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Les données personnelles volées à 533 millions d’utilisateurs de Facebook ont été mises en ligne - 4 avril 2021
Un utilisateur d’un forum de piratage de bas niveau a publié gratuitement en ligne les numéros de téléphone et les données personnelles de centaines de millions d’utilisateurs de Facebook. Les données exposées comprennent les informations personnelles de plus de 533 millions d’utilisateurs de Facebook dans 106 pays, dont (...)
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533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online - 4 avril 2021
The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and - in some cases - email addresses.
The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and (...)
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Un nouveau drone-kamikaze russe ’silencieux’ bientôt mis en service - 7 mars 2021
Fabriqué par le groupe de défense russe Kalashnikov, le drone KYB peut transporter une charge explosive allant jusqu’à 3kg.
Si des armées s’évertuent à trouver le meilleur moyen de se défendre face aux drones, d’autres travaillent à en développer de plus efficaces. Le 22 février, le groupe de défense Kalashnikov, sous (...)
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Results : California votes on Proposition 22 to allow Lyft and Uber drivers to be independent contractors - 4 novembre 2020
A recent study shows that over 70% of gig workers work more than 30 hours a week but do not receive most employee benefits.
Polls have closed in California on Proposition 22, which would allow companies to hire app-based drivers as independent contractors instead of employees of the company.
A recent (...)
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Musk’s SpaceX partners with US military to deliver weapons by rockets - 11 octobre 2020
The US military is teaming up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a rocket capable of delivering weapons around the world at 7,500 mph.
The plans call for a rocket that can carry 80 metric tons of cargo into space and land anywhere in the world in about an hour.
SpaceX will now assess the costs and technical (...)
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Facebook expose ses utilisateurs à des opinions de plus en plus extrêmes et Mark Zuckerberg refuse d’y remédier - 28 mai 2020
Facebook sait depuis longtemps que sa plateforme encourage les contenus extrémistes et polarisants, et l’entreprise ne montre aucune envie d’apporter des changements pour résoudre ce problème. Son PDG Mark Zuckerberg lui-même ne semble pas s’y intéresser, comme le rapporte le Wall Street Journal. Le Wall Street Journal a (...)
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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg dismissed concerns of polarizing views - 28 mai 2020
Facebook conducted internal efforts in 2016 and 2018 to examine whether the platform’s algorithm was encouraging the polarization and the proliferation of extremist content, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Though Facebook’s experts found that the platform contributed to divisive rhetoric, senior executives (...)
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Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a law that would let the FBI collect Americans’ web browsing history without a warrant - 27 mai 2020
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday to renew the 2001 PATRIOT Act, and Mitch McConnell is pushing an amendment to the law that would expand the FBI’s surveillance powers.
An amendment proposed by McConnell would, for the first time ever, let the FBI collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search (...)
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People in Moscow are getting wrongfully fined by a quarantine app that demands selfies - 26 mai 2020
Human Rights Watch said the app is "intrusive, deeply flawed, and arbitrarily punishes law-abiding people along with actual quarantine violators."
Moscow authorities are making COVID-19 patients download a "social monitoring" app to make sure they are abiding by quarantine orders.
Human Rights Watch reports the (...)
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Cambridge Analytica executives and Mercer family launch Emerdata - Business Insider - 5 mai 2020
The power players behind Cambridge Analytica have set up a new company — and the daughters of Donald Trump-supporting billionaire Robert Mercer have just joined as directors.
Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer joined Emerdata on March 16, but it is shrouded in mystery.
Alexander Nix, the suspended CEO of Cambridge (...)
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Uber CTO resigns as company reportedly considers 5,400 job cuts - Business Insider - 29 avril 2020
Uber’s chief technology officer, Thuan Pham, has resigned effective May 16, the company said Tuesday.
Pham, who joined the company in 2013, was one of the last remaining executives hired by ousted founder Travis Kalanick.
The Information reported that Uber was planning to lay off up to 5,400 people to save costs as (...)
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L’ingénieur en chef d’Uber quitte la société alors que le coronavirus met un coup d’arrêt à son activité de VTC - 29 avril 2020
Thuan Pham, le directeur de la technologie et plus ancien dirigeant d’Uber, démissionnera le 16 mai prochain, a déclaré la société mardi 28 avril, alors qu’elle envisagerait de nouvelles réductions de coûts pour faire face à la pandémie de coronavirus. "Bien que le travail ne soit jamais terminé, je me sens à l’aise de (...)
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Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing - 21 avril 2020
Stores’ risk scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee turnover, and "tipline" calls.
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing, according to five people with knowledge of the effort and internal documents viewed by Business (...)
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La justice française restreint l’activité d’Amazon le temps d’évaluer la sécurité de ses employés - 15 avril 2020
Amazon va devoir limiter son activité en France. Le tribunal judiciaire de Nanterre a ordonné mardi 14 avril au géant du e-commerce d’établir une évaluation des risques inhérents à l’épidémie de Covid-19 sur ses entrepôts et de restreindre en attendant son activité aux seuls produits essentiels, selon le jugement obtenu par (...)
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South Korea launched wristbands for those breaking quarantine because people were leaving their phones at home to trick government tracking apps - 13 avril 2020
South Korea deploys wristbands to catch people dodging state tracking app - Business Insider
57,000 people who arrived in South Korea after April 1 were quarantined at home, a tracking app was installed so officials could see they were staying home.
South Korea will put wristbands on people defying quarantine, (...)
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Airbnb obtient 1 Md$ pour passer au mieux la pandémie mondiale - 7 avril 2020
La plateforme de réservation de logements Airbnb vient de lever 1 milliard de dollars, en dette et actions de la part de Silver Lake et Sixth Street Partners, afin de passer au mieux la crise actuelle provoquée par la pandémie mondiale. "Ces nouvelles ressources vont soutenir le travail d’Airbnb pour investir sur le (...)
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Employees at home are being photographed every 5 minutes by an always-on video service to ensure they’re actually working — and the service is seeing a rapid expansion since the coronavirus outbreak - 1er avril 2020
Companies are using webcams to monitor employees working from home - Business Insider
The software automatically photographs employees every few minutes. The company said it’s a way to keep coworkers connected.
As coronavirus spreads, companies are increasingly being forced to work from home — and some are using (...)
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Employees at a dozen Fortune 500 companies wear digital badges that watch and listen to their every move - 29 mars 2020
Data analysis company Humanyze is taking a radical approach to collecting information about how and when colleagues talk to each other.
If you’re a business owner or manager, there are some basic questions Ben Waber is pretty sure you won’t know the answer to.
Questions like : How much time does the executive team (...)
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says China could supplant Silicon Valley as the world’s tech powerhouse unless the US government steps in - 28 février 2020
Eric Schmidt helped Google conquer the world. Now he’s concerned that China is going to overtake American tech, and he wants the US government’s help.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged the United States government to get more invested in the ongoing tech race between China and the US.
In an op-ed published (...)
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Morgan Stanley on how Apple could disrupt healthcare - 20 février 2020
Apple has been getting into healthcare for years, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch and more.
Investors are too focused on healthcare efforts from other tech companies like Amazon and aren’t taking Apple’s opportunity seriously enough, a new Morgan Stanley report says.
The tech giant could build an App (...)
