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Congress Says Foreign Intel Services Could Abuse Ad Networks for Spying: A group of bipartisan lawmakers asked Google, Twitter, and others about the transfer of bidstream data to foreign entities.
The Last Time the Suez Canal Was Blocked a Utopian Communist Micronation Was Formed at Sea
Activision warns PC players of Call of Duty: Warzone that a popular "cheat" is actually malware and installing it allows hackers to take over a user's machine
Pornhub releases its first transparency report, detailing its AI and human moderation efforts, and says it removed 653,465 pieces of content in 2020
People’s Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why
NASA Is Launching A $10 Billion ‘Time Machine’ – The James Webb Telescope Will Peer Farther Back Into The Universe’s History Than Ever Before And Is The "Ultimate Time Machine," Scientists Say.
Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github
Troy Hunt claims that Carding Mafia, a forum for stealing and trading credit cards, has been hacked, exposing emails, usernames, and passwords for ~300K hackers
Text routing firm Aerialink says that all major US cell carriers have closed an SMS loophole that allowed hackers to easily reroute a target's text messages
Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets "you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?" to a congressman
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
The SEC confirms it is investigating SoftBank, according to the SEC's response to a FOIA request; SoftBank was alleged to be a "Nasdaq whale" last year
Medium offers buyouts to everyone on its editorial staff, as it shifts focus from its own publications to supporting independent writers on its platform
Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced to Sign ‘Biometric Consent’ Form or Lose Job | The new cameras, which are being implemented nationwide, use artificial intelligence to access drivers’ location, movement, and biometric data.
Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator | Facebook paid a cybersecurity firm six figures to develop a zero-day in Tails to identify a man who extorted and threatened girls.
NLRB docs show it filed a federal complaint against Amazon after a probe found Amazon illegally questioned and threatened a leader of Amazon walkouts in Queens
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage
Hacker News · 3 weeks ago
As videos from court hearings on Zoom go viral, a look at the debate over the privacy of citizens in those videos and judicial transparency on the internet
Tracing the Sprawling Roots of Flash Preservation
Disabled internet users say accessibility service AccessiBe, used by 120K+ sites, and others make sites less usable and use the fear of lawsuits to drive sales
Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military – VICE
Google Play store bans polyamory dating app
Half the Country Is Now Considering Right to Repair Laws
Hacker pays a company called Sakari $16 to reroute a reporters' texts, using SMS 2FA to break into accounts and showing the need for regulation of SMS tools
US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure
Landmark Ruling Forces Uber to Share Data With Drivers in the Netherlands
Researcher publishes a proof of concept on GitHub that uses vulnerabilities exploited by hackers to breach Microsoft Exchange servers; GitHub deleted the code
Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition
Military Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Students Are Easily Cheating ‘State-of-the-Art’ Test Proctoring Tech
Emails show US surveillance company Flock has rolled out a nationwide network of cameras with AI-powered license plate reading tech via 500+ police departments
How the Government Spies on Welfare Claimants | The UK government uses invasive data gathering techniques to try and prove that people claiming benefits are actually living lavish lifestyles.
Some schools and organizations are abandoning exam monitoring software made by Proctorio amid a barrage of complaints from students over privacy
Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon's anti-union ads, saying they should never have been allowed to run on the service
Techmeme · 1 month ago
McDonald’s Secretive Intel Team Spies on ‘Fight for $15’ Workers, Internal Documents Show
Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
Hacker News · 1 month ago
Lawmakers Ask Big Cable Why They Let OANN and Newsmax Spread Disinformation
Researchers say a change in iOS 14.5 beta, which improves how iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and "0-click" attacks much harder to pull off
Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough
John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied.
Uber Shuts Down App That Told Drivers If Uber Underpaid Them – Uber got UberCheats removed from Google, claiming the app infringed its trademark on the word ‘Uber.’
FCC launches the Broadband Data Task Force to collect data and develop more precise maps of US broadband availability, which currently rely on ISP-provided data
Researcher finds one of the first examples of malware written to run natively on Apple's M1 chips; the GoSearch22 adware installs itself as a Safari extension
Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming
Hacker News · 2 months ago