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03/01/2021

Bitcoin has surged to a record high amid rising interest from investors and claims that the volatile cryptocurrency is on the way to becoming a mainstream payment method.
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Cryptocurrency passes $30,000 as financial institutions express growing interest

06/11/2020

Die Präsidentenwahl in Amerika zwischen Donald Trump und Joe Biden hat auch an der Börse für heftige Kursschwankungen gesorgt. In den sozialen Netzwerken wie Twitter oder Facebook und Foren wie Reddi

Während der Präsidentenwahl in Amerika wird in den sozialen Medien auch über die Folgen für Aktienwerte diskutiert. Eine Überblick zeigt, welche Titel besonders im Fokus sind.

05/11/2020

The Github youtube-dl Takedown Isn't Just a Problem of American Law

The video downloading utility youtube-dl, like other large open source projects, accepts contributions from all around the globe. It is used practically wherever there's an Internet connection. It's especially shocking, therefore, when what looks like a domestic legal spat–involving a take-down...

04/11/2020

Turkey fined the online media giants one million euros each for breaking a strict new law intended to ensure that the government in Ankara can get content that it considers illegal removed.

16/09/2020

Several European Union countries are testing a system that enables their COVID-19 contact tracing apps to work across borders. The apps for the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Latvia will exchange information during the trial. The European Commission set a framework for such a cross-border approach in June.

Six countries are trialing the system, which should go live next month.

19/06/2020

Durban - National Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, has announced that dexamethasone will be used to treat critically ill Covid-19 patients. The administration of dexamethasone to desperately ill pati

On Friday, Mkhize said the department will be moving ahead with the issuing of guidelines for the use of dexamethasone in all our facilities for desperately ill Covid-19 patients.

12/06/2020

Twitter on Friday said it had removed tens of thousands of "state linked" accounts used by China, Russia and Turkey to push their own propaganda, sow misinformation or attack critics.
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Twitter on Friday said it had removed tens of thousands of "state linked" accounts used by China, Russia and Turkey to push their own propaganda, sow misinformation or attack critics.

08/06/2020

EFF, ACLU File Lawsuit to Stop Los Angeles From Collecting Real-Time Tracking Data on Citizens’ Rental Scooters

Los Angeles—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today joined the ACLU of northern and southern California in filing a lawsuit against Los Angeles for collecting detailed trip data and real-time locations and routes of the electric scooters thousands of residents use each day.EFF, ACLU-Norther...

01/06/2020

(Reuters) - Facebook employees critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to act on President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments about U.S. protests went public on Twitter, praising the rival s

Facebook employees critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to act on President Donald Trump's inflammatory comments about U.S. protests went public on Twitter, praising the rival social media firm for acting and rebuking their own employer.

01/06/2020

The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) is a mess on many levels: it’s likely unconstitutional on several grounds, built on false premises, and bad policy to boot. We are no fans of the way dominant social media platforms moderate user content. But the EO, and its clear intent to retaliate against Twitter for marking the president’s tweets for fact-checking, demonstrates that governmental mandates are the wrong way to address concerns about faulty moderation practices.

The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) is a mess on many levels: it’s likely unconstitutional on several grounds, built on false premises, and bad policy to boot. We are no fans of the way dominant social media platforms moderate user content. But the EO, and its...

31/05/2020

Facebook aime être le premier. En audience, en innovation, sur des marchés encore inexplorés par ses concurrents, sur l’avenir du travail. La semaine dernière, Mark Zuckerberg a annoncé que la majori

Plongée dans les eaux profondes d’Internet. Cette semaine, pourquoi Facebook ou Google misent sur la généralisation du télétravail dans le contexte du coronavirus.

28/05/2020

La France et les instances juridiques de l’Union européenne, doivent se réveiller face aux risques de fuite des données à l’étranger posés par la dépendance de plus en plus prégnante aux GAFAM des sy

Les gouvernements français et européens doivent bâtir une "troisième voie" sortant nos administrations publiques et nos sociétés de la dépendance aux GAFAM.

28/05/2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s foreign ministry called in the Russian ambassador in Berlin on Thursday to complain “in the strongest possible terms” about a hack attack on the German lower house of par

Germany's foreign ministry called in the Russian ambassador in Berlin on Thursday to complain "in the strongest possible terms" about a hack attack on the German lower house of parliament in 2015 and discuss possible sanctions against those responsible.

24/05/2020

par Liliane Held-Khawam
L’industrie du numérique a déferlé dans nos vies nous mettant au pied du mur d’un nouveau modèle de société. Ses illustres représentantes que sont sont Google, Apple, Facebook

par Liliane Held-Khawam L’industrie du numérique a déferlé dans nos vies nous mettant au pied du mur d’un nouveau modèle de société. Ses illustres représentantes que sont sont Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon et Microsoft, (dites GAFAM) se sont distinguées ces dernières années par des s...

13/05/2020

La crise du coronavirus et la remontée des cours des crypto-monnaies et du bitcoin, à 8900 dollars après avoir franchi les 10 000 dollars , aiguisent les appétits des pirates 2.0. L'agence de cyber s

Le regain d'activité des marchés des cryptomonnaies, et la hausse des cours aiguisent les appétits des pirates de Corée du Nord. Le pays, à la pointe de la cybercriminalité financière, selon les Etats-Unis, se constitue un trésor de guerre numérique pour contourner les sanctions.

08/05/2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament

Russia's GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel's constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany's parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources.

08/05/2020

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany’s financial market watchdog BaFin is investigating Wirecard’s (WDIG.DE) communication with investors directly ahead of the publication of a critical audit by KPMG, a spo

Germany's financial market watchdog BaFin is investigating Wirecard's communication with investors directly ahead of the publication of a critical audit by KPMG, a spokeswoman for the regulator said on Friday.

05/05/2020

Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital

In a stunning victory for nonprofits and NGOs around the world working in the public interest, ICANN today roundly rejected Ethos Capital’s plan to transform the .ORG domain registry into a heavily indebted for-profit entity. This is an important victory that recognizes the registry’s long legac...

28/04/2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the so

When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the software into a suspect’s phone, police can break in and determine where the person has gone and whom he or she has met.

22/04/2020

Scientists have used AI to discover promising drug-like compounds.

Scientists have used AI to discover promising drug-like compounds. The universe of molecules that could be turned into potentially life-saving drugs is mind-boggling in size: researchers estimate the number at around 1060. That’s more than all the atoms in the solar system, offering virtually unli...

19/04/2020

In un'intervista video con VICE, il noto whistleblower parla dei pericoli per la libertà che leggi di emergenza e crescente autoritarismo rappresentano.

18/04/2020

Dating mining firms are in high demand right now as governments try to tackle the spread of coronavirus

Dating mining firms are in high demand right now as governments try to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

17/04/2020

Hamburg, Germany (Urban Transport News): Wunder Mobility, one of the world’s fastest-growing mobility companies, in partnership with the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform and Global New Mobility Coalition, Hertz Germany and Allianz, announced the launch of ‘WeAllMove’, an open dig...

14/04/2020

COVID-19 is accelerating the rise of right‑wing extremism

Lowy Institute Charts

13/04/2020