Category: Shorts

Don’t Want to Use 2FA on Facebook? Here’s How to Opt Out! #shorts #Facebook #account #company #Instagram Meta recently changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram.** **What’s the difference?** * Any devices you’ve used Facebook on in the past two years will be automatically trusted. * This means you don’t have to manually…

Signal Is in Danger of Going Extinct Unless You Donate $50 This Year #shorts #Signal #Meredith Whittaker #WhatsApp #mainstream service Signal, the encrypted messaging app for paranoid privacy elites, has become a mainstream service with hundreds of millions of users. It’s not cheap to run a service like Signal, it costs around $40 million a…

Spotify Got a Secret Deal to Avoid Paying Google Millions in Fees #shorts #Google #other app developers #Don Harrison #users Spotify made a sweet deal with Google, paying only 4% commission for Android-based payments, while other developers pay 15%. Google says it’s because Spotify is so popular, but Netflix refused a similar deal and now…

FBI Spied on Americans Without Warrants, Congress Demands Reforms #shorts #Section 702 program #US House Intelligence Committee #federal lawmakers #FISA A report compiled by the Republican majority members of the House Intelligence Committee says that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation should require a probable cause warrant before searching the database of a controversial…

Bin Laden’s Letter: The New Weapon of the Far Right #shorts #Osama bin Laden #TikTok #America #Thursday evening The letter has had a tremendous effect on conservative commentators and politicians across the U.S. It has changed their perspective on 9/11 and politics in general. Posters used it to critique US foreign policy and to praise…

Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix: Is It a Done Deal? #shorts #McLaren Racing #weekend #final race #track Formula 1 is a data-heavy sport, and hackers love to target big sporting events. So cybersecurity is a big deal for Formula 1 teams. McLaren’s setup at each race is like a mobile data center, and they’ve…

Hackers for Hire: How One Startup is Disrupting the Industry #shorts #teenage hackers #flaw #New Mexico #valuable cryptocurrency wallets Hackers are everywhere!** They’ve hacked into the computers of Russian oligarchs, Malaysian politicians, and even a Native American tribe. And now, it turns out that a group of hackers based in the West may be responsible…

Secretive White House Program Gives Cops Access to Your Phone Records #shorts #known surveillance program #more than a trillion domestic phone records #law enforcement agencies #telecom giant AT&T A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter sent by US senator Ron…

Elon Musk’s nightmare: Sam Altman is making a comeback to OpenAI! #shorts #remaining board members #OpenAI #Sam Altman’s surprise move #- Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI so he moved to Microsoft, but it’s not a done deal. He and his co-founder are still open to returning to OpenAI if the board members who fired…