers in San Francisco to engage in local politics for the first time

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Utah billionaire leaves Mormon church, donates $600,000 to LGBTQ group

  Pinboard   ·   6 months ago

Quidditch to change name, citing J.K. Rowling's anti-trans positions

  Pinboard   ·   6 months ago

2021 saw 20+ hacks where at least $10M in digital currencies were stolen from a crypto exchange or project, with $100M+ stolen in at least six cases

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Microsoft will change its hiring process after a settlement with the DOJ, which says it found at least six instances of immigration-related discrimination

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

How online activists helped close BOO, an MLM scheme that sold $110 bags of dirt as alternative medicine on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok during the pandemic

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Meta partners with UK-based Revenge Porn Helpline to help people prevent intimate images from appearing online by uploading them to StopNCII.org

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Apple posts internal memo affirming employees' right to discuss pay

  Pinboard   ·   7 months ago

Covid vaccine mandates push some holdouts to get the shot — and then 'detox'

  Pinboard   ·   8 months ago

New Orleans shoeshine man wins legal battle over $30k seized by DEA agents

  Hacker News   ·   8 months ago

Internal docs: Facebook employees created a test account in 2019 and within days it was recommended extreme and conspiratorial content, including QAnon Groups

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Texas school admin: balance Holocaust books with 'opposing' views

  Hacker News   ·   9 months ago

Researchers say they identified around 10,000 Telegram users claiming to sell fake vaccination cards, with sellers often asking for sensitive personal info

  Techmeme   ·   10 months ago

Insane CA election fraud claim

  Pinboard   ·   10 months ago

Instagram says Saint Hoax, an influencer with 2.8M+ followers, will livestream from this year's Met Gala red carpet as its first-ever Meme Correspondent

  Techmeme   ·   10 months ago

Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021

  Techmeme   ·   10 months ago

Facebook rolls out new security features for people in Afghanistan, including a one-click tool to quickly lock accounts and limit account discoverability

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

Call center operator Teleperformance, which counts Apple, Amazon, and Uber as clients, wants to monitor staff working from home in Colombia, via AI-powered cams

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

A look at the state of vaccine passport apps, which have raised concerns over privacy and verification accuracy, as cities like NYC mandate proof of vaccination

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

As "security robots" get deployed across the US by local governments and companies, there is little to no evidence they can effectively fight crime

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Drought-stricken communities in the US push back against data centers' water usage; a typical data center uses same water per day as a city of 30K-50K people

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Sources: in 2019, major labor union Teamsters refused a ransomware demand of $2.5M, against the FBI's advice, and instead rebuilt its systems from scratch

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Pro-Palestinian activist campaign targets Facebook's app store ratings via 1-star reviews; Facebook's internal chats show Apple declined to remove the reviews

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Twitter was Trump's megaphone. His new blog isn't as powerful.

  Pinboard   ·   1 year ago

Colonial Pipeline says it has restarted operations, after being shut down for five days due to DarkSide's ransomware attack

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Officials say the DHS has started building a warning system to gather and analyze intelligence about domestic terrorism threats from public social media posts

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Florida governor to sign into law a bill punishing social media firms for "deplatforming" politicians, which would likely face a constitutional challenge

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

A look at The News Alerts of Beaver County, a 43,000-member Facebook Group in PA that fills the local news void but often hosts exaggerations and falsehoods

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

A look at the challenges in building workable vaccine passport apps, including dealing with forged records, protecting privacy, and interoperability

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago