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How Chinese Spies Got the N.S.A.’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks

maio 13, 2019 |

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 06/05/2019

Nicole Perlroth, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane
Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, a leading cybersecurity firm has discovered. The episode is the latest evidence that the United States has lost control of key parts of its cybersecurity arsenal.
 

Should the media quit Facebook?

maio 13, 2019 |

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 09/05/2019

Mathew Ingram
WITH ALL THAT HAS transpired between Facebook and the media industry over the past couple of years—the repeated algorithm changes, the head fakes about switching to video, the siphoning off of a significant chunk of the industry’s advertising revenue—most publishers approach the giant social network with skepticism, if not outright hostility. And yet, the vast majority of them continue to partner with Facebook, to distribute their content on its platform, and even accept funding and resources from it.

‘A Decade of Cravenness’: Tim Wu on How Enforcing Competition Law Could Have Stopped Big Tech

maio 13, 2019 |

NEW YORK MAGAZINE – 14/11/2018

Brian Feldman

Yesterday, Amazon announced that it was opening two new campuses in Crystal City, Virginia, and Queens, New York. The preceding audition process, with dozens of local and state governments offering ridiculous financial incentives to Jeff Bezos’s megalith, made Amazon’s power over the public sector plainly clear. Elsewhere, the parliaments of five separate countries are banding together in an attempt to force a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, the world’s largest social network — which it became without a peep from regulators.

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