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Chief executive Jonah Peretti says in company-wide email BuzzFeed ‘can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News’BuzzFeed is shutting down what remains of its award-winning news department, signalling the end of an era for a website that once promised t…
Australian-US company Internet 2.0 says social media app now seeks users’ altitude information according to source codeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian-US cybersecurity company that last year revea…
Longtime Slashdot reader GeorgeK and author at FreeSpeech.com writes: ICANN and Verisign have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their proposed renewal of the .NET registry agreement, which is now open for public comments…
Hack caused major outages for some clients including local councils and ‘potentially accessed public sector data ‘Outsourcing group Capita, which runs crucial services for the NHS and military, has for the first time admitted that hackers accessed pote…
Online image hosting service Imgur is updating its Terms of Service on May 15th to prohibit nudity and sexually explicit content, among other things. The news arrived in an email sent to “Imgurians”. The changes have since been outlined on the company’…
Cabinet Office secretary, Oliver Dowden, to issue national alert and urge companies to boost cybersecurityRussian hackers organised along the lines of the paramilitary Wagner group are seeking “to disrupt or destroy” parts of the UK’s critical national…
Lindy Cameron speech expected to present the security threat posed by Beijing as an epoch-defining challenge to the westChina poses an “epoch-defining” challenge to the west, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is reportedlyto warn.Li…
DuckDuckGo announced a new tool called DuckAssist that “automatically pulls and summarizes information from Wikipedia in response to certain questions,” reports The Verge. From the report: DuckAssist’s beta is live on the search engine right now — but…
Defence ministry says it cannot rule out ‘cognitive warfare tactics’ after disinformation during Chinese drillsTaiwan’s defence ministry has raised the alarm about disinformation attacks during the recent Chinese military drills and alerted local media…
Former IT specialist, 21, arrested on Thursday is accused of intelligence leak believed to have started on DiscordThe 21-year-old suspect in the recent leaks of Pentagon intelligence appeared in federal court in Boston on Friday.Jack Teixeira was detai…