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Report: since 2004, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter have earned $43.8B in contracts with the Pentagon, mostly in relation to the War on Terror
A look at the growing movement of "self-hosting", a practice where dedicated hobbyists run their own internet services at home on hardware they own
TikToker Makes Script to Flood Texas Abortion 'Whistleblower' Site With Fake Info
Reddit CEO responds after calls from users to purge the site of COVID-19 disinformation, saying "dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy"
Some are raising concerns about harmful uses of "netflow data", used to map traffic's flow across networks and that some ISPs allow to be sold to third parties
Sources detail Unity's GovTech division, which contracts with governments and militaries, as some staff complain about the lack of transparency around such work
Apple Workers Collecting Stories of Abuse, Injustice in Workplace
Unity Workers Question Company Ethics As It Expands From Video Games to War
How the Taliban moved away from its technophobic roots and began using WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook to launder its brand and advance its agenda
Profile of Andrey Shumeyko, who shared internal Apple docs and devices on forums while informing on other members to Apple and says Apple took advantage of him
Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use
Report: militias like the Three Percenters are key spreaders of vaccine misinfo on Facebook, and some of their Facebook Group admins get a "Group Expert" badge
As the Taliban uses WhatsApp to coordinate and spread messages, the service's end-to-end encryption makes banning the group difficult
T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
Research shows pro-Trump social network GETTR has no content moderation besides user reporting and reached 1.5M users in August, not July as claimed
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T-Mobile investigates claims that hackers stole data from its servers, including phone numbers, names, SSNs, and driver's license info, related to 100M+ people
Nvidia says part of its April keynote was led by a virtual replica of CEO Jensen Huang, created by scanning Huang and then training an AI to mimic his gestures
Google says it banned location data company SafeGraph in early June, meaning apps using SafeGuard location SDK had to remove it
Internal docs: Amazon plans to monitor keyboard strokes and mouse movements of customer service staff to stop rogue workers or hackers accessing customer data
Techmeme · 1 month ago
Researchers create nine computer-generated faces that can serve as "master keys" to impersonate almost half of the faces in three top facial recognition systems
Experts say the $65B broadband bill Congress is finalizing has many good aspects, but won't fix the high prices that result from broadband monopolization
Scammers are abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation to purposefully target and ban Instagram accounts, some charging $60 per ban
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Amnesty International: of the world's 53 largest VC firms, only one meets UN human rights due diligence standards
Internal document: Google fired dozens of engineers between 2018 and 2020 for abusing their access to data and tools
Sources: NLRB probe found Amazon illegally interfered with workers organizing in Staten Island, NY; NLRB officer recommends election rerun for Alabama warehouse
Techmeme · 2 months ago
A Brief History of Freud's Love Affair with Cocaine
Metaverse, as Zuckerberg and others imagine, is an odd vision built from a compendium of juvenile fantasies, perceived market opportunities, and overt dystopias
Tech CEO Says Workers Get Too Much Pay and Benefits
48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)
Activision Blizzard staff are staging a walk out today, demanding fairer treatment for underrepresented staff and ending arbitration clauses in staff contracts
A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to "detect gunshots", as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments
A look at the presence of crypto in hip-hop culture, beginning as early as 2013, including meme songs, rapper Nas's Coinbase investment, and illicit ICOs
Researchers say they embedded malware in up to half of the neurons in the benchmark AlexNet AI model and still kept the model's accuracy rate above 93.1%
After initially taking down posts with the phrase "Death to Khamenei", Facebook now says it will allow the chant for a two-week period, amid protests in Iran
Old stories on news sites including WaPo are displaying embedded porn videos after the domain for the defunct video service Vidme was bought by a porn company
The Inevitable Weaponization of App Data Is Here
Study: US telecom giants spent $234M on lobbying during the 116th Congress alone, to fight bills promoting net neutrality, local community broadband, and more
Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
Hacker News · 2 months ago