One of the biggest consequences of the rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape is that defenses must constantly build bigger systems to defend themselves. This leads to both more complex systems and often less communication between them. More importantly, it can lead companies to invest in disparate “best in class” components Continue Reading
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Facebook knew of Honduran president’s manipulation campaign – and let it continue for 11 months | Technology- Tempemail
Facebook allowed the president of Honduras to artificially inflate the appearance of popularity on his posts for nearly a year after the company was first alerted to the activity. The astroturfing – the digital equivalent of a bussed-in crowd – was just one facet of a broader online disinformation effort Continue Reading
How to have better arguments online – podcast | News- Tempemail
Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work. Support The Guardian Tempemail , Tempmail – Temp email addressess (10 minutes emails)– When you want to create account on Continue Reading
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account | Technology
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”. “Officially, I’m a low-level [data scientist] who’s being fired today for poor performance,” the post began. “In practice, in the 2.5 Continue Reading
A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people’s homes | Fashion- Tempemail
With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most. So when Room Rater – a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures – gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: “I’ll Continue Reading
From the archives: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand – podcast | News
We are raiding the Audio Long Reads archives and bringing you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Continue Reading
Your ‘smart home’ is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police | Technology
You may have a roommate you have never met. And even worse, they are nosy. They track what you watch on TV, they track when you leave the lights on in the living room, and they even track whenever you use a key fob to enter the house. This is Continue Reading
Global silicon chip shortage hits supply of phones, TVs, cars and Australia’s NBN | Technology
A global shortage of one crucial piece of technology is causing delays in everything from cars and televisions to video game consoles and Australia’s Tempemail Broadband Network rollout. A temporary shutdown in the production of silicon computer chips at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as severe storms Continue Reading
‘The fuse has been lit’: union leaders hope Amazon effort will boost support across US | Technology
Counting is currently under way for the historic union election at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and union organizers and leaders throughout the labor movement are hoping the effort will help galvanize support for workers and unions in the south and across the US. Tevita Uhatafe, 35, a member of Continue Reading
Why Silicon Valley’s most astute critics are all women | John Naughton | Opinion- Tempemail
In November 2019, which now seems like an aeon ago, I wrote about an interesting correlation I had stumbled across. It was that the authors of the most insightful critiques of digital technology as deployed by the tech companies were women. I listed 20 of them and added that I Continue Reading