The technology site Recode interviewed 12 “leading thinkers and leaders on Facebook today,” including the Senator pushing tech-industry updates for U.S. antitrust law, an early researcher on viral misinformation, and a now-critical former Facebook executive. “[M]ost believe that Facebook can be fixed, or at least that some of its issues Read more…
Long-time Slashdot reader davidwr brings news of “an exploit in the FBI’s Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal web site that would let anyone send an email to any arbitrary recipient…” Late in the evening of November 12 ET, tens of thousands of emails began flooding out from the FBI address eims@ic.fbi.gov, Read more…
“Singapore’s government has been covering the medical bills of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic,” reports NPR. “But it says unvaccinated people will soon be on their own.” Those who are “unvaccinated by choice” will have to start paying for their own COVID-19 treatment starting December 8, the Ministry of Health Read more…
“When comparing Meta — formerly Facebook — and Microsoft’s approaches to the metaverse, it’s clear Microsoft has a much more grounded and realistic vision,” argues an analyst at data analytics/consultancy company GlobalData: Meta is set to grab a large portion of the $51 billion revenues from VR that GlobalData expects Read more…
“Austria is expected to impose lockdown restrictions on millions of unvaccinated people in the coming days,” reports CNBC: Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told a press conference Friday that his government wanted to give the “green light” to such measures by Sunday, Austria Press Agency reported. Lawmakers will meet over the weekend Read more…
The BBC is hailing “the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.” But they also report that developing nations “were unhappy about the lack of progress on what’s known as ‘loss and damage’, the idea that richer countries should compensate Read more…
India and China are the world’s two biggest coal polluters, but Australia and South Korea lead the world in emissions from the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel when you adjust for population size, according to energy and climate research organization Ember. Data calculated since the Paris Agreement on climate in 2015 Read more…