Facebook’s product management director, David Baser, just wrote a blog post explaining when Facebook and its partners collect your personal information and when it’s shared. It also reiterates how it’s able to gather information on people who don’t use Facebook. Here’s the nugget you need to know about: When does Facebook get data about people…

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Updated April 17, 2018 11:27:37 Photo: Authorities say they are still working out the full scope of the attack. (ABC News) Australian companies have been caught up in suspected Russian cyber attacks that have affected « millions of machines » worldwide, authorities say. Key points: Authorities say infected routers could be used for future attacks No indication…

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The government was accused of presiding over a ‘national day of shame’ as it emerged some British people may have been deported by mistake.  MPs held an emergency debate on the Windrush Crisis today, which has seen…

Polen hat auf die Kritik der EU reagiert: Nach der Abgeordnetenkammer hat auch der Senat zugestimmt, die neuen Regeln für den Nationalen Justizrat, die ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit und den Obersten Gerichtshof zu verändern. Beide Kammern werden von der Regierungspartei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (PiS) dominiert. Die Regierungspartei argumentiert, mit den Änderungen seien die Forderungen der Europäischen Union…

Die USA und Großbritannien werfen russischen Hackern eine weltweite Cyberattacke auf zentrale Elemente des Internets vor. Der « bösartige » Angriff richte sich sowohl gegen staatliche als auch private Organisationen, hieß es in einer am Montag in London veröffentlichten gemeinsamen Erklärung des Nationalen Cybersicherheitszentrums von Großbritannien, der US-Bundespolizei FBI und des US-Heimatschutzministeriums. Auch Privatpersonen seien von den…

A British woman jailed in Egypt for smuggling painkillers has been filmed taking part in prison prayers. Laura Plummer, from Hull, East Yorkshire, is currently serving a three-year sentence in Cairo’s notorious Al Qanater prison after she was found carrying 290 banned Tramadol pills into the resort of Hurghada in October last year. The 33-year-old…

Fox News’s biggest star Sean Hannity has long been one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders on cable TV, and now it turns out that they also share a lawyer. Lawyers for Michael Cohen revealed the association with Hannity in a New York City courtroom Monday, saying the host is one of Cohen’s three recent…

– Let’s talk about Jayson Tatum. He plays for the Boston Celtics. He played at Duke. He has long, slender, athletic and offensively, he is gifted. He can shoot a 3. He can put a ball, as they say, on the deck, and drive the basket. He can finish at the rim. He is a…