Cory Doctorow reports:
A majority of the Rhode Island
school districts with “1-1” programs where each student is issued a laptop have
a blanket policy of spying on the students and everything they do on their
laptops, during, before and after school hours, on or off school premises,
without any evidence (or even suspicion ) of wrongdoing.
The schools analogize this to
school locker searches, in which students are denied any Fourth Amendment
protections. But that (very dubious)
principle is being stretched beyond the breaking point, as school lockers are in
schools, whereas these laptop searches are being carried out remotely,
everywhere, anywhere.
Read more on BoingBoing.
I have got to write a book. “Why your Security Manger thinks you are
stupid!”
David Bisson writes:
Phishers are targeting PayPal
users not only for their login credentials but also for selfies of them holding
their ID cards.
This scam campaign starts off
like so many others. A user gets an
attack email falsely warning them that PayPal has suspended their account “for
security precaution.”
“Hi there,
“Our technical support and
customer department has recently suspected activities in your account.
“Therefore we have decided to
temporarly suspend your account until investigating your recent activiies. Such things can happen if you clicked a
suspecious link on social media or gave your password to someone else
“We’re always concerned about our
customers security so please help us recover your account by following the link
below.
The phishing email gives itself
away by its spelling errors and strange grammatical usage. But it does get some
things right.
Read more on GrahamCluley.
If North Korea ever partnered with a real master criminal,
I’d be worried. Those guys really know
how to steal.
North Korea’s Sloppy, Chaotic Cyberattacks Also Make Perfect
Sense
… Analysts at
security firms, including Symantec and Kaspersky, have tied the Lazarus group
to bank breaches targeting Poland, Vietnam, and more than a dozen other
countries. One attack last year swiped $81 million from Bangladesh's account at the New York Federal
Reserve.
The motive makes sense: North Korea needs
the money. As a result of its human
rights abuses, nuclear brinksmanship, and sociopathic aggression toward its neighbors, the country
faces crippling trade sanctions. Before
its hacking spree, it had already resorted to selling weapons to other rogue
nations, and even run its own human trafficking and methamphetamine
production operations. Cybercrime
represents just another lucrative income stream for a shameless, impoverished
government.
What makes a monopoly?
Being big? Being better? Smarter?
When Does Amazon Become a
Monopoly?
The behemoth’s acquisition of Whole Foods is making some
wonder whether the firm is just too big.
On Friday
morning, Amazon announced it was buying Whole Foods Market for more than $13
billion. About an hour later, Amazon’s
stock had risen by about 3 percent, adding $14 billion to its value.
Amazon basically bought the
country’s sixth-largest grocery store for free.
…
As the country’s biggest
online retailer of cleaning supplies and home goods, Amazon competes with
Walmart, Target, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. As a clothing and shoe retailer, it competes
with DSW, Foot Locker, and Gap. As a distributor of music, books, and
television, it competes with Apple, Netflix, and HBO. In the past decade, Amazon has also purchased
the web’s biggest independent online
shoe store, its biggest independent online
diaper store, and its biggest independent online
comics store.
And it is
successful on nearly all of those fronts. Last year, Amazon sold six times as much
online as Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Home Depot, Macy’s, Kohl’s,
and Costco did combined. Amazon also
generated 30 percent of all U.S. retail sales growth, online or offline.
Perspective. I know
a brand-new PhD in AI, perhaps it’s time for a startup?
Intel and Microsoft’s latest investment binge shows AI land
grab is intensifying
Intel and Microsoft have been on something of an artificial
intelligence (AI) investment binge of late, with the chip and software giants
announcing a slew of deals this week via their respective VC arms — Intel
Capital and Microsoft Ventures.
“Soon, all lawyers will be automated.” Or at least required to take a few technology
classes?
Justin Kan confirms $10.5 million in funding for his legal
tech startup Atrium LTS
… “Why don’t law
firms use project management software to track where they are in the process of
completing a deal and let customers see that?” Kan asked. But more important than the way in which law
firms interact with customers, Kan sees an opportunity to streamline the work
that is done in-house to make it more manageable for lawyers and those who work
at law firms.
“If you think about corporate legal work that’s done
today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes,” Kan
told me. It’s those repeatable processes
that the Atrium team believes it can innovate on to make things more efficient.
Extreme price increases lead to new entries in the market –
always.
Lower-cost alternative to EpiPen OK’d by FDA
U.S. regulators have approved new competition for EpiPen,
the emergency allergy medicine that made Mylan a poster
child for pharmaceutical company greed.
… Currently,
EpiPens cost about $630 to $700 without insurance, while the
new generic version retails for about $225 to $425.
Isn’t this Munchausen by proxy? Is that sufficient to put her in a mental
institution rather than prison? I’ll be
curious to see the sentence.
Michelle Carter text suicide trial verdict: Guilty
A young Massachusetts woman accused of sending her
boyfriend dozens
of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were teenagers
was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday.
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