Month: February 2023

Leaked messages show failed plan to discredit Muhammadu Buhari and get Goodluck Jonathan re-elected in 2015 Four weeks before a pivotal presidential election in Nigeria, an Israeli private operative specialising in political “black ops” was preparing his trip to the country. On 17 January 2015 the man, who used the alias “Jorge”, emailed Cambridge Analytica, …

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A tweet from Joe Biden got triple the impressions than Musk’s game time post, sending engineers scrambling to boost their boss Twitter chief executive Elon Musk rallied a team of roughly 80 engineers to reconfigure the platform’s algorithm so his tweets would be more widely viewed, tech news site Platformer has reported. A disgruntled Musk …

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‘Under no circumstances will we pay that absurd amount,’ delivery firm says, telling hackers it is not the booming company they think Royal Mail rejected an “absurd” ransom demand for $80m (£67m) from hackers linked to Russia, according to transcripts that offer a rare glimpse into negotiations when companies are hit by a ransomware cyberattack. …

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Social media content creators are increasingly advising followers against expensive purchases More and more content creators on social media are rejecting traditional influencer culture and becoming “deinfluencers” instead, according to social media experts. Influencers have historically sold something to users. Whether that is the newest trending lipgloss or the viral “it” dress, the products – …

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‘Team Jorge’ unit exposed by undercover investigation Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world Mastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world …

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Online retailer has been aggressively expanding into self-driving technology and bought the self-driving startup Zoox Amazon is testing a fleet of robotaxis on public roads in California, using employees as passengers, as the tech behemoth moves closer to a commercial service for the general public. The online retailer has been aggressively expanding into self-driving technology …

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An update will begin to replace its 27-year-old predecessor from Tuesday Internet Explorer, for years the principal way of accessing any website for a generation of computer users, is to go the way of the dancing baby screensaver and the floppy disk. Microsoft is killing off the outdated browser’s desktop app after nearly 30 years …

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PC; Bit Wave/EmbracerFour games from a cult 1980s shoot-em-up developer – from Zero Wing to Truxton – show the value of game preservation Even if you’ve never heard of long defunct shoot-’em-up developer Toaplan, any historians of meme culture will know a key moment from the Mega Drive conversion of its arcade classic Zero Wing. …

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Raids target machines hosted around Leeds believed to be offering to buy or convert traditional currencies Authorities have raided several sites around Leeds as part of what is believed to be the UK’s first crackdown on illegally operated crypto ATMs. Evidence was gathered from multiple sites around the city that were suspected to be hosting …

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Employees announce plan to unionize in challenge to chief executive Elon Musk, who has been vocal union opponent Tesla workers in New York said on Tuesday they will launch a campaign to form a union, setting stage for the latest labor challenge for chief executive Elon Musk. In a letter to Tesla management, the employees …

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