Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
this should significantly escalate the political pressure to finally counter the ransomware ecosystem https://www.bloomberg.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Maybe it was a four hundred pound eigh...
A look at the Legal Aid Society of New York City's efforts to close the tech gap between public defenders and law enforcement with respect to digital forensics
Public defenders lack access to gadgets and software that could keep their clients out of jail. — On April 27, a woman in eastern Brooklyn called the police. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @byrontau , @...
At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news
media biz dev geniuses in my timeline today Michael Nuñez / @michaelfnunez : Couple of interesting details so far: - Zuck admits “majority of people don't use [secondary tabs]” meaning Marketplace, Gr...
Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music
When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently …
A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually
filled with restaurants selling paella, tapas, and sangria, none of which have local origins, but which conform to a generic image of Spain.” http://www.newyorker.com/... Ben Detrick / @bdetrick : if ...
Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue
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Profiles of three current and one former volunteer moderator of KnowYourMeme, a Brooklyn-based website explaining the internet's inside jokes
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @nytstyles Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : The website KnowYourMeme is a mostly reliable, crowdsourced translator of the internet's ins...
Motherboard and Vice to build and document a Brooklyn community internet that will connect to NYC mesh network and will not rely on a traditional ISP
The net neutrality battle has been exhausting. It has come at enormous cost in time, energy, attention, and money. Tweets: @jason_koebler , @catfashionshow , @thebanderson , and @lorenzofb See also M...