Earlier this week, 19-year-old Jack Sweeney won a bit of internet fame when Protocol published a story about one of his Twitter bots. The college student maintains ElonJet, a tracker that tweets out when Elon Musk’s private jet takes off and lands. Sweeney has several other such bots that use publicly available air traffic data to…
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Home News Internet (Image credit: Shutterstock) Australia’s consumer watchdog wants internet providers to openly advertise the typical upload speeds of their broadband plans, as it says upload speeds have “become more important to consumers” in recent years.The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says clear-cut information around broadband upload speeds started to decline in 2020,…
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The IRS Wants Your Face
The IRS will require users to scan their faces to access their tax returns. The news has privacy advocates worried. In just a few months’ time, we’re told, the IRS will require users to scan their faces to access their tax returns. The news has privacy advocates worried.According to Jackie Singh, director of technology and…
The IRS will soon require taxpayers to use facial recognition to access their online accounts. Users will need to submit a combination of documents and even a video selfie to ID.me, a third-party company, to verify their identity. Information security blog Krebs on Security drew attention to the plan last week. The additional verification will…
Ari Lennox has had some controversy lately, and it seems like it’s getting to her. The Dreamville singer tweeted that she wanted to be dropped from all her labels amidst social media attacking her after a “disrespectful” interview with a South African podcaster. 189 Views Ari Lennox, who is signed to both Dreamville and Interscope…
Angela Muhwezi-Hall had a startup idea long before the pandemic—it just never seemed like the right time. She had a steady job at a university, a 401(k), and the ability to take paid time off. Then came March 2020. As the university shut down and Muhwezi-Hall retreated to work from home, she started to think…
Transgender prisoners will be allowed to choose which correctional facility to live in under Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan. Kevin C. Downs New York’s transgender inmates will get to choose where they’re housed based on their gender identity under a policy directive included in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $216 billion budget plan. The sweeping new policy says…
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski has never been beloved by Alaska’s conservatives. She lost her state’s Republican primary in 2010, but waged a successful write-in campaign in the general election with support from independents and some Democrats. After she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S.…
FedEx jets might soon pack defensive weaponry. NBC News and Reuters report FedEx has asked the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to equip an upcoming fleet of Airbus A321-200 aircraft with an anti-missile laser system. The proposed hardware would disrupt the tracking on heat-seeking missiles by steering infrared laser energy toward the oncoming projectiles. The…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed its plan to change the rules regarding how businesses report both data breaches and data leaks to their customers and the federal government.FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has put forth a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would begin the process of changing the government agency’s rules for notification…