As protests grow in Myanmar, NetBlocks says the country's internet connectivity fell to 16% of ordinary levels, indicating a near-total internet shutdown
Myanmar's military leaders are extending their — internet restrictions in a bid to limit protests against their coup.
Leaked cellphone data from the siege at the Capitol demonstrates how advertising IDs can be used to identify and track the movement of specific individuals
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. — Mr. Warzel and Mr. Thompson are writers in Opinion.
A look at Metalenz, which aims to replace multiple lens elements in smartphone cameras with a single lens system that utilizes optical metasurfaces technology
The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade. That's about to change.
Unlike established social media platforms, Clubhouse is built to replicate real world social structures, norms, and status hierarchies rather than collapse them
The hot new social app has found success by replicating real-world social structures rather than exploding them
Myanmar's new military government orders local telecom operators and ISPs to block Twitter and Instagram, days after imposing a similar blackout on Facebook
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Microsoft suspends contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted to object to the presidential election results
Microsoft announced Friday it will suspend contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted …
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic
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Andy Jassy is said to be “warmer and fuzzier” than Bezos, but as Amazon's next CEO, he faces many hurdles if he wants its tech to manage workers more humanely
One secret of Amazon's ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers …
Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent
The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. — hide
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Ben Werdmuller / @benwerd : For better or worse, these changes will be a major accelerant for decentralization. Protocols don't host. https://www.protocol.com/... Chris...
Profile of BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes, who remains at large after the CFTC filed a suit against BitMEX for allegedly running an unregistered trading platform
The BitMEX cofounder created a cryptocurrency exchange that has traded trillions. Now he's wanted by U.S. authorities …
Draft bill in Nevada to establish “Innovation Zones” would let tech companies with large areas of land form governments with the same authority as counties
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing VR, AR, Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work
regardless of pandemics. “We should be teleporting, not transporting, ourselves.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Theodora / @psb_dc : “Meanwhile, with a staff of about 10 employees, the company ...
Sources: CEO of Robinhood, which had 20M users in 2020 and recently raised $3.4B, told investors that he still plans to take the company public in H1 2021
The firm that set out to bring investing to the masses has run into the reality of Wall Street regulations
Analysis: Vision Fund, which posted a record annual loss last March, returned ~$18B to investors by the end of 2020, up from $13.4B it reported in Q3 2020
After posting a record loss last year, fortunes have changed for the Saudi-backed tech investment fund Tweets: @arashmassoudi Tweets: Arash Massoudi / @arashmassoudi : Less than a year ago, SoftBank a...
Google says it paid $6.7M in 2020, up from $6.5M in 2019, to 662 researchers from 62 countries as part of its bug bounty program
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Source: Google Online Security Blog .
Research finds most Zoom-bombing incidents, especially in high schools and colleges, originate with participants who post the link publicly to invite trolls in
Abstract—Online meeting tools like Zoom and Google Meet … Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Zoombombing countermeasures are ineffective in the vast majority of cases Tweets: Liz Stanton Mbe / @lizstantonmbe...
Jody Williams, the owner of TheDonald's domain name, explains why he pulled the plug on the pro-Trump forum that became a staging ground for the Capitol attack
The Army veteran, a site moderator who owned its domain, watched with growing alarm as racism, threats and QAnon references flourished on the pro-Trump site. Tweets: @tracyjan , @marissa_jae , @brians...
Some experts raise concerns about the US Election Assistance Commission's proposed security standards that would allow voting machines with wireless hardware
BOSTON (AP) — Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element … Tweets: @rad_atl Tweets: Richard DeMillo / @rad_atl : EAC on surprise weakening of ...
Study finds that the CCPA needs stronger enforcement but “authorized agents” like DoNotPay can make it much easier for consumers to opt out of data collection
Kaveh Waddell / Consumer Reports : Tweets: @cradvocacy , @jbrowder1 , @pennywriter , @mxmahoney5 , @cradvocacy , and @stephtngu Tweets: @cradvocacy : CR's Digital Lab signed up 124 volunteers to see ...
Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that first helped his and later Joe Biden's 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.