Even if the social network’s new policies work perfectly, Q followers can still camouflage their activity or move to other platforms. Powered by WPeMatico
Apple Accused of Arm-Twisting ProtonMail into Adding in-App Purchases
Lately, Apple has been into a lot of trouble for mandating In-app purchases. Remember how Hey email was forced to add in-app purchases right before WWDC 2020? Well, Hey email is not the only app that was forced into IAP. Apple has allegedly arm-twisted ProtonMail into adding in-app purchases. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Succeed in tough times: Make a digital pivot
When the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this year, Alonso Yañez, CIO of Walmart’s operations in Mexico and Central America, sprang into action, triggering the retailer’s crisis management plan and leading its ongoing response. After quickly upgrading his remote-access infrastructure, Yañez sent all 1,000 of his IT staffers home, where they have been working ever since. […]
Apple TV+ Free Trial Extended Through February 2021
Subscribers of Apple TV+ will be getting an additional 3 months of free access to the streaming service. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows
Ahead of an October 20 attempt to bring extraterrestrial rocks from an asteroid called Bennu to Earth, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered new insights into its chemistry and geology. Bennu, currently over 321 million kilometers from Earth, was chosen for study because it’s a carbonaceous chondritic rock—rich in organics, and thought to have formed in […]
The 14 Juiciest Quotes From the House Antitrust Report
Internal emails and employee interviews shed new light on what Congress has learned about Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Powered by WPeMatico
Security Researchers Spent Three Months Hacking Apple, Earned $51,500 in Bounty
Apple has awarded a bounty of $51,500 to a team of security researchers for unearthing vulnerabilities in the company’s infrastructure. The team spent three months hacking Apple and found several vulnerabilities that can affect its digital infrastructure. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed
Busted: A bot powered by OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 language model has been unmasked after a week of posting comments on Reddit. Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30 million users. It was posting in bursts of roughly once a minute. Fooled ya—again: It’s […]
Rapid covid tests can work—if you avoid making the White House’s mistakes
As of Tuesday evening, 18 people who’ve worked at the White House had tested positive for covid-19. That count is likely to tick upward. Now the White House strategy to prevent such an outbreak is coming under scrutiny—in large part because it hinged mostly on the use of daily rapid testing and nothing else. In […]
Covid-19 has led to a worrisome uptick in the use of electronic ankle monitors
As covid-19 began to spread earlier this year, it soon became clear that prisons and jails are particularly susceptible to outbreaks. In response, criminal justice systems around the world started looking for alternatives to incarceration. Many turned to electronic ankle monitors as a solution. They used this technology to quickly relocate people from secure custody […]