The Insider News

Slash Gear[^]:

A new study from Yale University has found that common social media features like “sharing” and “likes” are unintentionally training users to act outraged online, the reason being that other users are more likely to engage with posts that are more extreme

Tech Republic[^]:

Threat researcher explains why it's tricky to tell the difference between legitimate Excel Macros and ones that deliver malware.

Quirks mode[^]:

Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break.

Isovalent[^]:

By allowing sandboxed programs to run within the operating system, eBPF enables developers to create eBPF programs that add capabilities to the operating system at runtime.

IT Pro Portal[^]:

Low-code and no-code software development (LCNC), a method of simplifying development by eliminating much of the need for linear coding, is an absolute mystery for many C-suite executives.

Vice[^]:

Nvidia pulled off a stunt to promote and showcase its latest technology by digitizing its CEO Jensen Huang in a conference keynote.

IT Pro Today[^]:

Tracking hard disk temperature can help avoid disk failure--and the consequences of disk failure.

ZDNet[^]:

Attackers turn to Morse code's dots and dashes in invoicing phishing campaign.

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Nearly 30 years later, Agre’s paper seems eerily prescient, a startling vision of a future that has come to pass in the form of a data industrial complex that knows no borders and few laws. Data collected by disparate ad networks and mobile apps for myriad purposes is being used to sway elections or, in at least one case, to out a gay priest. But Agre didn’t stop there. He foresaw the authoritarian misuse of facial recognition technology, he predicted our inability to resist well-crafted disinformation and he foretold that artificial intelligence would be put to dark uses if not subjected to moral and philosophical inquiry.