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Snowden Docs: British Spies Used DDoS Attacks Against Anonymous - 0 views
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"The new documents reveal that a GCHQ unit dubbed the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG, launched an operation called Rolling Thunder against the hacker collective in 2011. That operation included using DDoS attacks as well as malware to slow down the hackers and later identify them, as first reported by as reported by NBC News on Wednesday."
A $7 PC: Keepod Launches Project To Give African Slums Computer Access | Social Awareness - 0 views
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"Since Keepod's technology enables the computer to boot from the USB device and use the Keepod OS, old computers can be reused, since hardware requirements are not an issue. This way, each person can be given their "own" computer by using an old computer as a "shell." The cost of each system is a mere $7 - a fraction of the cost of an actual PC"
Zebedee scanner lets police build 3D maps of crime scenes in minutes | Technology | the... - 0 views
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"The handheld Zebedee scanner, developed by the CSIRO, uses a powerful laser to sweep an environment and create a 3D map accurate to the centimetre. The scanner had already been used and was saving police "many thousands of hours in investigation", Queensland police commissioner Ian Stewart said at the device's official launch on Friday."
BBC defends delay of 'truly transformational' micro:bit (Wired UK) - 0 views
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The BBC has defended its plan to supply a million schoolchildren with free micro:bit computers after it was criticised for delaying the launch until at least 2016.
Free Technology for Teachers: Google Launches a Realtime Search Engine... Again - 0 views
North Korea's paranoid GNU/Linux watermarks every file / Boing Boing - 0 views
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"The OS is a marvel of paranoid terribleness, with lots of marvellously bad features. The one I was most interested in is its covert insertion of watermarks into every file that it touches, either on the OS's launch disk or removable USB sticks."
DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System - Motherboard - 0 views
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"Now they might finally get this thanks to a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking."
Singapore to work with New Zealand to tackle terrorism and violent extremism - 0 views
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"Launched in response to terror attacks in New Zealand in May, where a lone gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch while livestreaming the massacre on Facebook, it calls for the "effective enforcement" of laws prohibiting the dissemination of terrorist content. It also states that all action on the issue must be consistent with the principles of a free, open and secure Internet, without compromising freedom of expression."
Cheers launches first unmanned, cashless store in Singapore - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views
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"The store will also utilise data and video analytics to analyse purchasing behaviour and customise its inventory. An auto-ordering system eliminates the need to manually track and order stocks."
Facebook launches 'clear history' tool - but it won't delete anything | Technology | Th... - 0 views
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"The new feature, part of a wider set of tools covering "off-Facebook activity", will not delete anything from Facebook's servers, instead simply "disconnecting" data from an individual user's account."
Google, Mozilla, and Apple are using this one weird trick to block Kazakhstan's surveil... - 0 views
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"Google and Mozilla are making changes to their respective web browsers to try and thwart the notoriously corrupt government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens."
$45m, 1.6bn views and 'Crazy Donald': How Bloomberg bought your Facebook feed | US news... - 0 views
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"In the first six weeks of 2020, more than 1.6bn of the 2.4bn presidential campaign ads shown to US Facebook users were from the Bloomberg campaign. Since launching his campaign in mid-November, the former mayor of New York City has spent nearly $45m on Facebook ads - more than all his opponents combined."
Improbable sums? Cambridge graduates' tech firm raises $500m | Business | The Guardian - 0 views
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"Improbable's technology SpatialOS, which enables the creation of massive simulations - "virtual worlds" - is still in beta mode and has not been publicly launched. "
The Citizen crime app hasn't made me safer - just more scared | Emma Brockes | Opinion ... - 0 views
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"Citizen, which was launched in 2017, is a glorified police scanner that promises to help users "stay safe and informed". It invites input from witnesses - mostly involving shaky phone footage of police milling around while a stretcher is carted by in the background - and, bafflingly, includes a comments section, in which users speculate fatuously on the crime in question and quibble over the accuracy of the map function. It is grimly fascinating, mildly addictive and, relative to its stated aims, totally without value."
Office worker launches UK's first police facial recognition legal action | Technology |... - 0 views
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"Squires said that Bridges had a reasonable expectation that his face would not be scanned in a public space and processed without his consent while he was not suspected of wrongdoing. The court heard that thousands of people have had their biometric data taken in the past two years by AFR technology used by South Wales police."
Burglars beware: tech pioneers aim to make South Africa's townships safer | Global deve... - 0 views
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"Jonga - the innovative township community alarm system launched by Mgiba and Shezi earlier this year - combines a wireless motion sensor with a six-month battery life and a 100-decibel siren with an Android app that sends text messages to five pre-selected contacts when the alarm is triggered."
Part human, part machine: is Apple turning us all into cyborgs? | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views
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"But whether we trust Apple might be beside the point, if we don't yet know whether we can trust ourselves. It took eight years from the launch of the iPhone for screen time controls to follow. What will human interaction look like eight years after smartglasses become ubiquitous? Our cyborg present sneaked up on us as our phones became glued to our hands. Are we going to sleepwalk into our cyborg future in the same way?"
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