2025-07-15
Never before has corruption been so open and so accepted by half the population of the United States. — www.theverge.com/news/706855/ ...
Reuters
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI usi...
2023-05-15
The NYAG secured $615,000 in fines from three companies who each generation millions of fake comments on behalf of the Telcos who were lobbying for the repeal of NN. (I know... $600k isn't enough of a fine for helping to subvert Democracy.) https://ag.ny.gov/...
Associated Press
New York AG Letitia James says three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to back the FCC's 2017 net neutrality repeal will pay $615K
2022-11-02
1. No “Lords & Peasants”, just “Haves” & “Have Nots”! 2. Priority responses = “Easier way to run crypto scams & disinformation campaigns w/o hijacking a verified account!” 3. This is LITERALLY paying for the privilege to work for Twitter (in making content). ... Hard pass. https://twitter.com/...
@elonmusk
Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more
Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
2022-09-01
Huh... so an audience that is famously opposed to most forms of centralized authority wasn't convinced to come over to the side of one of Big Tech's most powerful centralized authorities? Go figure... 😏 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on Joe Rogan's show did little to help his metaverse pitch and suggests he may not be the best spokesperson for these efforts
Forget about the devastating reviews from the video game press, the cringe-worthy digital “selfie,” and the notable lack of legs … Tweets: @chafkin , @chafkin , @padresj , @krishol...
2021-06-04
This was long overdue. The CFAA has been stretched to fit activities that weren't even pipe-dreams when the law was created. It's time to get tech-savvy legislators like @BriannaWu into office so they can make the punishments fit the crimes. (literally) https://twitter.com/...
Politico
SCOTUS narrows the scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, ruling it can't be used to charge people who misused databases they are otherwise entitled to access
2021-05-13
Source: “We found glaring deficiencies and big problems,” said Robert F. Smallwood, whose consulting firm delivered an 89-page report in January 2018 after a six-month audit. “I mean an eighth-grader could have hacked into that system.” https://apnews.com/...
NBC News
Colonial Pipeline says it has restarted operations, after being shut down for five days due to DarkSide's ransomware attack
Colonial Pipeline, operator of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, said Wednesday it is restarting operations after being shut down for five days due to a cyberattack.
2021-05-06
That friend who brags about their Pelaton? Now you can find out exactly how much exercise they ACTUALLY did. 😜 “Peloton user's age, gender, city, weight, workout statistics & ... details that are hidden when users' profile pages are set to private” https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Researcher details a Peloton API bug that let anyone access private account info, which initially went unpatched until a reporter contacted Peloton
2021-04-26
I wasn't close to @dakami. As far as I remember, I only had one encounter w/him - I think it was at an AP @defcon. I remember sitting at a table w/REAL hackers & security researchers - thinking I was an imposter - & him making me feel like I had a right to be there. Thanks Dan.
CircleID
Dan Kaminsky, the celebrated security researcher widely known for his work on discovering crucial DNS security flaws and Sony Rootkit infections, has died at 42
Saddened by news of the death of Dan Kaminsky, a member of the ICANN Trusted … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : The cybersecurity researcher Dan Kaminsky has died Tweets: Sa...
2021-04-19
Regardless of what you think of Adobe's practices now, Chuck co-founded one of the most influential software firms in history. He was smart, witty, generous and had an amazing history. ... Including a short life as a Jesuit. https://www.mercurynews.com/ ...
Mercury News
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, has died at 81
Fiona Kelliher / Mercury News :
2021-02-07
This appears to be the opposite of what Trump wanted. He wanted to remove S230 so that tech companies could be sued for moderating. This bill wants to change the “safe harbor” provision so tech companies become MORE responsible for moderating. https://www.reuters.com/...
Protocol
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Ben Werdmuller / @benwerd : For better or worse, these changes will be a major accelerant for decentralization. Protocols don't host. https://www.pr...
