Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's “wrong decision” to remove ICEBlock, and more
Mere months ago, New York's mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.”
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
New York City's crackdown on short-term listings causes Airbnb listings to plummet, while some turn to services such as Craigslist, Houfy, and Facebook Groups
Amanda Hoover / Wired : X: @weatherdai , @colincrook , @scottlincicome , @alexlmiller , @tomasforgac , and @nickhalver Forums: r/newyorkcity and r/technology X: @weatherdai : wow. incredible. I thoug...
Hands-on with New York's Excelsior Pass vaccine passport: low adoption, privacy concerns, persistent technical glitches, and limited use at top leisure venues
Rebecca Chowdhury / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @techreview , @rebecca_chowd , @techreview , @brianmcc , and @miarsato Tweets: @techreview : New York's vaccine passport now has about 2 million do...
New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service
on its app, website, security white paper—that its video calls are “end-to-end encrypted,” but when @theintercept asked them about it they said: “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption...
New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service
As the videoconferencing platform's popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.
Leaked Amazon injury reports show one of its NY warehouses has a very high incident rate score of 15.19 in 2018, versus an average of 6.1 for sawmills in the US
Since opening in September 2018, Amazon's massive fulfillment center on New York's Staten Island has garnered a reputation …
Leaked documents from surveillance company Perceptics show its pitch to New York's MTA on how it could automatically track and profile vehicles and drivers
Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @theintercept , @rogerdhodge ,...
A remote corner of New York, which once attracted heavy industry, is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity
A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity. Tweets: @davecullen , @ryanvlastelica , @dannorberts , and @nic...
Inside Uber's partnership with some of New York's unscrupulous car lenders, and its effects on subprime drivers; Uber says it will pause program, investigate
needed to earn money—after missed payments http://qz.com/... Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro : In NYC, Uber has been quietly funneling poor & immigrant drivers into subprime car loans—@alisongriswold...