The Tesla chief executive, who has been critical of Twitter’s content moderation policies, has bought 9.2 percent of the social media company.
Zyxel patches critical vulnerability that can allow Firewall and VPN hijacks
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Zyxel has issued patches for a highly critical security flaw that gives malicious hackers the ability to take control of a wide range of firewalls and VPN products the company sells to businesses. The flaw is an authentication bypass vulnerability that stems from a lack of a proper access-control...
Robert Malone Spreads Falsehoods About Vaccines. He Also Says He Invented Some.
Dr. Robert Malone says he helped invent mRNA vaccines and has been wronged for decades. Now he’s spreading unfounded claims about the vaccines and the virus.
How Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer Beat Amazon
The company’s crackdown on a worker protest in New York backfired and led to a historic labor victory.
Russia inches closer to its splinternet dream
Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no matter how fast their connection. Then came the...
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize
Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union. It was seen as a rebuke of the company’s treatment of its employees.
Explaining Spring4Shell: The Internet security disaster that wasn’t
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hype and hyperbole were on full display this week as the security world reacted to reports of yet another Log4Shell. The vulnerability came to light in December and is arguably one of the gravest Internet threats in years. Christened Spring4Shell—the new code-execution bug in the widely used Spring Java framework—quickly set...
(BPRW) MIT’s SDSCon 2022 – Ethnic Technologies to Sponsor
(Black PR Wire) On April 1, 2022, E-Tech will be one of the sponsors of SCSCon 2022 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SDSCon is a celebration and community-building event for those interested in statistics and data science. Discuss
Amazon Union Vote in Alabama Favors Opponents for Now
The count was much closer than another unionization vote taken at the facility last year.
Adults or Sexually Abused Minors? Getting It Right Vexes Facebook
The company reports millions of photos and videos of suspected child sexual abuse each year. But when ages are unclear, young people are treated as adults and the images are not reported to the authorities.

