After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, “VPNs have been downloaded in Russia by the hundreds of thousands a day,” reports the Washington Post, “a massive surge in demand that represents a direct challenge to President Vladimir Putin and his attempt to seal Russians off from the wider world. “By Read more…
“Employee monitoring software became the new normal during COVID-19…” writes Australia’s public broadcaster ABC, “logging keystrokes and mouse movement, capturing screenshots, tracking location, and even activating webcams and microphones.” And now “It seems workers are stuck with it…. Surveys of employers in white-collar industries show that even returned office workers Read more…
SFGATE reports on the alarming rise of “Buy Now, Pay Later” services that are being heavily marketed by influencers and brands on TikTok and Instagram. “Gen Z, in particular, has fallen in love with the short-term loans, spending 925% more now through point-of-sale services than in January 2020,” notes the Read more…
A bug in Google Docs is causing it to crash when a series of words are typed into a document opened with the online word processor. BleepingComputer reports: It’s official — Google Docs crashes at the sight of “And. And. And. And. And.” when the “Show grammar suggestion” is turned Read more…
Microsoft Edge has overtaken Apple’s Safari to become the world’s second most popular desktop browser, based on data provided by web analytics service StatCounter. According to the data, Microsoft Edge is now used on 10.07 percent of desktop computers worldwide, 0.46 percent ahead of Safari, which stands at 9.61 percent. Read more…
According to the Irish Times, citing new figures from the Central Statistics Office, data centers used up a greater share of electricity consumption than rural homes in the State last year. The overall share of metered electricity consumed by data centers has almost tripled in just six years, from 5 Read more…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according Read more…