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HGV Driver Shortage: Remote-Controlled Lorries Could Prevent Future Logistical Nightmares

Siraj Ahmed Shaikh Giedre Sabaliauskaite Coventry University Siraj Ahmed is a Professor of Systems Security at the Centre for Mobility and Transport at Coventry University. His main research interest lies in systems security, essentially at the intersection of cyber security, systems engineering and traditional computer science. Giedre is an Associate

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What Really Happened to Facebook?

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. There was a bit of

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What Caused the Unprecedented Facebook Outage? The Few Clues Point to a Problem from Within

David Tuffley Griffith University Dr. David Tuffley is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity at Griffith University in Australia. David’s expertise is in the ethics of technology, in particular Artificial Intelligence, and managing data breaches in the cybersecurity domain. Suddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and

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Zuckerberg’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Zuckerberg’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Damning whistleblower testimony followed by an epic outage, all along with a multibillion-dollar loss: it’s almost enough to make me feel a bit sorry for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Almost. First the outage: outages are the spectre that haunts every online company. Internet downtime is effectively a “closed” sign

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Has the Time Come to Regulate Social Media?

Has the Time Come to Regulate Social Media?

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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Xinjiang: An Unprecedented State of Terror

Xinjiang: An Unprecedented State of Terror

Ruth Ingram mercatornet.com Ruth Ingram is a researcher who has written extensively for the Central Asia-Caucasus publication, Institute of War and Peace Reporting, the Guardian Weekly newspaper, The Diplomat, and other publications. An Orwellian surveillance that surpasses even the evils of North Korea and the Khmer Rouge’s Cambodia

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Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Only Jesus Saves This week we received a huge packet of documents with fines and legal threats from the nation state of Germany. Gab is refusing, and has refused for many years, to comply with the German Network Enforcement Act. Gab is a US company

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Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities As I write this column I am thinking about the extra weeks of economic hardship still lying ahead for many Kiwi businesses in the Auckland region during Level 3 and Level 2 in the rest of

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How Do Nuclear-Powered Submarines Work? A Nuclear Scientist Explains

How Do Nuclear-Powered Submarines Work? A Nuclear Scientist Explains

AJ Mitchell Australian National University Born and raised in Northern Ireland, AJ Mitchell attended Queen’s University Belfast as an undergraduate studying Mathematics and Physics. Following an internship at ETH Zurich, He decided to pursue a career in academic research. The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement

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‘What Is My IP Address?’ Explaining One of the World’s Most Googled Questions

‘What Is My IP Address?’ Explaining One of the World’s Most Googled Questions

Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Bogdan Ghita University of Plymouth Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Bogdan Ghita is the Associate dean (International), Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth What is

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