Another scam called “My 1st St@tus” is going viral on Facebook

Oh Facebook users. You’d think that they’d have learned by now to avoid those nasty applications. However, the Internet is rife with people who want to know everything about themselves, and the “My 1st St@tus” scam aims directly at them. First, you’ll likely see messages that look like this: Clicking on the link in the message, as you can probably imagine, will take you to a page that links to a Facebook application....

2 min · 323 words · Jason Mccarty

Another UK escooter trial is on hold because people are breaking the rules

Another UK escooter trial is on hold because people are breaking the rules Don’t blame the scooters, blame the reckless riders But are we missing the point? Escooters aren’t sentient. They don’t switch themselves on, ride to random locations, and dump themselves across the sidewalk with reckless abandon. They also aren’t capable of riding themselves alone down pavements, sidewalks, and pedestrian areas where they shouldn’t be riding. There is a human attached to these devices in these instances that is making decisions, knowingly or otherwise, to misuse them....

3 min · 476 words · Sherri Rivera

Answering one of the most Google’d questions: ‘What is my IP address?’

What is my IP?It’s an odd question in most people’s minds, yet it’s one of thetop ten most-searchedquestions on Google. Those who know what an IP address is will already know most of these searches are coming from people who understand what they’re searching for. But for the rest of us, a more relevant question might be:what is an IP address? Across the globe, there are billions of computing devices that connect to the internet....

6 min · 1205 words · Timothy Greene

Anti-competitive probes could spell trouble for Apple and its App Store

Anti-competitive probes could spell trouble for Apple and its App Store Criticism and concern One of the most significant criticisms of the company’s approach to the App Store is that there is no course of appeal available for developers that don’t rest with Apple. Larger companies have been able tonegotiate exceptions to the rules, but in this case, the exception appears to apply only tothree large tech companies(ClassPass, Facebook, and Airbnb), and not to other independent apps....

4 min · 746 words · James Torres

Anti-Semitic merchandise persists on Pinterest, despite restrictions

Entering the anti-Semitic term “6mwe” into Pinterest’s search box won’t yield any results but will offer an admonishment: “Pinterest isn’t a place for hateful images, content or activities. Learn more about our policies.” But searching through Pinterest’s site from Google for the term “6mwe hoodie” easily produces dozens of pins for content that clearly violates Pinterest’srestrictions on“hate-based conspiracy theories and misinformation, like Holocaust denial,” content the platform says it has limited or removed....

7 min · 1377 words · Maria Sims
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