World Wide Web source code is latest NFT for sale
Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web is the latest non-fungible token (NFT) to go up for sale.
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Largest password data breach in history has been leaked online
Back in 2009, threat actors hacked into the website servers of social app RockYou, accessing over 32 million user passwords stored in plaintext. Now, in what appears to be the largest data breach in history, attackers have ...
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Google's Quic transmission protocol speeds up the Internet's flagship TCP
On the horizon for eight years now, Google's planned replacement for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Quic, seems to be finally underway. In fact, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published Quic as a standard ...
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Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots ...
Jun 2, 2021
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A new model enables the recreation of the family tree of complex networks
In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research team of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS) analyzed the time evolution of real complex networks ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Artificial intelligence system could help counter the spread of disinformation
Disinformation campaigns are not new—think of wartime propaganda used to sway public opinion against an enemy. What is new, however, is the use of the internet and social media to spread these campaigns. The spread of disinformation ...
May 28, 2021
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The double-down is real: Correcting online falsehoods might make matters worse
So you thought the problem of false information on social media could not be any worse? Allow us to respectfully offer evidence to the contrary.
May 20, 2021
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Project Starline: Google's video chat makes it look like users are physically in the same room
Picture using video chat like Zoom, except instead of seeing the person you call on a screen, it feels as if they are physically sitting across from you.
May 19, 2021
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Overcoming tab overload: Researchers develop tool to better manage browser tabs
If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually.
May 7, 2021
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Complex passwords aren't always best
Research from James Cook University shows increasingly complex website password restrictions often leave users frustrated and lead to poor password security.
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