In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published Monday, a group of academics called for Meta to be more transparent about its research into how Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp affect the mental health of children and adolescents. The Verge reports: The letter calls for the company to allow independent reviews Read more…
Concerned about America’s cybersecurity preparedness, the White House “is accelerating efforts to fill nearly 600,000 vacant cybersecurity positions in the public and private sectors bogging down efforts to protect digital infrastructure,” reports Axios: Following a deluge of ransomware attacks targeting critical government and corporate infrastructure this year, clogs in the Read more…
If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off,” Garg said on the call, a recording of which was viewed by CNN Business. “Your employment here is terminated effective immediately.” Thus spoke Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com during a Zoom call on Read more…
An indestructible “black box” is set to be built upon a granite plain on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia, in early 2022. Its mission: Record “every step we take” toward climate catastrophe, providing a record for future civilizations to understand what caused our demise, according to the Australian Broadcasting Read more…
The Yutu-2 rover is on a roll. It’s been exploring the far side of the moon since early 2019 as part of China’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander mission. It now has its eyes set on a strange-looking cube-shaped object it spotted in the distance. From a report: Andrew Jones, a journalist Read more…
Since at least 2017, a mysterious threat actor has run thousands of malicious servers in entry, middle, and exit positions of the Tor network in what a security researcher has described as an attempt to deanonymize Tor users. The Record: Tracked as KAX17, the threat actor ran at its peak Read more…
America’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) “has ordered a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama,” reports the Associated Press, “based on objections to the first vote that took place in April.” The move, announced Monday, is a major blow to Amazon, which had spent about a year Read more…