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Hackers tweet Bitcoin nonsense and racism via Sweden’s top political party

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Hackers have defaced the Twitter account of Sweden’s governing party with hate speech and declared they would replace the Swedish krona with Bitcoin. The strange tweets began early this morning, when the “Socialdemokraterna” account reportedly changed its name to “Bitcoindemokraterna,” and promised its leader’s would resign come morning, confirmed Expressen. It even added a tiny Bitcoin logo to its display picture. “During the night, our Twitter account was hijacked. Tweets and messages sent from the account during the night have not been sent by [us …],” said Socialdemokraterna. Attackers posted more than a dozen tweets over the course of several…

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Video: We forced the R2D2 builders association to reveal its raison d’etre

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This video is part of our series on Lille’s Maker Faire. To stay up-to-date on releases (and to find out more), check out our master post here. Despite science’s continual advances, there are mysteries we’ve still never solved. You know, things like what went on at the Dyatlov Pass? What’s the deal with the Great Attractor? And, most pressingly, why does R2D2 builders association exist? On our trip to Lille, we tried to solve one of these questions. Specifically, the last one. Check out the video above to see if we got to the core of the matter and revealed some pure, true…

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Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 1:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


There’s an insane amount of news every day about social networks screwing up and compromising user data. So, it’s advisable that you keep your privacy settings in check to avoid giving away any information unintentionally. Thankfully, this new iPhone app, Jumbo, will help you out with this. The app offers plenty of privacy-related functionality for Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Alexa, and Google searches. For Twitter, it can delete your older tweets, and save them to your phone or cloud. You have options to delete tweets older than a day, a week, a month, or three months. Because of Twitter’s API limits, the…

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Kickstart a lucrative IT career with this AWS training bundle, now $50

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


AWS controls a market share as large as its next four cloud competitors combined. So for those looking to make a splash (and a healthy living) as an IT cloud expert, AWS is what they need to know.  Right now, TNW Deals is slashing the price on the AWS Solutions Architect Certification Bundle by over 90 percent, down to just $49.

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How tech giants can strangle transformative tech at birth — and how to stop them

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Google is digesting its third whopping antitrust penalty from the European Commission, having been fined €1.5 billion (£1.3 billion) for abusing its market dominance around online advertising. The case concerned web publishers embedding a Google-powered search engine on their site, and being prevented from letting third parties place search adverts at the top of search results. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said this “denied other companies the possibility to compete on the merits and to innovate – and consumers the benefits of competition”. It takes the EC’s total antitrust fines against Google to €8.2 billion in two years, following…

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