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After several years of open war between Google and Amazon, the two big companies have made peace, and their video and streaming services, and the users who consume them,...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak urges users to delete their Facebook accounts
Although Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has emphasized his company's privacy, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is not at all convinced that the social network maintains the confidentiality of users' personal...
WeTransfer attack compromises data from more than 200,000 users
The WeTransfer file-sharing platform reported a computer attack on June 16 and 17 and cannot guarantee that 232,000 people have reached the intended users.
WeTransfer acknowledges the data leak occurred...
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, calls for a social networks strike to regain privacy
Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia, has summoned Internet users around the world to a two-day social networking strike. His goal is to decentralize the network again...
The market for counterfeit academic titles is growing steadily
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California bots and robots will be required to identify themselves in calls and mailings
In California, bots have to identify themselves. As of this week, companies that use robots to contact citizens via phone calls or e-mails, popularly known as bots, must identify...
How to protect kids of risks in the ‘Internet of Things’ age?
Children need protection when using programmable Internet computing devices - and Lancaster University scientists have drawn up new guidelines to help designers build in safeguards.
Young people are growing up...
Beware of what you tell us on Facebook: they create an algorithm capable of...
Social network users tend to tell some of their personal secrets there, even without knowing it. A group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has created an algorithm...
This is how the invoice scam operates (real email)
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What are the most common reasons why you don’t monetize your Youtube video?
If you have a Youtube channel you may have seen a message like "we can't publish ads because advertisers won't like having ads on your clip". That's normal if...
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