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HBO keeps getting hacked, cryptocurrencies are not currencies & robots won’t take all our jobs

Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover It’s been a brutal month of hacks for HBO, here’s a wrap-up of everything that happened. There’s no GoT spoilers, I promise! The company kicked off August with an apparently massive breach of...

28 Aug 2017

The Daily Stormer sucks, Trumps disbands business councils & China’s headed for AI world domination

This week we’ve had the imminent threat of a nuclear war with North Korea, white supremacists walking down the streets with tiki torches and nazi flags and a president Trump that didn’t say or do anything to really help with any of this. Here’s a...

18 Aug 2017

Google’s diversity memo shakes the web, Walt Disney's leaving Netflix & researchers infected a computer with DNA

Google fires engineer who “crossed the line” with diversity memo Unless you live on another planet, you’ll have heard about that Google engineer who wrote a controversial essay arguing that the company has gone overboard in its attempts to promote diversity. Well he got fired...

11 Aug 2017

China censors Apple and Amazon, cryptocurrencies are the new gold & Hyperloop is the future of public transportation

WannaCry-Stopping Hacker MalwareTech Arrested For Helping Write Kronos Banking Trojan BREAKING! Remember that guy everybody thought was a hero and a white hacker? Well, nope! And this is why we can’t have nice things… Marcus Hutchins entered the pantheon of hacker heroes for stopping the WannaCry...

04 Aug 2017

Sweden leaks massive data, Amazon misleads consumers & the Library of Congress opens its catalogs

Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage From Data Breach There it is, your weekly mind blowing data leak. This one is very impressive in quantity and kind of information leaked. Sweden’s government is scrambling to contain the political fallout from a huge breach of confidential data,...

28 Jul 2017

$31M+ stolen in cryptocurrencies, new blockchain challenges & Japan sent a drone to space!

Bitcoin swings as civil war looms As the cryptocurrencies slowly mature, problems arise and we are on the verge of a schism that could hurt Bitcoin. The popularity of the financial technology has caused transactions to be processed slower, with some users complaining of having to...

21 Jul 2017
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