May 5, 2018 | Facebook, Internet, Radio Show, Security, Technology
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...
May 5, 2018 | Government, Radio Show, Security
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...
May 5, 2018 | Facebook, Internet, Radio Show, Security
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...
May 5, 2018 | Internet, Radio Show, Security
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....
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...