October 8, 2019 Twitter admits your phone number may have been used for targeting ads Twitter is only supposed to use phone numbers for two-factor authentication, but it appears to have been unintentionally used for more. The social network…
October 8, 2019 EV startup Canoo’s mysterious backers named in new harassment lawsuit Image: Canoo Electric vehicle startup Canoo and its CEO Stefan Krause have been accused of discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination in…
October 8, 2019 Photoshop and Lightroom users should wait before updating to macOS Catalina Plug-ins that are quarantined returns a Photoshop error, “file was not found”. Adobe is recommending that Photoshop and Lightroom Classic users hold off on…
October 8, 2019 FBI Illegally Targeted U.S. Citizens With Warrantless NSA Database Searches, Secret Court Finds A secretive federal court has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation abused the privacy rights of U.S. citizens by searching for their information…
October 8, 2019 Cocaine is driving deforestation, climate change, and migration Photo credit should read LUIS ACOSTA/AFP/Getty Images The cocaine trade, and efforts to stop it, are causing $214.6 million in damage every year, new…
October 8, 2019 The 10 Best Deals of October 8, 2019 We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Read more… via Gizmodo…
October 8, 2019 Microsoft’s Your Phone app can now route calls from your Android phone to your PC Microsoft Microsoft announced that its latest preview build 18999 for Insiders (20H1) adds call support to the Your Phone app on Windows 10. Following…
October 8, 2019 Twitter Misused Private Security Info to Help Advertisers Twitter says it inadvertently used private information, provided by users for the purpose of protecting their accounts, to help companies target them with ads….
October 8, 2019 FISA court: FBI use of NSA’s electronic surveillance data was illegal A US court ruled that some of the FBI's electronic surveillance activities violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court…
October 8, 2019 Linksys’ mesh routers can now detect motion using Wi-Fi Photo courtesy Linksys Security cameras are all well and good, but what do you do if you really want privacy? Linksys may have come…