Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The internet is reeling under the onslaught of unprecedented denial-of-service attacks, the sort we normally associate with powerful adversaries like international criminal syndicates and major governments, but these attacks are commanded by penny-ante crooks who are able to harness millions of low-powered, insecure Internet of Things devices like smart lightbulbs to do their bidding. …
1. ITEMS EVERY WOMAN SHOULD OWN: -Little Black Dress -Cute flats -Strappy s- ok now that the men have stopped reading, we revolt at dawn. — creepy british child (@bananafitz) ID: 9811553 2. how did i meet your father? he shouted “OI, YOU NOT GONNA SAY HELLO BACK TO ME, ARE YOU DEAF OR RUDE”…
Final update GlobalSign’s efforts as a root certificate authority have gone TITSUP this afternoon – that’s a total inability to support usual protocols. The result is that many websites big and small have had their HTTPS certificates incorrectly scrapped, meaning that for some people their browsers no longer trust websites and refuse or are reluctant…
We have all heard of ad fraud. And we all probably also know that showing ads to bots — non-human visitors — is a waste of money. But what is less well is how ad fraud can wreak havoc on analytics and measurement — to the point that what you see in analytics is not…
Technology Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Doug Chayka Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task — just ask Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or whoever it is who now runs BlackBerry. But the…
(Amy Cavenaile/The Washington Post; iStock) The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The resulting daily pop-up newsletter gave us some interesting insight into the world according to…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Two of Google’s ad measurement metrics have been suspended from accreditation from the Media Rating Council (MRC) — a key accreditation service advertisers and publishers use to verify that their ads are being properly measured — over “non-compliance” issues related to the way in which it counts its ad impressions. MRC announced…
Hamish Nicklin In worst case scenarios, for every pound an advertiser spends programmatically on the Guardian only 30 pence actually goes to the publisher. The revelation, announced by the Guardian’s new chief revenue officer, Hamish Nicklin, at the Automated Trading Debate on Tuesday (4 Oct), means a host of adtech businesses operating within the supply…
All Mark Rittman wanted was a cup of tea. Little did he know he would have to spend 11 hours waiting for his new hi-tech kettle to boil the water. Rittman, a data specialist who lives in Hove, England, set about trying to make a cup of tea around 9am. But thanks to his Wi-Fi…
FCC proposals stun advertising trade organizations with broadening definition of ‘sensitive data’ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled a privacy plan that threatens to disrupt the current way consumers and advertisers reach each other, with increasing concern on behalf of the ANA, 4A’s and other trade groups on the definition of ‘sensitive data.’ Federal…