Vehicle ‘Kill Switch’ Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy::Over the last century, the Land of the Free has slowly transformed into a land governed by endless laws, largely by cracking down on vices instead of actual crimes, creating a society that would render us all criminals if our behavior were...
It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future....
Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed::Ubisoft started displaying a fullscreen pop-up ad in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week. It was caused by a technical error.
Google yesterday sued a group of people accused of weaponizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get competitors’ websites removed from search results. Over the past few years, the foreign defendants “created at least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright...
As FISA turns 45, time to rethink post-9/11 mass surveillance expansion under Section 702::Forty-five years ago this month, President Jimmy Carter signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to restrain U.S. intelligence agencies’ power to spy on Americans. A 1976 Senate investigation had found that the FBI’s...
Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon::The company cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter, as well a desire to work with a federated network of social platforms.
‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks::Six Group, which operates the Swiss and Spanish bourses, is a target for cyberwarfare and must be on guard, its boss says
IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....
An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space::Amaterasu particle, one of highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, is coming from an apparently empty region of space
Brazil signs on to global climate deal to triple renewable energy::Brazil has signed onto an agreement to triple renewable energy globally by 2030 and shift away from using coal, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday, joining a prospective deal backed by the European Union, U.S. and United Arab Emirates.
Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal chipmaking IP::A Chinese-linked hacker group maintained covert access to NXP for over two years, from the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2020.
CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block::Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block and founder of Twitter, reportedly told workers it will now be easier and quicker to fire them.
BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them::The blowback worked—but subscriptions for software-based new car features will continue, according to a BMW board member.
NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company’s code::NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees.
Meanwhile, some new details emerged about the days leading up to Altman’s firing. “In the weeks leading up to his shocking ouster from OpenAI, Sam Altman was actively working to raise billions from some of the world’s largest investors for a new chip venture,” Bloomberg reported. Altman reportedly was traveling in the...