In spite of documented Russian election meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election, and years of warnings from security researchers about insecure voting infrastructure, the US has moved slowly to improve its election defenses. Now a new documentary, Kill Chain, is attempting to lay out the urgency of taking action before it’s too late.Many…
The state of Ohio has, as of this writing, five confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. If you ask Amy Acton, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, that’s the tip of the tip of a very dangerous iceberg. “We know now, just the fact of community spread says…
Keeping the internet safe may sometimes feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole, reacting to attacks as they arise, then moving on to the next. In reality, though, it’s an ongoing process that involves not just identifying threats but grabbing and retaining control of the infrastructure behind them. For years a small nonprofit called Shadowserver has…
In 2017, a three-person Austin-based production and management company called Exurbia Films assumed rights management for the 1974 cult horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.“My job was to take us into Chainsaw 2.0,” says Pat Cassidy, a producer and agent with Exurbia. “The original guys did a great job managing the rights but aren’t from…
Microsoft Bing recently released an interactive map that allows users to see the number of coronavirus cases worldwide, by country, and by state.The map provides related articles for each region, but The Verge said they’re not always relevant or timely.Google is also developing tools to provide information about the coronavirus outbreak but was blindsided by…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018.Stephen Lam | ReutersGoogle warned customers and users to expect some changes and a delay in responses as its employees begin to work remotely amid the COVID-19 outbreak.It’s a sign that coronavirus is having an…
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Clorox wipes are among a handful of cleaning products known to help combat the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends Clorox wipes in its list of useful cleaners. Even Apple is recommending the use of a “70 percent isopropyl alcohol wipe” or Clorox Disinfecting…
Tonight, former vice president Joe Biden and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders will meet onstage to debate for the 11th time in the 2020 campaign season—but it’s never been quite like this. We’re days into a state of national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic that is rapidly spreading across the country. It’s the first time the…
Dag Knudsen spends a lot of time photographing symmetrical faces. Usually they belong to beautiful people in fashion magazines. But increasingly, his models are llamas. Lizards. Even snails. It’s a veritable Symmetrizoo—as close to “blue steel” as the animal kingdom gets.It all started in 2017, when Knudsen cast a sphinx cat as a co-model in…
A leading anxiety in both the technology and foreign policy worlds today is China’s purported edge in the artificial intelligence race. The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on data collection that liberal democracies impose and with the capacity to centrally direct greater resource allocation, the Chinese will outstrip the West. AI is…
