https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tiananmen-censorship/chinas-robot-censors-crank-up-as-tiananmen-anniversary-nears-idUSKCN1SW03Y

https://www.pcmag.com/news/368417/neal-stephenson-explains-his-vision-of-the-digital-afterlife

Neal Stephenson’s new book, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, is out June 4, and we spoke to him about this sprawling sci-fi epic, the digital afterlife, and why social media is a doomsday machine.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18634842/google-passwords-plain-text-g-suite-fourteen-years

Only affects some G Suite customers

it can’t find any evidence that anybody’s password was improperly accessed. It’s resetting any passwords that might be affected

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-einride-autonomous-sweden/driverless-electric-truck-starts-deliveries-on-swedish-public-road-idUSKCN1SL0NC

The T-Pod is level 4 autonomous […], and uses a Nvidia Drive platform to process visual data in real time. An operator, sitting miles away, can supervise and control up to 10 vehicles at once.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html

Google saves years of information on purchases you’ve made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/whatsapp-exploit-let-attackers-install-government-grade-spyware-on-phones/

The spyware in question that was detected as having been installed was Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus

https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab

attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s phone call function. 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-update-crashes-police-ankle-monitors-in-the-netherlands/

the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security had to step in and preemptively arrest and jail some of its most high-risk suspects.