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Google defended the Play Store from 2.28 million malicious apps last year
Current policies and the SAFE principles are key
SOCIAL MEDIA
Meta faces EU probe over spread of political disinformation
The European Commission launched an investigation into Meta
over the spread of political disinformation on its platforms and to assess whether
it violated European regulations, the commission announced Tuesday.
STARTUPS
When Silicon Valley Stopped Trying to Save the World
Four years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was treated as
a heretic when he insisted on leaving politics out of work. Now he looks prophetic.
AI
How to stop students from making deepfakes of each other
Educators don't know how to handle fake nude or explicit
imagery made by students.
CYBERSECURITY
Marriott admits it falsely claimed for five years it was
using encryption during 2018 breach
Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data
breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 and not the much more
secure AES-1 encryption as it had earlier maintained.
What is Security Engineering? Part 1.
A deep dive into the ever-changing field of security
engineering; a domain that can feel intimidating to some software engineers.
With Nielet D'Mello, security engineer at Datadog.
LAW
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months in
prison
/ Zhao, who began the run on FTX that eventually revealed
fraud at the exchange, pleaded guilty to breaking laws himself.
Worldcoin is surging in Argentina thanks to 288% inflation
With an economic crisis gripping the nation, people are
having their irises scanned in exchange for $50 in crypto.
Cool Technology
NASA Space Laser Beams Home Data From 140 Million Miles Away
So far, the communication laser is even faster and more
reliable than NASA had hoped.
Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government
supercomputer
145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.
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