Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Nasdaq Hackers Spied on Company Boards
October 21st, 2011Via: Reuters: Hackers who infiltrated the Nasdaq’s computer systems last year installed malicious software that allowed them to spy on the directors of publicly held companies, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the matter. The new details showed the cyber attack was more serious than previously thought, as Nasdaq OMX Group had […]
Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users
October 20th, 2011Via: Slashdot: “As noted previously, Max Schrems of Europe Versus Facebook has filed numerous complaints about Facebook’s data collection practices. One complaint that has failed to draw much scrutiny regards Facebook’s creation of Shadow Profiles. ‘This is done by different functions that encourage users to hand personal data of other users and non-users to Facebook… […]
‘Rise of the Machines: America’s Jobs Challenge’
October 20th, 2011Via: Reuters: For decades, American workers and their machines advanced in tandem. As companies invested in technology, more workers were needed to operate machines. That relationship is now looking unsteady. Since 1999, business investment in equipment and software has surged 33 percent while the total number of people employed by private firms has changed little. […]
MTV Real World Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street Protestors
October 20th, 2011An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will. —Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind So, Obombya, the Goldman Sachs’ shill, and MTV are now behind this Occupy Wall Street situation. [Update: Mikhail Gorbachev: Protests leading to […]
Egypt’s Top ‘Facebook Revolutionary’ Now Advising Occupy Wall Street
October 19th, 2011Via: Wired: One of the key activists behind Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” is now giving advice to a new group of protesters: the Occupy Wall Street movement. The protesters in New York’s Zuccotti Park — and their offshoots around the country — often cite the mass demonstrations earlier this year in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as their […]
‘The Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas’
October 18th, 2011Via: Wired: Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing “incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities,” was the province of the American storyteller. A machine might imitate simple formulas […]
U.S. Troops Will Soon Get Tiny Kamikaze Drone
October 18th, 2011Via: Wired: AeroVironment calls its teeny-tiny killer drone the Switchblade. Essentially a guided missile small enough to fit in a backback and fire at a single foe…
Quantum Locking
October 18th, 2011Via: YouTube:
Facebook Accused of Violating U.S. Wiretap Law
October 17th, 2011I know. You get it re: Facebook already. Ok, one more: Why Facebook Is After Your Kids. Via: Register: A Mississippi woman has accused Facebook of violating federal wiretap statutes by tracking her internet browsing history even when she wasn’t logged onto the social networking site. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in federal court […]
Verizon Wireless Now Handing Over Your Web, Location and App Data to Advertisers by Default
October 17th, 2011Via: PC Magazine: For the last month, Verizon Wireless has been notifying customers through email of a major change to its default privacy setting: it will begin collecting your Web browsing history, cell phone location and app usage, for third-party marketing purposes. You can opt out of such surveillance, although Verizon has promised not to […]
