Europe moves a step closer to limiting the spread of extremism and toxic content via social platforms

New machine-learning tool aims to deliver even more information to Google’s advertisers about your ‘consumer journey’

A vulnerability in caption files has been patched in some media players, but it’s not clear how widespread the flaw still is

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Mushrooms are the safest of all the drugs people take recreationally, according to this year’s Global Drug Survey. Of the more than 12,000 people who reported taking psilocybin hallucinogenic mushrooms in…

Facebook has signed deals with Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks. The social media company is reportedly set to…

schwit1 quotes a report from Vocativ: The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles has been caught using facial recognition software — despite a state law preventing it. Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont describe such a program,…

New submitter boundary writes: The UK government looks to be about to put the most egregious parts of the Investigative Powers Act into force “soon after the election” (which is in a couple of weeks) in the wake of the…

The Department of Defense has selected Boeing to make a new hypersonic spaceplane that can be reused frequently over a short period of time to deliver multiple satellites into orbit. “DARPA, the agency that tests new advanced technologies for the…

An academic paper to be presented today at IEEE posits that analysis of network signals provides a better early warning of malware than infections than current practices.