Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident
known as swatting—for just $20...threats against hospitals, businesses...airports can cost up to $50 www.wired.com/story/purgat... @gate15.bsky.social Waldo Jaquith / @waldo.net : China is in our tele...
Some Chinese students are using remote access apps to cheat on TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and other US entry exams, fueled by the introduction of at-home testing
Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Tweets: @scholars_stage , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @baldingsworld Tweets: T. Greer / @scholars_stage : The stories I could tell https://restofworld.org/... Viola...
The US should grant more green cards to retain tech leaders; Turkish MIT and Caltech grad Erdal Arikan, whose work led to Huawei's 5G lead, had to leave the US
What is the single most significant step the United States can take to sustain the technological predominance it has enjoyed since World War II? Tweets: @dkaushik96 , @siddarthpaim , @dotben , @zachar...
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
what we don't hear nearly enough—how terrible university surveillance regimes are for students and the university community. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : Some colleges are trying to...
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets: ...
MIT has terminated its five-year research collaboration with Chinese AI firm iFlytek, which is accused of supplying tech for surveilling Uighurs in China
Reports accuse iFlytek of selling technology to the government that's used to oppress ethnic Uighurs in China's northwest. Tweets: @kenroth , @wired , and @tsimonite Tweets: Kenneth Roth / @kenroth : ...
Docs and interviews show that ~44 US universities work with outside companies to data mine and rank prospective students, including tracking their web activity
using surveillance software on their websites to secretly track Web browsing activity and by collecting info on household income & zip codes to “score” potential applicants https://www.washingtonpost....
Harvard, MIT, NYU among growing crop of US universities offering computer science ethics courses on AI, autonomous vehicles, privacy and civil rights in tech
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm. — Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later. Tweets: @ibogost , @mustafasuleymn , @zeynep ...