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Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job
In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the…
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Decrypted: Contact-tracing privacy, Zoom buys Keybase, Microsoft eyes CyberX
As the world looks to reopen after weeks of lockdown, governments are turning to contact tracing to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Most nations are leaning toward privacy-focused apps that use Bluetooth signals to create an anonymous profile of where a person has been and when. Some, like…
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Try to dock with the International Space Station with this SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator
Later this month, SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spacecraft will take its first human passengers to the International Space Station — and now you can get a firsthand view of what they’ll be seeing when they approach the orbiting lab. Today, SpaceX released a new online simulator that allows users to…
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Apple now considers your 2014 MacBook Air ‘vintage’
Some of Apple’s better-known laptops are riding off into the proverbial sunset, at least as far as the company is concerned. The company has added (via MacRumors) mid-2013 and mid-2014 MacBook Air models (plus the mid-2014 13-inch MacBook Pro) to its… Source
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How Riot reinvents old League of Legends champions like comic book superheroes
League of Legends is now more than a decade old, and over that time the competitive strategy game has amassed a roster of close to 150 characters. Some become so popular that they join virtual pop groups or have outfits created by designers at Louis Vuitton. Others… well, others can…
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Yet more WordPress plugin flaws undermine website security
The WordFence Threat Intelligence team has discovered two high severity vulnerabilities in SiteOrigin’s plugin Page Builder that can be exploited by hackers to create new admin accounts, plant backdoors and even take over compromised websites. The popular WordPress plugin is installed on over 1m sites and the vulnerabilities in Page…
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