In Pittsburgh; Memphis, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last month, Birds Aren’t Real adherents even protested outside Twitter’s Read more…
GO Transit website taken offline due to worldwide cyber threat The first GO Transit MP40 locomotive arrives at the platform in Toronto on Jan. 15, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Published Saturday, December 11, 2021 7:41AM EST GO Transit’s website has been taken offline “out of an abundance of caution” Read more…
CBC Radio · Posted: Dec 11, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 8 hours ago Impossible Pork is the latest plant-based meat to hit the market. But it failed to get certification as being kosher or halal, which has led to some spiritual reflection. (Submitted by Aymann Ismail) Over the past decade Read more…
A bipartisan group of US senators have announced a new bill that would require social media companies to share platform data with independent researchers. The Verge reports: The bill was announced Thursday by Democratic senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and also Rob Portman (R-OH), a Republican. Named the Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars has disclosed that unknown attackers have stolen research and development information after hacking some of its servers. “Volvo Cars has become aware that one of its file repositories has been illegally accessed by a third party,” the company Read more…
New submitter Unpopular Opinions writes: Brazil’s health ministry reports that in the early hours of Friday it suffered an incident that temporarily compromised some of its systems, which are currently unavailable and/or being directed to other domains. The alleged hackers posted a message on the website saying that internal data Read more…
Football clubs have potentially made hundreds of millions of dollars selling controversial crypto “fan tokens.” From a report: Analysis commissioned by BBC News estimates more than $350m has been spent on the virtual currencies. Some of the tokens are marketed as offering real-world perks to the buyer. But critics say Read more…