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Mastodon Was Designed to Be a Nazi-Free Twitter. Now It's Home to Gab – VICE
User manual for Palantir Gotham software, obtained via a FOIA request, shows the amount of information law enforcement can quickly access about any individual
Trump Invites Fringe Social Media Company Popular With Nazis to the White House
The Most Clever ‘Zip Bomb’ Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File to 4.5 Petabytes
GitHub removes reimplementations of DeepNude, a now-shuttered app that digitally removes clothing from images of women, citing violations of policy
AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed
A look at Iran's efforts to tighten internet controls and curtail digital freedoms, as US sanctions and cyberattacks against the country escalate
Unknown attackers are spamming OpenPGP certificates, breaking a core component of encryption software PGP and showing a fundamental weakness known for a decade
Facebook, in its effort to combat the opioid epidemic, appears to be blocking accounts that warn of dangerous batches and provide testing kits for drugs
Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet. Behind the Scenes, It Became a Toxic Mess – Google’s internet freedom moonshot has gotten glowing attention for its ambitious projects. But current and former employees, leaked documents, and internal messages reveal a grim reality.
China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border – VICE
FOIA docs: Amazon worked with police in Aurora, Colorado to set up a package sting operation as part of a PR stunt for Ring, which resulted in no arrests
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Meet Silicon Valleys UFO Hunters
Somerville, MA becomes the second US city after San Francisco, to ban the use of facial recognition software by local police and city government agencies
After backlash, the creator of DeepNude, which uses AI to remove clothing from images of women, takes it offline, citing server overload and potential harms
Jony Ive leaves a legacy of pushing Apple's products toward disposability and unrepairability, a choice that has reverberated across the consumer tech industry
Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers Using the ‘Track THIS’ tool opens up 100 tabs at a time that will make you seem like a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer.
A DIY Internet Network Has Drastically Expanded Its Coverage in NYC – With the installation of "Supernode 3," NYC Mesh now covers large swaths of both Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Researchers Demonstrate How U.S. Emergency Alert System Can Be Hijacked and Weaponized – With a pirate cell tower, it’s easy to send fake emergency alerts warning of a terrorist attack, nuclear bomb, or other disaster.
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony Say Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Consoles Cost More
When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users
Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto
AI Can Now Detect Deepfakes by Looking for Weird Facial Movements – Machines can now look for visual inconsistencies to identify AI-generated dupes, a lot like humans do.
Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to Code – Oregon prisons have banned dozens of books about technology and programming, like ‘Microsoft Excel 2016 for Dummies,’ citing security reasons. The state isn’t alone.
Some Twitter users receiving notifications whenever someone unfollows them, falsely saying the user "followed them back"; Twitter says it's working on a bug fix
The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive
The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America – VICE
The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)
After Wave of Complaints, Instagram Tests New Methods to Recover Hacked Accounts – Motherboard previously reported how hackers were holding high-profile Instagram accounts to ransom, and how some influencers had to turn to white-hat hackers for help.
Reddit · 4 weeks ago
The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive – Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.
Verizon Claims 5G Will Help Fight Cancer. Experts Say That’s Not Likely – 5G is not magic, and experts say the wireless technology is not likely to revolutionize hospitals.
AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile Hit With FCC Complaint Over Sale of Phone Location Data – The Open Technology Institute, Free Press, and the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology filed the complaint Friday after multiple Motherboard and New York Times investigations.
Elon Musk Announces Racing Game You Play With a Tesla Steering Wheel
Credit Scores Could Soon Get Even Creepier and More Biased – Credit scores based on AI and non-traditional data such as your social media profile could usher in a whole new way for banks to discriminate.
The Biggest Data Breach Archive on the Internet Is for Sale
This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies
This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies
InfoWars Agrees to Pay Pepe the Frog Creator $15,000 in Copyright Settlement
Facebook Quietly Changes Search Tool Used by Investigators, Abused By Companies – Facebook’s Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways, such as searching content for keywords in a particular point in time.
YouTube’s Bungled PR Announcements Made Carlos Maza’s Harassment Worse – YouTube rolled out a major policy change amid a high-profile harassment campaign by Steven Crowder’s fans.
Apple Is Still Trying to Sue the Owner of an Independent iPhone Repair Shop – Apple lost its counterfeit case against a Norwegian repair shop owner last year, but the $1 trillion company won’t let it go.
Ring is using videos of suspected petty thieves captured by its doorbell cameras in Facebook advertisements asking users to identify them
Techmeme · 1 month ago