Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

How AI Agents Cheat

https://kottke.org/18/11/how-ai-agents-cheat

Report: Australian intelligence knows Huawei was used in espionage - Axios

https://www.axios.com/report-australian-intelligence-know-huawei-1541285886-42f1eb64-98de-422f-9686-4174e41ef37e.html

“Chinese espionage services used telecommunications giant Huawei’s staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network.”

The attack took place within the last two years.

Vil la e-tjenesten lagre nordmenns nett-trafikk – NRK

https://www.nrk.no/norge/vil-la-e-tjenesten-lagre-nordmenns-nett-trafikk-1.14291174

Mulighetene for masseovervåking av den norske nettrafikken nærmer seg dermed det Snowden-saken avslørte at amerikanske etterretningstjenester gjør i USA, sier fagdirektør Torgeir Waterhouse i […] IKT Norge.

Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46181800

A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died.

Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp – BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986

Rumours of child abductors spread through WhatsApp in a small town in Mexico. The rumours were fake, but a mob burned two men to death before anyone checked.

Children’s Commissioner calls for transparency on data gathered from children

http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/childrens-commissioner-calls-for-transparency-on-data-gathered-from-children-11364308629353

A new report says children’s digital footprints are growing and more must be done to educate them about data security.

Security flaw in DJI’s website and apps exposed accounts to hackers and drone live feeds – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/08/security-flaw-in-dji-apps-exposed-accounts-to-hackers-and-drone-live-feeds/

It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps

‘Bionic mushrooms’ that generate electricity created by scientists – The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bionic-mushroom-electricity-light-bacteria-graphene-science-research-technology-a8622006.html

A regular shop-bought mushroom has been turned into an electricity generator in a process scientists hope will one day be used to power devices.

Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html

But the report fails to look closely at how Facebook employees missed a crescendo of posts and misinformation that helped to fuel modern ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.