The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated
Sarah Kessler / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @nytimesbusiness , @clevy_law , @stevelohr , @evankirstel , and @mrsethharris Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : If cost of the tools weren't a fac...
Twitter users globally reported multiple site issues for over two hours, including the timeline not loading on the web and mobile; most users could still tweet
but (my take): other tech companies have taken note: you can run a company at 25% of the workforce https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Coates / @tomcoates : So twitter's timeline was down for about 2-3 ho...
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and dependency. Social media is...
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump
The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends. Tweets: @chrisamccoy , @empo11on , @chrisamccoy , @warrenisdead , @tra...
A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : FBI in Possession of Software Able to Profile Anyone Using Just a Picture Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1225: the facial ...
Leaked dataset from a location data company with a log of the movements of 12M+ Americans shows how “anonymous” location data can be used to track people
and it's not hard to figure out who you are Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo : Holy Shit, Reportedly Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central : Your phone tracks your every move and there is nothing you can do ab...
Documents shed light on the US Army's Automated Biometric Information System, a database with 7.4M identities that underpins US military intelligence operations
ver the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. Tweets: @carolineha_ , @mvzelenks , @davegershgorn , @willoremus , @davegershgorn , @davegershgorn , @dav...
Sources: US officials tweeted from @NSAGov to prove to Russians that US government was indeed behind secret negotiations to buy stolen NSA documents
The United States intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents …