Google Chrome These 6 popular browser extensions are selling your dataDigital Trends - Allison Matyus Some popular browser extensions are collecting and even selling your data — including pages you visit and photos you’ve looked at. A Washington Post …
Grindr Grindr Wanted To Make The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It.buzzfeednews.com - Ryan Mac Over the last 18 months, Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and internal turmoil. Now the popular gay dating and …
Google Play Google removes seven major stalkerware apps from the Play Store9to5Google - Damien WildeGoogle has removed seven apps from the Google Play Store after research from antivirus maker Avast found them to be stalkerware. The apps allow snoopers to secretly track and spy on phones they were installed
Mobile Technology Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert themThe Verge - Elizabeth LopattoElon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been developing to the public for the first time. The goal is to eventually begin
Bruno Le Maire France will not back down on digital tax despite US legal threatsThe Guardian - Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorFrance will not back down in the face of US threats of legal action over its plans for a digital tax on tech giants, the French finance minister has said. “We will never give up,” Bruno Le Maire told Guardian
News Ukrainian hacker sought by US arrestedAssociated PressKIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has arrested an alleged major computer hacker who has been sought by the United States for years. The head of Ukraine's national security service Ivan Bakanov said Tuesday
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPython Programming Google Python Style Guidegithub.com - google Python is the main dynamic language used at Google. This style guide is a list of dos and don'ts for Python programs. To help you format code …
WeChat How WeChat censors private conversations, automatically in real-timeMIT Technology Review - Patrick Howell O'Neill The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many …
Business US Treasury has 'serious concerns' Libra could be used for terrorismEngadget - Christine FisherThe US government views cryptocurrencies, including Facebook-backed Libra, as a national security issue. In a press conference today, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Treasury Department has
Gab How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problemThe Verge - Adi RobertsonOver the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content that proliferates on larger and more centralized networks.
Cognitive Computing The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reasonMIT Technology Review - Karen Hao Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution. At six months old, a baby won’t bat …
Technology This blockchain-based card game shows us the future of ownershipMIT Technology Review - Mike Orcutt Gods Unchained is riding a wave of hype because of the way it lets players own digital cards. But the core concept could reach beyond games. Gods …
Technology Facebook’s new poker-playing AI could wreck the online poker industry—so it’s not being releasedMIT Technology Review - Will Knight Multiplayer poker is the latest game to fall to artificial intelligence—and the techniques used could be vital for trading, product pricing, and …
Software Development 12 groundbreaking APIs to try | Creative Bloqcreativebloq.com - Tam Hanna APIs are hugely valuable tools for developers. Big players like Google, Apple, Facebook and Mozilla are increasingly allowing developers to make use …
Technology A New Android Malware Affects 25 Million Smartphones. Here's What You Need to Know About the Dangers of Open SystemsInc Magazine - Jason AtenAn Israeli security company says that a new malware it calls "Agent Smith," replaces good apps on your Android device with versions that serve up ads in a profit-making scam. The security company, Check
Long-form Journalism The Fight for the Future of YouTubeThe New Yorker - Neima JahromiThe video giant’s recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be? Earlier this year, executives at YouTube began mulling, once again, the problem of
Science Everyone’s going back to the moon. But why?The Guardian - Robin McKie Observer science editorSoon there will be a time when there are no humans left with first-hand memory of another world. I will find that sad Martin Rees, astronomer royal At 2.51am on Monday 15 July, engineers at India’s national
Privacy After Three-Year Wait, Court Allows First Amendment Challenge to Copyright Law to Proceedjdsupra.com JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and …
Android Q Android apps are harvesting your data even after you tell them not to, says studyCNN - By Clare Duffy, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — When you deny a mobile app permission to collect personal data from your phone, it's reasonable to expect it abides by that. But a new study of popular Android apps found that's
Magic AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effectboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow I used to be on the program committee for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conferences; one year we decided to make the theme "magic" -- all the ways …
Technology Trusted data and the future of information sharingMIT Technology Review - MIT Technology Review Insights Data in some form underpins almost every action or process in today’s modern world. Consider that even farming, the world’s oldest industry, is on …
Apple Watch Anticipating a Microsoft Surface laptop designed by Jony Ivecomputerworld.com - Rob Enderle Last week, Jony Ive left Apple under a cloud which in and of itself is fascinating. The leaks out of Apple suggest that Tim Cook no longer cares …
Malware Malware: What It Does and How to Remove It | Code Geekzcodegeekz.com - by Gavin As we are well into the digital era, most of our activities have migrated online. From web banking to online chatting, we connect to the Internet to …
Amazon Web Services Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon's 'war cloud'Associated Press - By MATT O'BRIEN, AP Technology WriterAmazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system. But Amazon's early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping
Laptops MIT grads have created a triple screen solution for your laptopmobilesyrup.com - Qian Bao You might remember the Razer concept laptop that featured triple monitors called Project Valerie from CES 2017. While we haven’t heard anything from …
Mobile Technology Amazon has asked for permission to launch 3,200 broadband satellitesMIT Technology Review - Niall Firth The firm has filed an application with the FCC to join SpaceX, One Web, and others in launching a constellation of satellites to provide broadband …
Instagram Instagram's new 'restrict' feature blocks bullies without them knowingMashable - Karissa BellInstagram is once again trying to fight back against bullies. The company announced two new anti-bullying features: a warning when you post negative comments, and the ability to "restrict" certain people
AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen X570 Motherboards Draw So Much Power, It’s Warping CPU ComparisonsExtremeTech - Joel Hruska Because the pre-launch run-up for AMD’s Ryzen 7 3000 family was… hectic, to say the least, a lot of nooks and corners had to be left unchecked, just …
Ryzen I updated my crusty old Pentium G-based server—the results are worth sharingArs Technica - Jim Salter A Ryzen CPU and a Rosewill case got us big gains at about the same cost. An awful lot of feedback from our Winter 2019 Server Build Guide wanted to …
