Quibi, JetBlue and Others Gave Away Email Addresses, Report Says Millions of people gave their email addresses to Quibi, JetBlue, Wish and other companies — and those email addresses got away. They ended up in […]
Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT products being bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin Oh look, here’s another cautionary tale about buying cloud-based IoT kit. On 29 May, global […]
YouTube adds fact check panels to US-based searches YouTube is widening the audience for its fact check panels, and not a moment too soon. The video service now displays (via TechCrunch) independent fact checks for […]
Hulu is choking for many iOS and Apple TV users It might not be a great moment to be a Hulu fan — depending on the platform you use, at least. Users on Down Detector, […]
Facebook quietly stops letting advertisers target PSEUDOSCIENCE fans after years of boasting ‘misinformation fighting’ role Having claimed to be a crusader against misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook has only just removed the ability for […]
WATCH: YouTube CEO: We’ll Remove Any Content That Goes Against WHO Recommendations Speaking on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with host Brian Stelter, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated that anything that would contradict World Health Organization recommendations […]
Mark Zuckerberg: Lockdown Protests Are ‘Misinformation,’ Facebook Will Ban Organizers Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that posts and pages attempting to organize protests against stay-at-home orders will be banned as “misinformation.” The Facebook CEO confirmed […]
Facebook Dark Web Deal: Hackers Just Sold 267 Million User Profiles For $540 Just a few days after exposing the sale of some 500,000 Zoom accounts for sale on the dark web, the research team […]
Server screw-up exposes Clearview’s facial recognition AI software Clearview AI is widely seen as a privacy nightmare by the public and even privacy-challenged tech giants like Google. Now, the company has shown that it can’t […]
Linksys forces password reset for Smart Wi-Fi accounts after router DNS hack pointed users at COVID-19 malware Router biz Linksys has reset all its customers’ Smart Wi-Fi account passwords after cybercrims accessed a bunch and […]
China to ban online gaming, chatting with foreigners outside Great Firewall After blocking a popular Nintendo game “Animal Crossing,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is taking its political censorship to the extreme by disconnecting Chinese […]
Apple and Google’s coronavirus app is a ‘global mass surveillance tool’ Apple and Google are bringing coronavirus contact tracing to iOS and Android. Computer science professor Jaap-Henk Hoepman says this will turn smartphones into “pocket […]
Nest Cams are resetting to default video quality to save bandwidth Google is temporarily lowering the default recording quality of its Nest cameras, the company told its users in an email. According to TechCrunch, the […]
HBO Go and Now won’t work on older Apple TV models after April Plenty of people are stuck at home without much to do. In other words, it’s the perfect time to catch up on […]
Boeing finds two more 737 Max software flaws Boeing has identified two more software flaws in its 737 Max aircraft, Reuters reports. The planemaker is working to fix one issue that involves “hypothetical faults” in […]
Let’s Make This Simple: Zoom Is Malware Zoom is installing mini-web servers on your computer, and it wasn’t even taking them off when you uninstalled Zoom, leaving your device open to all manner of vulnerability. […]
Safari flaw let intruders hijack cameras on iPhones and Macs If you're working on a Mac at home or reconnecting with friends on an iPhone, you'll want to be sure you have the latest security […]
YouTube will remove videos falsely linking COVID-19 to 5G The rash of bogus conspiracy theories tying the COVID-19 pandemic to 5G has led to cell tower arson and threats against engineers, and YouTube is planning […]
School districts ban Zoom over security concerns Concerns about Zoom's security are having a real impact on its use in remote education. Some US school districts, including large ones like New York City and Nevada's […]
Researcher finds two new bugs in Zoom that lets hackers take over a computer’s webcam and microphone as the video conferencing service is hit with a string of security compromises A researcher discovered two new […]
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent ‘misleading data’ being shown to pilots The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered Boeing 787 operators to switch their aircraft off and […]
Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely understood as the most private form of internet communication, protecting conversations from all outside parties. In […]