2021-02-02
Hopefully this ends the “blockchain everything” era. The technology IS interesting & has some genuine use cases, but I won't miss the dark days of getting 100+ emails a week about the latest “blockchain-enabled” oven/toilet/fridge/lamp/shoe/toy/ doodad. https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Sources: IBM has drastically downsized its blockchain team after missing revenue targets by 90%; IBM says the unit is “doing well”
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
2021-01-31
Early on I, like most of the tech press, framed privacy concerns of the Internet economy as “trading advertising for services.” I was slow to realize that our private info wasn't being used for advertising ... but as a way to SHAPE how we see the world. https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Experts say Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature will damage Facebook's core business; the feature will limit Facebook's data collection from 85K+ iOS apps
New feature on iPhones will limit Facebook's ability to collect data from apps and prove that ads work
2021-01-18
AI will now replace - IT workers (Trend Micro) - Software Devs (Amazon) - Sales & Logistics (Salesforce) - Advertising (Google) - Users (Microsoft) I mean... basically we're going to have an Internet w/nothing but AI bots. Who will get the lulz? https://www.zdnet.com/...
ZDNet
Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025
2021-01-01
The weirdest part of this lawsuit is that Apple claimed users of the emulation should have been legally bound to report any bugs they find to Apple. In other words, Apple wanted the users of another company's software to work for Apple... For free. 🤔 https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Report: Apple removed 46K+ apps, including 39K games, from its China App Store on Thursday, as it set a year-end deadline for game publishers to get a license
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day …
2020-12-31
The weirdest part of this lawsuit is that Apple claimed users of the emulation should have been legally bound to report any bugs they find to Apple. In other words, Apple wanted the users of another company's software to work for Apple... For free. 🤔 https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Report: Apple removed 46K+ apps, including 39K games from its China store on Thursday, as it set a year-end deadline for game publishers to obtain a license
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day …
2020-12-30
The weirdest part of this lawsuit is that Apple claimed users of the emulation should have been legally bound to report any bugs they find to Apple. In other words, Apple wanted the users of another company's software to work for Apple... For free. 🤔 https://www.reuters.com/...
Washington Post
Federal judge dismisses Apple's claims that mobile device virtualization company Corellium violated copyright law with its software to run iOS on PCs
Corellium helps customers find bugs in Apple's mobile operating system. Apple aimed to shut it down. — Corellium, a security research firm sued …
2020-10-17
The @GOP won't investigate the STORY itself b/c it's a laughable attempt at election interference. Instead they want to investigate those who blocked it on their networks as a “laughable attempt at election interference.” IOW: “It's BS, but it's OUR BS” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Senate Republicans say the Judiciary Committee will issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey about Twitter's blocking of a New York Post article
The @GOP won't investigate the STORY itself b/c it's a laughable attempt at election interference. Instead they want to investigate those who blocked it on their networks as a “laughable attempt at election interference.” IOW: “It's BS, but it's OUR BS” https://www.wsj.com/...
New York Times
Twitter says it is now letting the NY Post link be shared because the info had spread so widely that it can no longer be considered private
The latest change underlined how rapidly social media platforms are shifting their positions in the days leading up to the election.
2020-10-16
The @GOP won't investigate the STORY itself b/c it's a laughable attempt at election interference. Instead they want to investigate those who blocked it on their networks as a “laughable attempt at election interference.” IOW: “It's BS, but it's OUR BS” https://www.wsj.com/...
@vijaya
[Thread] Twitter updates Hacked Materials Policy, says it won't remove content unless shared by hackers themselves and will label tweets instead of block links
Over the last 24 hours, we've received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feed...
The @GOP won't investigate the STORY itself b/c it's a laughable attempt at election interference. Instead they want to investigate those who blocked it on their networks as a “laughable attempt at election interference.” IOW: “It's BS, but it's OUR BS” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Senate Republicans say the Judiciary Committee will issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey about Twitter's blocking of a New York Post article
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley has formally requested @Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and @Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism...