Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb
and a ‘Terrible Strategy’ Francisco Memoria / CryptoGlobe : US Government Advises Bitcoin Bomb Threat Victims to Ignore Ransom, Inform the FBI Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Bitcoin Scammers ...
James Damore, author of controversial diversity memo who was fired by Google, files class action suit claiming it discriminates against white male conservatives
Against White Men GOP.com : Harmeet Dhillon — Harmeet became the RNC Committeewoman from California in 2016. Julie Bort / Business Insider : Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees...
Facebook rolling out tech that analyzes patterns to find fake accounts that can spread misinformation, malware, and falsely boost page rankings
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Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products, except those from its Amazon Vine product review program
mostly Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader : The Real Story: Amazon Bans Free Review Samples Which Compete With Its Amazon Vine Program Chris Mills / BGR : Amazon reviews are about to get way better B...
How a government targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the UAE, with three zero-day exploits meant to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware
Saturday, August 27, 2016 Ewan Spence / Forbes : Apple Loop: iPhone 7 Launch On September 9th ‘Confirmed’, Dangerous iOS Flaws, New iPhone 7 Images Paul Szoldra / Business Insider : Inside ‘Pegasus,’ ...
Hundreds of computer systems breached at Oracle, including the customer service portal for its MICROS POS CC payment service; Oracle prompts password resets
Oracle's Micros Payment Systems Hacked Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : Cybercrime Gang Suspected in Attack on Oracle PoS Division Finextra Research Headlines : Hackers hit Oracle Micros POS unit Duncan...
Intel beats Q4 estimates with revenues of $14.9B, but stock is down almost 5% in after hours trading
and the PC isn't one of them Pui-Wing Tam / New York Times : Daily Report: Why Intel's Earnings Shouldn't Be Ignored Lee Bell / Inquirer : Intel sees strong PC chip sales in Q4 despite mammoth market ...
43.3% of Intel's US hires over last 6 months were either female or underrepresented minorities, up from roughly 20% for all of 2014
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Facebook completes full-scale prototype of its solar-powered Internet drone Aquila, develops laser that transmits data at 10 gigabits per second
I'm excited to announce we've completed … Elizabeth Weise / USA Today : Facebook reveals plans for drone-based Internet in the sky Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook Won't Be An ISP, But Built An I...
Privacy group EPIC asks FTC to prevent Uber from updating its privacy policy to allow background location data collection
except for one thing Elizabeth Weise / USA Today : Privacy group asks FTC to investigate Uber Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica : FTC asked to block Uber from getting location data in background Roger Fing...