Justice Department has charged a Latvian woman it says helped develop Trickbot malware
Have you ever wondered what happens when you can't control your dog and you take him on a walk?
Amazon, The Age, The Guardian shut down by global website outage linked to provider Fastly
The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
Wired – “Video from the cameras is often used in facial-recognition searches. A report finds they are most common in neighborhoods with large nonwhite populations. A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the New York Police Department, both for routine surveillance and in facial-recognition searches. A 3D model shows the 200-meter range of a camera, part of a sweeping dragnet capturing the unwitting movements of nearly half of the city’s residents, putting them at risk formisidentification. The group says it is the first to map the locations of that many cameras in the city. Amnesty International and a team of volunteer researchers mapped cameras that can feed NYPD’s much criticized facial-recognition systems in three of the city’s five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx—finding 15,280 in total. Brooklyn is the most surveilled, with over 8,000 cameras…”
CNET – “Zoom makes video chatting with colleagues easy, but you might be giving away more than you bargained for. Here are some of the privacy vulnerabilities in Zoom that you should watch out for while working remotely…”
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Auditor-General blasts biosecurity system for failing to pick up risks
Hong Kong’s State Broadcaster Forbidden To Report Political News
“‘We were informed that no political story is allowed,’ says Emily*, an RTHK employee who, along with others interviewed for this article, asked for anonymity to speak freely. ‘We think it’s kind of funny because what isn’t a political story now?'” – The Guardian
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
In Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” the main character, Janie, recounts the story of her marriages and journey to self-confidence. She tells a difficult tale, suffused with both joy and pain. Throughout Janie’s tribulations, she learns that the reasons behind some events don’t make themselves known immediately. You may be thrust into a confusing situation, but trust that the meaning of it — and the lessons it has to teach — will reveal themselves in time.
‘How to Tell a Joke’ Review: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Cicero was the first intellectual to rise to prominence in politics, and his life offers perhaps the best warning on record to intellectuals to steer clear of politics. A novus homo, or new man, which is to say a man born without a distinguished lineage, the first of his family to enter public life, Cicero, through talent and cunning, achieved the office of consul, the highest in the Roman Republic. But, owing to thugs employed by Mark Antony, he ended with his decapitated head and hands nailed above the rostrums in the Forum.
Helsinki Complaints Choir. And Tokyo.