Month: April 2021
Another web hosting giant has been hit by a fire servers
The Los Angeles-based web hosting provider WebNX recently experienced a fire at its Ogden data center in Utah which took the websites of some of its customers offline. Unlike the major fire that recently took the French web host OVH offline, WebNX’s problems began with a city-wide power disruption. As…
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Text messages sent to Google Fi users with Hangouts went missing last week
A Google Fi user in Hawaii received a couple text messages Monday night wishing him a happy Easter. The problem is, those messages had been sent on Easter Sunday, but only made it through more than a day later. Google is now informing Fi users who receive text messages through…
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Lil Nas X’s ‘Twerk Hero’ is a real game where you shake a virtual butt to Montero
Rapper Lil Nas X has just released a free rhythm game that has you twerking to his new song “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” Yes, the main mechanic is twerking. It’s a free browser game, and you can play it right now at this link. If you want to…
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Daily Crunch: Google I/O will return virtually next month
Google announces its I/O plans, Facebook tests an audio Q&A feature and Patreon triples its valuation. This is your Daily Crunch for April 7, 2021. The big story: Google I/O will return virtually next month Google canceled its giant developer conference last year during the pandemic. This year, the show…
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Despite Ban, Facebook Continued To Label People As Interested In Militias For Advertisers
For months after it banned violent extremist groups, Facebook’s advertising preference system, which lets advertisers deliver targeted ads, continued to identify and categorize some people as interested in militias. Last August, in preparation for the 2020 US presidential election, the social network said it would take down any Facebook pages,…
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Thousands of US government agencies using facial recognition without permission Facial Recognition
Over 1800 government bodies in the US have been using the Clearview AI facial recognition tool with little to no public oversight, in a clear violation of an individual’s privacy, according to newly assembled data. Clearview AI is a US-based startup that offers its namesake searchable facial-recognition database to law…
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