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Tech NewsTransportation
LinkedIn’s Co-Founder Is Going in on Flying Taxis, Which Are Definitely Realistic This Time
Time and time again, tech companies have promised a future where commuters will be able to zip around in the flying cars from The Jetsons. And time and time again, that just hasn’t happened. That’s because the practical engineering challenges are immense—building small, electrically powered vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft would require a … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
North Korean Hackers Successfully Phished Cyber Researchers Using a Fake Blog
A recent phishing campaign by North Korean nation-state hackers successfully duped a number of security professionals who were involved in vulnerability research and development, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group. The unnamed threat group used various social engineering tactics to pose as fellow “white hat” security specialists, ensnaring the unsuspecting experts … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Please, Stop Adding Stories to Every Single App
Et tu, Spotify? The moment Thanksgiving was over, Spotify updated its annual Christmas Hits playlist. But as spotted by Engadget, the big addition this year wasn’t Christmas Without You by Ava Max, a test run of an Instagram Stories-like feature. In both the iOS and Android apps, right under the cover photo of a beaming … Continued
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Tech NewsHellfeed
If You Can’t Beat Them, Make Some Shit Up About Them and Hope It Goes Viral
Your feeds are not currently full of news about the ongoing civil war between the Real American Front and the Alliance to Restore Democracy. In fact, there’s barely any Second American Civil War going on at all, which is to say that things could theoretically be going a lot worse after November 3 than your … Continued
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Tech NewsPolitics
Here’s All the Big Tech-Linked Advisors on Biden’s Transition Team
On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden announced his administration’s transition team, including the list of agency review team members that will help his White House “hit the ground running on Day One.” It also, by all indications, includes a deeper bench of big tech figures than any transition team prior. Biden’s list is also a mix … Continued
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Tech NewsHellfeed
Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late
Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign plank for at least one of the U.S.’s major political parties. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are also trying to convince the public how well they’re dealing with the … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
LinkedIn Takes a Break From Job Recruitment to Lay Off More Than 900 Employees
LinkedIn might be a platform full of milquetoast networking memes, quasi-inspirational posts about networking, and bizarrely catchy networking-themed playlists, but even all of this (questionable) business savvy couldn’t save the platform from the scourge of seemingly endless layoffs brought on by the current hell world happening outside our doors right now. Earlier today, company CEO … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
LinkedIn and Reddit Are the Latest Apps Found to be Snooping on Your Clipboards
iOS 14’s new privacy feature has been snitching on a lot of snooping apps in recent days, raising concerns from users and hopefully inspiring the companies behind the apps to do something about it. The latest apps caught snitching were LinkedIn and Reddit, although the companies want to assure users that they’re fixing it. LinkedIn … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Feds Charge Philly Protester With Torching Police Cars After Following Unnerving Online Trail
FBI agents used online evidence including an Etsy shop and profiles on LinkedIn and fashion website Poshmark to identify and charge a woman they say set fire to two police cars during recent protests in Philly, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Federal prosecutors claim that 33-year-old massage therapist Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal burned both a police … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
LinkedIn Now Has an AI to Help With Your Interview Game
As a record number of Americans grapple with unemployment in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, LinkedIn’s rolled out some AI-powered tools to help job seekers prepare for the nightmare fuel that is the interviewing process. Nailing an interview takes practice, no matter if you’re sweating it out in person or via a live … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Spotify’s Weird LinkedIn Playlists Sound Like a Cash Register
Like the brief romance between Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, the new Linkedin-owned Spotify playlists are confusing at best. That seemed to be the consensus across the web after the job-hunter’s platform of choice announced these bops in a tweet earlier this week, promising to keep listeners company during “every moment of your career journey.” … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Federal Appeals Court Rules That Duh, Scraping Public Data Doesn’t Violate Hacking Laws
Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn lost an appeal in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday against hiQ Labs Inc., with three justices unanimously ruling that hiQ could continue scraping publicly available information off the site, Reuters reported. LinkedIn sent a cease-and-desist to hiQ, a data analytics firm, in 2017, arguing in part that the … Continued
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Tech NewsAlternate Internet Week
What Myspace Lost
As Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Myspace was never finished, only abandoned.” Not those words exactly, but if brainyquotes.com disappeared, and the Louvre burned down, and all libraries were defunded, and a solar flare wiped out all of Earth’s power, and a historian found this sole surviving blogpost 200 years from now, they might equally … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
Spy Used AI to Create Fake LinkedIn Photo to Fool Targets, Report Finds
LinkedIn might be where you go to find jobs, but it’s also apparently where spies lurk. Experts are now saying they’ve found an instance where a spy used an AI-generated face to connect with targets, according to a report from the Associated Press. If you’ve ever used LinkedIn, you know the website advises not to … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
LinkedIn Is Pivoting Harder Into Video
If you’re like me, you think of LinkedIn as the last place you want to spend time online. It’s chock full of spam, vaguely business-themed blog posts that range from the utterly interminable and insights no one asked for to bizarre rants, and UI decisions that seem designed to conjure up the feeling of a … Continued
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Tech News
U.S. Government Claims China Using LinkedIn to Recruit Spies in America
The U.S. government claims that China is using LinkedIn to recruit spies in America. And it’s now calling for Microsoft, the company that owns LinkedIn, to shut down allegedly fake accounts being used to build its spy network. First reported by Reuters, the allegations are being made by William Evanina, the head of U.S. counter-intelligence. … Continued
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Tech NewsNews
LinkedIn Just Gave You a New Reason to Make Fun of LinkedIn
LinkedIn, a social network for people who enjoy soul-crushing banality, knows you get more than a few emails from randos wanting to add you to their “professional network.” Sick of reading messages from these random acquaintances looking to discuss synergy-based solutions and B2B services? Well, now you can listen to them instead, thanks to voice … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Russian Accused of Hacking LinkedIn Extradited to US After 15-Month Detention in Prague
A Russian national accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and possibly compromising the personal information of more than 100 million users, has been extradited to the United States, The New York Times reported on Friday. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, was arrested in October 2016 while vacationing in the Czech Republic by Interpol agents working … Continued
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How To
How to Find a Job Using Social Media
Your social networks aren’t just there for arguing politics with your uncle or looking at your neighbor’s lunch—they’re also good for the serious business of finding your next place of employment. Here’s how to perfect your searching on each of the major networks to maximize your chances of landing your dream job, or something close … Continued
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Tech News
LinkedIn Restricts Job-Posting Features in China After Pressure From Authorities
LinkedIn, one of the few Western internet companies with a large footprint in China, saw a major setback there this week when it removed its individual job-posting function under pressure from authorities, the New York Times reported. According to the Times report, new government regulations imposed after a wave of pyramid schemes resulted in a … Continued
By Tom McKay