May 3, 2018 | Microsoft, Security, Windows (Microsoft)
Microsoft’s Useless Patch to Fix Intel’s Problem Explodes in Users’ Faces Microsoft Windows, never a bastion of security or reliability, has reached yet another low. Their fix-to-a-fix-to-a-fix-to-a-problem has exposed pretty much every Windows...
Apr 28, 2018 | Government, Radio Show, Security
Atlanta Spent $2.6M to Recover From $52,000 Ransomware Scare THE CITY OF Atlanta spent more than $2.6 million on emergency efforts to respond to a ransomware attack that destabilized municipal operations last month. Attackers, who infected the city’s systems...
Apr 28, 2018 | Internet, News, Radio Show, Security
Fake news 2.0: personalized, optimized, and even harder to stop Fake news may have already influenced politics in the US, but it’s going to get a lot worse, warns an AI consultant to the US government. Sean Gourley, founder and CEO of Primer, a company that uses...
Apr 28, 2018 | Facebook, Internet, Radio Show, Security, Social Networking, Technology
Tech giants brace for sweeping EU privacy law Facebook and other internet companies are racing to prepare for a sweeping new European Union (EU) privacy law that aims to give consumers greater control over the use of their data. The law comes at a critical time for...
Apr 28, 2018 | Apple, Business, Radio Show, Security
Apple is moving on from Intel because Intel isn’t moving anywhere A report from Bloomberg this week has made public something that should already have been apparent to tech industry observers: Apple is planning to replace Intel processors in Mac computers with its own...
Apr 28, 2018 | Facebook, Government, Online, Privacy, Radio Show, Security, Social Networking
Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law Facebook has moved more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law, despite a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to apply the “spirit” of the legislation globally. In a tweak to its terms...
Apr 28, 2018 | Facebook, Internet, Radio Show, Security, Social Networking
Dumping Facebook? If you really want online privacy, here are the tools you need As the scope of Facebook’s user data leak scandal continues to expand, with official government probes of the company in the United States, Britain and the European Union, privacy has...
Apr 28, 2018 | Radio Show, Technology
Ford to stop selling every car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active Ford today announced it will phase out most cars it sells in North America. According to its latest financial release, the auto giant “will transition to two vehicles” — the Mustang and...
Apr 28, 2018 | Google, Government, Radio Show, Security
EXCLUSIVE — Research: Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters By inserting negative search suggestions under the name of a candidate, search engines like Google can shift the opinions of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent,...