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BBC Sport
10 months ago
Soccer (FIFA)

Almost 20,000 abusive posts during 2022 World Cup

Almost 20,000 abusive social media posts were aimed at players, coaches and officials during last year's World Cup, says a
Of 20 million posts scanned by moderation software developed by Fifa and players' union Fifpro, 286,895 were hidden from public view.The biggest spike in abuse came after England's quarter-final loss to France, when Harry Kane missed a late penalty.
Portland
Portland Mercury
10 months ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Mayor's Cruel Homeless Ban, Pedalpalooza Returns, and So Much June Fun!

GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY!It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week!(PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters!All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box... and then... YOUR HEAD.)
* Critics Call City's Proposed Camping Ban "Impossible to Comply With"
"I think expecting people to be able to comply with packing up tents and carrying away all their belongings every morning at 8 am is really unrealistic," one service provider said.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

I never yelled at my old cell phones

I've been mad at every one, though, maybe six or eight cell phones over the decades, flip-phones, half-size small screen pocket the simplest.
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JDSupra.com
10 months ago
Privacy professionals

With July 1st in view, Google updates CCPA contract terms

Google updated its privacy terms earlier this month, shifting away from offering many of its advertising services on a "service provider" basis.With the change, Google states that its Customer Match, Audience Partner API, and certain audience-building services no longer meet the CCPA's strict new requirements to be offered on a "service provider" basis.
Coindesk
11 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Security Firm Dfns Adds Biometric Support to Wallet Development Toolkit

Paris-based crypto security firm Dfns has revealed plans to incorporate biometric identification into its wallet-as-a-service toolkit, allowing crypto developers to build out wallets that use Face ID, fingerprint scanners and other biometrics to secure user funds.Last year's collapse of the FTX exchange and numerous similar incidents reinforced that storing crypto in a personal wallet, rather than entrusting it to an exchange or custodian, is the safest option.
SecurityWeek
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Latitude Financial Services Data Breach Impacts 300,000 Customers

Australian financial services company Latitude Financial Services is notifying roughly 300,000 customers that their personal information might have been compromised in a data breach.A subsidiary of Deutsche Bank and KKE operating since 2015 and headquartered in Melbourne, Latitude is the largest non-bank lender of consumer credit in Australia, also offering services in New Zealand, under the brand Gem Finance.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

LastPass users: Your info and vault data is now in hackers' hands

LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords and other data stored in customer vaults.The revelation, posted on Thursday, represents a dramatic update to a breach LastPass disclosed in August.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Meet The MSPA, The IAB'S Answer To State Privacy Laws | AdExchanger

As of Thursday, the IAB's multistate privacy agreement (MSPA) is available for advertisers, publishers and ad tech partners to sign and begin using to track their data flows.What is the MSPA?(Forgive me in advance.)The MSPA is a contractual framework built off of the IAB's limited service provider agreement that aims to help companies share Global Privacy Platform consent signals with their partners in the online ad supply chain while also complying with state privacy laws, including the CPRA in California (which is itself an evolution of the CCPA) and others coming into effect in Colorado (CPA), Virginia (VCDPA), Connecticut (CTDPA) and Utah (UCPA).
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Measurement Is At Stake When CPRA Takes Effect | AdExchanger

The digital media industry has been absorbing punches to its business model under the guise of privacy.
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www.housingwire.com
11 months ago
Real estate

WFG acquires West Coast retail title operations from Doma

Williston Financial Group (WFG) and Doma Holdings, Inc. announced on Tuesday the completion of an agreement for WFG to acquire certain branches of Doma's West Coast local retail title operations.The deal includes multiple retail title locations and operations centers in the Northern and Central California regions.
HousingWire
1 year ago
Real estate

Black Knight to integrate Wolters Kluwer's eNote and eVault capabilities

Black Knight will integrateWolters Kluwer's eNote and eVault capabilities in order to cut lenders' costs per transaction and secure their clients' electronically signed assets.The two firms signed an agreement to combine Wolters Kluwer's eNote and eVault solutions with Expedite Close - Black Knight's digital closing solution - as the final pieces to connect all the tools lenders need to perform digital closings and complete digital mortgages, Black Knight said Thursday.
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

