How investigators like “Gabagool” are using open source tech to identify, track down, and expose foul play and questionable practices in DeFi
Open source investigators are struggling to maintain law and order in the wildest recesses of cryptocurrency's Wild West. Tweets: @pardesoteric and @scottthurm Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric :...
Interview with Garry Kasparov, the first chess world champion to be defeated by a computer, about chess, AI, and a strategy for staying a step ahead of machines
Twenty-three years after he lost to Deep Blue, Kasparov says people need to work with machines. You have to “nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms.” Tweets: @softengresgrp , @warinthefuture , @to...
A look at burgeoning industry of influencer marketing, where brands routinely shell out $60K+ for one video review, or $85K+ to publicly disparage a competitor
WHEN SAHARA LOTTI started her lash extensions company, Lashify, in 2017, she didn't know what she was getting herself into. Tweets: @carnage4life , @jasongay , @nxthompson , @scottthurm , @sub8u , @pa...
How Facebook became synonymous with the internet in a newly democratic Myanmar and ended up relying on civil society groups for help in policing rumors
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook. — ON THE THE evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds … Tweets: @tmclaughlin3 , @nxthompson , @rama_rajeswari , @joinson , @tmclaughlin3 ...
Fired employee alleges in a lawsuit that Clarifai, an AI startup working on Project Maven, was hacked from Russia and did not promptly report it to the Pentagon
LAST SUMMER, A sign appeared on the door to a stuffy, windowless room at the office of Manhattan artificial intelligence startup Clarifai. Tweets: @nitashatiku , @scottthurm , and @smerity Tweets: Nit...
Sources: last year's cyberattacks on Polish stock exchange and German steel plant were tied to Russia's growing hacking campaign against US and NATO
Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia's Clash With NATO — German steel plant and Polish exchange said to be targeted Tweets: @andrew_s_bowen , @maxseddon , @alantonelson , @scottthurm and @ridt ...
Report: 1,500 data breaches worldwide compromised almost 1B data records in 2014, up 78% from 575M in 2013; 54% of the breaches involved identity theft
Amir Mizroch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @scottthurm Tweets: Scott Thurm / @scottthurm : It's not your imagination. Gemalto says breaches rose 49% last year http://blogs.wsj.com/... via @amirmizr...