A dashboard button leads to a Reddit reckoning about over-the-air car software Car makers have some work to do to assuage fears about paywalled software subscriptions Never let facts get in the way of a good story Let’s be clear on the facts. The new Audi owner is from Denmark. He didn’t need climate control, so he opted out. The dashboard did not ask him to purchase the feature via some over-the-air (OTA) update....
A decade since ‘the year of the hacktivist’, online protests look set to return With the pandemic and new legislation restricting physical protests globally, the internet could become the next stage for demonstrations. Hacktivism’s heyday Hacktivism began attracting global attention whenAnonymous– a loose collective of hackers, politicized internet users, trolls and pranksters – decided to focus on political issues. The collective targeted theChurch of Scientologyfor censoring online content in 2008, and mobilized to protect whistleblower websites such asWikiLeaksin 2010, amongvarious otheractions with national and international implications....
A decade since ‘the year of the hacktivist’, online protests look set to return With the pandemic and new legislation restricting physical protests globally, the internet could become the next stage for demonstrations. Hacktivism’s heyday Hacktivism began attracting global attention whenAnonymous– a loose collective of hackers, politicized internet users, trolls and pranksters – decided to focus on political issues. The collective targeted theChurch of Scientologyfor censoring online content in 2008, and mobilized to protect whistleblower websites such asWikiLeaksin 2010, amongvarious otheractions with national and international implications....
A fake Banksy sold for $330K is a perfect symbol of the wild NFT market The strange tale exposes vast potential for deception Con artists The counterfeit Banksy NFT was auctioned on the OpenSea marketplace. Titled “Great Redistribution of the Climate Change Disaster,” it portrays a pixelated person smoking a cigarette in front of fuming chimney stacks. A since-deleted link to the auction had been posted onBanksy’s official website. This apparently convinced a collector to bid around$330,000 in cryptocurrency for the item....
A fake Banksy sold for $330K is a perfect symbol of the wild NFT market The strange tale exposes vast potential for deception Con artists The counterfeit Banksy NFT was auctioned on the OpenSea marketplace. Titled “Great Redistribution of the Climate Change Disaster,” it portrays a pixelated person smoking a cigarette in front of fuming chimney stacks. A since-deleted link to the auction had been posted onBanksy’s official website. This apparently convinced a collector to bid around$330,000 in cryptocurrency for the item....
