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Is Google Being Racist?
A new study of Google’s search engine has found that searches for names typically associated with black people are far more likely to throw up ads relating to criminal activity, leading one Harvard professor to suggest that the search engine could be “racially biased.” For example, a search on Google for names primarily given to ...
Super Bowl on Twitter & Facebook: Power Outage and Beyonce Steal the Show
Facebook and Twitter saw more than their fair share of action during yesterday’s Super Bowl, and not surprisingly the power outage that left the Superdome in the dark was among the ‘biggest trending’ topics on both social media sites. Super Bowl on Twitter . The power outage was by far and away the most talked ...
The Deadliest Security Threats Right Now
Security threats are ever-present online, always changing, always adapting, constantly probing for weaknesses in a seemingly infinite number of ways, with the express goal of turning your life upside down (and making money for the perpetrators). As an internet user you need to be aware of the increasingly sophisticated ways that hackers are able to ...
Bing Apps for Office – Another Nail in Google’s Coffin?
Just when you thought that Microsoft had run out of ideas how on how to tackle Google’s search engine dominance – wham! All of the sudden they come up with the truly genius idea of integrating your new Microsoft Office suite with Bing. We probably should have seen this one coming. After all, we already have Bing-powered apps for Windows 8, ...
Google Submits EU Anti-Trust Proposal, But it’s Unlikely to Wriggle its Way Out This Time
Google has just beaten the deadline to submit its proposal on how it plans to conduct its search engine business in future, in the latest round of its ongoing European anti-trust probe. Antoine Colombani, spokesperson for the European Union’s Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, confirmed that the regulatory body had received the files, adding that these ...
Kim Dotcom Dangles $13,500 Carrot For The First Person Who Can Hack Mega
It’s no secret that Kim Dotcom thinks he’s got this security thing nailed on with his new site Mega, but now the entrepreneur has gone and put his money where his mouth is, offering a €10,000 ($13,500) reward to the first person who can successfully hack into the site. Dotcom has made good on a ...
China Hacked The New York Times and Stole All of its Passwords
Hackers backed by China’s military are believed to have carried out repeated attacks on the New York Time’s cyber infrastructure, according to new claims by the newspaper. It believes that the attacks began around four months ago, and are likely to be retaliation for an expose it ran on the vast wealth accumulated by previous ...
Lenovo’s Protect & Attack Strategy Threatens Global Domination – Apple & Samsung Better Watch Out
We’ve all heard talk of how the post-PC era is supposedly looming on the horizon, but perhaps it would be wiser to ignore the proclamations of those who insist that the roof is about to cave in. Despite Apple’s Tim Cook insisting that people would “rather play on his iPad than their old PCs”, Lenovo ...
IBM Uses Big Data to Detect Insider Threats
Enterprise can derive useful insights from Big Data but this advantage comes at a cost, with large datasets rapidly becoming tempting targets for hackers and other cybercriminals. To counter this threat, IBM has just unleashed its latest security solution, Security Intelligence with Big Data, which aims to combine analytics with intelligence to head off these ...
Uh Oh, Kim Dotcom Could Be In Hot Water (Again)
Poor old Kim Dotcom has only just kicked open the doors to his new cloud storage service Mega, but less than two weeks in he could well be facing his first legal tangles with the emergence of a new “collaborative” search engine that allows users to search and share files hosted on the site. Called ...