Potrero, Sunnydale public housing mismanaged by private firm, city report says

The sprawling, 54-building Potrero Terrace-Annex public housing complex is being mismanaged by the private company in charge of day-to-day operations, according to a review of the firm's performance by San Francisco city officials obtained via public records request.The management firm, Eugene Burger Management Corporation, was out of compliance in all five metrics tracked in January and failed four of the five metrics in February, according to a report by the San Francisco Housing Authority of the management firm's contract serving public housing units in the Potrero Terrace-Annex and Sunnydale.
Engadget
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

FTC warns tech companies against AI shenanigans that harm consumers | Engadget

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Since its establishment in 1914, the US Federal Trade Commission has stood as a bulwark against the fraud, deception, and shady dealings that American consumers face every day - fining brands that "review hijack" Amazon listings, making it easier to cancel magazine subscriptions and blocking exploitative ad targeting.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Soccer (FIFA)

Fifa issues warning to Qatar 2022 hotels over LGBTQ+ discrimination

Hotels on the official list of recommended accommodation for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are required to welcome guests in a "non-discriminatory manner" or face termination of contracts, Fifa has said.
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

SF residents should apply for low-cost internet, city says

Some 124,000 San Francisco households are eligible for free or low-cost home internet from the federal government, yet only 26 percent of eligible households currently receive it.That disparity has led the city to this month launch a new initiative, "Connect San Francisco" to connect residents to the federal Affordable Connectivity Program, which gives eligible families a $30 discount each month for home internet.
Alleywatch
11 months ago
NYC startup

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 5/8/23

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track.The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/6/23 featuring funding details for Airspeed, Fedi, Openlayer, and twelve other deals representing $426M in new funding that you need to know about.
Theregister
11 months ago
Privacy professionals

Bitmarck shuts down systems, services after cyberattack

German IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack.The company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, or insured individuals' data had been accessed in the security breach - at least not according to "the current state of knowledge," according to an April 30 update posted on its temporary website.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

CAFC Sends Amazon Patent Case Back to District Court Due to Ambiguous Stipulation

"The court took issue with the stipulation and 'warned of the dangers of stipulating to non-infringement based on a district court's claim constructions without indicating the exact basis for non-infringement.'"The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential ruling Monday that vacated and remanded a district court ruling on patent infringement in a case between Amazon and AlterWAN.
KQED
1 year ago
California

Judge to Allow Evictions at Long-Running Oakland Homeless Encampment, Residents Vow to Fight | KQED

Caltrans evicted the bulk of the residents from land it owns in September.But the Commons, which sits on city-owned land directly across from Raimondi Park, was not part of that effort.In a statement earlier this month, Oakland officials said they want to clear the lot to begin developing 170 units of affordable housing at the site.
ComputerWeekly.com
1 year ago
DevOps

IT's shift to the cloud: Veeam's data protection report in detail | Computer Weekly

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IT has undergone a significant shift to the cloud, but may have stabilised - for now - at about half of corporate workloads, with the other half in the datacentre.Meanwhile, the trend is towards using the cloud as part of the backup process, with a large majority expecting to have gone down that road by 2025.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Finding that Takedown Notice for Auto Stickers Violated DMCA

"DDI argues...this court has not addressed the knowledge requirement under Section 512(f).... [but] the parties stipulated to this standard as the law that the judge would use during the bench trial."
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Billing fraud apps can disable Android Wi-Fi and intercept text messages

Android malware developers are stepping up their billing fraud game with apps that disable Wi-Fi connections, surreptitiously subscribe users to pricey wireless services, and intercept text messages, all in a bid to collect hefty fees from unsuspecting users, Microsoft said on Friday.
 @emptywheel11 months ago
Jack Teixeira's February 2022 Logs
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Jack Teixeira's February 2022 Logs - emptywheel

In a motion to keep Jack Teixiera jailed, the government provided more details about what an unstable nut they gave access to the US' most sensitive secrets.While it remains to be seen whether any of Teixeira's leaks got people killed, the government is lucky he didn't go postal before he was caught.
news.bitcoin.com
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Japan's Largest IT Service Provider Fujitsu Files Trademark Covering Crypto Trading Services Featured Bitcoin News

