“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/detectives-cracked-the-golden-state-killer-case-using-genetics/
“French-born Jean-Noel Frydman is suing the country for ‘cybersquatting’ on the France.com domain name, CNBC reported.”
“Today, they have sold their first commercial machine to a farmer in France. The three-row version can replace 70 to 80 human pickers.”
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43813284
“The exciting result is ‘the Vulcan,’ a 3D Home Printer designed to print a home for less than $4,000 in less than 24 hours.”
Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-crazy-until-3d-printing-homes-worlds-poor-brett-hagler/
“Police admitted to using a photo sent through WhatsApp to cull fingerprints for evidence that successfully led to the conviction of 11 individuals for drug crimes. The story further revealed that this was not just a special-use case.”
“Interviews with more than two dozen customers who had their money stolen through Zelle illustrate the weaknesses that criminals are using in targeting the network.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/business/zelle-banks-fraud.html
“Can you trust something that’s summoned into being, without a government backing it? As it turns out, this is precisely the conundrum that early Americans faced.”
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/founding-fathers-money-problems-bitcoin-180968393/
“Cell-phone tracking technology known as cell-site simulators (CSS) are being operated by potentially malicious actors in our nation’s capital. DHS doesn’t know who’s operating them or why, or whether these fake cell towers are installed elsewhere in the country.”
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dhs-confirms-presence-cell-site-simulators-us-capitol
“The statement from the Chinese embassy said Trump’s trade action was ‘self-defeating’ and would hurt American companies, consumers and financial markets. The administration said it would announce in the next 15 days which products would be subject to tariffs.”
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/22/news/economy/china-trade-war-response/index.html
