As Facebook drags its feet over removing stolen images of a child for like-farming clickbait, what does this mean for the platform’s commitment to tackling ‘fake news’?
News in brief: pushback on Pirate Bay ban; course in fake news; autonomous Ubers get passengers
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Global spam drops by more than half – now what?
Global spam levels plummeted at the end of 2016 and haven’t gone back up – but sadly there’s still an awful lot of spam left.
Google Releases Open Source File Sharing Project 'Upspin' On GitHub
BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Today, Google unveiled yet another way to share files. Called “Upspin,” the open source project aims to make sharing easier for home users. With that said, the project does not seem particularly easy to…
Uber's Self-Driving Cars Are Now Picking Up Passengers in Arizona
Almost two months to the day after Uber loaded its fleet of self-driving SUVs into the trailer of a self-driving truck and stormed off to Arizona in a self-driving huff, the company is preparing to launch its second experiment (if…
AMD Launches Ryzen, Claims To Beat Intel's Core i7 Offering At Half the Price
Reader MojoKid writes: AMD CEO, Dr. Lisu Su took to the stage at AMD’s Ryzen tech day yesterday and opened the event with official speeds, feeds, pricing, and benchmark scores for the company’s upcoming Ryzen series processors. AMD’s goal with…
Tinder Wants AI To Set You Up On a Date
Dave Lee, writing for BBC: Tinder is growing up. It’s now a serious technology company tackling one of life’s most important matters, and is by far the most popular dating app worldwide. After a lot of boardroom musical chairs, Mr…
US Homeland Security Employees Locked Out of Computer Networks
Dustin Volz, reporting for Reuters: Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area and Philadelphia were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter. It was not clear…
Watch out for phishing scams when preparing your tax return
Phishing scams topped the IRS’s Dirty Dozen list of tax scams for 2017
Thugs who sent Brian Krebs heroin and a SWAT team sentenced
No word on when we’ll see the movie, but the plot points keep coming.