https://www.sciencealert.com/a-possible-meteor-has-been-seen-exploding-in-the-sky-in-turkey

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyz8nw/iphone-ios-ios13-jailbreak-uncover-unc0ver

it works by taking advantage of a vulnerability in iOS that Apple is not aware of, or a so-called zero day.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/qatar-covid19-contact-tracing-app-security-flaw/

If technology is to play an effective role in tackling the virus, people need to have confidence that contact tracing apps will protect their privacy and other human rights

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/05/19/the-public-doesnt-understand-logarithmic-graphs-often-used-to-portray-covid-19/

the logarithmic scale graphs that the media routinely use to display this information are poorly understood by the public and affect people’s attitudes and policy preferences towards the pandemic.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/24/thai-billions-internet-records-leak/

real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.

“All of the data related to Internet usage patterns and did not contain personal information that could be used to identify any customer,” said the spokesperson.

But that isn’t true

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contractors-report-on-wuhan-lab-origins-of-coronavirus-is-bogus

A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong.

The Daily Beast asked analysts at the award-winning open source investigative news outlet Bellingcat to review the MACE dossier and evaluate the quality of its conclusions. Within minutes of receiving the dossier, Bellingcat senior investigator Nick Waters disproved one of the MACE document’s claims: that a conference on biosafety lab management at the Wuhan lab scheduled for the first week of November was canceled. Waters found a Facebook post from a Pakistani scientist who had attended the event and taken selfies there

https://www.cyberscoop.com/norfund-hacked-wealth-fund-10-million/

Thieves spent months inside the networks of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund before stealing $10 million in what the enterprise is describing as “a serious case of fraud.”

The Norwegian Investment Fund, more commonly known as Norfund, announced Wednesday that scammers stole £8.2 million ($10 million) by spoofing an email address, then fabricating payment information and directing cash into their own account

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/

amplifying medical disinformation and the push to reopen America.

Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says. But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787

A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/20/apple-google-phone-app-trace-coronavirus

Software can be used to develop apps that detect when a user has spent time near another user who later tests positive for the virus