Reddit takes stands against the EU copyright directives; greets EU redditors with ‘warning box’
The Reddit team has decided to take a stand against the EU copyright directive, as it announced last week that EU Reddit users will now be greeted with a “warning box”, on accessing Reddit via desktop. The warning box will provide users with information regarding the EU copyright directives (specifically ... Read More
Facebook plans to change its algorithm to demote “borderline content” that promotes misinformation, and hate speech on the platform
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook published a “blueprint for content governance and enforcement”, last week, that talks about updating its news feed algorithm to demote the “borderline (click-bait) content” to curb spreading misinformation, hate speech, and bullying on its platform. Facebook has been getting itself into a lot of controversies regarding ... Read More
Open Invention Network expands its patent non-aggression coverage in Linux system
Open Invention Network (OIN), a non-aggression patent community, announced an expansion in its patent non-aggression coverage by updating the freedom of action in a Linux System, last week. Patents provide organizations and individuals with the right to the invention and the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for ... Read More
Monday’s Google outage was a BGP route leak: traffic redirected through Nigeria, China, and Russia
Google faced a major outage on Monday this week as it went down for over an hour, taking a toll on Google Search and a majority of its other services such as the Google Cloud Platform. The outage was apparently a result of Google losing control over the normal routes ... Read More
Jack Dorsey discusses the rumored ‘edit tweet’ button and tells users to stop caring about followers
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, attended a town hall meeting at IIT, Delhi, yesterday, where he talked about his plans to add an “edit tweet” feature to the social media platform. He revealed he has mixed feelings about the feature, and said that he wants to ensure that it gets implemented ... Read More
Zimperium zLabs discloses a new critical vulnerability in multiple high-privileged Android services to Google
Tamir Zahavi-Brunner, Security Researcher at Zimperium zLabs posted the technical details of the vulnerability affecting multiple high-privileged Android devices and its exploit, earlier this week. Brunner had disclosed this vulnerability to Google who then designated it as CVE-2018-9411. As per Brunner, Google claims Project Treble ( introduced as part of ... Read More
Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid – Trick or Treat?
Solid is a set of conventions and tools developed by Tim Berners-Lee. It aims to build decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles. It is modular, extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols. This open-source project was launched earlier this month for ... Read More
Machine generated videos like Deepfakes – Trick or Treat?
A Reddit user named “DeepFakes” had posted real-looking explicit videos of celebrities last year. He made use of deep learning techniques to insert celebrities’ faces into the adult movies. Since then the term “Deepfakes” has been used to describe deep learning techniques that help create realistic looking fake videos or ... Read More
Apple and Amazon take punitive action against Bloomberg’s ‘misinformed’ hacking story
It was only earlier this month when Bloomberg published a story alleging that China hacked into Amazon and Apple’s servers, and now the two tech giants seem to be retaliating against Bloomberg. Apple did not invite Bloomberg to its fall product event “There’s More in the Making” that takes place ... Read More
