When I heard my number was on a leaked data list, I wasn’t surprised. Reporters have never been more vulnerable What does the new age of surveillance mean for the work of investigative journalists? Last year, I was preparing to fly from London to a country in the Middle East for a sensitive reporting trip. …
Commission to review claims NSO’s Pegasus was misused by customers to target journalists and activists An Israeli commission reviewing allegations that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was misused by its customers to target journalists and human rights activists will examine whether rules on Israel’s export of cyberweapons such as Pegasus should be tightened, a senior MP …
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Chest-mounted video camera and vibrating wristbands developed by US team reduce collisions by 37% in small study Vibrating wristbands could help visually impaired people to avoid collisions when out and about, a study indicates. According to the NHS, about 360,000 people in the UK alone are registered as blind or partially sighted, with long canes …
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AlphaFold program’s prediction of nearly 20,000 human protein structures now free for researchers Last year the artificial intelligence group DeepMind cracked a mystery that has flummoxed scientists for decades: stripping bare the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life. Now, having amassed a database of nearly all human protein structures, the company is making …
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Magacoin bills itself as the ‘digital currency for the MAGA community’ but data from the site shows most of the cryptocurrency is allocated to its self-style creator More than 1,000 people have so far signed up to the pro-Trump cryptocurrency magacoin, including conservative media personalities and Republican figures, the Guardian can reveal. The news comes …
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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of taking pictures of the July 2021 full moon, which is also known as the buck or thunder moon. When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the moon is …
The founder of the electric carmaker says coins are mined using at least 50% renewable power, sending the price up sharply Tesla will most likely restart accepting bitcoin as payment once it conducts due diligence on the amount of renewable energy used to mine the currency, the founder and boss of the electric carmaker, Elon …
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22-year-old faces multiple charges in connection with attacks on accounts of politicians and celebrities A 22-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with a July 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday. It named the British man as Joseph James …
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Popular overseas, vaccine badges are rolling out locally on online dating platforms like Bumble. But with access to a Covid jab still a concern, one CEO urges caution Australia’s vaccine tracker: are you eligible for the jab? Single Australians looking for sex or love will soon stand out from the competition if they’ve been vaccinated …
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Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Spotlight on Apple security … shake-up in the video game market … online age verification … and space tourism You will, by now, have heard about Pegasus. It’s the brand name for a family of spyware tools sold by the NSO Group, an Israeli outfit of hackers-for-hire …
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