UnsecurityScience Walk slow, age fast: Healthspan linked to walking speednewatlas.com - Rich Haridy Gait speed, or the pace at which a person walks, has long been effectively used as a biomarker for neurological and physiological health in older …
UnsecurityTechnology ‘Digital welfare state’: big tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warnsThe Guardian - Ed PilkingtonNations around the world are “stumbling zombie-like into a digital welfare dystopia” in which artificial intelligence and other technologies are used to target, surveil and punish the poorest people, United
UnsecurityTechnology Most Democrats refuse to back Elizabeth Warren’s big tech break up plan on the debate stageThe Verge - Makena KellyAfter six debates, the 2020 Democratic candidates addressed whether they would break up big tech companies like Facebook and Google, if they were elected president. In March, Elizabeth Warren announced
UnsecurityU.S. Politics Students say online coding bootcamp Lambda School is like a 'cult' - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Rosalie ChanErica Thompson has always had an interest in technology. Her father, a municipal transit operator, taught her the basics of programming, which she practiced while he built computers in his free time. initially
UnsecurityTechnology Mind-reading technology is everyone's next big security nightmareZDNet - Jo Best Mind-reading technology is about to go mainstream. Are your thoughts at risk? Technology allowing our thoughts and feelings to be translated into a …
UnsecurityGoogle Google’s auto-delete tools are practically worthless for privacyFast Company - Jared NewmanBy the time Google deletes your activity data, it’s already extracted most of the advertising value. By default, Google collects a vast amount of data on users’ behavior, including a lifelong record of
UnsecurityTesla Worn-Out Flash Memory Is Suddenly Bricking Tesla CarsVICE - Jason KoeblerSome older Teslas are spontaneously bricking because their embedded flash memory is wearing out, according to three independent Tesla repair professionals who have studied the issue. The issue is with
UnsecurityFacebook How Facebook shot themselves in the foot in their Elizabeth Warren spatThe Guardian - Ellen Goodman and Karen KornbluhOver the weekend, Facebook likened itself to a broadcaster – inadvertently asking to be regulated. This was in the third round of an argument with Elizabeth Warren over the company’s choice to run Donald
UnsecurityEmployment The dark side of the side hustle in the gig economyabc.net.au - By Sophie Kesteven and Cathy Pryor for This Working Life If you've ever been in need of some extra cash, or felt creatively challenged, you may have found yourself considering a side hustle outside your …
UnsecurityFDA A Cow, a Controversy, and a Dashed Dream of More Humane FarmsWIRED - Condé Nast On the morning of August 7, Alison Van Eenennaam awoke to a tweet from a man she had never met. He had sent her a link to a story written in German, …
UnsecurityDevin Nunes The far right is dominating the information wars through "keyword signaling"boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow It's an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword -- "jews," "women," "black people" -- and gets back a bunch of far-right …
UnsecurityGoogle Maps Mayor of Sardinian village blames Google Maps for lost touristsThe Guardian - Angela Giuffrida in RomeThe mayor of a town in Sardinia is to attempt to end the use of Google Maps by tourists in his local area because visitors keep getting lost on mountain roads. Salvatore Corrias, the mayor of Baunei, mountain
UnsecurityTortoise Ex-Uber exec launches startup to autonomously reposition electric scooters and bikesTechCrunch - Megan Rose DickeyJust how Android is the operating system for a number of mobile phones, Tortoise wants to be the operating system for micromobility vehicles, its co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko, who previously served as
UnsecurityLos Angeles City Council Editorial: It took Los Angeles years to adopt rules for Airbnb. Don’t delay them now.Los Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardAfter years of debate over how to balance the benefits and problems created when people turn their homes into hotels, the Los Angeles City Council finally last December adopted rules to regulate short-term
UnsecuritySports The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More ExpensiveThe Atlantic - Derek ThompsonAs WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end. Several weeks ago, I met up with a friend in New York who suggested we grab a bite at a Scottish bar in the
UnsecurityTelstra Telstra chair savages NBN as unfair monopoly sending retailers brokeabc.net.au - Stephen Letts Telstra chair John Mullen has savaged the NBN as a massively expensive waste of resources that has entrenched a slow, state-owned monopoly, rather …
UnsecurityYouTube Mozilla unveils 28 horror stories about YouTube’s recommendation algorithmTNW - Már Másson MaackMozilla just launched a site featuring 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation algorithm served bizarre and horrifying videos the users had shown no interest in. included
UnsecurityUber Uber: The ride-hailing app that says it has ‘zero’ driversThe Washington PostDocuments and a 2017 deposition related to an Atlanta civil suit, Jessicka Harris v. Uber, viewed by The Washington Post offer a rare glimpse at Uber’s strategies for using drivers’ status as independent
UnsecurityBooks Why Technologists Fail to Think of Moderation as a Virtue and Other Stories About AIlareviewofbooks.org - By Evan Selinger IT’S ALMOST A BANALITY nowadays to remark that artificial intelligence (AI) is so deeply embedded in our infrastructure that it’s affecting decisions …
UnsecurityIndia After "OYO ruined my anniversary," startup faces safety concernQuartz - Itika Sharma PunitOne of India’s most-funded and widely celebrated tech startups has for long been at the receiving end of customer grievances about poor and faulty services. Now things may have gone too far. On Oct. 14,
UnsecurityGig Economy Food delivery drivers struggle to make ends meet in gig economy, with little time for work-life balanceabc.net.au - Mridula Amin One year ago, Pedro* had a high-paying job as an analyst for the President of Ecuador. Now he works seven days a week, delivering meals, on his …
UnsecurityWeWork WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff as anger towards founder Adam Neumann growsThe Guardian - Dominic Rushe in New YorkWeWork is expected to sack at least 2,000 people as soon as this week, as angry staff at the troubled office rental company turn on its co-founder Adam Neumann. WeWork rents buildings long-term, gives
UnsecurityFacebook Democrats are striking back against Facebook’s ads policiesThe Verge - Makena KellyOver the weekend, Facebook ended up doing exactly what it didn’t want to do: openly feud with a presidential candidate on Twitter. The fight began after President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign flooded
UnsecuritySocial Media Companies TikTok has moved into Facebook's backyard and is starting to poach its employeesCNBC - Salvador Rodriguez TikTok, the upstart social media app, has opened an office in Silicon Valley and begun to poach Facebook employees, multiple people familiar with the …
UnsecurityEuropean Union Google's fight against EU antitrust fine to be heard February 12-14 at EU courtReuters - By Foo Yun CheeBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google's fight against a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.64 billion) EU antitrust fine will be played out over three days in February 2020 at Europe's second-highest court, according
UnsecurityTechnology YouTube says fake video of Trump shooting media doesn't violate its rulesCNN - By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — A fake video that depicts in extremely graphic fashion President Trump attacking and shooting his critics and media outlets does not violate YouTube's policies against content
UnsecurityU.S. Politics Mark Zuckerberg defends dinners with Tucker Carlson and Lindsay Graham - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Mary MeisenzahlFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting off-the-record dinners with conservative figures including Tucker Carlson and Lindsey Graham over the last several months, Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippman
UnsecurityIcon version of the Flipboard logoFacebook Facebook Tries To Justify Running Misleading Political Adsmediapost.com - Gavin O'Malley As the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches, Facebook is struggling to justify its controversial policy of letting politicians run misleading …
UnsecurityChina China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone homeboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow For decades, it was a commonplace in western business that no one could afford to ignore China: whatever problems a CEO might have with China's human …
