Month: September 2018

R.Emilia, spedizione punitiva contro studente: denunciati 3 fratelli

I carabinieri di Reggio Emilia hanno denunciato tre fratelli di 16, 25 e 28 anni per concorso in lesioni aggravate. Avrebbero organizzato una spedizione punitiva contro uno studente. La vittima è un 18enne residente a Rio Saliceto. A organizzare l … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]

Voting Machines Are Still Absurdly At Risk

While Russian interference operations in the 2016 US presidential elections focused on misinformation and targeted hacking, officials have scrambled ever since to shore up the nation’s vulnerable election infrastructure. New research, though, shows they haven’t done nearly enough, particularly when it comes to voting machines. […]

Facebook’s Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know

Facebook’s privacy problems severely escalated Friday when the social network disclosed that an unprecedented security issue, discovered September 25, impacted almost 50 million user accounts. Unlike the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a third-party company erroneously accessed data that a then-legitimate quiz app had siphoned […]

Senator calls for investigation into Facebook’s latest breach

Warner, who serves as vice chairman for the Senate Intelligence Committee, has repeatedly voiced his concerns over security issues and data privacy. He even put together a paper earlier this year that highlighted challenges faced by online platforms like Facebook and suggested ways that they […]

Pulling back the curtain on how SoftBank’s massive Vision Fund works — including just how big a check it can write

Picture it. The scene is Silicon Valley. Suddenly an investment firm materializes on the scene and starts writing checks bigger than anyone is accustomed to seeing. Fellow investors start to privately complain. Its partners are poseurs, they say. The firm is driving up valuations, they […]