Category: Internet

Many of the Brexit Party’s Twitter followers appear to be bots

Post author By Randall
Post date May 19, 2019
Categories In astroturfing, bot, bots, brexit, brexit party, gear, Internet, nigel farage, Politics, social network, social networking, Tech, Twitter, Uk

[ad_1] Some of these accounts have been producing massive volumes of tweets focused on Brexit, and clearly in unrealistic amounts. One tweeted 823 times in the space of a day. Some are new, while others are from outside the UK. Regardless of behavior, the surge of new followers for the party suggested “inorganic” behavior. Just […]

Over 21,000 Linksys routers leaked their device connection histories

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In belkin, exploit, gear, Internet, linksys, networking, router, Security, Tech, vulnerability, wi-fi, Wifi

[ad_1] The attack appear to be relatively straightforward and involves little more than visiting an exposed router’s internet address and running a device list request. It works whether or not the router’s firewall is turned on, Mursch told Ars Technica, and isn’t affected by a patch Linksys released in 2014. There are potentially serious consequences. […]

Activist hacking declined 95 percent since 2015

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In gear, Internet, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Anonymous was once responsible for 45 percent of these attacks, but the group started falling apart in 2016 after it both obtained tampered political data and grappled with “fake Anons” who attached their personal hacking crusades to the group. Countries also tried to pin the blame on Anonymous for their own campaigns, such as […]

Trusting companies despite privacy lapses

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In Amazon, arturia, arturia microfreak, audio, dslr, Entertainment, Facebook, gear, Google, Internet, Music, music streaming, nikon, nikon d1, Privacy, recommended reading, recommendedreading, recreading, Security, smart devices, smart home, Sony, spotify, synth, synthesizer, Tech

[ad_1] People say they care about privacy but they continue to buy devices that can spy on themRani Molla,Vox In the wake of Cambridge Analytica, concerns about personal data privacy abound. Of course, Facebook isn’t the only company that’s been caught collecting and sharing user details it shouldn’t have. What’s most interesting about this entire […]

Ask Engadget is going back to school

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In askengadget, gadgetry, Gadgets, Gaming, gear, Internet, Mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, Tech, thebuyersguide

[ad_1] Last year Ask Engadget put out a call for tech questions from students, parents and teachers, with the goal of helping answer as many of your burning back to school questions as possible. We helped you figure out if you should build your own PC or buy a TV for your dorm room. And […]

Your personal data makes the digital world go round

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In Internet, Robots, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] How to Be Human in the Digital Economyby Nicholas Agar The measure of one’s wealth changes with the times. First it was how much game you could hunt, then how much grain you could harvest, how much land you could accrue and how much money you could earn. Today, those wealth metrics have been […]

This week in tech history: Google Assistant is born

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In gear, Google, Google Assistant, google search, Internet, search, Tech, tech history, this week in, voice assistant

[ad_1] The Assistant has also been one of Google’s best-supported products from both a hardware and software perspective. There are now multiple smart speakers and smart displays that can run the Assistant (that’s from both Google and third-party hardware makers) and it also runs on basically any Android or iOS device. Google has added its […]

Google is shutting down the Jump VR platform in June

Post author By Randall
Post date May 18, 2019
Categories In gear, Google, google jump, google jump vr, Internet, jump, jump vr, Tech, Virtual Reality

[ad_1] Google Jump is shutting down. Just got an email. pic.twitter.com/kj4W2u0WKq — Robert Hernandez (@webjournalist) May 17, 2019 In an email sent to users and a notice posted at the top of the Jump FAQ page, the tech giant said the platform will stop accepting uploads for processing at 11:59PM Pacific on June 26th. Those […]

Gmail’s log of all of your purchases pops up in the privacy debate

Post author By Randall
Post date May 17, 2019
Categories In gear, Google, Internet, Security, services, Tech

[ad_1] The Purchases page (seen on mobile) has more details than you might remember. Labeled “Purchases” and available at https://myaccount.google.com/purchases, it’s a sorted log of digital and physical things you’ve bought that Google’s automated scans picked up from receipts sent to your Gmail inbox. In a statement to CNBC Google confirmed that the page is […]

Amazon is backing Uber Eats rival Deliveroo in the UK

Post author By Randall
Post date May 17, 2019
Categories In Amazon, deliveroo, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, Internet, Tech

[ad_1] Amazon’s restaurant delivery service launched in the US in 2014 and eventually made its way to London in 2016. While it only lasted a couple of years in the UK, it’s clear that the company still believes there’s money to be made in the food delivery industry. According to British organization Sky News, Amazon […]