Not a single Facebook user reported the New Zealand mosque shooting while watching a livestream of the attack, the company said late Monday. The real-time broadcast of the violence was seen fewer than 200 times, Facebook deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said in a statement. But it had begun gaining traction by the time the first […]
In his weaker moments, Mark Zuckerberg must worry he’s in his own personal hell, reliving the same crisis over and over in a bad, real-life remake of the movie “Groundhog Day.” Don’t look now, but Facebook is implicated in yet another large-scale data privacy snafu. That’s according to an unnamed senior source at the social […]
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Facebook employees raised concerns about Cambridge Analytica’s data-scraping practices three months earlier than thought, according to US court documents. A US-based employee warned colleagues about the activity in September 2015. Facebook had said it previously discovered the improper sharing of data on 87 million people three months later, in December 2015. The firm said the […]
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers have been put at risk of cyber-attack after being recommended flawed security software. Since January, the banking group has begun to offer its business banking customers a product called Thor Foresight Enterprise free of charge. Heimdal Security sells it as “next generation protection” against cyber-threats. Security researchers uncovered a […]
Questions have been asked about whether a government petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled has been swamped by bots. Bots are automated programmes which can carry out a command thousands of times. The BBC spoke to three cyber-security experts about how likely it is that a number of the 3m signatures gathered so far […]
Getty/Drew Angerer Silicon Valley investors are known for their business savvy, but not necessarily their fashion sense. A new site, called VC Starter Kit, lampoons what’s seen as the tech investor uniform: You can buy a Patagonia sweater, Allbirds sneakers, and a handful of other stereotypically VC accessories like a Tesla keychain, all in a […]
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More than 1,500 hotel guests were secretly filmed with footage of them live-streamed to the internet, according to police in South Korea. The illicit activity was discovered in in 30 separate hotels across 10 South Korean cities. Cameras were hidden in digital TV boxes, wall sockets and hairdryer holders, and the footage streamed to a […]
More research into computer algorithms is needed as they could have gender or race biases, the government has warned. It announced independent watchdog the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) will investigate algorithms used in the justice and financial systems. But services using the artificial intelligence already, such as predictive policing, will continue. Human […]
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Google has unveiled a new digital gaming platform called Stadia which will stream better-than-console-quality games that have traditionally had to be either downloaded or purchased on disk. At launch it will work on existing desktops, laptops, TVs and phones, said the firm’s Phil Harrison. Google also revealed a controller. It looks like a traditional console […]
One of the most horrific massacre videos in human history was live-streamed on Facebook for 17 excruciating minutes — despite recent raves by executives that the company has become a crack content monitor. The film wasn’t yanked until New Zealand police informed Facebook that a gunman was filming live Thursday during an attack at two […]
Shutterstock A handful of activities can be truly detrimental to your health. In some cases, new studies have even found a link between those habits and an early death. Here are the most damaging habits you should try to avoid, especially as you get older. Bad habits are tough to break. Even when they’re truly […]
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