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Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire
Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire First, rather than call more attention to fake news, Facebook wants to make it easier to miss these stories while scrolling. When Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers verify an article is inaccurate, Facebook will...
Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update aims to shield us from notifications
Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update aims to shield us from notifications Notifications are both one of the most revolutionary inventions of the mobile age, and one of the most hated features on our devices. The little nudges typically appear as a number sitting atop an...
Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history
Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history I’m tired of saying, “Be careful, it’s speculative.” Then, “Be careful, it’s gambling.” Then, “Be careful, it’s a bubble.” Okay, I’ll say it: Bitcoin is a scam. In my opinion, it’s a colossal pump-and-dump scheme, the likes of...
Google’s Best Security Feature Is used By Less Than 10% Of Users
Google's Best Security Feature Is used By Less Than 10% Of Users We all know that passwords are a terrible way to secure valuable services. The fact is that we're all lazy, reuse passwords and perhaps rely on easy-to-remember logins that don't protect us, but are less...
Chinese surveillance programme mines data from workers’ brains
Chinese surveillance programme mines data from workers’ brains Russia is attacking the U.S. energy grid, nuclear facilities, water processing plants, aviation systems, and other critical infrastructure that millions of Americans rely on, according to a new joint...
Facebook to add new Clear History tool in coming months
Facebook to add new Clear History tool in coming months Before taking the stage at Facebook’s F8 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made one announcement ahead of time: the social network is adding a new feature called Clear History. It will be introduced alongside...
The Best Antivirus Is Not Traditional Antivirus
The Best Antivirus Is Not Traditional Antivirus We set out to do a standard Wirecutter guide to the best antivirus app, so we spent months researching products, reading reports from independent testing labs and institutions, and consulting experts on safe computing....
Microsoft’s Useless Patch to Fix Intel’s Problem Explodes in Users’ Faces
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 machine ever made to...
Windows 10 Meltdown Patch Has ‘Fatal Flaw,’ Update Now
Windows 10 Meltdown Patch Has 'Fatal Flaw,' Update Now Microsoft may have patched Windows 10 for Meltdown, but a security researcher claims that the patch had a "fatal flaw" that undermines the purported protection. The only way to get a true fix is to update to the...
Atlanta Spent $2.6M to Recover From $52,000 Ransomware Scare
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 with the...
Fake news 2.0: personalized, optimized, and even harder to stop
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...
Tech giants brace for sweeping EU privacy law
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...
Apple is moving on from Intel because Intel isn’t moving anywhere
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...
Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law
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...
Dumping Facebook? If you really want online privacy, here are the tools you need
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...
Ford to stop selling every car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active
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...
EXCLUSIVE — Research: Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters
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,...
This Girl’s BF Found Out She Was Cheating On Him From Her Amazon Echo And Her Friend Tweeted The Whole Wild Story
This Girl’s BF Found Out She Was Cheating On Him From Her Amazon Echo And Her Friend Tweeted The Whole Wild Story Every once in a while you’ll read a story that’ll make you go, “Damn, why is my life so uneventful?” All of you are out there in the midst of the drama...