Last month, Condé Nast social news site Reddit asked users if they would donate their data for research purposes. This week the site made available a data dump from more than 40,000 people who opted-in to sharing what they do on the site. It's a remarkable move than every social...
An internal Google memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal outlines the company's "vision statement" for monetizing its vast stores of data over the long term.The document talks about major profit sources like data and advertising exchanges. But it also includes some "wacky examples" of ways to make money from...
Austin-based data aggregation service Infochimps released several major sets of data extracted from the Twitter API today, as well as Infochimp's first application and API based on one of these datasets. Updating the "Twitter census" data it released in November 2009, the datasets and histograms Infochimps made available today include...
In part 2 of my one-on-one interview with Tim Berners-Lee, we explore a variety of topics relating to Linked Data and the Semantic Web. If you missed it, in Part 1 of the interview we covered the emergence of Linked Data and how it is being used now even by...
Earlier this week, large-scale data warehousing and analytics specialist Greenplum announced their move in to cloud services with an Enterprise Data Cloud Initiative. Picked up by ReadWriteWeb from enterprise IT guru Dana Gardner, the initiative will take Greenplum in to new territory, even if its strategy, based on the notion...
According to a report from Bloomberg today, Mint.com's CEO Aaron Patzer is considering selling anonymized data about the service's users. Mint, the online personal finance aggregator, obviously sits on a lot of very interesting data, some of which the company has shared on its blog now and then. Given that...
Popular video sharing website MetaCafe just announced the launch of a fascinating new experiment it's calling WikiCafe - the ability for any registered user to "edit, enhance, and even translate video tags, descriptions, and other types of metadata."Somehow Metacafe has a much lower idiot-to-civil commenter ratio than YouTube, where we...
Fourth-ranked US search engine Ask.com is tonight releasing a new feature, AskEraser, that will let users control the destiny of their search data. When enabled, AskEraser will automatically delete any user data created during future searches from Ask's servers. That includes IP address, user and session IDs, and the text...
Android phone users who use Google Chrome as their main browser are being warned about a severe malware currently circulating that has the potential to empty bank accounts. Analysts at ThreatFabric recently discovered a new virus called "Brokewell," which had extensive Device Takeover capabilities. The threat intelligence company discovered a...
Apple's latest clash with the EU has left European Safari users potentially vulnerable to web activity tracking. Apple has a history of attempting to dodge EU regulations, even getting slapped with a €1.8 billion fine for streaming violations in March. Now, the company's final cave-in to European antitrust rules by...
At least 18 government websites in the U.K. and the U.S. send visitor information to multiple online advertising brokers, according to a report. This includes an ad-tech business in China previously embroiled in privacy disputes. Google previously blacklisted Yeahmobi's SDK as "malicious" following an investigation into ad fraud and attribution...
Cybercriminals are exploiting Google's advertising platform to target users of the decentralized OTC trading platform Whales Market, according to a recent BleepingComputer report. By creating a legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement, threat actors are redirecting unsuspecting visitors to a malicious phishing site designed to drain their wallets of all assets. https://twitter.com/Degen_Desk/status/1780918116261761330...
Telegram messaging app is set to cross one billion active monthly users within a year, its founder Pavel Durov has said. "We'll probably cross one billion monthly active users within a year now," Telegram's CEO told U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson in a video interview posted on Carlson's account on the...
Mike Schmidt, the co-founder of Brink, recently disclosed that he received a subpoena from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last year, requiring him to submit personal information of attendees from the CoreDev Atlanta event held in October 2022. The subpoena was part of the ongoing investigation into the theft...
It seems a long while since Palworld was the game on the tip of everybody’s tongue and while those initial heady days of attracting attention from the likes of Nintendo’s lawyers have certainly quietened down, the developers at Pocketpair continue to update their game and bring with it new features,...
It will now be easier than ever to find your misplaced phone or tablet if you’re an Android user as Google has officially launched the Find My Device feature. From Monday (April 8) the location-finding tool has been rolled out across the U.S. and Canada, with plans for it to...
Spotify has announced AI playlists for its Premium users, allowing listeners to create playlists via a prompt. The feature will first be available to Android and iOS device users in the U.K. and Australia, with plans for ongoing upgrades in the coming months. The music streaming company also shared a...
Apple is set to allow users in the European Union to begin downloading apps from external websites in iOS 17.5. In iOS 17.4, Apple began allowing developers to offer their apps through alternative app marketplaces in the EU to comply with the Digital Markets Act. However, Apple has now further...
Google has committed to destroying or remediating ‘billions of data records’ collected through incognito browsing sessions as part of a proposed class action settlement filed Monday (April 1). The lawsuit, originally filed in June of 2020, accuses the search giant of violating California privacy laws in collecting Incognito mode data....
Analysts have indicated the number of daily users on X is falling, more than a year after Elon Musk acquired the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Since the rebranding, there have been a lot of changes in the social network. In a move geared toward an ambition of...
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