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By infecting a Tesla owner's phone with Android malware, a car thief can hack and then steal a Tesla car, security researchers have revealed this week.

The Zuckerberg Files is an archive of all public utterances of Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. It includes transcripts and bibliographic data of all publicly-available content from 2004-2014 representing the voice and words of Zuckerberg, including blog posts, letters to shareholders, media interviews, public appearances and product presentations, and quotes in other sources.

But financials are just a small part of what makes Facebook so powerful. Here are some ways it dominates human attention:

• More than one billion people use Facebook each day. 1/4 of all time spent on the internet is spent using Facebook.

• For many people, Facebook is the internet. It’s the first place most people go to announce weddings, births, deaths, and other major life events.

• Facebook is increasingly the place where people consume other forms of media.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere is planning a major limitation of privacy rights in Germany, say data protection groups. Germans will no longer have the right to know what data about them is being collected.

Fake news didn’t throw the election. It was a symptom, not a cause.

Uber recently updated its Terms of Use, and it is outright unethical and grossly violates user’s right to their own data. This is what it says: Any User Content provided by you remains your property. However, by providing User Content to Uber, you grant Uber a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable…

Today is a big day in the Riot world, finally releasing the very first cross-platform implementation of Matrix’s end-to-end encryption!

OpenFood est une base de données librement accessible sur les produits vendus en Suisse. Elle est maintenue par le laboratoire d'Épidémiologie Numérique de l'EPFL.

"In a few steps they were able to make votes for one candidate count as votes for a rival"...

A lot of password rules are there simply “because we’ve always done it that way.” NIST aims to fix that, and here’s how.

Hackers gained access to sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, for 134,386 current and former U.S. sailors, the U.S. Navy said on Wednesday.

D'après les sources du New York Times, Facebook planche actuellement sur un outil permettant de bloquer l'apparition de certains contenus sur une base géographique....