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that covers several cryptocurrency services.The application specifically mentions financial management of crypto assets, financial exchange of crypto assets, and financial broker services for cryptocurrency trading.
The IP Law Blog
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

GoDaddy Obtains Section 230 Immunity Despite Plaintiffs' "Sympathetic" Claims

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ("CDA") provides immunity to "interactive computer services" providers against certain types of legal claims, such as when harmful material is posted on their site by third parties.Until recently, the Ninth Circuit had not decided whether to extend the protections of section 230 immunity to a website domain registrar such as GoDaddy.com.
patentlyo.com
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Liability for Recommendations

by Dennis Crouch The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the major internet-law case of Gonzalez v. Google, focusing on Section 230(c) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.That provision creates a wide safe harbor for internet service providers; shielding them from liability associated with publishing third-party content.
Tech.co
1 year ago
Marketing

Yahoo Cuts 20% of Workforce in Latest Lay Offs Shock

These cuts will predominantly be made to the company's ad tech employees, with 1,000 workers already being shown the door on Thursday, and a further 600 employees facing the same fate in six months' time."These decisions are never easy, but we believe these changes will simplify and strengthen our advertising business for the long run, while enabling Yahoo to deliver better value to our customers and partners" - Yahoo Spokesperson

With the US web service provider generating a healthy $8 billion per annum in profits, Yahoo's CEO, Jim Lazone, maintains that this decision was not borne out of financial hardships.
Business Insider
1 year ago
Marketing

I'm a 23-year-old founder booking $16,000 in sales a month with my social-media agency. Here's my advice for launching an online business.

Lauren Russell, 23, is the founder of the social-media agency, Irresistibly Social LLC.In June 2022, Russell booked $16,000 in sales and regularly passes five figures in monthly revenue.She shared the steps she took to launch a social-media business and her advice on finding success.While Lauren Russell was encouraged to climb a corporate ladder and take a more traditional approach to her career, the success of her travel blog, marketing videos on , and personal brand quickly became a lucrative alternative.
Grizzly Gazette
1 year ago
Marketing

BudSense is a cannabis dispensary's best friend

Learning from the Pros interviews professional entrepreneurs who are currently in the trenches growing their businesses.Through insightful conversations, we unpack their common business challenges and identify the lessons every business owner needs to learn so they can accelerate their own business growth.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

What Publishers Need To Know About Implementing The MSPA | AdExchanger

The ad industry is facing one of its biggest regulatory fears: a patchwork of distinct state privacy laws.California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut and Utah have privacy laws that have either recently taken effect or will come into effect this year.To help businesses operate in this complicated legislative landscape, the IAB released the Multi-State Privacy Agreement (MSPA), which offers a contractual framework and consent management guidance for compliance.
MarTech
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Why and how you should rethink profile merging | MarTech

When marketers get too caught up in chasing the "golden record" in a customer data platform (CDP), they can allow "identity" to foul up their use cases.So let's look at why creating a single customer profile in your CDP isn't always ideal and how you can develop the correct procedures for merging records.
Redfin | Real Estate Tips for Home Buying, Selling & More
1 year ago
Real estate

5 Home Remodeling Projects to Boost Your Property Value in Huntington Beach, CA

Are you looking to increase the value of your ?Then look no further!Whether you're looking to sell in the near future or simply want to improve your living space with the right upgrades and features, you can give your property a boost.From outdoor living spaces to modern kitchen features, there are many different ways to add value to your home.
Redfin | Real Estate Tips for Home Buying, Selling & More
1 year ago
Real estate

5 Home Remodeling Projects to Boost Your Property Value in Irvine, CA

If you own a home in Irvine , it's important to stay up-to-date on the latest that can add value to your property.Whether you're looking to sell your home in the near future or just want to make some upgrades, investing in the right home remodeling projects can increase your home's equity and make it more attractive to potential buyers.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC real estate

Can My Apartment Building Really Ban Overnight Guests?

