The Amazon News Twitter account and executive Dave Clark have been lashing out at critics online – just as Alabama workers vote on unionization Say what you will about the relative merits of the continued existence of Amazon, the humble online bookstore that might end up being the last company in the world at this …
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Intelligence value of SolarWinds hacking of then acting secretary Chad Wolf is not publicly known Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of homeland security (DHS) and members of cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, the Associated Press (AP) has learned. The intelligence value …
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Online metrics are pillow talk, and digital secrets go public in this tragicomic portmanteau of five stories about our relationship with technology As ever-evolving technologies produce instant gratifications and fresh horrors, Selfie sees modern life as a tragicomic minefield fraught with absurdities. This French anthology film delivers biting social critique with a side helping of …
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Melbourne news director Hugh Nailon says ‘the Ferrari wouldn’t start and we had to fire up the Datsun 180B’ Mike Sneesby’s first day as Nine Entertainment’s chief executive was spent managing the biggest cyber-attack to hit an Australian media company, affecting TV programming and newspaper print production across the country. The source of the suspected …
Mail-in ballots for the hotly contested battle to unionize 5,800 workers are due on Monday. Some experts are predicting a victory while others are unsure With mail-in ballots due this Monday, federal officials will soon begin tallying the votes in what has been the most closely watched unionization drive in the US in years – …
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Law must address profits made by companies from fraudsters’ advertisements Ministers must force tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft to stop the “immoral” practice of profiting from the £10bn of pension fraud committed by internet scammers, a committee of MPs has urged. Fraudsters use online advertisements, mostly on Google, to trick people out …
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With the ex-president gone, the site is launching a flurry of new features – yet its reputation for abuse may endure In January, Twitter committed what was at first glance a massive act of self-sabotage: it gave its star attraction, Donald Trump, a lifetime ban. This brought to an end a five-year faustian relationship between …
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Early in the pandemic, we spoke to four bosses about how their businesses were faring. A year on, we ask them to about an extraordinary 12 months and what the future might hold Early in the pandemic Philip Jansen gave investors a financial fright by scrapping BT’s multibillion-pound dividend. Now, nearly a year on, he …
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Our tendency to believe social media platforms’ claims of effectiveness is blinding us to what they are actually delivering Here’s a disturbing thought for those of us who are critics of the tech industry: are we unduly credulous about the capabilities of the technology as extolled by the companies and their paid evangelists? Did clever …
Has a year of video calls made you self-conscious? Don’t turn your camera off: just relax and deploy a few of these beauty tips Thought we were a nation of narcissists pre-Covid? Well, a global pandemic has taken things to a whole new level. It’s safe to say nobody planned to spend quite so much …
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