Category: Internet

Recommended Reading: Algorithms and school surveillance

[ad_1] Aggression Detectors: The unproven, invasive surveillance technology schools are using to monitor students Jack Gillum and Jeff Kao, ProPublica Following the rise in mass shootings, schools, hospitals and other public places are installing tech to… [ad_2] Source link

GrubHub is buying web domains for the restaurants it lists

[ad_1] Moreover, GrubHub appears to run “shadow” pages on some of these domains without the permission of the restaurants themselves. While both the real and shadow pages ultimately result in orders, GrubHub’s unsurprisingly points foodies solely to its own services. That could deprive restaurants of revenue by steering would-be customers away from the actual sites, […]

How a trivial cell phone hack is ruining lives

[ad_1] “This is still very raw (I haven’t even told my family yet),” Coonce wrote in an anguished Medium post. “I can’t stop thinking about the small, easy things I could have done to protect myself along the way.” On a Monday night in June, Matthew Miller’s daughter woke him up to say that his […]

EA Access game subscriptions come to PS4 July 24th

[ad_1] Be careful — subscriptions are specific to a given platform, so you’ll have to pay for two memberships if you want EA Access on both a PS4 and an Xbox One. The release date marks an end to a five year wait for EA Access on the console since Sony rejected it in 2014. […]

Chance the Rapper’s first two mixtapes hit Apple Music and Spotify

[ad_1] Before Chance the Rapper released his 2016 streaming-only album Coloring Book, he shared his first two mixtapes, 10day and Acid Rap, for free on SoundCloud. They’ve lived there since 2012 and 2013, respectively, but as of today, they’re available on Apple Music, Spotify and other major streaming services, too. As Engadget’s Billy Steele wrote […]

Google’s next undersea internet cable will link Africa and Europe

[ad_1] The Portugal-South Africa portion of the Equiano cable should be up and running in 2021. It’s named after writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, who was born in Nigeria — a likely port of call for an extension of the cable. Google says it has invested $47 billion over the last three years to bolster […]

Government hackers reportedly broke into Russian search company Yandex

[ad_1] In the fall of 2018, the hackers deployed a type of malware called Reign, which is linked to “Five Eyes,” an intelligence-sharing alliance comprised of the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It’s unclear which of those countries might be behind the breach, though. A Yandex spokesperson told Reuters that the hack was […]

Valve forced to tweak its confusing Steam ‘Grand Prix Summer Sale’

[ad_1] Hey @GreyAlien – Are your games seeing an abnormally high amount of wishlist deletions? I and 4 other devs all are seeing some pretty strange stats. I’ve never once in 5 years seen more deletes than adds/P&A during a seasonal sale. I’ve always left a sale with a net increase. pic.twitter.com/v1OY4MUQW5 — Raymond Doerr […]

Microsoft brings tracking prevention to its Edge browser

[ad_1] Once it’s on, there are three different levels of blocking, with intentions to filter out only known malicious trackers, some third-party trackers that are used for ad targeting or all third-party tracking entirely. Microsoft demonstrated the feature at its Build 2019 event earlier this year, so even if you’re not in that test group […]