Q: We own an apartment in a high-rise rental building in Manhattan, which we use as a pied-a-terre.For years we've allowed friends to stay in the apartment when they visit New York and we're not there.The doormen have recently been instructed not to allow entry to guests unless the tenant is with them.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Google Offers To Spin Out Its Ad Tech?!; And Meta May Be Up Next | AdExchanger

The leak apparently comes from the Justice Department, which is surprising because those guys like to keep their lips sealed.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Health

Cancer screenings like colonoscopies are supposed to be free. Hers cost $2,185

Preventive care should be free to patients under the Affordable Care Act, but Elizabeth Melville of Sunapee, NH., was charged $2,185 for a colonoscopy in 2021.
Austin Monitor
1 year ago
Austin

Homeless Austinites report conditions improving at shelters - Austin Monitor

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
Results from a recent client survey indicate that the new operator of the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless is making progress in efforts to turn around the downtown men's shelter.The December survey of ARCH and Southbridge shelter residents found that strong majorities feel safe, that their needs are being met, and that staff members are responsive and respectful while providing services.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Signal CEO: We "1,000% won't participate" in UK law to weaken encryption

The nonprofit responsible for the Signal messenger app is prepared to exit the UK if the country requires providers of encrypted communications to alter their products to ensure user messages are free of material that's harmful to children."We would absolutely exit any country if the choice were between remaining in the country and undermining the strict privacy promises we make to the people who rely on us," Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker told Ars. "The UK is no exception."
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

German Digital Committee heaps scorn on Chat Control

Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament's (Bundestag) Digital Affairs Committee on Wednesday.By the Digital Affairs Committee's own account, as algorithmically translated, "The plans, which include the use of technologies such as client-side scanning (CSS), were met with criticism from many quarters, which was also reflected in the assessments of the experts: the majority of the invited experts emphasized that the project [went] too far in crucial places."
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Breached health insurer won't pay ransom to save customers

Australian health insurer Medibank - which spent October discovering a security incident was worse than it first thought - has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million customers."Based on the extensive advice we have received from cyber crime experts we believe there is only a limited chance paying a ransom would ensure the return of our customers' data and prevent it from being published," CEO David Koczkar stated in a stock market filing published on Monday.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Spanish ISPs Fall Short of Robust Commitments to User Privacy in New Eticas' Report

Spanish Internet Service Providers (ISPs) continue to fall short of robust transparency about their data protection and user privacy practices, with many failing to meet criteria that directly builds on Spanish and EU data protection regulations.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

UK cybersecurity chiefs back plan to scan phones for child abuse images

Tech companies should move ahead with controversial technology that scans for child abuse imagery on users' phones, the technical heads of GCHQ and the UK's National Cybersecurity Centre have said.
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Keep an eye on your Experian accounts for fraudulent access

Experian customers are reportedly at risk of having their accounts hijacked by fraudsters who only need a victim's personal information and a different email address to recreate an account in their name.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Pigeon fancier's drug dealing operation busted after love of birds gave away location

A pigeon fancier's drug dealing operation was busted by police after his love of birds gave away the location of his loft.Stephen Gildea, 37, was caught after police tracked down his home after he shared pictures of his bird loft to gang members on an encrypted messaging service.He was jailed for 11 years and three months at Liverpool Crown Court on 7 February after he admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin.
The Independent
1 year ago
UK news

Ukraine Family scheme branded 'disaster' as 'thousands' stuck in overcrowded UK homes

Thousands of Ukrainians seeking refuge in the UK have been forced to live in overcrowded accommodation, with whole families sharing single rooms, charities have warned.
VentureBeat
1 year ago
Data science

How to scale infinite and complex IoT data

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here.By 2022, we are expected to have more than 14 billion connected devices generating a volume of data we could never have imagined.When it comes to Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and data collectors, more is more.The size of modern datasets can leave leaders of large-scale IoT deployments lost at where to begin analyzing and interpreting data for business benefits.
9to5Mac
1 year ago
Online marketing

Report: Apple hunting TV exec to lead ad sales for live sports and ad-supported TV+ plans

Via Business Insider, Apple is currently looking for an ad sales executive focused on TV content.Apple's involvement in video advertising is already set to expand with the company's growing live sports deals, like Major League Soccer (beginning next month) and MLB Friday Night Baseball.Moreover, there's ongoing speculation that Apple is planning to launch an ads tier of Apple TV+ as soon as this year, which the new ad exec would oversee.
San Jose Spotlight
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Jose secures $3M for homeless housing sites - San Jose Spotlight

