Month: April 2021
Another 500 million accounts have leaked online, and LinkedIn’s in the hot seat
You might still be reeling from the news that personal information from 533 million Facebook accounts has been made freely available online. But now there’s another huge batch of people’s data floating around the web — including data from LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network confirmed. And the potential scope of…
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Why Do A Bunch Of Nigerian Twitter Influencers Want This Alleged Money Launderer To Go Free? They’re Being Paid.
Yuri Cortez / AFP via Getty Images A man walks past graffiti demanding Colombian businessman Alex Saab’s freedom in Caracas, February 23, 2021. As an alleged money launderer who worked with the Venezuelan government and is fighting an extradition order to the United States, Alex Saab has some unlikely allies.…
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This webcam dares to ask: what if the panopticon had flesh?
Many digital eyes and ears are on us as we move about our daily lives. Surveillance cameras watch us on the street and smart devices listen for us in our homes. What if some of that watching happened through an expressive simulacrum of a human eye? Researcher Marc Teyssier took…
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Avengers Campus is finally opening at Disneyland on June 4th, complete with aerial Spider-Man robot
After being delayed for almost a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Avengers Campus will finally open at Disneyland, specifically at the Disney’s California Adventure park in Anaheim, California on June 4th, according to the company (via CNBC). The new area will bring Marvel Cinematic Universe characters into the…
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Box nets $500m investment, Aaron Levie to step down as Chairman Homepage
The cloud storage provider Box has announced that it has reached an agreement with KKR in which the investment firm will lead a $500m investment into the company. KKR’s investment will help advance Box’s strategy to deliver its Content Cloud and enable its customers to drive digital transformation throughout their…
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Facebook ran ads for a fake ‘Clubhouse for PC’ app planted with malware
Cybercriminals have taken out a number of Facebook ads masquerading as a Clubhouse app for PC users in order to target unsuspecting victims with malware, TechCrunch has learned. TechCrunch was alerted Wednesday to Facebook ads tied to several Facebook pages impersonating Clubhouse, the drop-in audio chat app only available on iPhones.…
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