How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers
Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
Google's AI-powered Clips camera is now available in the US Google Store for $249, with first deliveries expected in March
Three months ago Google announced the Google Clips, a tiny clip-on camera powered by some impressive machine learning technology. The idea behind it was that rather …
AI advances are now making automated analysis of live surveillance video possible, presaging useful applications while raising serious questions about privacy
What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? — We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes …
Twitter says Russian-linked bots retweeted @realDonaldTrump 469,537 times and @HillaryClinton 47,846 times in weeks prior to election from Sep. 1 to Nov. 15
Russian-linked accounts spurred 50,000 retweets of Clinton — Information comes in response to questions from Congress
Google details human-centered UX approach for its Clips camera, says AI for capturing memorable moments was trained with the help of professional photographers
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New Copyright Royalty Board ruling requires streaming services to give 15.1%, up from 10.5%, of revenue to songwriters and music publishers over next five years
(Reuters) - U.S. copyright authorities on Saturday decided to increase over the next five years the royalty payments music streaming companies …
YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining and CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick; Google says ads now blocked
Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. — YouTube was recently caught displaying ads …
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says it will repay all 260K users who lost money in Friday's theft of ~$400M in NEM coins
Users will receive 88.549 yen for each coin that was stolen — Japanese exchange will compensate clients using internal funds
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, investor in companies including Twitter and Lyft, is released after November arrest amid corruption crackdown
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US Secret Service warning financial institutions about “jackpotting” attacks targeting US ATMs; source close to the matter says Ploutus.D malware is being used
ATM “jackpotting” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs …
A deep look at the evolution of visual surveillance technology, where it is headed, and what its continuing rise will mean for security, transparency, privacy
and Everything Else on the Planet http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ... “If the police wanted to know what was in your head in the 1800s, they would have to torture you. Now they can just find it out...
Economists worry that the tax incentive competition solicited by Amazon for HQ2 will divert taxpayer funds from education, infrastructure, and other priorities
When New Jersey announced a $7 billion package of tax incentives to try to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Newark … Tweets: @richard_florida , @bencasselman , @whitenjon , @bytimlogan , and @stac...
Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program
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CIRP: Amazon has 69% of smart speaker market in US with 31M units, Google has 31% with 14M; Google gained share this holiday season with 40% of units sold
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Sources: a16z and USV, who have cryptocurrency experience, are passing on Telegram's ICO; firms newer to crypto like KPCB, Sequoia, and Benchmark are investing
Theodore Schleifer / Recode :
Inside the cryptocurrency pump and dump chat groups, where high-ranking members may get the pump signal 0.5 to 3 secs early, before dumping to the general pool
Inside the group chats where people pump and dump cryptocurrency — How self-proclaimed “pump and dump groups” scam thousands of wannabe altcoin investors.
Inside Bridge International Academies, a controversial for-profit company using tablets to send scripted lesson plans to teachers in developing nations
On a Monday morning in October, Faith stands before her class of kids, ages 10 and up. She looks down at her tablet computer, which details the day's lessons. Tweets: @nadianavi and @andrewrsorkin Tw...
How governments and the nuclear energy industry are preparing for future cybersecurity threats using hands-on exercises and training laboratories
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Profile of Brandon Chez, owner of CoinMarketCap, a source for price data on cryptocurrencies that has become one of the world's most heavily trafficked sites
How a top source of bitcoin data contributed to a sudden plunge in digital currencies — The drop was swift … Tweets: @jchengwsj and @wsj Tweets: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : How did one of the worl...
Twitter now lets advertisers sponsor Moments from select publishers
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Research: 16M dockless bikes are used 3X/day on average in China; 500K bike-share bikes replaced ~10% private car travel, 13% of petrol consumption in Shenzhen
Carlton Reid / BikeBiz : Tweets: @bikeakl and @martinmignot Tweets: Bike Auckland / @bikeakl : “Before the advent of dockless bike-sharing in Chinese cities cycling accounted for 5.5% of transport mi...
Maersk says NonPetya ransomware attack required an almost complete infrastructure overhaul, reinstallation of 4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs, and 2,500 applications
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
Mail.ru acquires Russian e-sports firm ESforce, which had 116M users in 2017, for $100M
Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.