While the technology did work in some cases, we’ve also seen glaring failures. After the Christchurch shooting, for example, Facebook wasn’t able to quickly remove the video. Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a new report indicating Facebook’s AI can’t identify first-person shooting videos and racist rants consistently. Plus, there was a bizarre incident where the algorithm wasn’t able to separate cockfighting and car crashes. The report noted that the firm’s AI only detects a small part of hate speech posts on the platform, and removes a few of them....

Twitter first used the ‘manipulated media’ label on an edited video of Joe Biden shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by Donald Trump. In the video, a Biden speech is edited to make it seem like he is saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” While no words were altered, the full sentence was “we can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here....

Authorities say Darkode was a “criminal organization” powered by a password-protected online forum. It was used by “high-level international hackers” and other cybercriminals to buy, sell, trade, and share hacking tools, info, and related ideas. American Thomas McCormack, Spaniard Florencio Carro Ruiz, and Slovenes Mentor Leniqi and Matjaz Skorjanc, have each been charged with racketeering conspiracy, as well as conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud. Each racketeering conspiracy charge includes extortion, identify theft, and access device fraud, a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release dated June 5 confirmed....

In an interview with local television, the city manager of Lake City, Joe Helfenberg, said the city’s director of information technology has been fired. Another local news outlet, WCJB, named the employee as Brian Hawkins. Last week, Lake City gave approval to its insurance company to pay the 42 Bitcoin ransom. The city itself paid a $10,000 excess using taxpayer funds. The city’s motivations for firing the employee aren’t entirely clear....

Everybody loves Photoshop — until they get the bill, that is. For all its image editing power, Adobe knows a cash cow when they see one, charging $120 as its absolute lowest price for just one year of Photoshop access. That premium price leaves plenty of room for smart providers to offer similar image editing software with comparable features for a much lower total. Case in point, Fotor Online is offering a lifetime subscription to their online photo editor/collage creator service at almost 90 percent off the usual price, only $69....

If you’ve got a great idea for a new business, that doesn’t always mean it’s time to throw open the doors and print off some letterhead. We all have personal strengths and weaknesses, which sometimes require some outside expertise to help your venture get off the ground the right way. You can find that much-needed help through the services of Founder2be, a pretty revolutionary business networking idea. Right now, you can get in on the Founder2be resources at over 90 percent off for a lifetime subscription, just $99, from TNW Deals....

The report comes from the Wall Street Journal, whose sources say that the FTC could block Facebook from pursuing further “interoperability,” which is its word for the ways in which its platforms interact. The word is that Facebook is trying to integrate its messaging services — Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram — with each other so that users don’t have to switch between apps when interacting with friends. Zuckerberg first mentioned this ambition in March when he outlined his vision for the future: The reason this seems so extra-thorny is that Facebook is currently the subject of an FTC investigation — specifically, an antitrust inquiry....

That’s the approach FuroSystems’ Furo X takes as one of relatively few carbon fiber folding ebikes on the market. The ebike manages to weigh just 34 pounds fully loaded with battery, fenders, and a rack, which is positively featherweight by ebike standards. The only ebike I’ve tested that’s significantly lighter are the new LeMonds, and while I’ve tested a few other featherweight ebikes, it’s rare to find something under 40 lbs in the folding category....

“[On] September 28th 2019, the Fusion swap wallet was compromised, resulting in theft of 10 million native FSN and 3.5 million ERC20 FSN token,” reads a Fusion Foundation blog dated September 29. The post then confirms the platform’s own wallet was the only one affected, as the firm had received no reports of compromised user wallets. Cryptocurrency traders reacted immediately to a prior announcement in the firm’s Telegram channel. The value of FSN halved, dropping from around $0....

A developer called GameClub is trying to bring back some of those early, forgotten gems by acquiring the rights to the games, then resurrecting them for the current iPhone market — preserving some of the most ephemeral parts of gaming history for future generations of iOS wielders. TNW spoke to Eli Hodapp, GameClub’s VP of Business Development and an alum of mobile gaming site Touch Arcade. He said his experience with the latter made him acutely aware of how transitory the App Store offerings were: “It really bothered me to see how many of the classic games that we awarded Game of the Year awards to at Touch Arcade just no longer exist or are no longer playable....

