“You can’t understand it, but it’ll make you money” is the oldest line in the financial industry charlatan’s handbook. That’s bad enough. But add technology mumbo jumbo to the conversation and you’ve got a recipe for obfuscation and consumer harm — you’ve got “FinTech” — well, you’ve got cryptocurrency. That [Keep reading]
North Carolina recently joined a growing list of states – more than 20 now — that have banned social media app TikTok from government-issued devices. Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order after two state legislators threatened to pass a law enacting such a ban. Duke University professor Ken Rogerson, [Keep reading]
“We have said so many times, if we’d only known, if we’d only known, if we’d only known. Then countless lives could have been saved.” — Loren Adair, whose mom was killed by Billy Chemirmir Today, I’m letting you know that the final episode of our four-part series on serial [Keep reading]
No one knows when an investment bubble will burst, but in retrospect, there’s often a single event that comes to symbolize the beginning of the end — as the Lehman Brothers implosion is now forever intertwined with the collapse of the housing bubble and the Great Recession. It’s understandable that [Keep reading]
Dianna Tannery: “I was more… horrified just knowing that… that she didn’t die peacefully in her sleep. That her last few minutes was struggling and trying to breathe. So I think about that every night.” Loren Adair: “My brother and I both started having nightmares. I would have visions of [Keep reading]
Zelle, a favorite tool for online criminals, *might* begin protecting users from scams soon. Victims who report they’ve been “robbed” by thieves on the service have long been denied dispute rights we take for granted with other kinds of electronic transactions. On Monday, banks leaked a plan to the Wall [Keep reading]
Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and .. well, a lot is going on. One really important development that might be overlooked in the noise and chaos since the acquisition is Musk’s new – and now delayed – attempt to change Twitter’s Blue Check system. Verification online is a very, [Keep reading]
“Do your own research” sounds like a harmless — unassailable? — suggestion. It’s more complicated than that, says today’s guest, UNC professor Francesa Tripodi, author of the new book The Propagandists’ Playbook. In this episode of Debugger in 10, Tripodi discusses the IKEA Effect in research, why Googling is more [Keep reading]
UPDATE: DEC. 19, 2022 — @RustyDogFriendly is back online. Basically, I just kept trying. It seems from the outside as if Meta/Facebook have hired more people to handle these requests and that’s why this account finally got the human attention it needed to be fixed. But I don’t know, perhaps [Keep reading]
Should a company executive face criminal charges after a data breach? That’s one of the questions opened up by the remarkable trial recently of Joe Sullivan, former head of cyber security at Uber, who was recently convicted of essentially hiding a hack from federal investigators. The case has people in [Keep reading]
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