Washington Post : An Amazon Echo recorded a family’s conversation, then sent it to a random person in their contacts, report says
Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:14
A family in Portland, Ore., received a nightmarish phone call two weeks ago. “Unplug your Alexa devices right now,” a voice on the other line said. “You're being hacked.” Apparently, one of Amazon.com's Alexa-powered Echo devices in their house had silently sent recordings to the caller without…
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Washington Post : No, Twitter still isn’t subject to the First Amendment — even if a judge said Trump’s account is
Wednesday, 23 May 2018 22:19
President Trump violated the constitutional rights of Americans when he blocked some of his Twitter followers after they criticized him politically, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling by Judge Naomi Buchwald identifies, for the first time, parts of Trump's Twitter account as a public forum that's subject…
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Washington Post : Trump cannot block Twitter users for their political views, court rules
Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:46
President Trump's decision to block his Twitter followers for their political views is a violation of the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that Trump's effort to silence his critics is not permissible under the U.S. Constitution because the digital space in which he engages with constituents…
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Washington Post : Two senators say their identities were stolen in fake net neutrality comments to the FCC
Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:26
Two senators — one Republican and one Democratic — said their identities were stolen to write fake comments to the Federal Communications Commission ahead of the agency's vote last year to dismantle net neutrality rules. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) claim they were among…
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Washington Post : 10,200 people gave this Kickstarter start-up for 3-D headphones nearly $3 million. They have nothing to show for it.
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:19
The latest hardware venture to amass buckets of crowdfunding money has left more than 10,200 backers $2,708,472 short and without their own pair of 3-D audio headphones. In a letter to backers on its Kickstarter page, the tech company Ossic wrote that it was shutting down and would not deliver any remaining…
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Washington Post : Facebook’s Zuckerberg due to face new test in front of European lawmakers
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 04:00
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is set to field tough questions on Tuesday from European policymakers who are investigating the social network’s recent privacy mishaps – and they could seek to make an example out of the company as the region's new data-protection rules come into effect.…
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Washington Post : State regulators unveil nationwide crackdown on suspicious cryptocurrency investment schemes
Monday, 21 May 2018 10:30
Securities regulators across the United States and Canada announced dozens of investigations Monday into potentially deceitful cryptocurrency investment products, the largest coordinated crackdown to date by state and provincial officials on bitcoin scams. As many as 70 investigations have been opened in the sweep, with more expected in…
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Washington Post : Elon Musk doesn’t want anyone slowing down his plan to dig tunnels under Los Angeles
Friday, 18 May 2018 20:35
LOS ANGELES—His commute must be a nightmare. Elon Musk said traffic made him late for his own event on Thursday night, a faux forum for his high speed subterranean transportation venture, the Boring Company. The multi-hyphenate entrepreneur known for his electric car company Tesla billed the night…
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Washington Post : Lawmakers are nudging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify to Congress on privacy
Thursday, 17 May 2018 22:13
Lawmakers on Thursday sought to convince Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey to come testify to Congress as part of their probe into the privacy practices of the country’s largest tech companies. Dorsey, in his first-ever visit to the U.S. Capitol, met with members like Rep. Greg Walden…
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Washington Post : ICE just abandoned its dream of ‘extreme vetting’ software that could predict whether a foreign visitor would become a terrorist
Thursday, 17 May 2018 17:33
Federal immigration officials have abandoned their pursuit of a controversial machine-learning technology that was a pillar of the Trump administration’s “extreme vetting” of foreign visitors, dealing a reality check to the goal of using artificial intelligence to predict human behavior. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told tech-industry…
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