However, Germany wants to change this norm to improve the ownership experience for consumers, big-time. Lawmakers are pushing for a regulation that will require manufacturers to provide seven years of mandatory security updates According to a report by German publication Heise, the country’s government has proposed this norm, along with extended support for repairs. The authorities have mentioned that if devices need a fix, their parts should be available easily and “at a reasonable price”....

For children, one of the greatest Christmas feelings is that moment just after the very last present is opened. As they survey their mountain of new games, books, action figures and other gleaming baubles, a sensory overload sets in. With such a treasure trove of goodness spread out before them, where do they even begin? You can think of The 2020 Limited Edition Mac Bundle ft. Parallels Desktop ($36, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals with promo code: CMSAVE40) as a Mac user’s Cyber Monday....

The company’s directive is simple: if you contribute to code, you must enable 2FA. GitHub is probably pushing this initiative because the number of people using adequate security measures is so low. The company said only 16.5% of active GitHub users and only 6.44% of NPM registry users use 2FA. Last November, GitHub forced NPM package maintainers to enroll for 2FA to avoid account takeovers. The company is expanding this effort to secure top packages on the service: “In February we enrolled all maintainers of the top-100 packages on the NPM registry in mandatory 2FA, and in March we enrolled all NPM accounts in enhanced login verification....

Up until now, if a firm wanted to host its private development on GitHub, it had to subscribe to one of the premium plans starting from $7 a month. Last year, the company made private repositories available for the free tier, users but with restrictions such as the number of collaborators. Apart from private repository access, a team can also get 2,000 GitHub action minutes per month at no cost....

Last month, the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), the organization that represents record labels, issued a DCMA takedown notice against the tool. The notice said that YouTube-dl had used copyrighted songs from artists such as Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, and Charlie XCX, as samples of videos people can download. In response, GitHub took down the repository hosting YouTube-dl’s code. However, researchers and activists were furious as they used this tool for legitimate purposes; mostly for transcribing interviews or archiving important non-licensed videos....

The company said the move will protect creators from harassment and coordinated attacks, but critics fear it will become harder to find useful and trustworthy content. Some of them have proposed using YouTube comments as an alternative dislike counter, while others are devising technical fixes. One inventive programmer has attempted to restore the feature in a browser extension. The plugin currently uses the Google API to generate the dislike count....

The US government and Silicon Valley don’t agree on everything, but when it comes to dominating the modern space race they’re perfectly aligned. Uncle Sam’s going to put American boots on Martian soil and Elon Musk’s building the spaceship that’ll get them there. No matter your notions on nations, there’s something magical in truly believing that humans will walk on the surface of Mars in our lifetimes. Hooray for Mars!...

I reviewed the company’s first drone, the R1, and my jaw’s still on the floor. There’s nothing else out there like a Skydio drone. Most drones fall into the “remote control vehicle” category, the R1 and Skydio 2 are better described as robots. They rely on computer vision to effectively see in every direction. And both use a proprietary AI system to avoid crashing, perform aerial cinematography maneuvers, and follow people and vehicles....

It’s being made by a company called Oceanco in Rotterdam — but here’s where the Bald King has bumped into a problem: the Koningshaven bridge. This pathetic bit of historic infrastructure only allows a measly 40m clearance at its maximum height (pictured above). And, as we all know, anything smaller than this (like the 38m tall Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil) is shit. Shit and boring. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules, that’s Mr....

Now we have another car tire manufacturer who’s focusing on the EV industry: Goodyear. In a press release, the company announced its first EV-dedicated replacement tire in North America, the ElectricDrive GT. Why would EVs need special tires to begin with, you ask? Well, it all comes down to weight. Electric vehicles generally weigh more than conventional cars, which means they wear tires down much faster. Plus, worn tires will reduce the car’s range, so there’s a lot to win by preventing that from happening....