The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network attacks that are now being used alongside more traditional weapons.
Source : U.S. Cyberattacks Target ISIS in a New Line of Combat – The New York Times
So Facebook still has young people. Lots of them. This might explain why its market cap is nearly $340 billion.
Source : Facebook Still Younger Than Snapchat, Instagram: comScore (Chart) | Re/code
Wikipedia editors jumped into action only nine minutes after the Guardian’s report, and the consequent Wikipedia article has been edited once every 2.5 minutes since then.
Source : News on Wikipedia: How a world of volunteers dove into the leaked Panama Papers – Wikimedia blog
As pro tablets supersede laptops, they create a need for more inventive keyboard designs
Source : Is it time to reconsider the keyboard pants? | The Verge
Facebook can promote or block any material that it wants,” UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh told Gizmodo. “Facebook has the same First Amendment right as the New York Times. They can completely block Trump if they want. They can block him or promote him.
Source : Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency
Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition chief, said the European commission had taken the preliminary view that Google had abused its dominant position, following an initial one-year investigation. “What we found is that Google pursues an overall strategy on mobile devices to protect and expand its dominant position in internet search,” Vestager said.
Source : EU accuses Google of using Android to skew market against rivals | Technology | The Guardian
Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone calls and track mobile phone users’ locations with just the knowledge of their phone number using a vulnerability in the worldwide mobile phone network infrastructure.
Source : SS7 hack explained: what can you do about it? | Technology | The Guardian
Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC) is an experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images. Consisting of names, nationalities, dates, locations and more, PIC is a vast and growing resource for the historian, student, genealogist, or any lover of photography’s history. The information has been culled from trusted biographical dictionaries, catalogs and databases, and from extensive original research by NYPL Photography Collection staff.
Unlike other forms of Google search, Google does not display advertising to book searchers, nor does it receive payment if a searcher uses Google’s link to buy a copy. Google’s book scanning project started in 2004. Working with major libraries like Stanford, Columbia, the University of California, and the New York Public Library, Google has scanned and made machine-readable more than 20 million books. Many of them are nonfiction and out of print.
Source : Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case | Ars Technica
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