Targeted ads follow us around the internet, pitching us everything from meme-based T-shirts to Mahabis slippers wherever we go. Now the power of tracking pixels and pop-up ads is being used to try to tell ordinary Russians what’s really happening during the invasion of Ukraine. “We’ve seen the powerful role that civil society can play…
Activists are using ads to sneak real news to Russians about Ukraine — MIT Technology Review
NTIA Doles Out Another $277 Million In Broadband Grants — Techdirt
Thanks to the one-two punch of the infrastructure bill and COVID relief, there’s more money sloshing around in the U.S. broadband ecosystem than perhaps any time in history. $46 billion (with a b) is slated to be distributed by the government over the next year, much of it overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information…
NTIA Doles Out Another $277 Million In Broadband Grants — Techdirt
The Battlefield That’s 5 kHz Wide — Hackaday
The airwaves are full of news from the battle in Ukraine, with TV and radio journalists providing coverage at all hours. But for those with a bit of patience there’s something else from the conflict that can be found with a radio receiver, the battle over 5 kHz of spectrum starting at 4625 kHz. This…
The Battlefield That’s 5 kHz Wide — Hackaday
Industry 4.0: The oil and gas sector’s digital future — Tech Xplore – electronic gadgets, technology advances and research news
Digitalization is already playing an important role in the energy industry, but more needs to be done for the sector to truly embrace the future of business.
Industry 4.0: The oil and gas sector’s digital future — Tech Xplore – electronic gadgets, technology advances and research news
It’s 2022 And Bullshit Cable TV Fees Are Somehow Still A Thing — Techdirt
For years we’ve talked about how the broadband and cable industry has perfected the use of utterly bogus fees to jack up subscriber bills — a dash of financial creativity it adopted from the banking and airline industries. Countless cable and broadband companies tack on a myriad of completely bogus fees below the line, letting them advertise…
It’s 2022 And Bullshit Cable TV Fees Are Somehow Still A Thing — Techdirt
This Week in Security: Ukraine, Nvidia, and Conti — Hackaday
The geopolitics surrounding the invasion of Ukraine are outside the scope of this column, but the cybersecurity ramifications are certainly fitting fodder. The challenge here is that almost everything of note that has happened in the last week has been initially linked to the conflict, but in several cases, the reported link hasn’t withstood scrutiny.…
This Week in Security: Ukraine, Nvidia, and Conti — Hackaday
ACLU & EFF Step Up To Tell Court You Don’t Get To Expose An Anonymous Tweeter With A Sketchy Copyright Claim — Techdirt.
In November, we wrote about a very bizarre case in which someone was using a highly questionable copyright claim to try to identify an anonymous Twitter user with the username @CallMeMoneyBags. The account had made fun of various rich people, including a hedge fund billionaire named Brian Sheth. In some of those tweets, Money Bags…
ACLU & EFF Step Up To Tell Court You Don’t Get To Expose An Anonymous Tweeter With A Sketchy Copyright Claim — Techdirt.
As Expected, Trump’s Social Network Is Rapidly Banning Users It Doesn’t Like, Without Telling Them Why — Techdirt.
Earlier this week we took a look at Donald Trump and Devin Nunes’ Truth Social’s terms of service, noting that they — despite claiming that Section 230 should be “repealed” — had explicitly copied Section 230 into their terms of service. In the comments, one of our more reliably silly commenters, who inevitably insists that…
As Expected, Trump’s Social Network Is Rapidly Banning Users It Doesn’t Like, Without Telling Them Why — Techdirt.
Russia unleashed data-wiper virus on Ukraine, say cyber experts — Technology | The Guardian
UK government and banks on alert for new form of malware said to have infected hundreds of machinesRussia-Ukraine crisis: live newsCyber experts have identified a new strain of computer-disabling malware unleashed on Ukrainian targets as part of Russia’s offensive, as the UK government and banks said they were on alert for online attacks.Russia was widely…
Russia unleashed data-wiper virus on Ukraine, say cyber experts — Technology | The Guardian
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