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Internet privacy and access under Trump: the Republican-led Congress and Ajit Pai’s FCC are just getting started

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Congress last month voted to scrap the rules drawn up in the last days of Obama’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC), which would have forced internet [...]

VIDEO: Will the US retaliation machine be Put-in action this time?

December 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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Will the US retaliation machine be Put-in action this time?

December 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

On Friday at his end of term press conference Barack Obama just put Pandora’s box on the podium, as he took Russia to task for tempering with US elections. He appeared very [...]

Cyber-war is here: Dark secrets of the Hack-lectic US Elections!

December 16, 2016 // 2 Comments

It’s quite possible that decades from now, our era will be called the cyber-war era. One of Europe’s most popular cybersecurity experts, Arthur Keleti sheds [...]

The no PC guy: Trump versus Technology

December 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

We all know the result of the American Presidential Election (assuming you haven’t been living under a rock). Surprising? Maybe. Unexpected? So-so. It’s not my job to [...]

Distributed guessing attack could reveal Visa card details

December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

A “frighteningly easy” distributed guessing attack can figure out Visa credit card details in seconds, researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have [...]

Netflix adds offline viewing for smartphones and tablets

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Netflix has finally delivered on something users have been asking for basically since it first arrived; offline playback. The streaming media company announced that users [...]

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is eyeing a contest to build its own internet city

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

‘A living laboratory for urban technology’ For months, it was rumored that Sidewalk Labs, the Google spinoff focused on smart city solutions, wanted to build its own [...]

Using an app that remembers all my digital activity felt like putting my brain in a jar

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

It sounds appealing and then again it doesn’t. Atlas Recall, created by Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter, is what he calls a “juicy” idea. It remembers everything you [...]

Uber wants to track your location even when you’re not using the app

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some riders feel ‘icky’ about the new permissions. Should Uber be able to track you even when you’re not using its app? Uber seems to think so, but some customers are [...]