The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools

  Reddit   ·   11 hours ago

How to Control the Privacy of Your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat Posts

  Reddit   ·   14 hours ago

ESET details a hacking campaign, active for the past 6 years, by the Russia-linked group the Dukes or Cozy Bear, which was thought to be dormant since DNC hack

  Techmeme   ·   16 hours ago

Inside Olympic Destroyer, the Most Deceptive Hack in History

  Reddit   ·   4 days ago

How a Bitcoin Trail Led to a Massive Dark Web Child-Porn Site Takedown

  Reddit   ·   5 days ago

DNS over HTTPS can increase user privacy by obfuscating web traffic, but it's no silver bullet as DNS resolving services will still see unencrypted requests

  Techmeme   ·   6 days ago

Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets: Relativity Space may have the biggest metal 3D printers in the world, and they’re cranking out parts to reinvent the rocket industry here—and on Mars.

  Reddit   ·   7 days ago

A new hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

Researcher shows how spies, criminals, or saboteurs can implant a chip in enterprise IT equipment to allow stealthy backdoor access using cheap $200 equipment

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Courage:in 2010 Google rejected China’s censorship and left a $600m business

  Reddit   ·   1 week ago

USB-C Has Finally Come into Its Own

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

The Essential Gem's unveiling resurfaces allegations against Andy Rubin, making clear that it's becoming hard to disassociate products from their makers

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Never Trust a Platform to Put Privacy Ahead of Profit

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Russia’s Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Sony announces PlayStation 5 will launch in time for "holiday 2020", featuring a new controller with haptic technology and triggers with varying resistance

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Trump Takes Aim at the ‘Open Skies’ Cold War Treaty With Russia

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Waze Data Can Help Predict Car Crashes and Cut Response Time

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

7 Cybersecurity Threats That Can Sneak Up on You

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Decades-Old Code is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

A Bug in Popular Android Phones Gives Hackers Full Control

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Unlike other social media platforms, TikTok doesn't timestamp user uploads, frustrating some creators, but making it possible for months-old content to go viral

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

The Ukraine Whistle-Blower Did Everything Right

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

The Internet’s Horrifying Way to Get Google Apps on Huawei Phones

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Satya Nadella and Panos Panay Q&A on aiming to create a new device category with its dual-screen devices, not positioning Duo as a traditional phone, and more

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Dave Willner, who helped put together Facebook's content standards over a decade ago, says its exemption of politicians' hate speech is "cowardice"

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

UPS says its drone service is the first of its kind to be recognized by the FAA as a commercial airline, but each new site it operates in must be approved

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Steven Levy – Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd | WIRED

  Pinboard   ·   3 weeks ago

Ring Camera Surveillance Is Transforming Suburban Life

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Trump Still Doesn’t Believe Russia Hacked the 2016 Election

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

NASA May Soon Have a Nuclear Rocket for the First Time in 60 Years

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Some Voting Machines Still Have Decade-Old Vulnerabilities

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Why Google’s Quantum Victory Is a Huge Deal—and a Letdown

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

An End to Pornography, Sophistry, and Panty Raids

  Pinboard   ·   4 weeks ago

Tesla May Soon Have a Battery That Can Last a Million Miles. Journal of the Electrochemical Society describing a lithium-ion battery that “should be able to power an electric vehicle for over 1 million miles” while losing less than 10 percent of its energy capacity during its lifetime.

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

An Exclusive Look Inside Apple's A13 Bionic Chip | WIRED

  Pinboard   ·   4 weeks ago

Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

  Hacker News   ·   4 weeks ago

The iOS 13 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

'Inside Bill's Brain' Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Theory | WIRED

  Pinboard   ·   4 weeks ago

A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (2017)

  Hacker News   ·   4 weeks ago

Hackers Hit Click2Gov Bill-Paying Portals in 8 Cities

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

WeWork’s Wi-Fi Is Woefully Insecure

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

An in-depth look at Apple's six-core A13 Bionic processor, found in the new iPhones, which promises 30% more efficiency than last year's A12 chip

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

AI researchers are beginning to acknowledge and confront the "reproducibility" crisis, which makes it hard for others to replicate the results of AI systems

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

After Six Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself: In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Launched 20 years ago, Wi-Fi nearly lost out to the rival HomeRF standard, which was being promoted by the group of Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago