2023-01-09
Thank you @FrankCatalano and @geekwire for reporting this, and for @SeaPubSchools for filing the lawsuit. Social media targets teens and hurts their mental and physical health in so many ways. https://twitter.com/...
GeekWire
Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly exploiting “the vulnerable brains of youth”
2021-01-04
2021 predictions in tech from @geekwire and Seattle-area technology leaders: emphasis on resilience (increasing frequency of disasters large and small), artificial/augmented intelligence #AI (duh), gene editing. https://ow.ly/...
Wall Street Journal
An overview of tech to expect in 2021: better webcams, portable UV sanitizers, “assisted reality” glasses, more subscription services attached to hardware
2020-04-27
As Workers Spread Out to Halt the Virus, Robots Fill the Gaps. For one thing, if Robots can handle items on an assembly line or warehouse, then humans don't contaminate them. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
How manufacturers and e-commerce companies may invest in robots to help them adapt to social distancing, regular cleaning, and a possible worker shortage
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @anand1agarwal , @dan_rowinski , @billschrier , @darkjournalist , and @wired Tweets: Anand Agarwal / @anand1agarwal : Rethinking. Reframing. Re-evalu...
2020-03-15
On March 3, the smartphones of millions of Iranian citizens beeped, telling them to download a #coronavirus detection app. It hoovered up huge amounts of data, including their names, addresses, dates of birth, and real-time tracking of their location. https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
Experts say AC19, an Iranian government Android app that claims to diagnose coronavirus, is being used to track users' real-time locations
but what it can do is hoover up huge amounts of data on citizens, including names, addresses, dates of birth, and even track people's location in real time. https://www.vice.com/.....
2019-08-19
Ransomware Attack Hits 20 Local Governments in Texas. The Texas Division of Emergency Management is now activated, in response to at least 20 local governments that have had operations disrupted by a “ransomware” attack. MT @seattlemkh https://ci.security/...
ZDNet
23 Texas local governments hit in what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack
Infection blamed on a strain of ransomware known only as the “.JSE ransomware.” — Twenty-three local Texas governments have been infected with ransomware last week in what Texas ...