It’s mid June, and according to tradition, the news cycle is supposed to be lethargic, cooling off in a hammock somewhere and taking it easy. Not so much this week.
It started off well enough: On Sunday we explained how to actually, finally stop all those robocalls—or at least slow them down.
But then Monday hit, and the US government confirmed that hackers had stolen a border agency database full of traveler photos. The incident proves that as the government has rushed to embrace biometrics, it hasn’t bothered to worry enough about securing that sensitive data.
Things didn’t slow down from there. Tuesday, a much more fun cache of data leaked online: 18 hours of previously unreleased music from Radiohead. And who leaked it? None other than Radiohead themselves, who did it to undercut someone trying to extort the band for $150,000 to keep the songs offline. Hail to the thief, indeed.
Google continues to swear it is not trying to kill ad blockers, despite what ad blockers say, Lily Hay Newman reported Wednesday. And Symantec VP Darren Shou explained why the next big hurdle for AI is teaching it to forget.
Thursday we brought you three big stories: we went inside Cloudflare’s five-year project to protect nonprofits; reported that Google is actually trying to close the major loophole in web encryption; and had the exclus ..
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