The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The program, officially called “Connecting Heroes,” provides free access to the company’s network over the next decade for members of state and local public and nonprofit law enforcement, fire, and EMS agencies. T-Mobile’s offer of free mobile service for first responders for 10 years is now available, CEO Mike Sievert announced today.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

YouTube may have removed some of their videos after the change, but it doesn’t retroactively issue strikes, on fairness grounds. On the other hand, the number of places where they can easily find new followers on the internet appears to be shrinking, and for that at least I’m grateful. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

As one of the internet’s oldest and most prolific sources of health misinformation and conspiracy theories, Natural News is a hub for climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers. While it poses as a news outlet, Natural News is actually a network of sites filled with bylined articles and flanked by ads for survivalist gear and dodgy health cures.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

A few days earlier on January 4, Facebook-owned WhatsApp had issued a new privacy policy, which many interpreted would mean users would be required to share personal information with Facebook’s ad network in order to use the platform. 2 in the App Store) and Signal (now No. What makes Signal different?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The annual awards show celebrates the wide variety of things that happen online, from websites and podcasts to design and data visualizations to video series and social media accounts, and they tend to touch on a big swath of what happened in the preceding year. Here’s the full list of winners. Special Achievement.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Still, the idea was propagated on platforms like YouTube , including on some videos with tens of thousands of views , as well as on pro-Trump Facebook groups. (To In the video, he vaguely declares: “It’s going to be the biggest thing we’ve ever seen in the history of the United States.”. This is obviously untrue.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

After Recode provided examples, YouTube removed a popular Spanish-language channel that was promoting QAnon conspiracies, as well as a political video containing coronavirus misinformation.). A spokesperson for YouTube told Recode that Otaola’s caravan video does not violate its policies. “As

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud.

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Vox

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The internet was a different place than it is today, down to how most of us access it (through web browsers, since the iPhone had yet to be invented), and a lot of what Twitter is now wasn’t even part of its founders’ vision. How much longer will tapping on tiny phone screens be the primary way most of us interact with the internet?

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem. Governing. ?

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” It was a swipe app with a simple sign-up process, which connected users via their Facebook profiles, creating a “friends of friends” dating network. None of this is exactly high praise.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

For You is the first thing you see when you open TikTok, and it reliably serves up a feed of personalized videos that leaves you saying “I’ll just look at one more of these” for 20 minutes longer than you intended. Huang told us that when a new user opens TikTok, the algorithm fetches eight popular but diverse videos to show them.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Late in the day, there was word of a forthcoming executive order , with no other details.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Microsoft’s internet browser was just being unveiled. “I didn’t know a lot about the internet in ’95,” Alberg said, “but I knew some because of McCaw, and I did think it was a big deal.” He believed there was more untapped internet potential in the Pacific Northwest. Madrona Photo).

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A senior Ukrainian minister had appealed to Elon Musk via Twitter early on, to route Starlink satellites that provide high-speed internet over the country to keep the country connected even if infrastructure on the ground was destroyed. They hit the internet of things. Elon Musk is genuinely a hero here,” Schmidt said.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Among the biggest beneficiaries has been Signal, the encrypted messaging app whose development is funded by a nonprofit organization. Adding millions of users has served as a vindication for a company that has sought to build a healthier internet by adopting different incentives than most Silicon Valley companies.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the future of the internet, and of his company. The demonstrations are exploratory; Meta’s demo videos on Wednesday included disclaimers at the bottom that many of the images and examples are strictly for illustrative purposes and not actual products. Courtesy of Meta.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

In that spirit, I thought today we could look at the particularly newsy week the ByteDance-owned video app has had, and then contribute some additional speculation that I will later have to disown or apologize for. In November, Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestler known as The Rock, posted his first video to the app.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The big difference is that generative AI can create new content, such as images, text, audio, video, and even code — usually from a prompt or command. It uses deep learning, or algorithms that create artificial neural networks that are meant to mimic how human brains process information and learn.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

On Tuesday morning, Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting with employees over video chat to address concerns related to the company’s decision not to take action on some recent posts by President Trump. He noted that the original video of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer had been posted to Facebook, sparking global protests.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

These regularities are unknown to humans, but they’re stored as billions of weighted connections between the different nodes in GPT-3’s neural network. If you input the word “fire” into GPT-3, the program knows, based on the weights in its network, that the words “truck” and “alarm” are much more likely to follow than “lucid” or “elvish.”

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Who can devote nights and weekends to getting something built to show that they have started solving their problem, that has a network or a set of relationships with other people devoted to the same problem. You’re going to get an alumni network of people who are going to be as hard on you as your friends from college. It’s a rigor.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. billion of losses were reported.". Release bite-sized, creative training experiences.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. For that satellite operate, here's the entire ground base network that goes into supporting it. I have a laptop, with linux, so I can hack into a network or a mobile phone app, or a remote garage door opener.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

So I started attending Black Hat, Def Con, and after many years wrote my own book on the insecurity of internet of things devices. Turns out, SANS Institute -- which stands for SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security -- has launched some programs to find out. You can learn a lot by following along with their videos. It's amazing.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. We do have we do have some people on the internet who have expressed concern about, you know, cyber criminal, I think is what we were originally going with. And it's, no it's this short video.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. Vamosi: That's a gray area with the Internet of Things. Vamosi: What about the parents who just want to monitor their children's internet use.

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