Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits
August 14th, 2014In other news, resolution of Google satellite imagery could soon double. Via: Bloomberg: Facebook Inc. (FB) will let advertisers know where a promotion was first viewed and when it led to a purchase by tracking users between their electronic devices, a tool that may reignite privacy concerns. Marketers will be able to see the number […]
The Music Industry Is Brainwashing People to Like Bad Pop Songs
August 11th, 2014Via: mic.com: After a couple dozen unintentional listens, many of us may find ourselves changing our initial opinions about a song — eventually admitting that, really, Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” isn’t as awful as it sounds. PBS’ Idea Channel’s Mike Rugnetta explains, it’s akin to a musical “Stockholm syndrome,” a term used originally by criminologist […]
Why Robots Are Getting Cuter
August 6th, 2014Via: The Verge: The tendency of people to treat minimally anthropomorphic bots as humans worries some people. We are, in a sense, falling prey to a powerful illusion. The expressions and gestures are shorthand for internal states you imagine, instinctively, are like yours, but really are only code. If a thing seems alive, if it […]
South Korea’s Education System, “Amounts to Child Abuse”
August 3rd, 2014Via: New York Times: After my older brother fell ill from the stress of being a student in South Korea, my mother decided to move me from our home in Seoul to Vancouver for high school to spare me the intense pressure to succeed. She did not want me to suffer like my brother, who […]
U.S. Government Seeking to Test Ebola Vaccine on Humans
August 1st, 2014Via: Reuters: The U.S. government will begin testing on people an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as September, after seeing positive results from tests on primates, according to media reports on Thursday. The National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease unit is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put the vaccine into trial […]
CIA Admits to Improperly Hacking Senate Computers
July 31st, 2014Via: National Journal: In a sharp and sudden reversal, the CIA is acknowledging it improperly tapped into the computers of Senate staffers who were reviewing the intelligence agency’s Bush-era torture practices.
Why Hoboken is Throwing Away All of its Student Laptops
July 30th, 2014In other news: Finns Beat U.S. with Low-Tech Take on School. Via: WNYC: Inside Hoboken’s combined junior-senior high school is a storage closet. Behind the locked door, some mothballed laptop computers are strewn among brown cardboard boxes. Others are stacked one atop another. Dozens more are stored on mobile computer carts, many of them on […]
Fox Warner?
July 27th, 2014Via: New York Times: The much-admired Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black may be rolling in his grave at the prospect of a merger between 21st Century Fox and Time Warner Inc., which would reduce control of the major Hollywood studios to five owners, from six, and major television producers to four, from five.
Texas: National Guard Activation Over Border Situation
July 21st, 2014While I agree that the use of the military to secure the border is a legitimate course of action here, the question remains: Why was this situation created in the first place? Via: Houston Chronicle: Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce Monday that he will activate up to 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to […]
Feds Struggling to Cope With Medical ‘Breakdown’ at the Border
July 17th, 2014Via: ABC News: The federal government is so overwhelmed by the current tide of migrants crossing the border it can’t provide basic medical screening to all of the children before transporting them – often by air – to longer-term holding facilities across the country, ABC News has learned. The director of refugee health in the […]
