Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI

  Reddit   ·   17 hours ago

How to Share Your Online Accounts the Safe Way

  Reddit   ·   2 days ago

Interview with Garry Kasparov, the first chess world champion to be defeated by a computer, about chess, AI, and a strategy for staying a step ahead of machines

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

Companies are using social media influencers' faces without consent to promote products because recourse on even US-based platforms is somewhat complex

  Techmeme   ·   3 days ago

A Tiny Piece of Tape Tricked Teslas Into Speeding Up 50 MPH

  Reddit   ·   3 days ago

How Trump Hollowed Out US National Security

  Reddit   ·   4 days ago

Bluetooth-Related Flaws Threaten Dozens of Medical Devices

  Reddit   ·   5 days ago

The US Blames Russia’s GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia

  Reddit   ·   5 days ago

Risk assessment algorithm PSA, used to see if pretrial defendants in NJ should be held in jail, has led to jail population drop, yet racial disparities persist

  Techmeme   ·   5 days ago

US links Sandworm hacking group to Russian agency GRU's Main Center for Special Technology, blaming it for cyberattacks that hit neighboring Georgia in October

  Techmeme   ·   5 days ago

YouTube Gaming’s Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated by Scams and Cheats

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

Eclypsium report shows that many PC peripherals, like USB hubs and webcams, have a major security flaw: their firmware can be updated with "unsigned" code

  Techmeme   ·   7 days ago

A look at how Uber drivers' strategies have changed in California after AB5, which has allowed drivers to see estimated ride payouts and destinations

  Techmeme   ·   7 days ago

We Need to Talk About ‘Cloud Neutrality’

  Reddit   ·   7 days ago

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

  Pinboard   ·   1 week ago

Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook

  Pinboard   ·   1 week ago

Estonia, which created a volunteer Cyber Defence Unit after cyberattacks in 2007, offers key lessons to the US in attracting tech talent and educating citizens

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Over 500 Chrome Extensions Secretly Uploaded Private Data

  Reddit   ·   1 week ago

The ‘Robo Revenge’ App Makes It Easy to Sue Robocallers

  Reddit   ·   1 week ago

The US Hits Huawei With New Charges of Trade Secret Theft

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

The US Fears Huawei Because It Knows How Tempting Backdoors Are

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

China’s Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Google partners with non-profit Defending Digital Campaigns to offer its Advanced Protection tools, including Titan keys, to US political campaigns for free

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Conservative News Sites Track You Lots More Than Left-Leaning Ones

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

India's proposed data protection bill, which intends to ban re-identification of user data without consent, could criminalize the work of security researchers

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Investors Hit the Brakes on Automotive Startups

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

How 4 Chinese Hackers Allegedly Took Down Equifax

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

How to Turn Off Facebook’s Face Recognition Features

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

All the Ways Google Tracks You—And How to Stop It

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Facebook says it has received 15K bug reports in 2019, awarded about $2.2M in bounties for 1,300 of them, up from ~$1.1M for 700 bugs in 2018

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Europe Limits Government by Algorithm. The US, Not So Much

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

The Internet Is a Toxic Hellscape—But We Can Fix It

  Pinboard   ·   3 weeks ago

LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Armis researchers find five serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's Discovery Protocol, affecting millions of enterprise products, including routers and desk phones

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

The Iowa Caucus Tech Meltdown Is a Warning

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

This Identity Activist Wants to Make Facebook Obsolete

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Mysterious New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Dashlane’s Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers Have Arrived

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Windows 7 Gets One Last Update For the Road

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Profile of Virginia senator Mark Warner, the former telecoms entrepreneur and venture capitalist who is now committed to regulating Big Tech

  Techmeme   ·   4 weeks ago

The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time | WIRED

  Pinboard   ·   4 weeks ago

The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

The US Space Force Has a Rough Launch on the Internet

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

AI Epidemiologist Sent First Warning of Wuhan Virus–This is WHY the US needs Andrew Yang

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

One Small Fix Would Curb Stingray Surveillance

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Intel Is Patching the Patch for the Patch for Its ‘Zombieload’ Flaw

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Profile of BlueDot, which uses AI to sift through news reports in 65 languages to detect and warn about infectious disease outbreaks like Wuhan Virus

  Techmeme   ·   4 weeks ago