The LA school board voted to enact a ban to take effect at the beginning of 2025. The resolution requires the board to develop a policy that prohibits smartphones and social media in the hope of helping kids reduce their mental health risks. The LA school district has close to 600,000 students across a thousand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It appears, at least for now, the the breaches at the hosting provider Snowflake of 560 million users at Ticketmaster and 30 million accounts at Santander Bank among 163 or so other companies was not caused by an underlying weakness and resultant compromise of Snowflake’s systems. This is not Snowflake saying this, it is Google […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump Tells Crypto Execs He Won’t Regulate Crypto if Re-elected Trump raised $12 million from crypto execs after he told them that if he is re-elected he would be the crypto-president and un/not regulate crypto. Telling people what they want to hear is always easy for politicians. He said that crypto is very important and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about Microsoft’s “Recall” feature before. I guess, in a perfect world it might be a nice feature, but we don’t live in a perfect world. For those of you who are not familiar with this new feature, Recall takes screenshots of your computer every five seconds and keeps the data for three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reddit just sold your data to an AI model. But that is kind of small news. Companies are quietly change their terms of service to allow them to do that. Your only alternative could be: Max Schrems, the Austrian attorney and privacy activist who is the bane of the existence of every tech company operating […]
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