Day: 23 September 2017

UK public broadcaster Channel 4 sparked a presswide panic with a story: “Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon.” But the ingredients are common black powder ingredients. Black powder is useful for many hobbyist applications (“fireworks, model rockets, antique firearms, or to blow up the occasional stump”) but it’s not a useful bomb-making compound (that would be... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security today revealed which states were targeted by Russian hackers trying to break into voting systems during the 2016 election cycle. DHS said “most” states were unsuccessfully attacked, but didn’t make clear how and where the hackers were successful, or whether the sustained cyberattacks helped Donald Trump win the presidency. BREAKING: US government tells election officials... Read More

Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU is a 360,000€ study commissioned by the European Commission from the Dutch consulting firm Ecorys, whose mandate was to “research the effect piracy had on sales of copyrighted content” — the report was completed in 2015, but never made public. That’s because the report concluded that “the results do not show... Read More