San Jose is using its slice of a $1.7 trillion federal spending package to address ongoing homelessness.South Bay congressional leaders Ro Khanna, Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren have secured more than $3 million to fund case management, food services and security at two different temporary housing sites in San Jose-the SureStay Hotel and Marbury Bridge Housing.
DATAVERSITY
1 year ago
Business intelligence

Business Use Cases Create Momentum for Citizen Data Scientists - DATAVERSITY

As businesses plan for  data democratization, it is essential to include a strategy to ensure that business users will accept augmented analytics solutions and adapt to the new citizen data scientist role.With business users on board, the enterprise can capitalize on its strategy and optimize return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) for its technology investment.
TechRepublic
1 year ago
Information security

GitHub offers secret scanning for free

Open source software development service has made it easier for developers using its public repositories to keep coding secrets and tokens close to the chest.Microsoft's Git-based open source Internet hosting service for software developers is expanding its secret scanning partner program.Hitherto, this service was available only to GitHub Advanced Security users.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Information security

Passkeys-Microsoft, Apple, and Google's password killer-are finally here

For years, Big Tech has insisted that the death of the password is right around the corner.For years, those assurances have been little more than empty promises.The password alternatives-such as pushes, OAUTH single-sign ons, and trusted platform modules-introduced as many usability and security problems as they solved.
TechRepublic
1 year ago
Information security

Keep your business totally secure with this decentralized VPN

The pocket-sized Deeper Connect Pico can help you tap into a worldwide security network.
When you are working with important data, security is paramount.
Theregister
1 year ago
Information security

Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there's no fix yet

A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won't have a patch until next week.
Eater Chicago
1 year ago
Chicago

United Center Workers Allege Labor Violations at the Home of the Bulls and Blackhawks

A group of food service and sanitation workers at Chicago's United Center on Tuesday filed 24 labor complaints against their employer, Levy Restaurants, alleging that the company over-scheduled employees in violation of Illinois labor law.A dozen employees and members of Unite Here Local 1 also gathered on Tuesday to picket outside the United Center, according to the .
Eater Chicago
1 year ago
Chicago

Lakeview Nightclub Berlin Temporarily Closes Day After Customer Dies

Berlin Nightclub, the 39-year-old dance and drag club in Lakeview, temporarily closed on Sunday following the death of a woman who was found unresponsive at the venue the previous morning, owners announced on Twitter.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

What is service design and why it matters

I started my studies in strategic design a couple of years ago but I had no idea what I was getting into.Service design, one of the disciplines taught in these studies, has always been a vague concept for me.I have been working with both service designers and UX designers and have taken on both roles myself.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Advice | Despite years working with executives, I'm treated as support staff

Reader: I've heard some words of encouragement, but never any commitment to changing my situation.Every year I'm told I am "indispensable" and that there are opportunities for growth, but positions above me are filled from the outside.I have been here long enough to know that going to human resources would only result in passive-aggressive maltreatment.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Public health

They were turned away from urgent care. The reason? Their car insurance

After Frankie Cook's car accident on a wet road outside Rome, Ga., her father, Russell (right), got a lawyer's letter saying they owed a hospital emergency room more than $17,000 for scans and an exam to see if she had a concussion.
The Real Deal Los Angeles
1 year ago
LA real estate

Homeless to be fast tracked into The Cecil, now a privately-funded permanent housing site.

The status of a privately funded venture to provide shelter to homeless people was settled Aug. 11 by a Los Angeles City Council committee.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Health

The ambulance chased one patient into collections

After a car crash, Peggy Dula was billed $3,606 in ambulance fees by a taxpayer-funded municipal fire department.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in 1 stroke

For more than a decade, we've been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security Nirvana proves out of reach.
ComputerWeekly.com
1 year ago
London

Community Fibre hits full-fibre benchmark as Giganet increases CityFibre commitment

Two of the leading challenger networks in the UK's gigabit connectivity industry, Community Fibre and City Fibre, have announced respective key expansions to core networks in key territories and to internet service provider (ISP) choice.
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