Virtual labs at WWDC and Microsoft Build lowered barriers to entry and for some felt more personal than live labs, but the conferences lacked communal elements

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

The Rocket Motor of the Future Breathes Air Like a Jet Engine

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Is It Legal for Cops to Force You to Unlock Your Phone?

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Google Will Delete Your Data by Default–In 18 Months

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Airbnb Quietly Fired Hundreds of Contract Workers. I’m One of Them

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Stuck at Home, Scientists Discover 9 New Insect Species

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

European Football Clubs Are Turning to AI for an Assist

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Sneaky Mac Malware Is Posing as Flash Downloads

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Baidu says it has left The Partnership on AI, a US-led effort to foster collaboration on the ethical challenges of AI; Baidu was the only Chinese member

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

eBay confirms that ex-CEO Devin Wenig is the person who allegedly ordered six eBay employees to initiate a cyberstalking campaign; Wenig is not being charged

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Facebook Groups Are Destroying America

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Researchers find a developer running multiple dating services left 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more exposed in AWS buckets

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

How to Clean Up Your Old Posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

How To Stop Instagram From Tracking Everything You Do

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Georgia’s Failure Shows How Not to Run an Election in the Pandemic

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Newly released TikTok clone Zynn was removed from the Play Store after reports indicate it was filled with multiple stolen videos from other platforms

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Walmart Employees Are Out to Show Its Anti-Theft AI Doesn’t Work

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg | WIRED

  Pinboard   ·   4 months ago

China and Iran Tried to Hack the Biden and Trump Campaigns

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption Will Be for Paying Customers Only

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

A look at Mayhem, a bot made by a startup called ForAllSecure for finding software bugs, which is now being used by the US military and Cloudflare

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Protests Renew Scrutiny of Tech’s Ties to Law Enforcement

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Wikipedia supports 309 languages, Google Translate 109, and Bing 71

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Some Walmart staff claim AI-based tech used in stores to prevent shoplifting misidentifies innocuous behavior as theft and often fails to flag actual stealing

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Internet security group Shadowserver receives $600K over 3 years from Trend Micro and a $400K donation from Internet Society, says it can now operate into 2021

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

US is taking a state-by-state approach to COVID-19 contact tracing apps, which could cause security and privacy issues in addition to hindering interoperability

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

A behind-the-scenes account of how Kickstarter workers came together to become the first white-collar technology workforce to unionize in US history

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

This $350 "Anti-5G" Device Is Apparently Just a USB Stick

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Remote Work Has Its Perks, Until You Want a Promotion

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Twitter Finally Fact-Checked Trump. It’s a Bit of a Mess

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Researchers at EA and the University of British Columbia are using reinforcement learning to improve in-game humanoid characters, potentially reducing costs

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Trump’s New Intelligence Chief Spells Trouble

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Now’s The Perfect Time to Start Using a Password Manager

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity – Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water.

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

The DHS Prepares for Attacks Fueled by 5G Conspiracy Theories

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

NSA “precomputed contact chaining” enhances phone-record tracking program

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

There’s a Jailbreak Out for the Current Version of iOS

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

AI has played a useful but fragmented role in the global fight against COVID-19, from predicting outbreaks to aiding diagnosis and drug discovery efforts

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Interview with Sundar Pichai on working from home, antitrust, collaborating with Apple and others, how Alphabet's holding company model held up, and more

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

ShinyHunters Is a Hacking Group on a Data Breach Spree

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Vaccine trials that use AI to rapidly test trillions of possibilities with simulated patients could replace slow and costly human clinical trials

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Let’s Rebuild the Broken Meat Industry—Without Animals

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Researchers name Nigerian cybercriminal group, Scattered Canary, as one of the sources of recent unemployment and Cares payout scams using identify theft data

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Right to Repair Groups Fire Shots at Medical Device Manufacturers – A robust resource for DIY smartphone repairs is focusing next on ventilators and other critical medical equipment.

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

Researchers detail NXNSAttack, a DDoS technique that takes advantage of common flaws in DNS software to launch massive attacks with relatively small botnets

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago